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352: Navigating Childhood & Adolescent Anxiety, with Dr. Vanessa Lapointe
Episode 352
Anxiety isn’t always what it looks like, and sometimes what we’ve been told to “fix” isn’t actually the problem at all. In this conversation, I sit d…
2 months, 1 week ago
351: ADHD in Kids: Why Understanding Their Brain Changes Everything, with Cate Osborn & Erik Gude
Episode 351
There’s a quiet kind of harm that happens when a child doesn’t understand their own brain. It doesn’t show up all at once. Instead, it builds over ti…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
350: Alternative School Options, with Dawn Fleming-Kendall
Episode 350
When school keeps hurting your child instead of helping them learn, it can feel like there are no good choices left. That kind of desperation is some…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
349: Tracking & Maintaining Progress, with Caroline Fitsimones
Episode 349
Progress with our neurodivergent kids can feel invisible. When you’re in the daily grind of meltdowns, school stress, and constant problem-solving, i…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
348: Good Sleep for Neurodivergent Kids, with Melisa Moore, Ph.D.
Episode 348
Sleep can feel like the one thing that makes everything else harder. When our kids don’t sleep, their nervous systems are fried, their emotions are b…
3 months ago
347: Accommodations That Reduce Cognitive Load Restore Motivation, with Jeff Copper, MBA, PCC, PCAC, CPCC, ACG
Episode 347
Motivation isn’t what we’ve been taught it is. When we misunderstand it, we accidentally shame our kids for struggling with something they can’t cont…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
346: Teaching Kids Friendship Skills, with Jennifer Licate
Episode 346
Friendship shouldn’t feel like an audition.
And yet, for so many of our neurodivergent kids, it does.
They try to decode shifting rules, confusing soci…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
345: We Need to Talk About Dignity and Humanity, with Penny Williams
Episode 345
Somewhere along the way, we started normalizing things that should never be normal for kids. Public behavior charts. Compliance scripts delivered to …
3 months, 4 weeks ago
344: What to Do When You Run Out of Compassion, with Melissa Corkum
Episode 344
There’s a moment many of us reach in parenting when the compassion just… runs out. Not because we don’t love our kids, but because our nervous system…
4 months ago
343: It Isn’t Disrespect. It’s a Biological Response to Stress., with Penny Williams
Episode 343
What if the behavior that feels the most disrespectful isn’t a choice at all?
Eye rolling. Yelling. Snapping back. Refusing. These moments hit deep. T…
4 months, 1 week ago