Be Light, Shine Bright

This is the second podcast episode recorded in honour of Heart Month. In this episode, Pokarlla talks about her experiences as a parent of a child with a congenital heart defect and the different coping strategies that helped her and her family.

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In honour of heart month, Pokarlla discusses her personal experience with her son Jax who was born with a Congenital Heart Defect. She highlights things she found both helpful and unhelpful on this journey.

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This episode looks at negative feelings like shame and guilt and how we can help ourselves overcome them. It talks about accountability and the opportunities for redemption and growth that these negative emotions can lead us to. It also describes different ways of forgiving ourselves.

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In this episode Pokarlla and Tarhlia discuss the topic "Choosing You". This episode examines at what it means to choose yourself, and make yourself a priority, why this might be difficult and why it is important.

Tarhlia also reads us some of her poetry which can also be accessed here: https://tarhliam.wixsite.com/website

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Why are healthy habits important? What are some examples of healthy habits? How can healthy habits be best introduced? 

Pokarlla explores these questions with some help from her 10 year old son Dexter.

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What is a resolution? I talk about: personal growth and being the best you that you can be, lessons learned from 2020 and share some resolutions that you may not have thought about yet.

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This is Volume 3 of Conversations About ASD (Part 1). For the last few weeks I have had conversations about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with my sister Jarni Kiara. Both Jarni and myself have discussed different aspects of living with autism and how we both experience these aspects.  Volume 3 is about Executive Dysfunction, Demand Avoidance and Diagnosis. This episode  (Part 4) discusses the questions: What was involved for you in your diagnosis? What were your feelings around your diagnosis? What are your thoughts and feelings about labels like “high-functioning” or “low-functioning”?

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This is Volume 3 of Conversations About ASD (Part 3). For the last few weeks I have had conversations about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with my sister Jarni Kiara. Both Jarni and myself have discussed different aspects of living with autism and how we both experience these aspects.  Volume 3 is about Executive Dysfunction, Demand Avoidance and Diagnosis. This episode  (Part 3) discusses the question: What led you toward getting an ASD diagnosis?

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This is Volume 3 of Conversations About ASD (Part 2). For the last few weeks I have had conversations about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with my sister Jarni Kiara. Both Jarni and myself have discussed different aspects of living with autism and how we both experience these aspects.  Volume 3 is about Executive Dysfunction, Demand Avoidance and Diagnosis. This episode  (Part 2) covers: Demand Avoidance and Pathological Demand Avoidance.

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This is Volume 3 of Conversations About ASD (Part 1). For the last few weeks I have had conversations about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with my sister Jarni Kiara. Both Jarni and myself have discussed different aspects of living with autism and how we both experience these aspects.  Volume 3 is about Executive Dysfunction, Demand Avoidance and Diagnosis. This episode  (Part 1) covers: Executive Dysfunction and the difficulties that a person can experience with various cognitive processes like: Planning, Problem Solving, Working Memory, Attention, Reasoning, Initiation, Inhibition, Cognitive Flexibility and Monitoring.

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