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Aromatherapy for Autistic Children: Evidence-Based Essential Oil Safety Guide
A long, reader friendly guide for mums. Exactly how essential oils work in the body, how to use tiny amounts safely, the best carrier oils, precise drops and dilution, the best mediums, storage, routines, and nuanced ways aromatherapy…
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SOS App Supporting Families with Disabilities and Special Needs
Coordinate care plans, manage meltdown protocols, and align your entire support team in one intelligent platform designed for high-stakes parenting.
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Holding the Ceiling Up: Autism, AuDHD, NDIS, and the Mum Behind It All
Today was hard. Not the cute hard. The soul tired hard. The kind of hard where you look around and realise you are the glue, and you do not get to dry.
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Navigating Theme Parks with Sensory-sensitive Kids in Melbourne
This guide is written from my perspective as a Melbourne based autism mum who regularly plans outings across Victoria with neurodivergent kids. It brings together lived experience and gentle, practical strategies for families visiting theme parks such as…
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No Village
Sometimes I wonder how my parents did it. How my grandmother did it too, widowed and raising three primary school kids. The difference is, they had a village. My mum had support. My grandmother had people around her.…
Read articleThe Hard Days With Overstimulated, Emotional AuDHD Children
AuDHD children burnout is something many mums experience during periods of emotional overload, constant demands and sensory overwhelm. When kids become overstimulated, even small moments can feel intense and exhausting for the whole family.
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Weight Gain, Survival Mode, and Motherhood: The Truth I Never See Online
Weight fluctuations, multiple pregnancies and survival mode weight gain are things I never see spoken about honestly online. Not in a way that reflects the reality of mums who are raising small humans, working through exhaustion and navigating…
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When You Know the Moments Matter but You Are Still in Survival
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with knowing the moments matter, yet feeling as though you are only just making it through them.
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