Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms
By lauren lowery
Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs MomsNov 30, 2023
133. A Quick Way to Help Your Child (and Yourself) Regulate Emotions
We panic. We freak out. We can’t see a solution.
In this episode, I am sharing a trick I found that has helped de-escalate meltdowns in my daughter, but has also been incredibly helpful for me as well.
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132. The Gifts We Get as Special Needs Moms
In this episode, I am sharing a poem by an unknown author that I came across that made such an impact on me called “I am the Child.”
Link to read the poem:
www.oafccd.com/lanark/poems/child1.html
131. How a Scarcity Mindset Affects Special Needs Parents
Or found yourself constantly feeling worried about money, even when you have enough to cover all your expenses?
In this episode, we dive into how having a Scarcity Mindset could be showing up for you, and impacting your finances, relationships, and potentially your child’s future.
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130. How Playfulness Can Help Us Be Even Better Parents
But as we grow up and take on more responsibility, that ability to play starts to fade away.
In this episode, I’m sharing why we all need to add more playfulness into our lives to help us be even better parents, and have less stress and more energy.
129. The Truth About Angry Moms
Sound familiar?
In this episode, we talk about WHY moms yell, and WHY kids misbehave, and how the two are more closely connected than you may realize.
LINKS MENTIONED IN EPISODE
lowerylifecoaching.com/medical-binder
128. 5 Decisions That Will Change Your Life As a Special Needs Mom
In this episode, I’m sharing 5 decisions you can make that will not only have a profound affect on your own life, but your family’s lives as well.
127. When Life Gets Stressful, Do This
As special needs moms, we face a lot of stressful challenges every single day.
And sometimes, those challenges can be overwhelming and leave us feeling frozen and unsure.
In this episode, I teach you how to drop the overwhelm and start tackling any challenging situation.
126. The Biggest Thing Keeping Moms from Being Happy (And What To Do About It)
Well you are not alone.
In this episode, we talk about the biggest thing that keeps moms from happiness, and what you can do about it.
125. Better Sleep for Special Needs Moms
In this episode, I’m sharing a few things you can do to help get more sleep and better sleep so you can have more energy during the day.
***Link mentioned in episode***
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124. The Impact of Coaching
It improves the quality of your relationships, it helps you experience more of the good, and less of the bad, and helps you stay in control over how you feel and the reactions you have when things don’t go right.
In this episode, I am sharing two recent situations from my own life where coaching has made a difference.
***Links mentioned in episode***
FREE MEDICAL BINDER: lowerylifecoaching.com/medical-binder
CONSULT CALL: lowerylifecoaching.com/consultcall
123. Even Special Needs Moms Are Allowed to Be Human
But if this is true, then why do so many women, especially us special needs moms, feel as though they aren’t allowed to be human, and arent allowed to have human needs?
In this episode, we talk about why you should give yourself permission to be human, and how not doing so is actually counterproductive.
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122. A Tool for Making Big Decisions
Maybe it’s deciding whether or not a surgery is right for your child…
Or deciding if you should leave a job or stay…
Or trying to decide if adding to your family is the right choice…
And these crossroads in our lives can leave us spinning out in confusion and indecision, fearful of picking the wrong choice.
In this episode, I am sharing a tool that can help you put an end to the overwhelm of deciding and help you make the right choice.
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121. How Coaching Can Help You Be a Better Mom
120. The One Thing I Wish I Knew Before My Child's Diagnosis
In this episode, I'm sharing what this one thing is, why it's so important, and how to implement it in your own life.
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119. 3 Things to Do When Illness Hits Your Household
In this episode, I am sharing 3 actionable things you can do to help make those challenging times more manageable, less stressful, and overall easier.
Listen in to learn:
•Ingenious hacks for taking care of yourself in the midst of caring for a sick child
•How to make a game-changing "self-care kit" that only takes 5 minutes to assemble
•How to make daily tasks more manageable without adding to the already too long to-do list
•A powerful technique for countering those worst-case scenario thoughts and the anxiety that comes with them
•How to keep your house (and brain) calm when s*** hits the fan
Get Lauren's FREE Ultimate Medical Binder: lowerylifecoaching.com/medical-binder
Follow Lauren: Instagram.com/lauren_nia_lowery
118. Life as a Special Needs Mom is...
And after dozens of responses, there were two words that were consistently used:
Exhausting and Fulfilling.
In this episode, I'm sharing how finding the fulfillment in this life can help us move forward.
117. When Life Feels Out of Control as a Special Needs Mom
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And as special needs moms, there is a lot that we can’t control. We can't control our child's diagnosis, the insurance companies, the things other people say to us....
