Welcome to Thriving in the Midst of Chaos! This show is about surviving parenthood while having a child with special needs, while attempting to keep your self and your sanity intact. We share our experiences and discuss how we survived, what worked for us, and what didn’t work for us. This is a nonjudgmental space, to realize that we all actually WILL live through this and to make thriving in parenthood an actual possibility. We will also be sharing fails, nails, and comical tales, as well a ...
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Episode 22: Managing Multiple Medical Conditions in Children With Guest Rob Gorski In this episode, we discuss coping with managing your child's multiple medical conditions. Our guest, Rob Gorski, has 3 sons on the autism spectrum. Although they each have autism, their symptoms are all very different, and two sons have other medical conditions as w…
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Episode 21: Outings With Kids In this episode, we discuss how in the world to get out of the house with children with special needs. One of the problems is that each kid changes so frequently, that what worked a week ago, may no longer work this weekend. Going out somewhere is a lot of work. However, it is really a necessity for us. Benji is very a…
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Creating A Community With Guest Stacey Simms
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Episode 19: Creating A Community With Guest Stacey Simms In this episode, Stacey Simms discusses her experience navigating the Type 1 Diabetes world and finding a community. Stacey discusses the difference between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes and the importance of getting an accurate diagnosis. When her son was almost 2, his personality changed (irri…
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Compassion Fatigue with Guest Jolene Philo
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Episode 16: Compassion Fatigue with Guest Jolene Philo In this episode, we discuss compassion fatigue in the caregiver, including symptoms and ways to combat compassion fatigue. Compassion fatigue, or secondary trauma, can occur over the course of caregiving a child with special needs. Symptoms may include isolation, substance abuse, compulsive beh…
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Episode 8: Vacation, Trip, or Catastrophe? In this episode, we discuss the 1.5 vacations we took, and shared horror stories about them (multiple emergency room visits). We discuss the expense and time drains of vacations, as well as expectations vs reality of the vacations. We reminisce about how hard it was to get any of the children to sleep, how…
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Episode 6: Make New Friends, But Keep The Old In this episode, we discuss how family and friends reacted to the diagnoses of our children, some well and some poorly (read: unsupportive and invalidating). We talk about how coworkers reacted and which coworkers we chose to disclose to. We talk about how often we keep in touch with friends vs how ofte…
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