Using creativity is a great way to help with healing, mental health issues and so much more, here are some tips on how to help yourself by finding something that you love doing and helps you be creative. 

Todays episode is about my fight against the specialists who refused to diagnosis my children, and how I fought and won. Just because a specialist doesn't agree with the diagnosis you are hoping for, doesn't make them right, we fought specialists because the schools were saying there wasn't an issue, we moved school and were referred within a week and saw an amazing psychologist who told us 10 minutes into our appointment that our son was Autistic, but it took us years of fighting, in fact I have fought for all 3 of my children for 30 years. 

Hope my advice helps you move forward and get you a diagnosis or t least where to go to challenge a diagnosis or seek a second opinion. 

Do you find yourself fighting the school with your disabled child? I did with all 3 of mine, I just wish the Equality Act 2010 had been in place back when I was fighting with them, so in today's podcast, I share my story and also what now classes as discrimination against your child within their school.

If you would like to know more, please email me at [email protected] or connect with me on Instagram @decemberrose_coach

I am not my mother, dealing with childhood trauma, todays episode is an emotional one, dealing with childhood trauma isn't easy, I was made to feel like I wasn't good enough and that my sister was everything and I was not, I swore that I wouldn't be her and its a fight I have with myself every day, but I have learned to heal through a trauma informed coaching course and I can say that, it is something you should get help for because otherwise it can cause you so many issues as an adult that you then project onto your children and the cycle never ends.

A reminder that although there will be really bad days, bad days and meh days, there will also be really good days too. I found journalling helped me to see that actually there were a lot of good days and also days that started bad but I changed them to good days. It helps to look back and see where those days have been and work on what made you happy, or your children happy and replicate. 

You're not crazy! when my mental health was at it worst, I constantly experienced moments where I thought I was going to die, or hurt someone or that my kids had been hurt, kidnapped or disappeared. I was an emotional wreck, I thought I was going to rive in front of a lorry, or off of a bridge, I never did but I honestly thought I was or would.

After starting CBT and researching I found out I had OCD and was suffering with intrusive thoughts, my goodness they were scary and the panic attacks were off the chart awful, but I gradually helped myself, using distraction and researching everything I could to help myself and I are out the other side, it wasn't easy but I did and so can you.

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Tonights episode touches on how I never gave up, even with the diagnosis and what I have been through, yes I have disabilities but they don't define me, they are just a part of me. I found ways to cope, ,things to distract me, like my children's gameboys and Pokemon games bak in the early 2000's. Creativity and a passion for helping others gave me the drive to succeed and become a coach. 

You can get though this, you need to find your purpose or something that you love and go with it, and as always you can find me on Instagram, Facebook and Email:

@decemberrose_coach

December-Rose Parents Sanctuary 

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Your child is not their diagnosis, don't get me wrong, as a parent I did wonder how on earth I was going to manage with a sick child and what this meant for us as a family, but not once did I ever not love them, we all worry but your child isn't their diagnosis, that’s just a word that describes the difficulties or differences they  have to others, it doesn't change who they are.

Tonights episode I talk about what's its like having a sick child, the emotions and how I dealt with it. From that first diagnosis to coping with moving forward, life changed and sometimes we don't know what to do or how to move forward which is why I became a coach, to be able to not only share my story but also how to deal with it yourselves.

As always you can contact me on social media or email me

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Tonights episode is more anecdotal than anything else, we've been going through our loft items today as we had woodworm u there and I didn't realise how much we had, I've always been one to collect pretty things, my office is a shrine to anything Rose-Gold, my husband collects far too much junk and scrap metal, but my daughter is the biggest magpie of us all, as a child she picked up anything from shells & stones to paper and filled her bedroom drawers with it, she was the epitome of the Magpie. 

Its a typical ADHD/Trait, a form of hyper focus, but it can become a little too much in our home so I have to make a stand sometimes, as we genuinely don't have the room. 

Thanks for listening to my episode tonight and as always I would love to connect on social media or email

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December-Rose Parent Sanctuary