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Take the Next Step is a podcast for families experiencing disability, offering weekly encouragement and practical next steps to help your family thrive. Your family matters. Your child matters. And we need you among us. Each Wednesday, we'll explore how to: - Navigate the challenges of disability parenting - Create moments of delight, joy, and connection at home - Connect with a supportive community where your family belong - Take meaningful, manageable steps toward a flourishing futureTake the Next Step is a resource from the Hope Heals Network, a collective of thought leaders offering honest and hopeful wisdom to help people flourish in the good and hard parts of their stories. To learn more about the work of Hope Heals, visit hopeheals.com or follow @hopeheals on Instagram.More episodes: https://amyjuliabecker.com/take-t
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- 2 weeks ago28 min
Communication Skills Every Marriage Needs: Disability + Parenting • Katie Gohde, LPC, and Steve Gohde
Do your conversations end in silence, defensiveness, or words you wish you could take back? Are unhealthy patterns undermining your marriage? How can you communicate with honesty, kindness, and self-control? For parents of children with disabilities, communicating with each other in the midst of stress can be hard. Therapist Katie Gohde and her husband, Steve Gohde, join Amy Julia Becker to bring helpful skills to hard conversations. (And while this interview focuses on marriage, these commun...
- 3 weeks ago25 min
How to Find a Church That Welcomes Disability • Nakoa Dantzler Merritt
Will your child with a disability truly belong at church—or simply be accommodated? How can you recognize genuine welcome? How could a church rethink accessibility, Sunday school, and worship so your family can fully participate? Nakoa Dantzler Merritt, the Community Engagement and Partnerships Coordinator for With Ministries, joins Amy Julia Becker to offer practical advice and real-life examples for families and churches. She invites families to approach imperfect churches with grace ...
- Oct 7, 202625 min
Is Your Marriage Just Surviving? Disability, Chronic Stress, and Caregiving • Monica DiCristina, LPC
Are you exhausted from caregiving? Anxious? Burned out? Do you find yourself resenting your spouse or keeping score in your marriage over who does most? Therapist Monica DiCristina joins Amy Julia Becker to help parents of children with disabilities recognize the signs of chronic stress, understand how it can affect marriage and family life, and discover small, meaningful ways to respond differently, even when the circumstances themselves don’t change. 00:00 Introduction to chronic stress and...
- Sep 30, 202626 min
When Grief Has No Words: Helping Kids With Disabilities Process Loss • Sissy Goff, LPC-MHSP
How can we help a child grieve when they may not have the words to tell us they’re hurting? Therapist Sissy Goff joins Amy Julia Becker to explore how children with disabilities experience and express grief. Grief doesn’t always look like sadness; it can show up through regression, anger, anxiety, changes in behavior, and more. Sissy shares practical ways parents and caregivers can help children express their emotions, set loving boundaries around difficult behaviors, use play and memory-maki...
- Sep 23, 202630 min
Finding Spiritual Rhythms in the Chaos of Caregiving • Jen Pollock Michel
What happens when the rhythms of caregiving make it difficult to establish any rhythms at all? That’s the question guiding author Jen Pollock Michel as she considers what spiritual practices can look like in the midst of caregiving for a family member with a disability. Drawing on her own experience caring for her mom who has Alzheimer’s, Jen shares with Amy Julia Becker how caregivers can create space for meaning, connection, and faith even when days rarely go according to plan. ...
- Sep 16, 202631 min
How to Navigate IEP Meetings and Disability Services • Meghan Burke, PhD
Do you have to fight everyone around the table to advocate well for your child? Many parents feel intimidated by disability advocacy. They worry they're not doing enough and don't know enough to be a good advocate for their child and a good teammate to the other people in their child's life. Researcher Meghan Burke joins Amy Julia Becker to share what non-adversarial advocacy looks like—from special education and IEPs to the transition into adult disability services—and where to find support ...
- Sep 9, 202627 min
What We Need to Know About Disability and Happiness • Misty Coy Snyder
Overwhelmed, isolated, afraid of the future? You don't have to figure it all out at once. Author Misty Coy Snyder joins Amy Julia Becker to talk about family life and disability. She shares practical encouragement for parents and caregivers, including ways to: Find community and build meaningful connectionsFocus on what matters right nowMake room for joy00:00 Introduction to Misty and Her Family 03:09 Why "Happiness is Down Syndrome"? 07:17 The Role of Community in Parenting 11:02 Creating Co...
- Sep 2, 202629 min
Raising Capable, Confident Kids: Disability + Parenting • David Thomas, LMSW
How can my child with a disability learn and grow? What does it look like to cultivate capability while honoring their limitations? When am I wrongly making life easier for them? When should I let them struggle? And what if I feel incapable as a parent? Therapist David Thomas joins Amy Julia Becker to discuss: parenting in an anxious agebuilding resiliencehelping children develop coping skills and confidence00:00 Introduction to David Thomas 03:13 Why Now? The Rise of Anxiety and Youth Mental...
About Take the Next Step with Amy Julia Becker
Take the Next Step is a podcast for families experiencing disability, offering weekly encouragement and practical next steps to help your family thrive. Your family matters. Your child matters. And we need you among us. Each Wednesday, we'll explore how to: - Navigate the challenges of disability parenting - Create moments of delight, joy, and connection at home - Connect with a supportive community where your family belong - Take meaningful, manageable steps toward a flourishing futureTake the Next Step is a resource from the Hope Heals Network, a collective of thought leaders offering honest and hopeful wisdom to help people flourish in the good and hard parts of their stories. To learn more about the work of Hope Heals, visit hopeheals.com or follow @hopeheals on Instagram.More episodes: https://amyjuliabecker.com/take-t
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