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In this episode of Mother's Guide Through Autism, Brigitte Shipman offers her top three stress management tools. She takes you through these tools and teaches you how to apply them into your daily life. You will learn how to feel lighter even on your most stressful days.

Brigitte shares how she used to think that self-care was a waste of time and she simply did not have the time for it. Her priority was to take care of everything else and everyone else first. She went on fine for a while but then this way of being eventually caught up with her.

She thought she was being a good mom because she was putting her children first. She thought she was being a good wife because she was putting her husband first. She put her job first, her family first, everything before herself.

Stress was mounting with a rocky marriage, shaky finances, work, and raising a child with autism.

Brigitte didn’t manage stress well at all. In fact, she didn’t manage it and she paid for it with her health. Her thyroid stopped functioning and she ended up in the hospital with a diabetic coma. And on another occasion, she broke out in hives from head to toes.

Brigitte had many signs along the way that things needed to change but she did not make those changes. Her body kept talking to her but it was when it was finally screaming at the top of its lungs that she started making some changes.

Brigitte urges mother guides to not wait till their health breaks down but to start taking care of themselves now.

She tells mother guides that they can be outstanding mother guides, warriors, advocates without the expense of their health and without the expense of not taking care of themselves.

Brigitte shares 3 simple tools you can start using today to start taking better care of yourself so you can be your best for your child and yourself.

Tune in now to find out how these simple tools can help you today.

Resources:

BMV Life Coach
https://bmvlifecoach.com/

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