Tag: Special Needs
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When Shame Shapes Your Story: Finding Freedom, Healing, and God’s Love in the Special Needs Parenting Journey with Dr. Zoe Shaw
For many parents raising children with disabilities, shame quietly becomes part of the journey. We question our parenting, compare ourselves to other families, wonder if we’ve somehow failed, and sometimes even believe God is disappointed with us. In this deeply honest conversation, licensed psychotherapist, author, and special needs mom Dr. Zoe Shaw shares her own…
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When You Face The Worst Case Scenario In The Unexpected with Becky Davidson
Join Carrie today as she interviews Becky Davidson, from Rising Above Ministries, who shares her “modern-day” Job-like story of being a mother to a child with disability, substantial loss, wrestling with God, the key element of lament, and the importance of community and soul care. May 6, 2025 Episode 9 Resources: By The Brook –…
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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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Podcast Launch
An Invitation I want to invite you to be encouraged by a podcast that we’re launching. It’s called Take Heart: Special Moms Podcast. It’s a podcast of hope, joy, and encouragement for special needs moms by special needs moms. It Launches September 1st Each month, we choose a topic— such as: Diagnosis, Faith, etc. and…
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My Story
I was 20 weeks pregnant with our third son when our world was shattered with a prenatal diagnosis of Spina Bifida (specifically myelomeningocele- he was born with an open hole in his back), Hydrocephalus, and Chiari II Malformation of the brain. Life further took a turn for the worse just two weeks later when he…