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How to Organically Enter into Life with a Caregiving Family

How to Organically Enter into Life with a Caregiving Family

by Jolene | Oct 24, 2022 | Encouragement, How-Tos

How to Organically Enter into Life with a Caregiving Family How to organically enter into life with a caregiving family has been on my mind since September when my dear Aunt Donna died. Since then memories of how she, her husband Jim, and their four children embraced...
Alternative Halloween Ideas for Kids with Special Needs

Alternative Halloween Ideas for Kids with Special Needs

by Mark Arnold | Oct 19, 2022 | Holidays, How-Tos

Alternative Halloween Ideas for Kids with Special Needs Alternative Halloween ideas for kids with special needs are implemented more now than in the past. In the interest of spreading alternative Halloween love, guest blogger Mark Arnold shares 10 simple, sensible...
How To Cope During a Rough Caregiving Season

How To Cope During a Rough Caregiving Season

by Lisa Pelissier | Oct 12, 2022 | Encouragement, How-Tos, Spiritual Support

How To Cope During a Rough Caregiving Season How to cope during a rough caregiving season. What? Who wants to write about that topic when doing so usually comes from hard experience? That’s the case for guest blogger Lisa Pelissier who describes what’s been happening...
Mothers Are FOR their Children with Disabilities and Special Needs

Mothers Are FOR their Children with Disabilities and Special Needs

by Heather Braucher | Oct 5, 2022 | Special Needs Parenting

Mothers Are FOR their Children with Disabilities and Special Needs  Mothers are FOR their children. Moms may think they convey this truth well, but sometimes kids with disabilities and special needs have to hear that message loud and clear. In the second post in her...
The Beauty of Disability

The Beauty of Disability

by Jolene | Sep 26, 2022 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting, Spiritual Support

The Beauty of Disability Our pastor was introducing a new sermon series about beauty when these four words, which I had never strung together before, which I did not want to string together, took up residence in my brain. My response was swift and prickly. The beauty...
The Blessings of Caregiving

The Blessings of Caregiving

by Kristin Faith Evans | Sep 14, 2022 | Encouragement, Special Needs Parenting

The Blessings of Caregiving The blessings of caregiving may not be readily apparent to families raising children with special needs and disabilities. Kristin Evans, a Different Dream guest blogger and mother of two amazing kids, describes the blessings her family...
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Jolene Philo is a published author, speaker, wife, and mother of a son with special needs.

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