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Hey Mamas, Have you been wanting to raise chickens in your backyard as a way to get quality eggs, but you're wondering if it would REALLY be worth the trouble? I know you're already busy with homeschooling, running your children to speech and occupational therapy, and caring for your home. The idea of caring for chickens as well may feel like too much!  On the podcast today I want to share with yo...

Hey Mamas, Are you looking to switch your family to a more holistic lifestyle?  Are you wanting to reduce chemicals in your home and offer your Autistic child healthier foods, but you feel overwhelmed on where to start?  Join me on the podcast today as I share 3 EASY swaps you can make in your kitchen to begin cooking in a more clean manner for your family. Added bonus is that you can do several o...

Hey, friend!  It's that time of year where everyone is getting out of school for summer break. This means lots of fun and downtime for many families, but as Mom with Neurodiverse kids, we continue our therapies year-round. The fact that everyone else is getting ready to enjoy summer while we continue our daily therapy schedule can sometime contribute to feelings of burnout and wishing we could hav...

Hey Mamas, Are you looking to start a garden to offer your special needs family more healthy food, but you have no idea what to grow? Maybe you're hoping that by growing your own food, your child with SPD will be open to trying the foods you're growing in your backyard (TOTALLY has happened with my kids!) but you're looking at all the options with seeds and plant starts and feeling absolutely OVER...

Hey, friends! Have you noticed your child struggles to focus? Does it feel like they constantly need to be moving and at times that can interfere with daily activities? I want to share 4 tips with you that I have found to be helpful in working WITH my children and the way their brains operate so that all of their needs are being met and they are able to focus more. Whether your child has been diag...

Hey Mamas, Is your child having a hard time falling asleep at night? Are you feeling irritable and anxious from being sleep deprived? I have been there! I want to share with you 4 different tips I have used over the years to help my Autistic child to be able to fall asleep easier and rest throughout the night.  If you are in that spot of desperately needing some sleep (I get it!) join me for today...

Hey Mamas,  Have you been considering starting a backyard garden, but you feel like it will take way too much time, so you keep putting it off? Maybe you would love to grow your own fruits and vegetables as a way to offer your family healthier food options, but getting started feels really hard? Join me to today as we talk about how YOU get to be in control of how much time it takes you to garden...

Hey Mamas, Mother's Day was yesterday, I hope you all had an amazing day! As a Mom who has kids with speech and developmental delays, I know that sometimes big days like this have a way of bringing up a lot of feelings for us. Maybe we wish our child could speak to us, or play with us outside, or pose for a nice family photo. Mother's Day can often magnify the ways we are different from those arou...

Hey friends,  Do you often find yourself overwhelmed by the amount of things you need to get done? Then you end up just procrastinating because the tasks seem so time-consuming? You're already juggling therapy schedules and researching new things to help your child with special needs, so that to-do list can just wait, right?!  I want to share with you one of my favorite hacks for getting super cle...

Hey Mamas,  Are you looking to switch to a more natural lifestyle, but you feel overwhelmed by the feeling that you need to switch everything at one time? Do you struggle with feeling like if you can't do it perfectly, it's not even worth trying?  Maybe you recently discovered that you or your child have food allergies or food sensitivities and the idea of removing those foods from your diet feels...

Hey Mamas, Have you ever had someone criticize the way you parent your differently-abled child? Maybe the person really hadn't taken the time to understand your child or their needs before speaking, but the comment still stung and left you feeling a bit insecure.  I have been there many times over the last several years and I know what it's like to go down that spiral of feeling shame and like we...

Hey Mamas,  Do you desire to spend your morning with a hot cup of coffee, your Bible, and your favorite devotional, investing in your relationship with Jesus? Has this become a major struggle for you to do consistently since you became a Mom and began caring for your children with special needs?  Me too. I have had to get really creative with ways to intentionally grow my relationship with Jesus w...

