Brave Together Parenting: a podcast for parenting disabilities and unique needs.
This is the Brave Together Parenting podcast. On Brave Together Parenting, host Jessica Patay, with co-hosts Dr. Zoe Shaw and Susanna Peace Lovell, will share interviews, celebrate stories, explore challenges, and rally hope for the motherhood journey. Through this inspirational and resourceful podcast, may all caregiving mothers know that they are not alone. We Are Brave Together is a global nonprofit organization that provides a supportive community for moms of children with disabilities, neuro-diversity, and all unique or extreme medical or mental health needs. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to preserve and protect the mental health of Caregiving Moms everywhere.
Brave Together Parenting: a podcast for parenting disabilities and unique needs.
STORY: Battling Depression While Raising an Autistic Child with Sandy and Chris Colter
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to today's story episode, #191. These are true stories from a moment in the life of a caregiving parent. We hear a crafted story, and then have a conversation with our guests that goes deeper into their experience.
Today we actually have TWO guests, Sandy and Chris Colter. They are a couple and they both wrote stories about their struggles with depression while raising their autistic son, Bryce. So we decided to feature both of them to explore this very common topic of depression within the caregiving community.
Chris and Sandy’s son Bryce had a brain hemorrhage that caused seizures when he was just over a day old and just when they'd weaned him off the seizure medication at age two and a half, he got an autism diagnosis. Chris and Sandy wrote a book together called PARENTING AUTISM The Early Years: How We Found Hope and Peace on Our Unexpected Journey, and have been very open about the ups and downs of their caregiving journey to all of our benefits.
Find Sandy and Chris Colter’s book PARENTING AUTISM The Early Years: How We Found Hope and Peace on Our Unexpected Journey here.
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