From Burnout to Balance - Helping Parents of Find Balance in the Long Middle of Burnout Recovery

Aleesha White, founder of Moody, shares her journey of supporting neurodivergent individuals and their families. She discusses the challenges she faced as a high school student with seizures and her subsequent passion for helping neurodivergent people. Aleesha emphasizes the importance of creating inclusive opportunities and supporting neurodivergent individuals outside of the traditional classroo...

For many parents of neurodivergent children, bedtime is one of the hardest and most stressful times of the day. If this is true for you and your family, you're not alone, as many neurodivergent individuals find sleep challenging. In this episode, I chat with Laura Hellfeld, neurodivergent nurse and sleep consultant. Here are some of the topics we discussed: Changing the paradigm from tradition...

Today, I am joined by Elen Nathan from The Playful Place to give us insight into ARFID (Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder). Here is what we chatted about: What is ARFID? What causes ARFID and how can we know if our child (or we) are affected by ARFID? What can we do as parents to support our children if they are affected by ARFID? If you missed Elen's other two episodes on Sensory Syst...

In this solo episode, I talk about a topic that is often shut down in parenting communities. The topic of experiencing grief for various aspects of our parenting journey. In our Instagram society, where we just see the highlights, the happy moments the joyful moments of parenting we can feel 'wrong', 'broken' and isolated because we aren't feeling or experiencing these things....

Today on the show I chat with Kate Kleinau, who you may know from her Facebook and Instagram accounts as Raising PDA Kids. In this episode, Kate and I chat about: How her son's autistic burnout in his early childhood years led her to discover that he was PDA. The things she and her husband did to support her son's recovery from burnout. How embracing radical acceptance and adapting the way...

Today on the show we chat with Pip Brun, a neurodivergent human, a mum of 6 and a passionate advocate for the rights of disabled people. Pip is a passionate member of the Enabling Good Lives mid-central leadership group in New Zealand. In this episode, we chat about: Pip's lived experience as a mum of 6 neurodivergent children (including her daughter Lucy who has a rare chromosome disorder). T...

A funny thing happened when I sat down with Elen Nathan from the Playful Place for our first chat on the sensory systems. We just clicked and geeked out about the sensory systems and our neatly planned agenda for the episode went out of the window. After recording part one we immediately knew that we should do a follow-up. So Elen came back on a Sunday to record this episode with me and it is a re...

Today I am joined by occupational therapist and sensory integration practitioner, Elen Nathan. In this episode: Elen gives us an introduction to the nine sensory systems and why these are important for us as parents to be aware of. Elen and I chat about practical examples of what this could look like for our children, how we can be more aware of our child's sensory world and how this can contr...

Today on the podcast I sit down with three-time bestselling author, activist and mum of two disabled tamariki, Emily Writes to talk about the recent changes to the Whaikaha (The Ministry for Disabled People) purchasing guidelines. Some of the topics highlighted on the show: How the recent Whaikaha changes came about. How the changes affect disabled people and their families. What we can do to advo...

On today's episode, we chat with Claire Fisher. Claire shares with us her journey after being diagnosed in her forties with ADHD and Autism. Here are some of what we chat about in this episode: What led her to seek an ADHD/Autism assessment for herself in midlife? What this process was like for her and how this led her to seek assessment and support for her children. Her lived experience with...

Today on the show we sit down with Rebecca Rae-Hodgson who you might know as The Chronically Resilient OT. In this episode, we chat about: What it was like for her to discover that she was neurodivergent as an adult. Her journey with chronic illness. How neurodivergence, chronic illness, cycles, fertility and executive function all impact each other. How we can embrace the different types of rest...

In this episode, Tanya Valentin shares her journey as a neurodivergent human raising other neurodivergent humans. Tanya shares why the inspiration behind creating the Parenting Neurodivergent Kids Together Podcast and what it is about. If you would like to join the conversation contact Tanya via email at tanya@tanyavalentin.com. Join our parent community: ⁠ From Burnout to Balance ⁠