Ann Loh Wrenne

Diverse Wellbeing

Kids EN ↓ 84 episodes

Welcome to Diverse Wellbeing, the podcast where parents of children with additional needs find support, connection and real conversations on embracing self-care. Each episode explores practical insights, expert advice and authentic stories to help you manage stress & nurture your wellbeing in day-to-day life. Join us as we discuss the unique journey of diverse families.

Be sure to visit the podcast's website and support the creator: www.diversewellbeing.ie

Author

Ann Loh Wrenne

Category

Kids

Podcast website

www.diversewellbeing.ie

Latest episode

Oct 7, 2026

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Episodes

Transitions: Noticing What Happens In You 11.02.2026

This episode explores how transitions affect parents internally, and how gentle self-awareness can support wellbeing. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

Transitions: When the Load Feels Heavy 04.02.2026

This episode explores the emotional fatigue parents experience during transitions in daily life with additional needs. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

Reflecting on Supports 29.01.2026

A quiet space to reflect on the supports around you, using journal prompts drawn from this month’s episodes. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

Strengthened by Support 21.01.2026

A reframing of support as something that strengthens, steadies, and allows growth over time. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

When Support Is Stretched 14.01.2026

This week's episode is an invitation to notice where support is holding you — and where the load may be heavier than one person can carry. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

The Support Beneath the Surface 07.01.2026

A reflection on why parenting a child with additional needs asks more of us, and why we’re not meant to carry it alone. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Practice] A Christmas Eve Storytime for Parents 24.12.2025

For this Christmas Eve and final episode of the season, I’m offering a quiet storytime for parents with readings, reflection, and a moment of rest. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Mind Matters] Travelling Lighter Into the New Year 17.12.2025

This week’s episode is about laying down what no longer fits and choosing a kinder, steadier way forward into the year ahead. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Wellbeing] A Year of Serenity 10.12.2025

In this reflective episode, I return to the foundation of so much of what we’ve talked about this year: finding serenity so we can move through life with more clarity and ease. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Practice] Attention Matters: Perspective, Patience, Connection & Energy 03.12.2025

A short, practical guide to using your attention to lift your perspective, patience, connection, and energy through simple daily moments. If you'd like to explore more tools and supports, you'll find everything at diversewellbeing.ie . Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Wellbeing] Pockets of Restoration 26.11.2025

In this episode, we explore how to restore your four finite resources: time, energy, money, and attention. Learn how to create small pockets of restoration throughout your day and week that genuinely replenish you. If you'd like to stay connected or explore more resources, visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Mind Matters] Protecting Your Wellbeing 19.11.2025

You have a finite amount of time, energy, money, and attention. And at some point, you reach the edge of what you have to give. Understanding this is about relief and clarity. And it's about giving yourself permission to stop trying to do the impossible. So today, we're going to explore what it means to have finite resources and why it matters for your wellbeing. If you'd like to stay connected or...

[Practice] Sleep Preparation Ritual 12.11.2025

Today, I’d like to help you create your own sleep preparation ritual — something personal and flexible that fits around your evenings, your family life, and your reality. If you’d like to explore more wellbeing practices for parents, you’ll find free resources and past episodes at diversewellbeing.ie . And if this episode helped you, sharing it with another parent who might need rest can help us a...

[Wellbeing] Winter Wellness: 5 Ways to Stay Well Through the Darker Months 05.11.2025

In this episode I’m sharing five simple ways to think about winter wellness that can help you move through this season with more awareness and more care for yourself. If you’d like to stay connected, visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. All our free resources are available there too. This is Diverse Wellbeing—empowering parents & embracing wellness.

[Mind Matters] The Science Behind Play & Connection 29.10.2025

Today we’re exploring something that often gets left behind once we become adults — play . Playfulness helps us regulate emotions , build resilience , and create positive memories even in challenging seasons. If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering par...

[Practice] Journalling Moments of Meaning 22.10.2025

You give safety, belonging, love, and growth — not through grand gestures, but through small, ordinary moments of care. Today, I’ll guide you through a practice to help you gently reflect on where those moments already exist, and how you might invite a few more in. If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. All our free...

[Wellbeing] 9 Minutes of Connection 15.10.2025

Today, we’re exploring an idea called the nine minutes of connection — a small daily habit that can make a big difference to your wellbeing as a parent. If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. Until next time, take care. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Mind Matters] The Pyramid of Care 08.10.2025

Today’s episode is an invitation to pause for a few moments — to recognise just how much you already do, and how deeply you already care. If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parents, and embracing wellness.

[Wellbeing] Self-Care in the Midst of Challenge 01.10.2025

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month here in Ireland, and as a breast cancer survivor myself, I wanted to take a moment to pause with you and return to the thread that runs through this whole podcast: the importance of self-care. If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. This is Diverse Wellbeing — empowering parent...

[Practice] The Flexibility To Pause & Choose 24.09.2025

In our last episode on the seasons of parenting, we talked about how our role as parents is constantly changing as our children grow. One of the strategies I mentioned was practicing flexibility — and today, we’re going to spend a little time with that idea. If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. I hope this practice...

[Mind Matters] Seasons Of Parenting 17.09.2025

As we move into autumn, I’ve been thinking about change as a theme. This led me to create a short series of episodes exploring how change affects us as parents. We began with our last two podcasts on transitions, and today we’re continuing that theme with something I’m calling the seasons of parenting . If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie a...

[Practice] Guided Meditation: Between The Moments 10.09.2025

In last week’s episode, we explored the hidden impact of transitions — not just for our children, but for us as parents too. We looked at some simple ways to care for ourselves in those in-between moments. Today, I’d like to take that one step further with this guided meditation. If you’re new to the podcast you can join our mailing list by visiting our website at diversewellbeing.ie to receive up...

[Wellbeing] The Quiet Side of Transitions 03.09.2025

Today I want to talk about something that often goes unnoticed but has a huge impact on our energy levels as parents — transitions. Download my FREE Self-Care To-Do List by visiting the link below. https://www.diversewellbeing.ie/resources/self-care-to-do-list If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. Thanks for listeni...

[Mind Matters] Rewriting The Story Of Tomorrow 27.08.2025

Today I want to talk about an idea that can help change how we feel in the present: using the future as a tool and creating something called future self-connection. The future doesn’t need to feel heavy. It can be the very thing that lightens today. If you’d like to stay connected or receive podcast updates, you can visit diversewellbeing.ie and join our mailing list. The future can be your ally —...

[Wellbeing] Strengths in Balance 20.08.2025

Those qualities that people admire in you — your empathy, your responsibility, your resilience - they’re what help you cope but those same strengths, if they go into overdrive, can start to impact your wellbeing in ways that leave you anxious, drained, or even burned out. By finding balance, you can make sure those strengths keep serving you rather than depleting you. If you’d like to stay connect...

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