by Jolene | Feb 25, 2019 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
When Caregiving Doesn’t Spark Your Joy When caregiving doesn’t spark your joy, what can you do about it? That’s a question I’ve been mulling over lately. Ever since I posted a survey about stress and compassion fatigue in caregivers. Within 2...
by Laurie McLean | Feb 21, 2019 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Self Care Is Important for Special Needs Parents Self care is important for parents raising kids with special needs. Guest blogger Laurie McLean is here to explain why self care is important and how to make it a priority in your busy life. Chances are if you are a...
by Rachel Olstad | Feb 6, 2019 | Self-Care and Stress
How Wheel of Fortune Changed Our Lives…Really! Wheel of Fortune transformed life in public for guest blogger Rachel Olstad and her family. Today she tells the amazing, delightful, and funny story of how it happened. Our son has spina bifida and is a wheelchair...
by Jolene | Jan 28, 2019 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
My Special Needs Mom Worries Never End Of course not, you may have thought to yourself after reading the title of this post. My special needs mom worries never end either. But there’s a difference between your special needs mom worries and mine. You are most...
by Jolene | Jan 10, 2019 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Something Is Wrong with Your Baby: 5 Things I Wish I’d Known Something is wrong with your baby. I remember, as though it happened yesterday and not in 1982, the day our doctor sat down beside my hospital bed and uttered those words. Something is wrong with your...
by Mark Arnold | Dec 20, 2018 | Self-Care and Stress, Special Needs Parenting
Laughter and How It Heals Us Laughter is a gift frequently given to Mark Arnold by his son James. Though he is mostly non-verbal, James’ laughter is healing balm for his parents, something Mark has come to appreciate more with each passing year. Laughter and How...
