Parenting - Gender Expansive and/or Neurodiverse Children
– Deep Understanding and Support –
Who This Is For
Parents and guardians of neurodiverse and/or gender-expansive children of all ages with big ongoing challenges and support needs. I am one of these parents too, and I truly get it like few others do. You do not have to manage or hold all of it alone. It takes a village, and beyond. If you yearn to be seen, heard, understood, celebrated and supported, individually and in community, this is for you.
Common Challenges
Very few people are fully able to understand all that we go through and hold daily as we walk alongside our children, and do our very best to support them on their unique life paths. We are wired to feel it deeply in our bodies, minds, and hearts when they suffer or struggle, often in myriad ways. Not to mention witnessing all the ways they are targeted and used as pawns these days. As well as joyous, this journey can be a very lonely and challenging one (with very few dull moments!). At times it can be heartbreaking. Feelings of anxiety, grief, guilt, worry, frustration, shock, shame, envy, fear, and emotions can well up and spill out, despite our best efforts, and often when we least expect it. Daily strains can lead to chronic stress, overwhelm, exhaustion, low confidence and self-esteem, and affect our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health, as well as our relationships with our children, ourselves, our families and communities.
How I Can Support
We are not meant to, or designed to manage everything alone. Through individual sessions and supportive community in small groups, I hold a gentle space where parents and caregivers can be fully seen, heard, understood, believed, and held by someone who is living it, and finding ever-evolving ways to support their sweet, quirky gender expansive and neurodiverse child for 26 years and counting. I facilitate deep trauma-informed nervous system regulation, gentle, integrative self-hypnosis solutions, nature-based and fun creative approaches for resetting and rebalancing oneself, and many more restorative, empowering, resilience-building and wellbeing practices so that as parents and guardians, we can both feel well, resilient and resourced as well as and be there for our children.
Where And When
In person or long distance via Zoom.
