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Don't assume you'll just grow out of it

I knew that my father had wet the bed as well when he was a kid and that for hit it stopped happened when he was 11. In my younger years I always assumed that would happen for me as well. Part of my strategy was just cope with the reality and wait until that day came.  When age 11 came and passed a sense of hopelessness started to set in. I started to believe this was just part of who I was and I needed to just accept it. Little did I know this sense of hopelessness and inability to affect change in my own life would become a part of my identity. It fed a subconscious belief that I was powerless in affecting change my life. If I'm being honest, even at my current age of 44 it's a still an uphill battle to rewrite that script.  If I had been presented the proper tools to change this part of my life as a kid I can't help but think that the entire trajectory of my life might have been different. Teach your kids and coach yourself in the reality that you can and do affect the o...
I've started this blog to help others in hopes that anyone reading this doesn't have to suffer like I did. Not only did I wet the bed my entire childhood, it continued even into my 20's. I'll tell much more about my personal story in future blogs, but for the sake of forcing myself to stop procrastinating I'm going to keep this first post, super simple.  The key to stop wetting the bed is Kegel exercises. I wet the bed for over 20 years, tried everything and when I started doing Kegel exercises it stopped in a matter of months and decreased in frequency in a matter of weeks.  Bed wetting or enuresis (the medical term) results from a simple lack of neurological development in the connection between the brain and that muscle that helps us control our urination. Kegel exercises strengthen that connection and in a short time the problem will be solved.  If you don't know how to do a Kegel, simply stop your pee mid stream. That is a Kegel. This is the best way to pra...