A reflective exploration of the difference between gentle and permissive parenting when raising an autistic child, highlighting the importance of empathy, structure, and emotional regulation. Over the years, many parents of autistic children have sat across from me in my consulting room carrying a mixture of love, exhaustion, and uncertainty. Parenting is never simple, butContinue reading “Parenting the Child with Autism: The Fine Line Between Gentle and Permissive Parenting”
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Parents Matter Too
Psychological support for parents navigating neurodiversity Parents Matter Too — a weekly therapeutic reflection supporting parents of neurodiverse children. Week 5: Rebuilding Emotional Steadiness — Why Parents Need Regulation Too When the Nervous System Has Been Under Pressure for Too Long Over the past few weeks in this series, we have explored some of theContinue reading “Parents Matter Too”
Parents Matter Too
Psychological support for parents navigating neurodiversity Parents Matter Too — a weekly therapeutic reflection supporting parents of neurodiverse children. Week 4: Parental Burnout — When Exhaustion Becomes Emotional Numbness Beyond “Just Tired” There is a particular kind of exhaustion many parents struggle to describe. It is not simply physical tiredness. It is not solved byContinue reading “Parents Matter Too”
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