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Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms
Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms is your go-to podcast for breaking through the emotional struggles of raising a child with a disability. Hosted by a life coach and mom who truly gets it, each episode is packed with no-nonsense advice to help you stop living in survival mode, ditch the guilt, and keep from burning out. If you've ever thought… -I feel like I’m failing my child -No one understands what I go through every day. -I can’t keep up with everything -No matter how much I do…
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- Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms
74. What Living in Survival Mode Makes You Miss
*Link to register for Overcome the Overwhelm: lowerylifecoaching.com Ever feel like you are living on autopilot, just trying to make it to bedtime? Living in…
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73. Energy Drainers and Energy Givers
*Link to schedule a consultation call with me: lowerylifecoaching.com/consultcall •••• Certain things, such as stress or overthinking, deplete our energy…
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72. The 30 Day Overwhelm Challenge
Overwhelm doesn’t have to be over-complicated, and mental health doesn’t have to be boring! That’s why I’ve created the 30 Day Overwhelm Challenge. 30 days of…
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71. The Top Three Things My Coach Taught Me
Yes, even coaches have coaches! And in this episode, I’m getting vulnerable and sharing my top three life-altering lessons I’ve gotten from my coaches over the…
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70. The One Thing Every Struggling Special Needs Mom Needs to Hear…
Ever find yourself saying “no thank you” when help is offered (and needed!)? Ever find yourself trying to prove to the world that you aren’t exhausted and worn…
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69. The 3 Secrets to Becoming a Better Advocate
When it comes to advocating for our children, the constant fight ends up exhausting us as special needs parents. In this episode, I share 3 secrets to making…
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68. Self Pity vs. Self Compassion
**Link to schedule your free call: https://lowerylifecoaching.com/consultcall/ One feels like making you run and hide, while the other feels like a warm hug…
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67. Living Between the Grit and the Grace of life as a special needs mom with Annie Morgan
In this episode I am joined by leadership and business coach Annie Morgan who shares all her best details on how she runs a business and balances life as a…
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66. How to Declutter Your Home and Get Out of Survival Mode
As special needs moms, we are no strangers to feeling overwhelmed. And in this week’s episode, we are diving into feeling overwhelmed by the things in our…
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65. 3 Lies Special Needs Moms Tell Themselves
In this episode, I share 3 common lies special needs moms tell themselves that result in feelings of guilt, isolation, anxiety, and overwhelm. It is important…
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64. The Real Reason You are Angry and Frustrated
Ever found yourself feeling so frustrating and overwhelmed that you finally just snap? If so, then you are not alone. In this episode, I share the real reason…
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63. 3 Quick Mindset Shifts for Moms
In this episode, I share 3 common daily struggles for special needs moms and the exact sentences you can use to keep yourself out of fight/flight/freeze mode.
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62. 5 Questions to Ask Yourself
After a bad day, we often find ourselves ready to just be done with it and move on tomorrow. In this episode, I am sharing with you 5 questions to ask yourself…
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61. For the Days When You Just Don’t Have the Energy
In this episode, I share how the spoon theory commonly used by people with a chronic illness can also be beneficial for special needs moms.
- Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms
60. Mom Fails and Burnout
In this episode, I share the viscous cycle between mistakes in motherhood and burnout, and how one sentence can change it all.
- Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms
BONUS: What is Your Stress Doing to You?
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59. 3 Things to Focus on During the Hard Days
On the days full of anxiety and stress, it can feel like inner peace is downright impossible. In this episode, I share the 3 areas to shift your focus to in…
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58. Protecting Your Family’s Most Valuable Assets
Moms make the world go round. In a lot of ways, moms are the main leaders of the world as we bring up this next generation. But for how IMPACTFUL and IMPORTANT…
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57. 5 Lists to Make When you are Feeling Overwhelmed
When you are feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and like you are trying to drink from a fire hose… write a list. In this episode, I share my 5 favorite lists to…
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56. Why I Threw Away My Son’s Baby Book
In this episode, I explain how throwing out those things we hold onto, physically and mentally, opens up space for us to experience more of the things in life…
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55. Want to Stop Procrastinating?
Taking care of a child with special needs takes up as much time as a full time job. The to-do lists are a mile long, and the energy levels depleted. But I want…
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54. How Being a Mom is a LOT Like Owning a Business
As an entrepreneur, if something doesn’t work then it just means moving on to the next thing to try! That failure doesn’t mean you suck, you weren’t meant to…
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53. Accepting Your Child’s Diagnosis
They say that acceptance is the key to happiness, but for special needs moms acceptance can seem down right impossible. In this episode, you’ll learn: 1. The…
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52. Create Your Own Self-Care Plan
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51. 3 Things That Help Me be a Better Mom
Want to know my 3 favorite ways to be a more present, happier version of my mom self? The best part is, these things take less than a couple minutes a day or…
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50. The Power of Celebrating the Inchstones as a Parent
As special needs parents, we don’t always get to celebrate the big milestones. But we get really good at celebrating the smaller moments, the inch stones, in…
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49. Does Money Buy You Happiness?
Streaming services, new cars, bigger and nicer houses, makeup, designer purses... all in attempt to make us feel a certain way. In this episode I share how…
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48. The Brave Mom Club
**Enrollment for Overcome the Overwhelm is closing soon! Go to lowerylifecoaching.com/registration-for-overcome-the-overwhelm/ to sign up!*** In this week’s…
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47. What’s the Cost of Staying in Survival Mode?