And a lot of times we get caught in a trap of feeling like we have no control over things, which triggers our fight or flight response and results in living in a chronic survival mode state.
In this episode, I am teaching you why control is so important and how to gain control over your life so you can get out of survival mode.
116. How Keeping Score Keeps You Stuck
Maybe it's tallying all the times your husband forgets to do something, or all the ways in which your child's school is getting it wrong.
When our brains keep score of things happening that we believe shouldn't be happening, it keeps us from ever taking the necessary actions to make any positive change.
In this episode, I'm sharing how this might be showing up for you, why our brains love to do it, and how you can overcome it going forward instead of staying stuck in the misery.
115. 5 Reasons Special Needs Moms Get Stuck in Survival Mode
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Understanding WHY you are stuck in Survival Mode is a key element of figuring out how to get out. In this episode, I am sharing the 5 main reasons why special needs moms get stuck in this cycle of Survival.
114. My Word of the Year
But I do choose a word.
I decide on a theme, a core message, that I want to be my guiding light over the next 12 months.
In this episode, I am opening up about my word of the year, why I picked it, and my exact process of how I chose it.
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-QUESTIONS REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE-
•What did you love about last year?
•What would you like to change about last year?
•What do you want to have more of in your life?
•How do you want to feel about the upcoming year once it’s complete?
•What are some things you love and are passionate about?
•What are some things you should let go of in 2024?
•What would you like to change about yourself in the upcoming year?
•What is your #1 priority for the upcoming year?
113. What if We Treated Time Like Money?
But what would your day look like if you valued your time as much as you'd value millions of dollars?
Listen in to hear exactly how we waste time, and what we can do about it.
112. The Secret to Living Life to the Fullest as a Special Needs Parent
In this episode, I take you through a powerful exercise in setting priorities in your life that will help get you out of that rut and focused on the most important things.
Grab some paper and a pen, because you are not going to want to miss out on figuring out your Top 5 Things in Life.
111. The Truth About Therapies and Early Interventions
A lot of us get trapped thinking that there is one RIGHT treatment or therapy that is the key to helping our child hit those milestones.
We tend to think that if we just do ENOUGH research, we will surely find that one thing that will help them ______. (fill in the blank with walk, talk, sleep through the night…)
But when we get trapped in this mentality, it leaves us focused on the wrong things, exhausted, and stressed out.
In this episode, we talk about a different way to approach this topic and a different way to think about your child’s therapies and early interventions.
110. It Ain’t Easy, But It’s Worth It
And sometimes it can be easy to get caught up in how hard it all is and miss out on the joy.
In this episode, I am sharing a recent experience of ours from a family vacation to one of the least accessible places we have been, and what I took away from the experience.
109. 3 Ways to Make the Rest of the Year Easier
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For most families, the last two months of the year are BUSY. With our schedules packed full of holiday parties, school programs, and all the seasonal festivities, it can be incredibly easy to feel like you are always rushing around with too much to do and not enough time.
And let's face it, this can make the holiday season hard to enjoy.
In this episode, I am sharing 3 unique ways that you can drop that holiday overwhelm and instead spend your time enjoying the things that matter most to you.
108. When Everything Feels Like a Fight
But showing up to that fight from a place of frustration only leaves us emotionally drained and exhausted.
But what if there was a way to keep on fighting for what our children deserve in a more effective, sustainable way?
Listen in to this episode to find out how.
107. Questions to Ask When Your To-Do List is Overwhelming
But asking dead-end quesitons like these keeps our brains shut off from problem solving and the creativity needed to find solutions.
In this episode, I’m sharing a better type of question to ask yourself that will help you get out of that overwhelmed state and feeling confident that you can handle it all.
106. Show Up and Bring Coffee with Megan Amrich
In this episode, I’m chatting with author Megan Amrich, who answers both problems in her newest book “Show Up and Bring Coffee.”
Listen in to hear our conversations about everything from the guilt that comes with a failure to thrive diagnosis to boy band kareoke.
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105. The Sneaky Signs of Parental Burnout
104. The BEST Life Hack for Jump Starting Your Productivity
No worries, I’ve got you! In this episode I’m sharing one of my all-time FAVORITE life hacks for those times when the to-do list feels impossible.
The Two-Minute Miracle is an easy way to get going on accomplishing things, reduce stress and overwhelm, and help you feel more in control of your time.
Listen in to learn more.
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103. Exposing the Mommy Wine Culture with Julie Lively
If you find yourself unwinding with a glass of Chardonnay more often than you’d like to, then this episode is for you my friend!
Alcohol is the go-to de-stressor for so many moms, and is even encouraged by the recent "Mommy Wine Culture" trend. But when we use wine to cope, it only ends up perpetuating the problem and adding to our already stressful lives.
