Parenting Neurodivergent Children--Summer Edition :: Carrie Casell [Ep 413]
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🗓️ 12 June 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
How does your child’s behavior reflect on you?
That’s a trick question - it doesn’t. But it’s easy for us to feel that it does. Parenting a neurodivergent child can heighten those feelings of guilt or shame when our child doesn’t behave in an expected way or when traditional forms of discipline or parenting simply don’t work. Pile on top of that everyone’s summer activity and vacation social media posts and you might be tempted to believe the lie that your family is less than somehow, or always missing out.
My guest this week, Carrie Cassell, is mom to some fantastic neurodivergent kids. Her profound encouragement to “go with the child you have, not the child you wish you had” reaches to every mom. Through her honesty with her own emotions and journey through motherhood thus far she reminds us neurodivergent brains aren’t bad or broken, they’re unique.
Carrie created a space online for parents and caregivers of neurodivergent kids, Mosaic Connection. She invites parents into community to free them from isolation and shame, to connect them with themselves and do the inner work so they can help their kids believe the best about themselves.
Connect with Carrie Cassell:-
Website: https://www.mosaicconnection.com/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089418138152
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Instagram: @MosaicConnectionInsta
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YouTube: Mosaic Connection - YouTube
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It’s Not About the Food :: Angie Buja & Carrie Cassell [Ep 173]
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Helping Your Child with Sensory Processing Issues :: Lynne Jackson [Ep 258]
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Parenting Sensitive and Intense Kids :: Lynne Jackson and Lydia Rex [Ep 395]
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When Your Child is on the Autism Spectrum (Part One) :: Terri Conlin [Ep 182]
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When Your Child is on the Autism Spectrum (Part Two) :: Terri Conlin [Ep 182]
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey y'all welcome back to the Don't Mom Alone podcast. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I get to walk alongside you |
| 0:16.1 | and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone and in |
| 0:21.6 | this episode number 413 I am welcoming back to the show my friend Carrie Castle. |
| 0:29.0 | Like this summer there are different age or they have different interests now so I |
| 0:32.8 | got to redo the script a little bit and that's a lot of creativity and so for me I had |
| 0:39.4 | to and still have to realize go with the child I have not the child I think I should have |
| 0:47.1 | or I wish I had. |
| 0:49.3 | Over the years we've released several different episodes when it comes to parenting special |
| 0:52.8 | needs and we've linked those episodes in the show notes whether it's sensory processing |
| 0:57.0 | disorders whether it's sensitive and intense kids autism ADHD today I've invited my |
| 1:02.4 | friend Carrie Castle to the show because she's my in real life walk alongside you friend |
| 1:07.5 | and I thought she could be that kind of friend to you today someone who isn't going to |
| 1:11.5 | give you all of the ins and outs of how to manage different neurodivergence but how do |
| 1:16.0 | you mother how do you not fall into shame and isolation how do you stay connected to your |
| 1:20.8 | kids and to your community and Carrie does this so well that she has created a community |
| 1:26.4 | for moms called mosaic connection no matter where you are in the world you could be a part |
| 1:31.6 | of this community and I wanted to let you guys know about it today we're just going to |
| 1:35.6 | talk through those concepts of remembering who we are in Christ loving the kids we have |
| 1:41.9 | and how to navigate summer just some practical ideas that Carrie is offering up also I wanted |
| 1:47.6 | to make sure you knew that at the end of the show I'm going to share details about our |
| 1:50.9 | summer of mentorship don't miss that but let's get right to it here we go Carrie Castle |
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