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Focus on the Family Special Feature
The Beauty of Raising a Child with Special Needs — a two episode feature facilitated by Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. Original Air Date: August 21, 2024 Carrie Holt, Sara Clime and Amy Brown are all raising children with special needs — which means they are lonely, exhausted, fearful and hopeful, and at
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Navigating Transitions in Special Needs Parenting
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.” — C.S.Lewis Transition, a fancy way of saying change, strikes fear into the heart of every special needs mother. Transitions or change is hard, especially if we didn’t expect them
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What Should We Remember?
Our homeschool year is winding down to a close, and as a result, I’m finally spending some time organizing and cleaning out closets and weird storage places in my house. My second son is also graduating from his homeschool program. That has its own set of crazy emotions. My hope chest I have a cedar
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What Does It Mean to Rest?
Fear arises when we imagine everything depends on us.— Elisabeth Elliott This quote has been showing up lately on my social media. I researched to see if she actually said it. Lately, there are a lot of quotes flying around social media being attributed to C.S. Lewis that were never said or written which are
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What About Suffering?
What About Suffering? In episodes 143-146 on the Take Heart Special Moms Podcast, we’ve been discussing suffering, which can be really difficult to discuss. Countless books have been written on the topic. I don’t claim to be an expert in scripture, but I would love to share a few things I’m learning. No one enjoys
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Does God Care?
A few weeks ago we were facing some difficulties that I felt like I didn’t really deserve to face. Partly because it’s something we’ve been dealing with on and off for years. The background My son has had in-home nursing since he came home from the hospital, medically fragile at 3 months of age. About
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Are You Okay With Slow Growth?
As a special needs mom, I want results, and I want them now. When my son was younger there were many hopes and dreams I had for him: eating by mouth, talking with a trach, and walking. I pushed him hard at times. We went to physical, occupational, and speech therapy outside of our home
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So you didn’t know you were grieving?
Riding the roller-coaster of grief Our son’s diagnosis came in 2006 while I was twenty weeks pregnant and expecting a perfectly healthy baby. On “D-Day” or diagnosis day, our world was shattered, and I began to grieve. This grief came not at the permanent loss of a person, but the loss of a dream of
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What do you fear most as a special needs mom?
As a result of expecting our son with special needs around the time of Christmas, I felt like I could really relate to Mary. As special needs moms, we have a lot in common with her, I think. Now, don’t misunderstand me here. I don’t believe that Jesus was a special needs child, but He
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Have your plans been turned upside down?
Mine have. Repeatedly since July 26th. At least from a medical standpoint. I feel like all we have been doing lately is waiting or readjusting our plans. Toby’s shunt is not working properly. Again. It’s not an emergency, but he needs a procedure to draw fluid out of his abdomen and then we have to
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Stories that share honest reflections on special needs parenting, faith, and everyday inspiration — my gentle reminders you are not alone.
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