The Special Needs Sibling Podcast

12. Fear, Love, Change & Choosing Happiness

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Going through the healing process is so helpful for all members of the family, whether they're affected by disability or they're typical. Having the tools to help Recognize what we're scared of and how we view our situation is so important because that is a choice we can make.  Check out this conversation with Louloua to see how she chose happiness and how that changed her life forever.


In this episode we talk about:

  • About Louloua’s family and brother with autism
  • Louloua’s experience vs her younger sibling’s experience
  • Having multiple neurotypical siblings vs just being by yourself as the neurotypical one
  • The fear and feeling of being alone when growing up
  • Putting ourselves first as adults because growing up we didn’t do it
  • Steps to start the process of healing
  • Individual and collective healing and recognizing every person in the family needs to work on themselves
  • Intentional mentality shifts 
  • How people react/respond to our siblings having autism
  • Educating people about us and our siblings
  • Educating ourselves and our siblings because both we and the world are changing
  • The scenarios in our head in interacting with people are worse than what happens in real life
  • How we interact with fear in relationship to our siblings, other people, and ourselves
  • Choosing to be happy and be more accepting of change
  • Learning to love
  • Louloua’s encouragement to fellow siblings


    • Links:

    • Louloua’s book From Client to Clinician: The Transformative Power of Neurofeedback Therapy for Families Living with Autism and Other Special Needs (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094YK35KN/)
    • The program Louloua started for parents of children with special needs, Heavenly Home, which offers a holistic approach to parenting in a therapeutic way: http://allbrainsgrow.com/the-course/


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