Mindful As A Mother

Welcome to another Neurodivergent Nugget! Neurodivergent nuggets are easily digestible pieces of information to support you on your parenting journey. At 15 minutes or less, these actionable items are the perfect parenting snack. Today’s topic is: sharing your child’s diagnosis with your child.

This week we’re deep-diving into self-care. What comes to your mind when we mention self-care? If it’s expensive and bougie, then we highly recommend you take a listen. Together, we talk through several different ideas that you can utilize for self-care, why it’s important, and how to weave it throughout your day. The first rule of this episode: Take what works and leave what doesn’t, and always r...

What comes to mind when you hear Radical Acceptance? As humans, we spend a lot of time being upset about things that aren’t in our control. Radical acceptance is taking the concept that we can’t change what’s happening, so how do we navigate the challenge? We talk through why this is important in parenting neurodivergent children and how to implement this concept to create a smoother experience in...

Welcome back to Mindful As A Mother! Today we are welcoming a special guest all the way from Austria, Carina Wahringer. We strongly believe that the most important voices in parenting and living with neurodivergence come from the individuals themselves. Carina is a strong example of a neurodivergent mother with neurodivergent children just trying to wing parenthood like the rest of us. Together, w...

Welcome to our VERY FIRST Neuroaffirming Nugget of season four. Neurodivergent nuggets are easily digestible pieces of information to support you on your parenting journey. At 15 minutes or less, these actionable items are the perfect parenting snack. PACE Playfulness : Stressed brains respond to calm, playful faces and tones of voice. You can counter stress by introducing playfulness. Playfulness...

This week, we continue the conversation about parenting styles. Specifically, we’re talking communication, creating a united front, attending appointments together, showing the why and so. much. more. Tune in to hear real-life examples of dropping demands in parenting with your partner to better support your child together. Check out our Calm Mom, Happy Kids course to better understand how to mana...

This week, we’re introducing parenting styles! We’ll talk through what different parenting styles are, how they vary based on our individual experiences, and the perfect parenting style for neurodivergent children. Plot twist: each child is different. Check out our Calm Mom, Happy Kids course to better understand how to manage your stress cycle and better manage your emotions: https://candid-truth...

This week we’re excited to introduce Dr. Rothman and Dr. Fredriksen, two powerful females, authors, mothers and doctors in the field of Neurodivergence. Together, they wrote Different Thinkers: ADHD. Different Thinkers: ADHD  is a comprehensive resource about ADHD for children and adults alike, offering practical advice for managing symptoms and reflection prompts designed to help readers understa...

Welcome back to Mindful As A Mother! This week, we’re, again, talking about stress cycles. I know, right? Like, could we talk about something else already? Well, that’s a big no from us because this week we’re talking about stress cycles and children. Here are some of the details about what’s to come as your listen to this week’s episode: how do you know when you’ve closed your stress cycle? How c...

Welcome back to Mindful As A Mother! In this episode, we continue the conversation on the stress cycle! You cannot fully understand how to manage your emotions without really understanding burnout and the stress cycle. We’re going to talk about the evidence-based ways to close the stress cycle and how we can weave them into our lives when we’re already feel topped out with demands. For Reference:...

Welcome back to Mindful As A Mother! We’re so excited for season four of the podcast. This season we’re expecting open conversations around all types of neurodivergence, parenting as a neurodivergent individual, and parenting neurodivergent children. In this episode, we open the season by introducing the stress cycle! You cannot fully understand how to manage your emotions without really understan...

This week we’re wrapping up Season Three! We wrap up the season with our favorite takeaways, how it has impacted us and our families, and a trip down memory of where we’ve been to where we are now. We invite you to participate in this journal activity with us, or simply just answer these questions for yourself: This season made me understand that… This season made me hope that… This season made me...

This week we’re talking through rejective sensitive dysphoria, parenting your child with ADHD, creating self-efficacy, increasing confidence, and leaning on the parent-child relationship and gentle honesty to support your kids. We talk through different scenarios from our personal lives and the lives of our loved ones. If you’re wondering how to best support your ADHD child in the parenting role,...