Money, time, energy, promotions, physical heath, marriage... all of these things can be taken by staying in that chronic state of survival mode. In this…
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46. Creating a Better Future
***LINK TO REGISTER FOR FREE CLASS*** https://lp.constantcontactpages.com/su/jvcG5X1/BurnoutSecret When we are living in survival mode, we stop planning for…
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45. Snakes, Stress, and Yelling... A Story Of Survival
What does running away from a snake have to do with yelling at your child? Glad you asked. In this episode we talk about the brain’s survival response…
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44. How Avoidance Keeps Us Miserable
In this episode, I share a personal story of how avoiding my emotions around my son’s g-tube was causing harm to not just me, but the whole family. And by…
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43. Worthiness and Burnout
In this episode, we talk about when your own self-worth is tied to your achievements or physical appearance, it can be a contributing factor in caregiver…
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42. The Joyful Energy List
In this episode, we talk about how getting in a rut and focusing on the wrong things in life can leave you feeling worn out and blah, and how to add more of…
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41. How to Start Moving Forward
In this episode, I’m asking three big questions that will help you figure out why you aren’t moving forward, making changes in your life that you want to make.
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40. My Favorite 10 Minute Hack for Reducing Stress and Anxiety
Listen in to hear my absolute favorite, quick and easy way of reducing stress, anxiety, and overwhelm! To get my 30 Days of Journal Prompts for Special Needs…
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39. When you aren’t Sure Your Child’s Therapies are Working
Join me as I dive into a common issue: feeling like all the therapies are pointless and not working. In this episode we talk about how feeling hopeless leads…
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38. How to Survive Your Child’s Hospital Stay
Hospital stays are stressful, scary, exhausting... and for so many of us they are a part of life. But there are certain things I’ve found over the years that…
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37. Create Your Village
“It takes a village to raise a child.” We’ve all heard this at one point or another, but these days that village may seem non-existent. In today’s world, we…
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36. 5 Things to Unlearn to Feel Better
5 very common beliefs that most just take to be true... but in this episode we are debunking them and changing the way we see things!
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35. Comfort Food, Emotions, and G-Tubes
Do you ever find yourself turning to food as a source of comfort? Do you ever ruminate in your negative emotions as a source of comfort? In this episode we…
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34. The Trick to Getting Out of Survival Mode
A special sneak peak into my 12-week coaching program Overcome the Overwhelm and how I take clients from barely surviving to a life where they are thriving…
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33. How Ableism Might be Affecting Your Parenting
Talking about a hot topic in this episode... ableism! As special needs parents, our internal beliefs and biases towards people with disabilities does not…
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32. When the Thing You Need to Do is Not the Thing You Want to Do
Our brains want the easiest paths with the least amount of resistance, the least amount of energy needed, but is this always the paths that are best for us? In…
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31. My Story and How I Ended Up Here
In this episode I share how feelings of isolation and loneliness sparked the start of one of the most important journeys of my life. From a devastating…
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30. The Magic Pill to Losing Weight, Having More Money, and Getting Out of Survival Mode
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if there was a magic fix to losing weight easily, having more money, and being happier in life? Just a magic pill that cured all of…
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29. Q&A Time! Meltdowns, Thought Errors, Mom Guilt and Therapy
This week we are diving into some listener questions! We talk about everything from meltdowns to mom guilt, and how recognizing thought errors can help…
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28. How to Even the Load Between Special Needs Parents
Oh boy is this a hot topic! In this episode, we talk about how society has created some deeply ingrained beliefs about expectations of women and how this…
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27. Creating Balance as a Working Special Needs Mom
Ever feel like it’s impossible to juggle being a special needs mom and have a career? In this episode I walk you through exactly how I create balance in my…
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26. How to Handle Unwanted Comments about your Special Needs Child
Will he ever walk? What’s wrong with him? Well at least she’s cute! She doesn’t look disabled. We’ve all heard them. We’ve all been hurt and angry about them…
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25. Want to be a More Productive Special Needs Mom?
Studies have proven time and time again that rest leads to higher rates of productivity and efficiency... so why do we have the belief that rest is lazy and…
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24. Quality Time... Even When You are Exhausted and Busy
1. Who are the people who mean the most to you in life? 2. How much quality time did you spend with them yesterday? 3. Tomorrow, how can you be intentional…
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23. 5 Tips for Traveling as a Special Needs Mom
Traveling with your special needs child can be stressful and leave you feeling anxious. What if you forget a medication? What if they get sick? What about…
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22. STOP Doing These Things if You Want to Get Out of Survival Mode
We talk a lot about the things you need to do in order to get out of survival mode, but in this episode we are talking about the 3 things to STOP doing if you…
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21. Perfectionism and Your Child’s Therapy Exercises
In this episode, we talk about one of the most common things I coach on-how to get more therapy exercises done each week. One of the big things that keeps moms…
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20. Overcoming Medical Triggers
Part two of medical triggers! Last episode we talked about what they are and why we have them, this week we dive into how to start moving forward and learn to…
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19. Medical Triggers in Special Needs Moms
Part one of a two part series on medical triggers. Our brains, if left to their own devices, feed off of past experiences. If in the past your child has gotten…
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18. How to Stop Stress Eating
Last week we talked about why 95% of diets fail. We talked about how food is used to avoid feelings, and keeps you stuck in survival mode. Well, this week we…
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17. Why Diets Don’t Work for Special Needs Moms
Part one of a two part series. This isn’t a conversation about thin bodies, about losing weight, this is a conversation about how eating food to avoid negative…
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16. 12 Lessons Learned in the Past 12 Months
Everything from how to crush a pill instantly to how to make the most out of life as a special needs mom. This episode is full of my favorite life lessons…