Wednesday, January 16, 2019

When Your Child's Trauma Causes Parental PTSD

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Trauma. What comes to mind when you hear that word? In the world of adoption, we automatically tend to think separation from birth paren...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Compassion Fatigue In Special Needs Parenting

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This afternoon I came across this Ted Talk:  Drowning In Empathy: The Cost Of Vicarious Trauma  and a light bulb went on in my brain. S...
Monday, December 3, 2018

The Daily Struggle Of Parenting A Child With FASD

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    Does anyone else struggle with the intensity of parenting your child with FASD? Maybe it is a personal problem of mine, because I ca...
Monday, November 26, 2018

When Sickness Halts The Process Of Healing From Trauma

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This blog has been sadly neglected these past weeks. I have had a taste of what happens when one's body has had enough and things crash...
Monday, October 8, 2018

Finding Peace While Fighting Lyme

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The past months have been one wild roller coaster ride. I thought I knew about Lyme after all we went through with Kiana during the last tw...
Wednesday, September 19, 2018

A Bid For Freedom - When Mom And Dad Become Complacent

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Joseph has a way of throwing us for a loop whenever we become too complacent about enforcing rules and boundaries. We have multiple support...
Monday, September 17, 2018

Willfulness Or Brain Damage?

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Having a child with FASD makes maneuvering sibling relationships challenging. We are trying to teach our children that  Joseph's behavi...