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Real parents share how they are learning to manage stress, validate their emotions, understand grief, build relationships, live with gratitude, and embrace — and celebrate — a new normal following a diagnosis.

 
To the Mom Whose Child Has Just Been Diagnosed
To the Mom Whose Child Has Just Been Diagnosed
Laura SpiegelSeptember 9, 2021embracing a new normal, navigating early emotionsComment
This Isn't the Grief Olympics
This Isn't the Grief Olympics
Laura SpiegelAugust 18, 2021grief, validating our feelings, navigating grief, understanding griefComment
Loving the Body that Holds My Daughter
Loving the Body that Holds My Daughter
Laura SpiegelAugust 16, 2021loving myselfComment
It’s Okay to Feel What We Are Feeling
It’s Okay to Feel What We Are Feeling
Laura SpiegelAugust 15, 2021emotions, validating our feelings, navigating an unexpected diagnosis, emotions after a diagnosis, managing stress, understanding grief, loving ourselves, wrestling with worriesComment
A Letter to My Nonverbal Daughter
A Letter to My Nonverbal Daughter
Laura SpiegelMay 30, 2021a mother's loveComment
How Compassionate Letter Writing Taught Me That I Am Enough
How Compassionate Letter Writing Taught Me That I Am Enough
Laura SpiegelMay 25, 2021loving myself, managing stress, validating our feelingsComment
A Different Kind of Happy
A Different Kind of Happy
Laura SpiegelMay 18, 2021finding joy, navigating an unexpected diagnosisComment
Teaching My Kids They Are Enough
Teaching My Kids They Are Enough
Laura SpiegelMay 12, 2021loving myselfComment
How I Prepare for Battle
How I Prepare for Battle
Laura SpiegelMay 3, 2021advocacy, hospital, communicating with care teamsComment
My Son’s Superpower: Celebrating Autism Every Day
My Son’s Superpower: Celebrating Autism Every Day
Laura SpiegelApril 2, 2021autism, daughter's vibrancy, more than a diagnosis, finding joyComment
10 Tips for Reconnecting When Time is Short
10 Tips for Reconnecting When Time is Short
Laura SpiegelMarch 23, 2021relationships, spouse, self-worth, building supportive relationshipsComment
Cancer Warriors: Embracing Our New Normal
Cancer Warriors: Embracing Our New Normal
Laura SpiegelMarch 18, 2021cancer, warrior, embracing a new normalComment
How Focused Breathing Helps Me Cope With Stress
How Focused Breathing Helps Me Cope With Stress
Laura SpiegelFebruary 9, 2021Lani Knutson, managing stressComment
Silencing the Inner Voice
Silencing the Inner Voice
Laura SpiegelJanuary 15, 2021self-worth, worry, validating our feelings, loving myselfComment
Grieving My Child’s Disability
Grieving My Child’s Disability
Laura SpiegelJanuary 2, 2021diagnosis, shelby, navigating grief, navigating an unexpected diagnosisComment
On Loving, Raging, and Repairing
On Loving, Raging, and Repairing
Laura SpiegelDecember 18, 2020brittany gummere, navigating grief, a mother's love, embracing a new normalComment
My Journey as a Nurse and a Mother of a Child Who Lives with Cystic Fibrosis
My Journey as a Nurse and a Mother of a Child Who Lives with Cystic Fibrosis
Laura SpiegelJuly 29, 2020other roles, gratitude, more than a diagnosis, managing stress, living with gratitudeComment
Tips for Connecting with Your Child’s Provider
Tips for Connecting with Your Child’s Provider
Laura SpiegelJune 20, 2020advocacy, provider, communication Comment
How Parents Can Become Better Advocates and Co-Decision Makers in the Medical Process
How Parents Can Become Better Advocates and Co-Decision Makers in the Medical Process
Laura SpiegelJune 7, 2020advocacy, provider, communication, communicating with care teamsComment
Confessions of a Ruminator
Confessions of a Ruminator
Laura SpiegelJune 2, 2020worry, wrestling with worries, managing stressComment
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