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Episode 7: When Neurodivergent Parenting Strains Your Relationship
Have you and your partner ever walked away from the same hard moment with your teen or young adult and found that you disagreed completely about what should have happened? One of you wants to hold the line. The other...
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Episode 6: When Survival Mode Becomes the Norm, Learned Helplessness & Chronic Parental PTSD
Amy J.'s children have been out of high school for two years. Her phone rings and she still feels it in her body — the same PTSD jolt she got every time the school called about one of her kids. There is no danger. The...
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Episode 5: Exit Strategies For Preventing Meltdowns & Navigating Around Family Derailments
A parent once asked Shari Murray the obvious objection: if my child is always given a way out of doing hard things, how will they ever build resilience?
Her answer reframes the entire topic. Resilience is not enduring...
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Episode 4: Enabling Versus Support, and How Trust Actually Gets Built
Your young adult has not left the house in four days. You have noticed, and you have also noticed something less comfortable: part of you is relieved. The house is calm. You are able to get things done. Nobody had a...
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Episode 3: Predictability, Not Control — What Your Teen's Resistance Is Really About
Shari Murray's son used to panic every single time she pulled into a gas station. Fifteen minutes of it. What are we doing, why are we doing this, do you really need gas — every time, at a station they had stopped at...
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Episode 2: The ADHD-Autism Overlap and the Misdiagnosis That Costs Families Years
If your teen or young adult has an ADHD diagnosis and an oppositional defiant diagnosis sitting beside it, this episode is worth twenty minutes of your time.
Dr. Ed Callahan and Amy J. open with a clinical point that...
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Episode 1: Why Traditional Parenting Backfires With a Neurodivergent Teen
If you are parenting a neurodivergent teen or young adult, you have probably had the experience of doing exactly what the parenting book said and watching it make everything worse.
This is the first episode of the...
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