Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms

As special needs moms, it is easy to find yourself not feeling like a “real mom.” It’s easy to get caught up in the care tasks, and easy to feel like other moms are speaking a completely different language than you. But at the end of the day, it is the love you have for yourself child that makes you a real mom, not your day to day experiences.

Want to feel happier and calmer in less than 10 minutes a day? Listen in to learn 3 easy, quick ways to allow more happiness into your day, and feel calmer even when life is stressful.

As special needs moms, it is so common for us to be awaiting the next bad thing, the next illness, the next hospitalization... the other shoe to drop... when things are going smoothly. In this episode, we dive into the ways this mentality shows up, and how it is doubling our stress and keeping us from being present in the moment.

In this episode, I share with you the difference between gratitude and appreciation. Appreciation can be a great tool to get us through the hard days, the unpredictable days, as a special needs parent.

The holidays can bring up so many hard emotions for special needs parents. It can bring up sadness, grief, jealousy, resentment. In this episode, I share with you my holiday experience and struggles as a mom to a child with disabilities, and the tools I use to cope with the most magical time of year. Mentioned in this episode is Emily Kingsley’s poem “Welcome to Holland” https://www.dsasc.ca/uploa...

Having control in life is not a circumstance issue, but rather a thinking issue. Your life may feel like you have no control in it, but you are in fact more in control than you may even realize. We may not be able to control other people’s actions, or our circumstances, but we CAN control our own actions, decisions, and how we show up in life.

Join me as I interview a very special guest, my very own husband, and get insight on his experience as a special needs father! I think we can all agree that there just aren’t as many resources for dads out there, but I hope that this episode helps you know that you are not alone.

In this episode, we take a look at some of the signs and symptoms of caregiver burnout and easy ways you can start to reduce the chronic stress that leads to burnout. Caregiver burnout does not mean you are a bad mom, it does not mean you are doing a bad job, it is just your body’s way of survival. If you think you may be struggling with burnout and would like help, go to lowerylifecoaching.com to...

Being a special needs mom isn’t always fun is it? Especially on those days where the extender gets pulled out while tube feeding and now your brand new couch is once again covered in stomach contents..... 😅 ...Or on those days where you’ve got a mile long list of appointments and you’re running on 2 hours of crappy sleep.... 🥱 But every single day, good or bad, we have a choice: 1️⃣We get to dec...

Special needs moms are Busy with a capital B... trust me I know! But I want to let you in on a little secret that I like to teach my clients.... It’s not a matter of having more time. It’s a matter of FEELING busy. I promise you, if I was to wave a magic wand and give you an extra 5 hours in your day, you would still feel like it’s not enough! But why? It’s simply because busy is not a time issue....

In this episode, we talk about how wishing things in our lives were different is keeping us in misery. When we spend time wishing things were different-wishing we lived a normal life, wishing we had more time, wishing we were better moms or had a skinnier body- we miss out on the life we are actually living. We miss out on all the good things we do have. This episode goes into how this results in...

In this episode, we discuss our inner critic, our inner Regina George Mean Girl that lives to point out all the reasons we are not worthy.

It’s that four letter f word we all hate-fear. As special needs moms, we spend so much time living in this emotion, and avoiding this emotion. We fear the future, we fear the unknowns, we fear the what if’s. In this episode, we take a look at how fear can be masked as anger, anxiety, or stress and how this affects us in our lives. When we learn to allow and process emotions, we learn to reduce the...

In today’s episode, we talk about one of my favorite topics of course, overwhelm! As special needs moms (and moms in general!), we spend a lot of time suffering from the affects of overwhelm, creating more stress and anxiety in our lives than we would like. Overwhelm is so often thought of as a result of our to do lists, schedules, and lives in general. But really, overwhelm is not caused by any o...