Therapeutic consultant Shayna Abraham has been helping families navigate therapeutic treatment decisions for 20 years & shares great insights.
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85. When Comfort Now Creates Pain Later with Jason
Neurodivergent children have a more difficult time growing or developing resilience du
ring struggles. For this reason, well-meaning parents often create an environment where their children are not challenged, but instead remain in a constant state of comfort. Learn why this creates comfort and family harmony in the short term, but doesn’t provide the skills necessary for neurodivergent children to succeed later in life and how to prevent or change this mistake with your loved one.
84. How to Love Parenting Your Autistic or Neurodivergent Young Person with Debbie
The challenges that come with parenting autistic and / or neurodivergents can be hard. There may be things you dislike or even downright hate. It’s hard to show up and parent effectively when we feel this way. What if you could love your parenting experience? Would you show up differently? Be more effective? Learn how to love your experience and show up in a way that supports your neurodivergent’s development and well-being.
Continue reading74. What You’re Doing That’s Demotivating Them with Debbie
Motivation can be a big challenge. We want our autistic and neurodivergent young people to succeed in what their motivated to pursue, create, and do in the world. One of the biggest mistakes parents and mentors make is in how they’re unintentionally demotivating their young person. Learn how to break the patterns that are sabotaging your efforts to support them.
Continue reading72. How to Motivate Autistic and ND Young People with Debbie
Jason and I get asked all the time, “How do you motivate them?”
The short answer is you can’t.
But there are things you can do as a parent and mentor to tap into their own desires and support their success while building your relationship in the process.
Continue reading28. When They’re Not Motivated with Debbie
What do you do when your child, teen, or young adult has no motivation to do their homework, help out around the house, have good hygiene, eat healthy, or any of the other less fun but necessary parts of life? Listen in as Debbie explains why the typical approaches don’t work in the long-term and what actually does. Debbie also offers four strategies to tap in to your child’s intrinsic motivation for long-term growth and success.
Continue reading19. Discomfort and Motivation with Jason
Learn about creating an environment where your neurodiverse child, teenager, or young adult has motivation to grow and develop rather than staying comfortably stuck and miserable. In this episode, Jason draws on examples from mentoring students at TechieForLife to illustrate balancing discomfort with growth, building relationships of influence, and the most effective way to promote change.
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