SEND - PARENTING - BALANCE

Nov 03 2024 12 ep. 20 mins 1
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Hi, I am a parent to three children, all of which have special needs including Autism, ADHD, Sensory Processing Disorder, ARFID and PDA. Although, I am now a full time carer to the children, I have come from an extensive background and education in family support. I am now a SEND advocate and share my honest and non judgemental experiences and advice. Join me for the journey! It is an exhausting but rewarding one!

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Children's Self Esteem, Self Worth, Confidence and Body Image.

Nov 03 2024 32 mins  
Children with ADHD/AUTISM/PDA can have difficulties in finding their own self identity in comparison to the world around them and others. In this podcast we start to unbox the reasons why, how different environments matter and how as parents we can help to increase self worth, self belief, self esteem, self confidence and improve body image.

My personal ARFID (Avoidance and Restrictive Food Intake Disorder) journey.

Nov 03 2024 21 mins  
With 18 years of personal and professional experience with ARFID I felt sharing my journey may help others along with theirs. I personally have two children aged 18 years and 7 years with ARFID and am able to talk about ARFID at different stages of a child's life.

Small things are just not that small in the SEND world.

Nov 03 2024 20 mins  
In this podcast I talk about a recent TikTok I have seen regarding connections with people and places and how being a parent/carer to a child with mental or physical health needs can hinder the process of connection.

The chaos of combined AUTISM & ADHD in children.

Oct 17 2024 10 mins  
Whichever intervention you put in place for Autism with inevitably irritate the ADHD and vice versa! So how do we ease the clash between the two? Surely it's impossible?

SPD (sensory processing disorder)

Oct 17 2024 13 mins  
There are 8 sensory variables. Children with Autism can also have SPD with means they can have hyper or hypo sensitive sensory reactions. What are these senses? Does my child have SPD? How can I help SPD?

Mental load and the total sacrifice!

Oct 17 2024 15 mins  
The mental load of any parent is one thing but the mental load of a parent or carer with a child who has AUTISM/ADHD/PDA is a whole new level of ridiculous! How can I stop my mind from being so busy all the time? How can I shhhhh the mind?

Taking back control amongst AUTISM/ADHD/PDA

Oct 09 2024 22 mins  
Do you ever feel like life is happening to you? Do you ever feel that life is full of meetings, phone calls and emails and yet you have no voice? Then this podcast is for you!Start to take back control with professionals and within professional meetings. Start to take back control with your Childs care needs and how they will be facilitated. Start to take back control by boundary s

SEND PARENTING WELL-BEING / EXHAUSTION / STRESS

Oct 04 2024 25 mins  
Parents / carers of children with AUTISM/ADHD/PDA will know the feeling of burnout. They will know the feeling of exhaustion and they will know the feeling of continuing to pour from an empty cup. This podcast throws light on the five different types of exhaustion and considers how to creatively fill our cup back up.

AUTISM & Associated PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance)

Sep 24 2024 29 mins  
What is PDA?What behaviours display when your child has PDA? How do you parent a child with PDA?Can school help?Where do I get more support? How do I get PDA acknowledged? The all in one place podcast for everything PDA.

It is not your fault... (Autism/ ADHD/PDA)...

Sep 24 2024 18 mins  
It is not your fault, although, society may have you thinking or questioning otherwise! Perhaps your child may have autism/ADHD/PDA...Perhaps you may have autism / ADHD/ PDA...Perhaps you have your child so that they don't need to struggle as much as you did when you were a child...Perhaps you will change their story because of your understanding and experience.