This week on Mindful As A Mother we are talking all things #adulting. We were thoroughly supportive of adulting being used as a psychological term and feeling all the millennial vibes. We cover rehearsing, sleep hacks, and optimizing our peak energy levels as ways to help the world better work with us instead of forcing ourselves to work with the world. You can now listen to all of our podcast epi...

This week on Mindful As A Mother, we are continuing to build the house of our dreams, and put in the yard work, hard work. Together we’re learning to identify yard work, yard people, what our fence looks like, and how we can identify/test out who are our yard people and who are our fence people. We talk through personal examples of how we identify when we need boundaries, how we know we’re already...

This week on Mindful As A Mother, we are talking about garbage. I mean, metaphorical garbage. Using the metaphor of a house, we talk through physical and emotional boundaries, and how can we identify and define boundaries to support us in living within our values and limits. We talk through personal examples of how we identify when we need boundaries, how we know we’re already doing well, and what...

This week Lindsay and Paige discuss the emotional ladder as described by Tamara Rosier, PhD. We cover the five different rungs individually and what it looks like for children of different ages at each level including their behaviors and relationships with peers and family members Level 1: Present and Calm, Level 2: Awareness, Level 3: Autopilot, Level 4: Survival, and Level 5: Delusional. Lindsay...

If you're an educator, this episode is for you! Jessica Sinarski is a licensed professional counselor of mental health, and a highly sought-after therapist, speaker, and change-maker. Weaving user-friendly brain science into everything she does, Jessica ignites both passion and know-how in audiences. Extensive post-graduate training and 15+ years as a clinician and educator led her to create t...

This week Lindsay and Paige discuss the emotional ladder as described by Tamara Rosier, PhD. We cover the five different rungs. We discuss what it looks like for individuals at each level including our relationships with others and how our ADHD symptoms can show up. Level 1: Present and Calm, Level 2: Awareness, Level 3: Autopilot, Level 4: Survival, and Level 5: Delusional. Lindsay and Paige shar...

We’re back this week we’re talking about unconscious and conscious patterns of behaviors we fall into with our habits and energy levels. When we’re better able to recognize our patterns of behavior, we can come up with brain hacks and tools to better support and sustain emotional health. In this episode, we examine “Red, Blue and Back Again”, and “Nothin’ But Blue” patterns. We share our experienc...

This week on the podcast we extend our arms to Shari Ann Almeida, mother to a survivor. We recorded this interview in March 2023 but found it best suited to reserve it for the beginning of September, Pediatric Cancer Awareness month. Shari is also the author of "I See You". Shari describes herself as "just a mom" before her entire life changed with her daughter's, Dakota, c...

This week we’re talking about unconscious and conscious patterns of behaviors we fall into with our habits and energy levels. When we’re better able to recognize our patterns of behavior, we can come up with brain hacks and tools to better support and sustain emotional health. In this episode, we examine “The Need for Speed” in the red quadrant, and “Playing with Fire” from yellow to red. We share...

Please join us in a warm welcome to the mother, writer, and author of the upcoming new release There's A Yeti in My Tummy, Meredith Rusu! In  There’s a Yeti in My Tummy  Rusu encourages kids and parents alike to unleash their inner yetis and embrace the chaotic joy of BIG feelings!  There’s a Yeti in My Tummy  is a rhyming book that follows Matthew, a young boy who can’t help feeling silly in...

The beginning of the school year can be met with excitement and anticipation. For some, it’s met with dread, anxiety, and concern. With back-to-school season upon us, I want to help you and your kids move from anxious to excited about the upcoming school year. Main 3 Takeaways: Building self-esteem bridge and confidence, creating individual and family goals, and identifying and creating rituals th...

In this episode, Lindsay gives tips for handling the upcoming Back to School transition. Do you want to the upcoming back to school transition to be smooth sailing? Listen to this podcast. Main takeaways from the episode include setting yourself up for success, planning for transition times, and helping your child with their routines. You might still have a few bedtime battles, but you will at lea...