Laugh, Cry and Lose it - Self-Care in a Pandemic
THE AUTISM ADHD PODCAST
Holly Blanc Moses
4.9 • 686 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Ready to keep it real?
PERFECT!
We are jumping into it all -
- The funny stuff
- The overwhelm
- The good, the bad and the ugly, and
- How to keep it together when you don't want to hear one more word about Charizard from Pokemon!
Join Kristin Cook, Alexandria Bergman and I as we cover topics such as-
- Asking for and accepting help
- Managing your emotions
- Accepting that you can't do it all
- Effectively communicating
- Setting up boundaries
- Chronic illness
- Being a Neurodivergent parent
- AND MORE!
Hugs, Holly Blanc Moses - The Mom/Psychologist Who Gets It
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the WIRE Differently podcast where we chat all about how to best support exceptional children. |
| 0:08.1 | I'm your host, Holly Blanc Moses, the mom psychologist who gets it. |
| 0:17.2 | So I've got the fabulous Kristen Cook. Say hi, Kristen. |
| 0:21.1 | Hello. |
| 0:22.2 | That way everyone knows your voice. And say hi, Alex Bergman. |
| 0:26.2 | Hi. |
| 0:27.1 | All right. So Kristen, who is the owner of Spectrum Navigation Services, |
| 0:31.9 | she has ventured into advocacy work after advocating for her own autistic son for several years. Her passions are teaching |
| 0:39.0 | parents how to effectively advocate for their children and connecting special needs parents |
| 0:43.1 | with local resources. Alex is a master IEP coach that collaborates with families and school teams |
| 0:48.8 | to create success for each student. She's the mother of three and two are on the spectrum. And so again, for those of you |
| 0:57.0 | who are listening and watching, because you have the video for this as well, I highly recommend |
| 1:01.8 | both. Our first part of this series is going to be on self-care. So surviving COVID-19 in self-care and you may be thinking, I don't have time. Who has time for |
| 1:16.6 | self-care? And the three of us are here to say, you got to make it. Absolutely. We're not talking |
| 1:23.8 | about long bubble baths or going off to the spa for the day. We're talking about |
| 1:28.0 | finding small snippets of time to get yourself together so that you can ensure that you can be the |
| 1:36.7 | parent that your child needs during all of this other stuff that's going on. It's one of those |
| 1:42.4 | things where you have to take care of yourself in order to be |
| 1:44.6 | able to take care of others. It's true. And we do not need to feel bad about it because sometimes |
| 1:50.0 | I hear and sometimes I experience that myself. So here we are three mothers of children on the |
| 1:56.8 | spectrum and also three professionals as well, so we're balancing a lot. And it was hard to again |
| 2:01.6 | have self-care before a worldwide pandemic. And now, what does that look like? You know, it almost |
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