Freedom Service Dogs
mr. snake is my friend
Allow your child’s creative mind and aptitude to create and explore and discover. This blog shares the moment my son on the autism spectrum makes friends with a long, lonely metal cable cord.
running away
To write about how my life is a thread of calm and serenity would be a lie right now. Even though I continue to practice meditation, deep breathing, healthy eating, good sleep habits, and the like - I am still flooded by instability that currently surrounds life as I...
empathic witness
Being an empathic witness is the person who holds scared a moment on my journey – and listens to and tries to understand my perspective.
finding me in motherhood
Motherhood is like carrying a paddleboard up the long ramp along the side of a hill with an impatient passerby trying to squeeze next to you. It is the cold earl-gray latte that never received a sip because of the water-hose crisis in the backyard. Motherhood is the...
autism & choosing love over the things
Our neurotypical children stand tall and strong without us recognizing it. Here I share a moment when my daughter showed true love and grace for her brother on the autism spectrum.
our kids need to know
I truly believe it would an injustice to my kids, at the young ages of 6 and 9, to avoid talking about the deep pain points in our country. My kids, autism or not, deserve to know the truth about racism.
don’t fix me
Hans Asperger once said, The good and bad in a person, their potential for success or failure, their aptitudes and deficits – they are mutually conditional, arising from the same source. Our therapeutic goal must be to teach the person how to bear their difficulties....
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