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Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips

Finding Light While Raising Medically Complex Kids | Chelsea Kuhn + Amber Pierson of Lemon Cake (EP382)

Minimalist Moms Podcast | Purposeful Life & Parenting Tips

Diane Boden

Parenting, Leisure, Kids & Family, How To, Home & Garden, Education

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

What happens when a diagnosis changes everything? In this heartfelt episode, Chelsea and Amber share their journeys parenting children with medical complexities—from rare disorders and developmental delays to epilepsy and cerebral palsy. They open up about advocacy, self-care, and finding strength in community. A powerful reminder that even in the hardest moments, there’s hope in the small wins.

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About LemonCake |

We’re Amber and Chelsea—two moms raising medically complex kids and choosing joy in the chaos. Instead of asking “Why us?” we say, “Why not us?” and lean into the beauty, mess, and humor of it all.

Amber, a former teacher turned adaptive play gym owner, and Chelsea, a fashion-industry-vet turned homeschooling entrepreneur, met through Better Together Playnasium and instantly clicked.

With four amazing kids between us—Kai, Kameron, Kinnen, and Wesley—we know the ups, downs, and surprises of parenting both neurodivergent and neurotypical children.

That’s why we created Lemon Cake—a podcast and community for parents like us, where laughter, honesty, and encouragement meet. There are plenty of resources out there—but where’s the humor? The joy? We’re here to bring it.

So like, share, and pull up a chair—because we’re turning lemons into lemon cake! 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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1:03.8

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1:09.4

as a first time, mom, a lot of things happen

1:11.9

that you can't put your finger on, but you just feel in your heart isn't right. Everyone has a

1:17.2

trench or multiple trenches and life is not supposed to look like smooth sailing. I would much rather

1:22.8

have a child, a parent, whoever, come up and ask, you know, why is he in a wheelchair? That does not

1:29.8

offend me because it does not matter. They are delayed. It does not matter if they cannot see you.

1:35.2

It does not matter if they cannot verbally respond to you. You are treating them just as a human

1:42.2

as anyone else and you would introduce yourself by saying

1:45.2

hi and because it was like don't stare at them don't look at them then what were we teaching

1:49.8

even our even as adults we were teaching ourselves and our children to physically ignore that person

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