The school called.....again...!?? Seeing the school’s number pop up on your phone can make your stomach drop before you even answer. In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, I’m talking about the emotional weight parents of autistic children can carry when...

When autism no longer controls you What if the obstacle you are facing did not have to disappear before you could experience more freedom? In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, Antoinette explores what it means to become the parent and person for whom an...

Learn the skill of feeling unsafe What if the goal was not to feel safe all the time, but to trust yourself when life feels uncertain? As parents of autistic children, uncertainty can become part of everyday life. You may be thinking about your child’s development,...

Recalculate: Flexible Planning for Families Plans can bring structure, direction and calm, but what happens when the day suddenly looks nothing like the one you carefully mapped out? In this episode, Antoinette explores how parents of autistic children can plan with...

Change Change can be exciting, positive and something you have chosen, while still leaving you feeling completely exhausted. In this episode, I share what our recent house move has taught me about having compassion for yourself in the messy middle of change. We talk...

Emotional Capacity In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, we are talking about emotional capacity and what it means to feel difficult emotions without making them an emergency. As parents of autistic children, we can often feel emotionally maxed out, but you...