Get Your Joy Back Quotes

“When it comes to the things that bug us most about our child’s behaviors or quirks (or about our own, our spouse’s, or anyone else’s for that matter), joy happens when we stop trying to avoid or fix those quirks, and instead ask God for eyes to see what He intended when He wired them that way.”
― Laurie Wallin, Get Your Joy Back: Banishing Resentment and Reclaiming Confidence in Your Special Needs Family

“Stanford University neurobiologist Robert Sapolsky added that for every year of chronological age, special needs moms experienced roughly six years of cellular aging.1”
― Laurie Wallin, Get Your Joy Back: Banishing Resentment and Reclaiming Confidence in Your Special Needs Family

“Aging happens as our DNA, the delicate molecular template for life in all our cells, begins to unravel. We all have special structures called telomeres that cap the ends of our DNA strands, stunting the aging (unraveling) process. Unfortunately, stress causes these protective caps to shrink and wear out. In other words, we are actually aging faster than we would have without the chronic, unrelenting pressures of caregiving.”
― Laurie Wallin, Get Your Joy Back: Banishing Resentment and Reclaiming Confidence in Your Special Needs Family