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374: Teaching the Body to Feel Safe, with Holly Bridges
Episode 374
Your kid's nervous system is not a machine you can just tell to calm down. It is more like an octopus: sentient, sensitive, and completely uninterest…
3 hours ago
373: Overcoming The Wall of Awful, with Brendan Mahan, M.Ed.
Episode 373
Your child isn't avoiding that task because they're lazy or defiant. They're standing in front of an invisible wall made of every past failure and ha…
1 week ago
372: The Neurodivergent Learner, Emily King, Ph.D.
Episode 372
Academic learning is the cherry on top. Everything else has to be in place first before a child can even access the parts of their brain that do the …
2 weeks ago
371: How Honesty (Not Reassurance) Is What Gets Your Kid Through Middle School, with Dr. Kim Pinckney
Episode 371
One day my son was eye level with me. The next, he wasn't. His sense of who his friends actually were was now off.
That's the thing about middle schoo…
3 weeks ago
370: When Silence is Louder than Sound, with Luke Williams
Episode 370
Heavy metal calms my son down. That sentence still doesn't feel intuitive to me, even after nearly two decades of parenting a neurodivergent kid, but…
4 weeks ago
369: PANDAS: When Strep Inflames Your Child's Brain, with Andrea Jones, Rn, BSN, FHP
Episode 369
Rage that comes out of nowhere. A glassy, far-away look in your child's eyes. Bedwetting after years of dry nights. Sudden separation anxiety in a ki…
1 month ago
368: Preparing for the Back-to-School Transition, with Penny Williams
Episode 368
The end of summer brings a very specific kind of dread for so many of us parenting neurodivergent kids — that creeping feeling that starts in July an…
1 month, 1 week ago
367: Systems that Work with the Brain, with Angela Kingdon, Ph.D.
Episode 367
Angela Kingdon has a system for everything, and for years it never occurred to her that not everyone wants that.
Angela is the founder of the Autistic…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
366: The Glass Child: The Neurotypical Sibling’s Experience, with Penny Williams
Episode 366
There's a kid in your house who never asks for anything, who seems fine when everything is falling apart, who's learned to take up less space so ther…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
365: Autistic Burnout & Self-Care, with Dr. Megan Anna Neff
Episode 365
Autistic burnout doesn't look like ordinary tiredness, and treating it that way can make everything harder for your child and for you. It shows up as…
2 months ago