The Special Needs Mom Podcast

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week is a short episode but a big topic! I’m talking about being an endurance mother.  For most of us, we’re special needs parents for the long haul. Often, the days are long, the weeks are packed and we are always doing something. Full Show Notes Connect with Kara, host of The Spec...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome back to the podcast. I am always looking for new ideas and types of episodes to bring to this community. Today's episode is a conversation with 3 other special needs moms and myself about birthdays. We talk about the high and lows around birthdays with friends, siblings and our special needs childr...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week I have two activation sessions. This episode is with Isabel. She gets real with her struggles to become more present with her children. Isabel all shares with me a lot of emotions she hasn't come to terms with surrounding her childrens' diagnosis and the pushback/feed...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week I have two activation sessions. This episode is with Jodi. Jodi has done the hard work with other moms and has dug deep within herself. However, this session has helped uncover some inner work she still has to do.  Connect with Kara, host of The Special Needs Mom Podcast: Insta...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week I want to address that elephant in the room that is your life. I'm calling it a rock and it is just impossible to move or destroy. That rock is likely a diagnosis or something permanent about your child. A rock that is seemingly keeping you from freedom, from hobbies, from...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome back to the podcast. This week's episode is a short one, but I am focusing on 2 simple questions to help you move from feeling alone. Connect with Kara, host of The Special Needs Mom Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespecialneedsmompodcast/ Website: https://www.kararyska.com/

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week, I'm giving you some life updates on scans and a big trip we took! I'm also using a couple personal stories to share concepts for all you special needs mom about taking breaks, finding the context and being able to let go of the fight! Connect with Kara, host of The S...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week's episode is another activation session. I have Laura with me and we're talking about the struggles of shifting out of caregiver and into that mothering role. It is hard to be the caregiver and we often are missing out on the joys and beauties of motherhood. I hope th...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome back to the podcast. This week I am sharing another activation session featuring mom, Dominique. She wants to have less anxiety, worry & overwhelm in her daily life and that's where I came in to help her make a plan!  While your story may not be the same as Dominique's, I think the steps I...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Welcome back to the podcast. This week I am joined for a second time by Anne Fricke. Anne and I catch up on IEP meetings and the struggles our children are having comparing themselves to typical children. Most importantly, Anne shares about a brand new platform she's started called, Breathe: Bringing resources, educ...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Welcome to the podcast. This episode is about those things we can’t share. The stories that will go untold.  The situations that no one will ever know about. Why? And what options do we have? Connect with Kara, host of The Special Needs Mom Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespecialneedsmompodcast/ Website:...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. Anna Brown is my guest this week. Anna is a mother, advocate, homemaker and blogger. She shares her perspectives on life with her special needs daughter and how she's grown to learn value and worth is about more than just doing. Anna talks about how she's had to let go of the i...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Welcome to The Special Needs Mom Podcast. This episode is the introduction of a new style episode we'll be having called an Activation Session !  It's a coaching-style session, so you'll hear live coaching and leave with insight and inspiration of what you might take action on in your own life.  Enjoy the...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week, I have guest Jillian Benfield. Jillian is a mother, parent advocate and author of a new book, The Gift of the Unexpected. She gives us a glimpse into her story as a special needs mom. We talk about the transformations we need to go through as these parents and that the new lif...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Do you find yourself blowing up at your kids? Losing your cool with your spouse? You are not alone. In this episode, I give you some ways to dig into this and get more curious about why you're acting this way. Connect with Kara, host of The Special Needs Mom Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespecialne...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week, I'm diving deeper into the topic of not being okay, despite people thinking you are. There are many layers to this and a lot of it is work we need to do within ourselves.  Connect with Kara, host of The Special Needs Mom Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thesp...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week we’re talking about the idea of restoration (rehabilitation) versus the recovery.  After we’ve been through some of the big struggles as special needs moms, we often wonder what’s next. How can we heal or recover from this?  Recovery suggests we can get back to how we were befo...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Welcome to the podcast! This week's guest is Gay Grossman.   Gay shares about her experience in the rare disease community, life with her daughter, and ways to be an awesome advocate for yourself and your special needs child.  This is an episode you don't want to miss! Connect with Gay: Email: GGrossman@ADCY5.o...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast.  This week, I’m continuing to talk about motherhood and leadership. More specifically, I’m sharing ways to trust yourself and become a better decision maker.  It’s a practice but you can be the best leader for your family if you work on this skill! Connect with Kara, host of The Special...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week, I wanted to emphasize some of those feelings that get brought up when the new year comes around.  It can feel overwhelming - all the posts about goals, new you, or the extreme optimism. Maybe you're in those places, but maybe you're not. That's what I'm cal...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome back to the podcast. This week, I decided to allow myself a break from recording a brand new episode. It is the holidays after all, my children are home, we're traveling and it just makes sense to bring you this particular replay. Back in episode 76, I shared about how often times mothers have impe...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) We put endless energy, thought, and pre-mediation to the gifts we create and buy for others.  And it’s a beautiful thing. Here is the question I want you to ponder today: What gift will you give yourself? Connect with Kara, host of The Special Needs Mom Podcast: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thespecialneedsmompodc...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Do you resist those guilty feelings as a mom?  This week, Billie Short is having a conversation with me about why the guilt can be good and the alternative to pushing away those guilty feelings. Connect with Billie: Facebook: www.facebook.com/billieshort IG: www.instagram.com/bgshort68 Website: www.conversation4change.co...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. In this episode I’m taking a deeper look at asking for help and why we may not be doing it. There are often many reasons we don’t want to ask for help- They don’t care for our child as we do or it’s too much to ask, or it’s uncomfortable to ask (and receive). I think sometimes we forget...

Send us a text (Note: we are not able to respond but LOVE to hear from you!!) Hello and welcome to the podcast. This week, Laura Hernandez shared about her family of biological + adopted foster children and how they manage to work as a team! Laura struggled with her daily life, finding time for each of her children and the general chaos before she learned to implement a basic system for her family...