The Special Needs Mom Podcast

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 070: Hello Listeners and Happy New Year. This is my first episode of 2022 and it’s a special one. This week was our 18th wedding anniversary and I wanted to finally bring my husband, Dan on as a guest! Dan and I talk about how important it is to be vocal with each other as well as carrying to load together. We like to th...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hi listeners and happy holidays! I wanted to check in with you this week and encourage you to listen to yourself and be sure to give yourself rest, if you can! I’ll be taking off a week from the podcast and I will be back on January 6th.  I couldn’t preach to mamas to take care of themselves and not stop to take some tim...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hey listeners, this episode I want to help you set yourself up for success. During the holiday season, there are so many activities, plans and gatherings with family and friends. It is really easy to get overwhelmed and feel triggered. Boundaries are a way to create a safe environment, physically or emotionally for ourse...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hey there! This week I am bringing you a conversation about hope. I want to be clear that the kind of hope I’m talking about refers to things that have a reasonable chance of happening. It’s hard as special needs moms to let ourselves have hope for things, but living in that hope can make us take actions towards the outc...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 066: Hello listeners. This week I am having a conversation with Francesca Collins. She’s a homesteader who lives in a 400 sq ft home with her special needs daughter, Emery and husband.  Francesca shares how she’s been listening to the podcast from the beginning and I’m so glad she reached out to be to be on it. Her favor...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 065: Hello listeners, and Happy Thanksgiving. This week, I want to chat about gratitude and finding the beauty in life.    I’m in that place where I’m trying to recover from our recent tumor return and hospitalization.  After listening to a favorite podcast and reflecting on it, I was reminded again that we can find the...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello listeners! This episode I am taking about how to take care of yourself during a crisis! Yes, I know you often feel like you’re last on the list during tough times, especially as a special needs mom. Just hear me out! A crisis can be many things, medical, marital, financial or even spiritual.  It’s some situation or...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Ep 63: Hello and welcome to the podcast.  This week is a quick episode addressing some of our family updates. I also touch on resisting what is happening in your life and how to move past these feelings, while still addressing them. Episode 55 for more back story. Ryska CaringBridge Page Connect with Kara, host of The Sp...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 062: Hello listeners and welcome back to the Podcast. In today’s episode, Kelli McIntosh shares about how she’s coped with being a special needs mom; through many years without an actual diagnosis. Kelli is a mom of two, very close in age, children. She had normal fears of welcoming another baby so soon, but also those f...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 061: Hello listeners. This week I have guest, Charmaine Fuller, to talk with me about her experiences and advice for special needs moms. She calls herself an OG special needs mom, as her oldest child is 20. We have some laughs and insights in our conversation. Charmaine is a fellow coach and shares what works for her whe...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 060: Hey there listeners. This week I have guest Nicole Holcomb from Dyslexia Mom Life. She shares with us how she has been helping her daughter and other families through their dyslexia challenges. Nicole explains about invisible parenting. This concept involves all the things mom (or dads) do that no one realizes. It c...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 059: Hi listeners. This episode was a fun way to bring my son, Levi, on the show. Levi interviews me and I ask him a couple questions too. I hope you enjoy the laughs and sunshine that is our boy! If you want to follow along with our newest health journey, click here . Connect with Kara, host of The Special Needs Mom Pod...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 058: Hello and welcome back to the podcast. This week is a little more of an update with how my life is going, but it’s also a good example of how you can shift your focus. I want to highlight how you can go from being the victim in life’s situations and taking responsibility back! I don’t have it all figured out, but I...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 057: Hello listeners. This week I have Dafne Wiswell. She is a mother to three children with individual chronic illnesses and is a coach to others and families who face these struggles. Dafne gives us insight on how she has been able to find peace, despite often feeling out of control of her children’s circumstances and...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello fellow moms and listeners! This week I’m talking about a subject that is in the forefront of my life right now, worry and anxiety!  I find that these two emotions/actions go hand in hand.  Very often, we are worrying about something we have no control over. The list is long for special needs moms.  How do you exper...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Ep. 55: Hello listeners. This week on the podcast, I’m taking a little detour from our Back to School series to talk about some life updates.  As a special needs moms, we are constantly growing and evolving. However, the news I was given a few weeks ago, had me feeling just like that mom I was 10 years ago. It scared me...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 054:  Happy Birthday....or is it Happy Anniversary?  Either way, this episode marks the very special one-year mark of The Special Needs Mom Podcast. Today's episode is one that will surely leave you more connected to yourself, your stories, and the community of special needs moms around you. Enjoy the stories of thr...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 053: Hello and welcome back to the Special Needs Mom podcast. This week I am joined by our family’s nanny, Alex. I wanted to talk about creating your support team and who better to weigh in than someone from our support team!  Alex has been with our family for over three years. This year, our needs have changed and roles...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 052:  Welcome back to the podcast. This week I’m starting a series about Back to School! For many of us, this is an extra stressful and somewhat unusual new school year.  I encourage you to give yourself some grace as a mom and remember that this transition is allowed to be hard for you too.  There are a few tricks to ma...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hey listeners! This week I am sharing part 2 of my conversation with Robyn Rosenberger, mom of 3 and founder & CEO of TinySuperheroes.  Robyn explains that Tiny Superheroes was actually started by accident.  She wanted to make a special needs child feel beautiful and special, so she made her a cape.  That’s how it be...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 050: Hey listeners! This week I am sharing part 1 of my conversation with Robyn Rosenberger, mom of 3 and founder & CEO of TinySuperheroes. TinySuperheroes is a company seeking to empower kids and families as they overcome illness or disability.  Robyn actually isn’t a special needs mom but she clearly has a servant...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 049:  Welcome back to the podcast.  This week let’s talk about accepting compliments this week. We often have such a hard time accepting compliments, especially when it comes to our children, because we see the REAL and the HARD and its so conflicting! We are often so hard on ourselves about what else we could be doing t...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 048: Welcome back to the podcast. Today I have Kayla Monville sharing about her two children with autism and how she’s working to educate others as an author. Kayla tells us that it’s never an easy or normal day in her house with two children who have autism. She is also a special education teacher and as we dive into he...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) You are invited to come to the Own Your Story Workshop, Sat July 31st.  This is a bonus episode where I tell my story.  It's not that I don't have other stories, this is just the one I am proud of and allowed me to make a transformational shift in my life. To sign up CLICK HERE Connect with Kara, host of The Sp...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) 047: Hello listeners. This week, I want you to think about the possibilities.  It can be so easy to train our brains to think that something isn’t possible and then all we have is that picture of impossibility!  I want you to play like a winner.  Think about your favorite board game. How is your mindset when you know tha...