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❤️ Helping parents raise resilient kids through story.
📖 Sharing research-backed narrative strategies to combat the mental health crisis.
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06/17/2026

Most parenting advice tells you to manage the moment. Validate the feeling. Regulate. Talk them through it. And maybe that works sometimes. Maybe.

But I keep coming back to something older. Something my kids’ ancestors already proved. And modern research actually backs with real data.

The story a kid carries about who they are is more powerful than any emotion hack, therapeutic trick or modern theory… a strong story is a requirement for raising kids who are resilient, even when the hard moments come.

Follow if you want to learn how to build that story for your family.

06/16/2026

You’ve been told the solution is more support, more awareness, more access.

And yet here we are - a decade or more into the crisis, and the numbers keep moving in the wrong direction.

At some point you have to ask: what if we’re looking in the wrong place?

Researchers have known for years that the single strongest predictor of a child’s resilience isn’t treatment — its identity.

Knowing who they are. Where they come from. What their family stands for.

That’s not a therapy outcome. That’s a family outcome.

And it’s one you can build on purpose.

The Family Branding Guide is where you start.
Link in bio.

06/16/2026

Tying things to things is not my love language. But it might be my kid’s.

And I’ve learned that when I let them live inside their own story — even when it makes the laundry harder and the toy box unsalvageable — I’m doing something that matters more than a tidy house.

I’m telling them their creativity isn’t a problem to manage.

Their ideas don’t need to shrink to fit my schedule.

That they are not, at their core, an inconvenience.

Kids who grow up knowing that don’t need to perform for approval or ask permission to take up space. They already know they belong in the story.

The ribbon will come out of the laundry. The string will get cut. But what they learned about themselves today? That stays.

So I’m intentional about it.

06/16/2026

This article changed my life — and eventually became the reason Narrative exists.

In 2021 I found a New York Times piece called “The Stories That Bind Us” while I was trying to figure out what to do with my photography work after a move that cost me my studio job.

The conclusion stopped me: the single most important thing you can do for your family is develop a strong family narrative.

The research was conclusive. But it was buried in scholarly journals parents never read, and even when they found it, there was no framework — no actual path from knowing to doing.

So I spent the next several years building one.

That’s the Family Branding Guide.

It’s where your family’s story gets a foundation — values, mission, even a brand look that’s yours — so your kids grow up knowing exactly who they are before the world tries to tell them.

Your kid is going to have an identity. The only question is who writes it.

Link in bio to get started.

06/11/2026

The most resilient kids didn’t come from the happiest families. They came from the most honest ones.

Researchers at Emory asked kids 20 questions about their family history then measured their emotional health.

The single best predictor of resilience wasn’t a program or a professional — it was whether they knew where they came from.

And the kids who scored highest didn’t have perfect family stories. They had honest ones.

The kind that says we have been through hard things and we are still here together.

The culture tells you to protect your kids from the hard parts. The research says that’s exactly backwards.

Something I’ve been building to address this gap is coming back in revamped form…More soon.

06/03/2026

New research just confirmed what a lot of parents already feel - we’ve been treating the wrong thing.

30 years of Prozac trial data.

No meaningful benefit over placebo for kids.

Possible side effects including increased suicidal ideation and sexual dysfunction.

And the depression rate keeps climbing.

What if the problem was never a chemical imbalance? What if it was a story imbalance?

Kids who know what they’re made of - who they come from, what their family stands for, why they’re here - don’t need a label to explain their hard days.

They have something better. A legacy to stand on.

If you want that for your kid, follow along. That’s what we talk about here.

06/01/2026

Summer hit and suddenly your kid is a different person? 😅

The meltdowns, the fighting, the “I’m bored” 30 minutes in - it can make you wonder if something is actually wrong.

Nothing is wrong with them. They’re adjusting.

And this season, your most important job isn’t managing behavior. It’s protecting who they believe they are.

Describe the struggle. Protect the identity.

That’s the work. 👇 Save this for when summer gets loud.

05/30/2026

The research is clear. The memories your kids carry aren’t just nostalgia-they’re protection.

Most parents have no idea they’re building this every single day. The stories you tell. The photos on your walls. The moments you revisit together. It’s all going into a library your kid will draw from when life gets hard.

This is what we’re about at Narrative. Helping you build that library on purpose.

Follow if you want to raise kids who have somewhere to stand when things get hard. We’re just getting started.

05/28/2026

A mom who trusts herself is the most powerful force in her child’s life.

And the most threatening thing to a system that has made a business out of her self-doubt.

You don’t need more experts. You need to remember that you are the most qualified person in the world to successfully raise your kids.

Follow Narrative - we’re building parents who believe they are enough.

05/27/2026

Emotions are not king.

And teaching your kid to know the difference - when to listen to a feeling and when to move past it - is not harm.

It’s the job.

Too bad the experts don’t know that.

Follow Narrative for more on raising kids who are bigger than their feelings.

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