The Fi(ND)ing Motherhood Journal:
Reflections on Matrescence and Raising Neurodivergent Children
Welcome to The Fi(ND)ing Motherhood Journal — a collection of reflections, insights, and personal stories exploring the transformation of motherhood through the lens of matrescence. Here, I write about what it really means to raise neurodivergent and disabled children in a world that often misunderstands them — and us.
These pieces are adapted from the Fi(ND)ing Motherhood podcast, blending lived experience, research, and heart-led honesty to help you feel seen, grounded, and less alone on this journey. Whether you’re newly navigating a diagnosis or years into parenting a child with additional needs, you’ll find compassion, community, and calm here.
When Control Is Fear in Disguise
When we grip tighter out of fear, we often lose the very peace we’re trying to protect. This post explores how the need for control can mask deep fear — and how learning to soften our hold can help us reconnect with our children, ourselves, and the journey we’re on.
Rewriting the Script: What If You Spoke to Yourself Like Someone You Loved?
We say things to ourselves we’d never say to anyone else — not even someone we disliked. This episode is an invitation to pause, soften, and begin speaking to yourself with the same kindness you offer everyone else. Because you can’t shame yourself into healing. But you can love yourself into peace.
The First of Your Kind: Parenting an Autistic Child Without a Map
Being the first in your family to raise a neurodivergent or disabled child means walking without a map — rewriting motherhood as you go. This post explores the loneliness, the hidden strength, and the quiet revolution of becoming the mother your child needs.
Welcome to Fi(ND)ing Motherhood
Motherhood after diagnosis reshapes everything — your routines, your identity, your heart. In Welcome to Fi(ND)ing Motherhood, I share my story of learning to carry the invisible weight with more compassion, and finding meaning again through matrescence.