The Special Needs Parent Podcast

By: Marcia Nathai-Balkissoon
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  • Summary

  • Our efforts for our children can be overwhelming (decimating and fulfilling, heart-warming and heart-breaking, thrilling and scary). Despite all the love and joy we feel with our precious children and family, the journey can also drain us. We may have little inclination or energy left to think of our personal priorities or work toward creating more fulfilling lives. Join Dr. Marcia for stories, tools, and guidance to help special needs parents build systems using logic and intuition, enhance connection and ease, and open up more of life’s joyful prospects one thought or action at a time.
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  • Promoting Pride and Growth in our Children and Ourselves

    Promoting Pride and Growth in our Children and Ourselves
    Aug 1 2024

    This episode continues our dive into perspectives about disability pride.

    Join us as we discuss what the varied experiences of our guests - from their observations of children's experiences, challenges, and motivators - led them to realise about living with disabilities, and promoting advocacy, personal pride, and professional pride in young persons with disabilities. Also, don't miss out on hearing their views about misconceptions about disability and how they'd reorient thinking in society.


    Today's podcast speakers and host:

    Our guests offer the following support from their own areas of expertise:

    Avion Thompson, a social worker, certified mediator, life skills trainer, and special needs mom - offers a free first life skills session to teens from age 14 -18, to help with conflict resolution or emotional pressures. Book a session with her here: https://calendly.com/thegreatnessinitiative/30min


    Mark Kemp, a certified hypnotherapist and licensed optician with a disability who runs his own business - offers a free consultation as well as advocacy support and a range of hypnotherapy services to help clients address issues including pain management and making mental/emotional shifts. Book with him here: https://tranquilityhealthwellness.llc/ and also learn other ways to connect with him.

    Dr. Marcia Nathai-Balkissoon, a special needs parent and coach to parents, podcaster, author, and strategy lecturer - runs the Special Needs Parent Podcast because she never wants special needs parents to feel abandoned and unsupported.

    Get her Amazon bestselling book, Lighting the Path, at ⁠https://books2read.com/lightingthepath⁠

    Find Marcia on Facebook at ⁠https://www.facebook.com/MarciaNB8/⁠ and on Instagram @specialneedsparentjourney

    Join Marcia's free Lighting the Path Community for Special Needs Parents at ⁠https://www.facebook.com/share/jG6JEHafR3TWTyqG⁠

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • Disability Pride - Special Needs Parents with Disabilities

    Disability Pride - Special Needs Parents with Disabilities
    Jul 28 2024

    Join us to explore what disability pride means to parents who not only have children with disabilities, but have disabilities themselves.


    Three guests speak with me on the panel for this episode, sharing their thoughts and experiences about disability identity, navigating neurodivergence, breaking generational cycles, creating safe spaces for their children and themselves as parents, advocacy, and self-expression.


    Dive deeper into the issues discussed in this episode and future episode in our explorations inside my free Lighting the Path Community for Special Needs Parents and allies. Sign up to join here, or via the link at the end of this shownote.

    About our guests and their work:

    Meagan Tehseldar, advocate and educator helping parents navigate the special education system for children in school. Find her on instagram at @loveoverlabelsadvocacy and explore her website loveoverlabels.net to learn about her and check out her many resources.


    Dr. Simone Kolysh, life coach at Definant Life Coaching helping late-in-life realised neurodivergent and burnt out parents: Find them on TikTok and Instagram at the handle @defiantlifecoaching. Be sure to mention The Special Needs Parent Podcast to get 10% off any consulting package with Dr. Simone, who offers amazing flexibility on modes of communication to meet clients' diverse needs and preferences.


    Latrea Ross, disability empowerment coach for parents and young children. Find Latrea on tiktok and Instagram at the handle @coachltrea79, and on Facebook at more_than_my_disability, and on her website at www.coachlatrea.net for a range of support options. Dr. Marcia Nathai-Balkissoon, special needs parent coach, podcaster and author. runs the Special Needs Parent Podcast because she never wants special needs parents to feel abandoned and unsupported. Get her Amazon bestselling book, Lighting the Path, at https://books2read.com/lightingthepath

    Find Marcia on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/MarciaNB8/ and on Instagram @specialneedsparentjourney

    Join Marcia's free Lighting the Path Community for Special Needs Parents at https://www.facebook.com/share/jG6JEHafR3TWTyqG

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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • When You Can’t Think How to Get it Done

    When You Can’t Think How to Get it Done
    Jul 24 2023
    So often you know you want to add something - equipment, or space, or an experience, or a new learning, or even a rest - into your life or your family’s life and you’re overwhelmed by the realisation that there are a million reasons you can never fit it in. I get it, and I hope this episode brings validation for you and also helps with some bolstering or ideas that might support you. I’d love to share your ideas and tips with other listeners also, so please send me a voice message here or DM me on social media. Check in with me if you’d like me to treat with any specific issues in future episodes, and feel free to reach out to get support directly from me, too. If you get value for the podcast, help me to grow it by sharing with others in your circle and rate and review it on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and everywhere else where it is available. For more support and experience-sharing related to the Special Needs parenting journey, including stories, tips, and checklists to help with issues like managing overwhelm in the midst of your life challenges, boosting your relationships, and doing better with caring for yourself, it’s the perfect time to pick up a copy of my Amazon bestselling book, Lighting the Path: Leaning into a Hopeful Future as a Special Needs Parent, at any of the outlets listed here: https://books2read.com/lightingthepath. Many others who are not Special Needs parents have found the book very helpful in coping with their overwhelm and life challenges as well. Plus, follow Marcia at https://www.facebook.com/MarciaNB8/ and www.instagram.com/MarciaNathaiBalkissoon to get back more of your spark in life, especially if your challenges and tendency to chase perfection are draining you.
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    51 mins
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