What I Wish I'd Known In The Beginning of My Childs Autism Journey - With Shannon Korza, Jean Mayer, Jody Warshawsky, Tash Dillmon
11/15/21 • 47 min
I'm sure you've said, "I wish I would've known.." many times. We have. That's why we decided to have a whole episode on it! We're sharing things that we wish we had known from the beginning. Talking about family & friends, services, diagnosis & more.
When we start this journey of autism with our families, we are sorta thrust into a lifestyle that we have no clue how to navigate. There are so many things that we are focusing on. One foot in front of the other. Trying to manage everything, including our emotions, and navigate the world with our new reality. Amid all that, lessons we are learning that we wish we would have known BEFORE they hit.
"I wish I'd known ______." That's what we'll be talking about today!
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Where to find Jody
Where to find Shannon
Where to find Jean
Where to find Tash
Where to find Brittney
I'm sure you've said, "I wish I would've known.." many times. We have. That's why we decided to have a whole episode on it! We're sharing things that we wish we had known from the beginning. Talking about family & friends, services, diagnosis & more.
When we start this journey of autism with our families, we are sorta thrust into a lifestyle that we have no clue how to navigate. There are so many things that we are focusing on. One foot in front of the other. Trying to manage everything, including our emotions, and navigate the world with our new reality. Amid all that, lessons we are learning that we wish we would have known BEFORE they hit.
"I wish I'd known ______." That's what we'll be talking about today!
Check us out and say hello
Where to find Moms Talk Autism
Where to find Jody
Where to find Shannon
Where to find Jean
Where to find Tash
Where to find Brittney
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Grieving The Child You Thought You Would Have, Making Sense Of It All - With Jean Mayer, Brittney Crabtree, Shannon Korza
Ever feel caregiver burnout? Ever feel like you are in a hamster wheel as a caregiver?
Listen to this convo.
Grief isn't linear; it's a wheel of adaptation.
Dr. Nancy Miller, psychologist and social worker, wrote Nobody's Perfect: Living + Growing with Children Who Have Special Needs.
In this book, she worked with four moms over five years and distilled their experiences into one book.
The model is derived from communication with the moms, experience of the working families, the writings of parents and professionals.
"Adaptation" kicks in when we feel robbed of our chance and our Child's chance for living an equal life.
There are four stages, and stick with us as we will dive into each. Think of them like four hemispheres, similar to a Venn diagram nature, constantly shape-shifting through your journey.
The 4 S's: Survival, Searching, Settling In, and Separating are very real and relevant to understanding what we may all be feeling, whether it's exclusively or simultaneously.
Advocacy is a muscle, and this is a journey about endurance.
Hot tips and takeaways from the conversation to ease the distress you as a parent would experience at any of the stages:
- Make time for yourselves, understand your feelings + create a support system.
- Honor yourself as well as validate your feelings.
- Always remain hopeful even when it feels hopeless.
All easier said than done; that is why we are here to offer the support we all have been longing for.
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Megan Carranza from Adventures In Autism Podcast joins us in a conversation about the holidays. How they change after an autism diagnosis.
We talk about that one moment when we realized the holidays are now different. Just like our lives are.
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