311: Navigating Special Needs Parenting, Ableism, and Advocacy with Therapist, Casey Mouton
Conversations with Cam
Dear Media
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 2 July 2025
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I sit down with Casey Mouton, a marriage and family therapist, to discuss the challenges and triumphs of parenting a child with special needs. Casey shares her personal journey through postpartum depression and anxiety, the shock of her son's stroke diagnosis, and navigating life as a special needs parent. We talk about the mental load of caring for a child with disabilities, the importance of community support, and the process of recognizing and addressing ableism in society. Casey also highlights the current political climate surrounding disability rights and offers practical advice for advocacy and support.
Key Takeaway / Points:
- Casey's experience with postpartum depression and anxiety
- The unexpected stroke diagnosis of her 10 month old son and its impact on Casey's family
- The mental load of a special needs parent
- How to build supportive communities for parents of children with disabilities
- Understanding ableism and its manifestations in everyday life
- How to talk to children about disabilities in an inclusive way
- The current threats to disability rights in today’s political climate
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:04.0 | Hello, my favorite people. |
| 0:05.6 | Welcome back to another episode of Conversations with Cam. |
| 0:08.9 | This one is audio only, so there's no video. |
| 0:12.5 | And it's not because of the trial we're running, like during this summer reassess. |
| 0:18.7 | This was actually just an error on the back end. And we |
| 0:21.8 | unfortunately lost the video footage, which sucks, but sometimes there's nothing you can do. |
| 0:27.8 | I am still beyond excited to share this episode because I think it will really help many people |
| 0:35.4 | feel seen and also provide a light and insight into a life that many |
| 0:43.3 | of us are unfamiliar with and quite honestly need to familiarize ourselves with more. Today we are |
| 0:49.7 | joined by therapist Casey Motone who is also on on social as therapy. Dot with.Casey. |
| 0:57.9 | She is a maternal mental health expert and discusses how to navigate intrusive thoughts |
| 1:02.4 | and find your calm amidst the chaos. And she also is the parent of a child with a disability, |
| 1:08.5 | which is what we focus on a lot in this episode, |
| 1:11.3 | because we haven't had an episode focused on this topic. And I think it's really important to |
| 1:15.1 | discuss. In this episode, she shares how when you are raising a child with special needs, |
| 1:20.8 | the mental load is unparalleled. Quite honestly, they are their children's doctors, |
| 1:24.9 | their therapists, their advocates, and so much more. And she shares a lot about that journey, what has helped, what hasn't helped, how people can best support her, support groups that she has found helpful. |
| 1:34.8 | She really, like, gets into the weeds of it all. |
| 1:37.3 | I do want to say, as someone with health anxiety, I could understand how, especially as a parent to a young kid, you could listen to this and hear |
| 1:45.6 | the story of what happened to her son and really like internalize it. And I just want to say the |
| 1:51.6 | point of this episode is not to instill fear in anyone, but to more shed light on a specific |
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