Becoming an Empowered Parent
Don’t focus on how hard it is but also DON'T forget it Sep 16, 2022

It’s time to find help and advocate for your needs!  You are so worth it!  

It’s hard to take in or understand the depth of what you are dealing with day in and day out when it’s all you have known. ...

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Progress on this journey is such an interesting thing Sep 12, 2022

Progress on this journey is such an interesting thing.  With some kids it came quick and we moved consistently forward.  They were almost hungry for the help and ready for it.  

With other kids, most...

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Things can change and you might even be grateful they did... Sep 08, 2022

When I first started my own journey the things I valued are not the things I value now.  

What was important to me?

Shopping daily at the mall.  Now I look back and think that is so strange.  I love...

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Sometimes the hardest things can teach us the best things Sep 08, 2022

Therapeutic Parenting?

When I first learned what it took to be a therapeutic parent I was so ANGRY. 

I didn’t look at it with a compassionate perspective for my child, only what I was going to have ...

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No two Kids are the same Sep 07, 2022

Back when I started doing respite I would get so anxious before the kids came.  Wanting to make sure I had the perfect plan all set.

Two hours in, every plan I made would be scrapped.  And I learned ...

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Planting and Parenting Sep 07, 2022

I have always planted flowers.  For 30 years in all of the houses I have lived in I have planted flowers.  I didn’t have to work hard or put a lot of thought into it.  I just put them in dirt, watered...

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