Parenting is an apprenticeship with grief. This post explores how acceptance, self-compassion, and belonging help us break cycles and heal alongside our children. Read more…
Connection-Focused Parenting
“I Just Want My Child To Be Happy…”
Breaking Generational Cycles of Shame, Grief, and Emotional Illiteracy in Parenting When I was a young parent, I came across a Facebook meme that said: I remember reading it late at night, peering down at my sleeping baby and toddler. I made a quiet promise to them right then: This will be our family’s story. […] Read more…
The 7 Pillars of Parenting Through Autistic Burnout: Lessons from Our Recovery Journey
And how they became the foundation of everything I now teach. There was a moment, and maybe you’ve had one like this, where everything in me said, “I can’t keep doing this.“ My child was in deep burnout.I was in burnout.And nothing I tried was working anymore. The strategies that were meant to help only […] Read more…
Parenting Through Burnout: The Spiritual Awakening No One Talks About
This quote found me during a season of parenting when everything felt like it was falling apart. When the child I once knew seemed to vanish.When meltdowns, shutdowns, emergency room visits, hospital stays, and struggling to keep a teen alive who didn’t want to be here, and complete withdrawal became the norm. This was a […] Read more…
When Everything Changes
A tender look at grieving parenting expectations, change and the radical acceptance of who your neurodivergent child is becoming after burnout. There’s a question I hear often, though it’s rarely spoken aloud: “Will my child ever go back to how they were before burnout?” It’s such a tender, raw question. And underneath it is often […] Read more…
Navigating Parenting Through Neurodivergent Burnout
Are you a parent of a neurodivergent child in burnout struggling to keep your head above water while you try to navigate the change and chaos in your life right now? You are not alone, parenting through burnout recovery can bring an overwhelming sense of change—changes in your child, your family routines, and even in […] Read more…
Understanding Autistic Burnout
How To Protect Your Child’s Emotional And Mental Wellbeing Trigger warning – this blog contains mention of self-harm and suicidal ideation, reader discretion is advised. My children’s teenage years were not easy (for them and for me). I have a fairly good memory of what it was like to be a teen and I knew […] Read more…
Understanding Autistic Meltdowns And Shutdowns
How Understanding Autistic Meltdowns and Shutdowns Can Help You To Support Your Child (And Yourself) Autistic meltdowns and shutdowns are an unavoidable part of the autistic experience. They are an autistic person’s body’s way of supporting them when their nervous system is overwhelmed. Meltdowns and shutdowns are a necessary release to help the autistic person’s […] Read more…
Radical Acceptance – Parenting The Child You Have
Parenting a neurodivergent child can be hard on so many fronts, however as a mum, even though there are challenging moments, in most cases, it is not my children I find hard. Most of the challenges that I face as a neurodivergent parent of neurodivergent children are systemic. You see, the world, the medical system, […] Read more…
How to Understand Your Neurodivergent and LGBTQ+Teen’s Point Of View
Why It Is Important To Understand Your Teen’s Point of View Do you struggle with how to understand your teen or to see things from their point of view? If you do, you are not alone, this is something that many parents find challenging. We will not always see things through our children’s eyes or […] Read more…