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Unexceptional Moms: Hope and Encouragement for Special Needs Parents Podcast
What Working Options Do Parents of Kids With Disabilities Have?

What Working Options Do Parents of Kids With Disabilities Have?

Unexceptional Moms: Hope and Encouragement for Special Needs Parents vor 6 Jahren

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Parents of kids with disabilities have three main needs: Need for
autonomy: being able to direct our lives. Need for relationships
with people we love. Need for competence: being able to express
ourselves in ways we are good at and receiving some recognition
from our work. Entrepreneurship can be an act of radical self-care;
an opportunity to craft what is in your heart into an income
generating opportunity. What can we realistically do? How does this
become self-care? We need to learn to listen to ourselves.
Related: Figure out your what. Get crystal clear on
the what, then you can figure out the how. Learning your
strengths are the ingredients for the how. Believe you are
worth discovering yourself. We cannot balance all the things. You
cannot give equal time or energy to all the things you do. We need
to explore all the hard feelings (like anger, disappointment,
sadness) and deal with them before we can truly experience joy and
happiness and all the positive things. “Your work should serve your
heart.” — Faith Clarke