Hey, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone Podcast, I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you and

connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone and in this

episode number 438 and welcoming back to the show Mary Van Geffen.

When you're a mom with young kids, it sounds great to go to the pumpkin patch.

And then you get in there and you realize that there are five rides going at once,

which would be fine if you're walking around by yourself, but you're not, you're trying to echo

locate your three and your five-year-old who are flight risks and suddenly what's fun for other people

is like a horror show for you.

If you're someone who desires to intentionally and

you get overwhelmed with the sights,

the sounds, the feels of parenting

than this episode is for you.

I've invited back my friend Mary Van Geffen.

She's a parent coach of Spicy Ones.

And she is a highly sensitive person with ADHD.

She also has a child who she would label a spicy one.

And while we've done lots of episodes

on parenting kids with neurod divergence

and you can find those links in the show notes,

I felt like we needed some really practical,

helpful tips for how to calm and regulate ourselves if we as the

parent struggle with our own neurodivergians and our own sensory overload.

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