Friendship | Community in Medical Motherhood
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
Release Date: 06/11/2025
4 AM Goat Musings
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
4AM: Goat Musings Goats are cute, don’t you want one??? Links and resources: Follow Suz: Follow Katrina: Join the conversation: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on our upcoming stories of medical and special needs parenting from families like yours. And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review. Thanks!
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Jenn | Navigating Self Harm
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
We’ve talked before about the feelings we experience when we receive a diagnosis for our child. We’ve talked about the realities of appointments, struggles with school, daily life. What happens when our children get older and puberty happens. What happens when their typical behaviors begin to change? Jenn shares with us her experience with her son, Everett. She openly shares the reality of living with a child who develops behaviors that harm himself. The girls discuss therapies, and fears related to these behaviors. “For something that takes a kid three times to...
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4 AM Do you Wear Undies?
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
What’s going on down there? You might not want to know… Links and resources: Follow Suz: Follow Katrina: Join the conversation: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on our upcoming stories of medical and special needs parenting from families like yours. And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review. Thanks!
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Virtual Pink House | Setting Sights on the New Year
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
By the time this episode airs, we are pretty well into the new year. How are your resolutions going? Did you make any resolutions? Did you break any resolutions? Remember the list we made last year of monthly goals? Does anyone know where their list is? Let’s get real, we can’t find ours. But we do have some thoughts on starting a new year. Join the girls today as they chat about setting intentions for 2026, finding magic, and being just as prepared for vacation as they are for illness. “That’s not what we were going to talk about today.” -Suz Here’s what...
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4 AM | Hamster Trauma
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
Who here had a hamster growing up? We all know that left you with some kind of trauma. Buckle up for this one… Links and resources: Follow Suz: Follow Katrina: Join the conversation: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on our upcoming stories of medical and special needs parenting from families like yours. And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review. Thanks!
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Spread the Cheer | When Medical Complexity Doesn't Take a Holiday Break
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
Christmas is the most magical time of the year. Well…is it? Is it really the most stressful time of the year? The stress is real for families of typical children, but add in medical complexity and we have a whole different ball of wax. Between parties and shopping and holiday performances, where do we also find time to breathe? Is it ok to say ‘no’ to these once a year activities? What happens when our kid just needs a break? How do we enjoy the holidays with the flu lurking around every corner? Suz and Katrina sit down today to discuss all of these things. We also get to hear how...
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4 AM True Crime
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
Once upon a time, Katrina was the star of her very own True Crime Episode. You get to hear some of the details today! Links and resources: Follow Suz: Follow Katrina: Join the conversation: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on our upcoming stories of medical and special needs parenting from families like yours. And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review? Thanks!
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Jen | First Place
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
A mother’s job is never done. Well, that’s what people say…And it is so true. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 356 days a year, we are on call, if not actually hands on. Maybe in some of that time we are asleep. Maybe we are showering. Through it all, though, our priority is our child. We will never not respond. But when do we get to be first place? When are we the priority? Today, we are joined again by our friend Jen Lansink from “." Together, the girls talk about the struggle of always finding yourself in second, third, fifteenth place. They also offer a bit of advice for...
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4 AM Dead Fish
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
What does it mean when dead fish rain down on your driveway? Well, fish singular…one fish. Links and resources: Follow Suz: Follow Katrina: Join the conversation: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: Make sure you hit SUBSCRIBE so you don’t miss out on our upcoming stories of medical and special needs parenting from families like yours. And, if you enjoyed this episode, please leave us a rating and a review? Thanks!
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Amanda Griffith Atkins | Caring for Yourself
When Autumn Comes: Seasons of Hope for Medical + Disability Moms
Today, Amanda joins us on the comfy couches of the pink beach house. Amanda Griffith-Atkins is a licensed marriage and family therapist, speaker, author, and guest lecturer. She is famous in the medical motherhood community for giving a voice to the lived experience that is caregiving. Guys, Suz fangirl’d hard on this one. Amanda came to the Apricity Hope House to share her book, How to Handle More Than You Can Handle, with us. Just because you weren’t there, doesn't mean you can’t still read the book. In the mean time, tune in to this episode for some excellent truths and advice....
info_outlineGrowing up, a friend was someone you could share your snack with, tell your secrets to, and play with at recess. Of course, that changes with adulthood. But how does this change when you are a parent of a medically complex child? What does friendship look like when your days and nights are spend caregiving?
Susan and Katrina chat about just that. You will hear how they have found and maintained friendships, when they really don’t have time or energy to spare. With those friendships, they have built an amazing community of moms, willing to help each other out, even when it comes to international travel.
“I almost didn’t get on that plane.” -Katrina
Here’s what you don’t want to miss:
- Community in isolation
- Trauma vs healing
- Beauty in the story
- Long distance
- Community
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