Hey friends,  Today I want to share with you one of my favorite tools to increase productivity and focus as a Mom parenting my Neurodiverse children. If you have tried time blocking, creating a cleaning schedule, or meal planning and found time and again that these techniques don't work for your family dynamics, you're going to want to listen to today's episode!  Let's talk about one way you can r...

Hello Mamas,  Have you ever started a new therapy or natural treatment for your child hoping to see progress for them and then you find yourself really discouraged whenever the thing you hoped to see improve still hasn't happened yet?  Or maybe you were seeing some great progress with your child in their development, only to find that you've come up against another challenge and it feels like it's...

Hey Mamas, Welcome back to the podcast! Today I want to talk with you about something that I have noticed when talking with other special needs Moms. We have a hard time making it a priority to care for ourselves. We REALLY struggle to slow down long enough to figure out what WE need. I think this is because we love our children fiercely and whenever they have extra needs, sometimes that feeling o...

If you've considered starting a garden in your backyard, but feel like it would be too hard to actually be worth the work, you're going to want to listen in today!  We talk about how it benefits not only our health, but our relationships and families. It's also an amazing educational resource for our kids who are out-of-the-box learners!  XO, Ashley  Greenstalk Planter get $10 off here. MIGardener...

Do you want to offer your child with Sensory Processing Disorder or food aversions new foods on their plate consistently, but you find yourself getting overwhelmed with what to try next? Or maybe you've tried things so many times with no success so you just feel discouraged about it all and you've given up. But still there's that underlying feeling of guilt that you should be doing more, yet you d...

Hey Mamas,  Join me today as we talk about managing stress levels as we parent our special needs kids. Stress is something we know we can't escape, and if you're like me, you also struggle with hypervigilance, constantly on alert with your kids, wanting to make sure they are safe and all is well.  Living in that constant state of stress and anxiety can really do a number on the nervous system. I w...

Hey, Mamas!! We are back for part 2 of a conversation with my husband about community as a family with Neurodiverse kids. In this episode we share what healthy community looks like and some simple ways you can get started with finding your own supportive community! We hope you are encouraged by this conversation!  XO, Ashley  I would love to connect even more with you! Please email me or reach out...

Hey Mamas, Join us today for Part 1 of a conversation with my husband about the importance of community and some of the hurdles we have to overcome in order to make it happen while parenting our differently-abled children.  We talk about the struggle in finding support, the fear of criticism we have to overcome in order to reach out to others, and share why we've found building a community around...

As busy Moms who feel like we are juggling all the things with therapies, food allergies, behavioral challenge, and caring for our home, it can be easy to fall into the cycle of thinking negative thoughts about our life.  We often have feelings of failure, wishing circumstances were different, comparing ourselves and our kids to others and feeling as if we don't measure up. These thought patterns...

Analysis paralysis, brain fog, feeling hopeless or overwhelmed, procrastination....are any of these something you struggle with? If so, it's possible you're facing decision fatigue. It makes perfect sense, we all have so many decisions we have to make in a single day, sometimes it's just too much for our brains to keep up with! I am going to share 8 tips that have helped me to decrease the number...

Do you find yourself struggling to find time for yourself each day? Does self-care feel like an impossible idea to actually implement in your life? While we care for our differently-abled kids, the reality is that self-care is so important for our own health and well-being, but also so we can show up for our family in the way that we desire to. Burnout while juggling the parenting and caregiver ro...

Do you find that the busyness of parenting your children with special needs leaves little room for you to connect with your spouse? Have you heard that the divorce rate is higher among those who have a child with a disability, but you don't know how to increase your chances of having a successful marriage?  I share my #1 routine for increasing connection and communication in your marriage in a way...

Hey Sister-friend!  Welcome back to the podcast! Do you have children who are Neurodivergent, who have some kind of disability, or complex medical needs? Do you find school and their education to be in a constant state of “Warrior Mom Mode" to fight for your kids to get an education that works for their unique learning styles? Been. There. I share in today's episode why we decided to Homeschool ou...