Many parents ask me, ‘’My child is improving, but now has regressed. Is all that improvement lost forever?’’ No. There are two types of regression commonly seen when healing your child from autism, and each one actually has a great benefit. The first type of regression is from when you introduce a new aspect of […]
As you heal autism and see positive changes in your child, you might be scared that what you healed will return. You might fear a regression. You might start obsessing over a potential regression. The best way to stop the fear of regression is before it starts. Easily said, I know, but it takes practice […]
The fantastic way to do it is to let them see you fail at something and not give up. Can I Tell You A Story? I decided to do some Navy SEAL type training. Mind you, at the time, I couldn’t even do one pull-up. I decided I wanted to do something called a Murph. […]
We love our children. We want the best for them. We want them to be happy in life and to live to their fullest potential. But as parents, sometimes it can be hard to encourage without pointing out their struggles, the things to overcome. So what do you do? I have a solution. Let me […]
Is it still Wednesday?!? Is it just me or do the days seem to just go on and on and on? Yesterday I was beyond stressed but today is much better. This is a very weird/stressful situation to be in. I have lots of feelings…it’s like being a yo-yo so I’ve been trying to keep […]
We are all doing our best to maintain the health of ourselves, our families, communities, and the world at large. The phrase “social distancing” has been used a lot lately to encourage people to stay home in efforts to stop the spread, but it’s a misnomer. We need to practice physical distancing, NOT social distancing. Let […]
Goodness, our reality is very different today than it was a week ago. Not much is the same. No school. Businesses shut down. Food scarcity is on everyone’s mind. I’ve never seen so many people focused on toilet paper! It seems like there is panic in the air. We are experiencing something most of us […]
Impatience in healing autism is something that often comes up in my work with parents who are healing their children from autism. ‘’We want our children to thrive now!’’ I get it, but we parents, we get frustrated with impatience.
In life, moments of deep pain show us who we are. I would love to protect my daughter from everything and make sure that she never experiences pain, but that would be limiting her life and ability to ...
