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Three Strategies to Self-Pity Proof Your Caregiving

Three Strategies to Self-Pity Proof Your Caregiving

As a writer, blogger and author, I’m well acquainted with the rigors, frustrations and chronic disappointment associated with creating content, getting published, and the awkward process of marketing one’s own material. I am also mom to an adult daughter with complex health and developmental needs. Like other writers and moms of children with disabilities, I’ve fallen prey to negative messages and self-pity. Inspired by Lori Stanley Roeleveld’s strategy, allow me to paraphrase a plan for protecting our hearts, minds and lives from debilitating patterns.

Ten Reasons Why "As Long as the Baby is Healthy" Isn't Most Important

Ten Reasons Why "As Long as the Baby is Healthy" Isn't Most Important

Pregnancy goes hand in hand with this common saying. However, after having a child with special needs, we changed our response. Here’s what we’ve learned why that common saying isn’t most important thing in pregnancy.

When My Kid Was A Pizza

When My Kid Was A Pizza

In October 2014, I was in the middle of a short period of personal chaos that had created a fair sense of anxiety and fear in me: job loss; my mother experienced an accident that required surgery; my mother-in-law required hospitalization as well. I felt confused and insecure, but did my best to remember I was serving an important purpose in my family’s life. And at Halloween, the purpose to my time at home was finally realized.

Replacing Special Needs Parenting Lies with God's Truth

Replacing Special Needs Parenting Lies with God's Truth

We have all had that little voice of doubt in our heads. This voice is strategically placed there by Satan to try to steal my joy. Today, I want to share some of the lies the enemy has told me about my children and how I use God’s Word to contradict those lies, so that you can do it, too.