Listen in as I talk with Julie Lively, an Alcohol Freedom Coach, on the harmful cycle of using alcohol to cope and how to drop the guilt you may feel around alcohol in your own life.
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102. What ChatGPT Says About Special Needs Moms
In this episode, I’m sharing the “Robot Poem” I got in response and exactly what we can take away from it, and how we can all use this lesson from time to time.
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101. The 5 Myths of Motherhood
But the truth is, most of them just aren’t true.
These harmful beliefs leave moms feeling shameful and like they are failing at motherhood.
Listen in to learn 5 common myths we are raised to believe about our roles, raising kids, and being a good mom.
100. When Rest Has to be Earned
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Ever find yourself saying things like “I can’t take a break yet, there’s still too much to get done”?
In this episode, I’m sharing how having to “earn” your rest can run you down, and eventually burn you out.
99. The 3 Steps to Getting Out of Overwhelm
All the tasks, work, kids, appointments, stress… it all piles up inside your brain like a rush hour traffic jam in the middle of NYC.
As moms, we know this feeling of being overwhelmed very well.
And in this episode, I’m sharing the 3 things we have to do first in order to solve for our overwhelm.
98. How Constraint Can Help Reduce Overwhelm
In this episode, I share how to use this tool, what areas of your life it works best in, and what happens when you take the anxiety out of decisions.
97. The Secret to Parenting Under Stress
And special needs parenting? DEFINTELY stressful.
You might find yourself stuck in a cycle of having a rough day, being exhausted and overstimulated, feeling like it is all just too much, and then losing it on your kids when they do kid things. And then feeling awful for yelling and letting your temper get the best of you, maybe even decide that you aren’t a good mom.
Well, I am here to tell you that this doesn’t mean you aren’t a good mom, and there are things you can do to break the cycle.
In this episode, I’m sharing insight and a great strategy for parenting during those stressful days or seasons.
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96. 10 Questions To Ask Yourself at the Start of Your Child’s School Year
For us moms, the start of a new school year can come with a lot of challenges.
From the crazy expectations we put on ourselves to make sure everything is perfect to the anxious feelings that come up when you think of how other kids might treat your special needs child.
In this episode, I share 10 questions you can ask yourself to help make those back-to-school challenges easier.
To get a copy of the questions, go to lowerylifecoaching.com/10questions
95. How Coaching Can Improve Your Relationship With Your Special Needs Child
In this episode, I’m sharing insight into how coaching can not only improve your relationship with your special needs child, but also help you feel more bonded and connected to them as well, no matter the circumstances.
94. Why I Felt Like a Failure: Lessons From a Hospital Visit
Sometimes we let our own insecurities and beliefs take over, steering us further away from what we want most.
And those insecurities can turn into shame.
In this episode, I’m sharing a recent experience of mine where I let those insecurities affect me and get in my own way to doing what was best, and how I moved forward.
93. The Secret to Finding Yourself Again
In this episode, I’m sharing the secret to finding yourself once again.
Medical Binder Link:
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92. The Ultimate Medical Binder for Special Needs Moms
But when you set up systems for yourself that help, even in small incremental ways, it adds up and calms the chaos.
“The Ultimate Medical Binder for Special Needs Moms” is now available to download for FREE.
To get your copy, go to lowerylifecoaching.com/medical-binder
91. 7 Signs You Might Have Good Mom Syndrome
But in reality, Good Mom Syndrome can be the culprit for an overwhelming amount of stress, exhaustion, mom rage, and ultimately burnout.
In this episode, I’m sharing exactly what Good Mom Syndrome is, the signs and symptoms of it, and how it impacts not only us, but our families as well.
90. How to Support the Siblings
In this episode, I share three ways we can support our children, the siblings to our special needs kids.
***30 Day Overwhelm Challenge***
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89. Survival Mode Beliefs
But what if I told you there was another piece to the puzzle of getting out of Survival Mode?
In this episode, we dive into Survival Mode Beliefs- what they are, why they cause us so much stress, and how to get rid of them.
88. Mom Boss vs. Mom Leader
87. Special Needs Mom Milestones
86. How to Harness the Power of Your Emotions
But what we CAN change is our subjective experience of those challenges by learning emotional mastery.
Emotions are POWERFUL. They are where we live our lives. They are where we get our life experience as a human.
And in this episode, I’m sharing how to gain control of that power in order to change your own life experience for the better.
Less stress, less overwhelm, less shame and self-judgement- all through emotional mastery.
85. Why Your Brain Gets Dramatic
84. 3 Easy, Practical Ways to Reduce the Mental Load
In this episode, I’m sharing 3 easy and practical ways to offload some of that day to day mental load that weighs us down.