Helping Moms Raise Kids With Special Needs

I’ve been blogging since 2002 with about raising girls with with disabilities. I'm on a mission to help moms like me thrive and live toxin-free! Read more!

At the age of 5, my autistic child, Zoe, had not yet slept through the night. For years, we tried recommendations provided by our doctors, such as restricting what she ate in the evening, stripping her room of anything engaging, and dosing her with melatonin. None of that worked. What did work was making a change to her diet. Many kids on the autism spectrum

Thanks to Responsival for our partnership on this post about supportung our disabled children in adulthood. When we think of nontoxic lifestyle, we don’t often think of things like jewelry. But even for people who don’t wear a lot of jewelry, wedding bands and engagement rings are still a must. That said, you can make jewelry choices that are better for the planet and the

Thanks to Responsival for our partnership on this post about supportung our disabled children in adulthood. Hello! It’s been quite a while since I’ve regularly blogged herebut life changes when your disabled children reach adulthood. It’s truly a time when more security is necessary, which is crazy as I approach 60. We still need to have things in place like owning our own home, affordable

Thanks to Responsival for our partnership on this post about the financial future for families. If I could pick one word to describe our family’s financial life, it would be, “Surprise!” Every now and then we get on top of my budget, but then emergency strikes and things fall apart. And once we have kids, the term “financial future” enters our discussions regularly. Here are

Hi friends! It’s been forever since I wrote, but I could not help myself. I am so excited to share with you that I just published a new book entitled, “A Blueprint for Hope: Raising Your Child Alongside Jesus.” This is a book meant to help and guide moms raising a child on the autism spectrum. One of the biggest things we can understand as
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