Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms

When faced with a decision, are you afraid of making the wrong choice?  Recently, I found myself spending way too much time and energy trying to find the “perfect” planner option, only to realize that perfect does not exist.  In this episode, we talk about how searching for the perfect answer is actually stealing your time, energy, and joy- and what to do about it so you can feel good about your d...

Working Mom Guilt doesn’t have to be a given, and it might be doing more damage in your life than you even realize. In this episode, I teach you the steps to getting rid of Working Mom Guilt so you can feel proud of how you are showing up in both your career and motherhood. Note: Even if you are not a working mom, you’re still going to want to listen in to this episode because it’s going to help y...

It's incredibly common to lose yourself in motherhood, to no longer feel like you recognize the person staring back at you in the mirror. But oftentimes, we may not even know it's happening! How many of these signs do you have? Link to book your consult call: https://lowerylifecoaching.com/consultcall/

Being a bookworm at heart, I wanted to share my top 5 favorite books that have helped me get through the hard times of life as a special needs mom. Some of the books on this list are inspiring, while others serve as functional guides to help make life easier. To access the links to each book mentioned, plus a few of my other favorites, click the link below: https://amzn.to/3Rgfa4u

As moms, we are constantly being bombarded with everyone’s needs, being touched, clutter all around us, loud noises, and sensory stimuli.  And it can be, well, OVERWHELMING.  Getting irritated, even angry, when it all becomes too much is not a sign that you are a bad mom, but rather a sign that you are overstimulated.  In this episode, you’ll learn how you can structure your day to LOWER your chan...

Part one of the two-part series on overstimulation. In this episode, we dive into what overstimulation is, what causes it, and why so many mom’s experience it.

Sometimes when our kids (or ourselves) are faced with a challenge, we lose control over our own emotions. We panic. We freak out. We can’t see a solution. In this episode, I am sharing a trick I found that has helped de-escalate meltdowns in my daughter, but has also been incredibly helpful for me as well. ********* Ready to learn more about working with me? Go to https://lowerylifecoaching.com/co...

Sometimes you stumble across something on the great wide web that just knocks you to your knees… In this episode, I am sharing a poem by an unknown author that I came across that made such an impact on me called “I am the Child.” Link to read the poem: http://www.oafccd.com/lanark/poems/child1.html

Have you ever found yourself jealous of all those “typical” families?  Or found yourself constantly feeling worried about money, even when you have enough to cover all your expenses?  In this episode, we dive into how having a Scarcity Mindset could be showing up for you, and impacting your finances, relationships, and potentially your child’s future.  LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE: https://lowerylif...

As kids, we all loved to play. Life was full of adventures, joy, and silliness.  But as we grow up and take on more responsibility, that ability to play starts to fade away.  In this episode, I’m sharing why we all need to add more playfulness into our lives to help us be even better parents, and have less stress and more energy. 

It starts with something setting you off, like your child having a massive meltdown, causing you to lose your cool and yell at them, which makes you feel really awful and brings up fears of inadequacy and shame…. Sound familiar?  In this episode, we talk about WHY moms yell, and WHY kids misbehave, and how the two are more closely connected than you may realize.   LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE lowery...

The decisions we make every single day, especially the small ones, are what create our lives. In this episode, I’m sharing 5 decisions you can make that will not only have a profound affect on your own life, but your family’s lives as well.

As special needs moms, we face a lot of stressful challenges every single day.  And sometimes, those challenges can be overwhelming and leave us feeling frozen and unsure.  In this episode, I teach you how to drop the overwhelm and start tackling any challenging situation. 

Ever find yourself too tired, too busy, and just too exhausted to do the things that make you happy? Well you are not alone. In this episode, we talk about the biggest thing that keeps moms from happiness, and what you can do about it.

Between nighttime care tasks, racing minds, and kids who wake us up, sleep doesn’t always come easy for special needs moms. In this episode, I’m sharing a few things you can do to help get more sleep and better sleep so you can have more energy during the day. ***Link mentioned in episode*** lowerylifecoaching.com/consultcall

It can be difficult to explain just how big of an impact coaching can have in your life, and just how much it changes you. It improves the quality of your relationships, it helps you experience more of the good, and less of the bad, and helps you stay in control over how you feel and the reactions you have when things don’t go right. In this episode, I am sharing two recent situations from my own...

Humans aren’t perfect. That’s a fact.  But if this is true, then why do so many women, especially us special needs moms, feel as though they aren’t allowed to be human, and arent allowed to have human needs?  In this episode, we talk about why you should give yourself permission to be human, and how not doing so is actually counterproductive.  Link to schedule a call with me: lowerylifecoaching.co...

As special needs moms, we face a lot of BIG decisions.  Maybe it’s deciding whether or not a surgery is right for your child… Or deciding if you should leave a job or stay… Or trying to decide if adding to your family is the right choice… And these crossroads in our lives can leave us spinning out in confusion and indecision, fearful of picking the wrong choice.  In this episode, I am sharing a to...

In this episode, I’m giving you an insider look at some of the work we do inside The Village. In this episode, I walk you through the process of helping one of my clients feel less overwhelmed and show up as the mom she wants to be.

If I had known how to do this ONE thing when my son was diagnosed, it would have saved me a lot of pain and suffering. In this episode, I'm sharing what this one thing is, why it's so important, and how to implement it in your own life. *Schedule a Call with me* www.lowerylifecoaching.com/consultcall

When our kids get sick, it typically means a few nights of no sleep, a mountain of laundry and dishes, missed work, and a whole lot of stress and worry. In this episode, I am sharing 3 actionable things you can do to help make those challenging times more manageable, less stressful, and overall easier. Listen in to learn: •Ingenious hacks for taking care of yourself in the midst of caring for a si...

I asked followers on Instagram to fill in the blank of this sentence:"life as a special needs mom is ____" And after dozens of responses, there were two words that were consistently used: Exhausting and Fulfilling. In this episode, I'm sharing how finding the fulfillment in this life can help us move forward.

***Link to check out The Village*** www.lowerylifecoaching.com/thevillage And as special needs moms, there is a lot that we can’t control. We can't control our child's diagnosis, the insurance companies, the things other people say to us.... And a lot of times we get caught in a trap of feeling like we have no control over things, which triggers our fight or flight response and results in living i...

Have you ever noticed your brain keeping a mental score of sorts? Maybe it's tallying all the times your husband forgets to do something, or all the ways in which your child's school is getting it wrong. When our brains keep score of things happening that we believe shouldn't be happening, it keeps us from ever taking the necessary actions to make any positive change. In this episode, I'm sharing...

*LINK TO REGISTER FOR FREE COURSE* https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/sl/tt0cXQu/Freecourse Understanding WHY you are stuck in Survival Mode is a key element of figuring out how to get out. In this episode, I am sharing the 5 main reasons why special needs moms get stuck in this cycle of Survival.