The Skies We’re Under

The Skies We’re Under

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The Skies We’re Under episodes

  • Annual Learning Disability Health Checks | S3 | E6

    Learning disability health checks, Rachel - you will go on my first whistle… Sarah… you will go on my second whistle… 3.2.1…

    Join our two contestants in this week’s episode of 'The Skies We’re Under' podcast, as they discuss half term envy, realising it’s time to move, and the best show on Saturday Night.

    Rachel is joined by the recently appointed TSWU Resident GP: Dr. Tim Wright (just don’t tell him) as he talks through all you need to know about Learning Disability Annual Health Checks, how to make sure you can access them, and what a good Health Check should look like.

    We’d love to hear from you – we love sharing stories, we love hearing how things are going, the good, the bad, the snotty-crying ugly.

    You can leave a message with us in a number of ways:

    • Firstly you can leave a message using speakpipe here: SpeakpipeTSWU

     (Please note calls need to be limited to 90 seconds)

  • Or, if the thought of hearing your own voice gives you ‘the ick’, then send us an email to [email protected]
  • Whatever way you choose to get in touch, we really want to hear your thoughts, views, musings, rants and confessions (we love a confession!) .

    Thanks for listening and being a part of our podcast community -It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen. 

    Follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime. Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers.

    31 min
  • We Live in Hope | S3 | E5

    Join Rachel and Sarah as they receive not-so constructive feedback on snoring from their offspring, complete ‘To Do or Not To Do’ lists and find the Good Fairies in life.

    In this episode we learn all about PATHs - Sarah expertly takes us through the PATH process, how to get the best out of it, and how it can help inject some much needed hope in a really practical way. Jon Ralph helped illustrate ‘Bee’s Best Life’ as part of her PATH.

    We’d love to hear from you – we love sharing stories, we love hearing how things are going, the good, the bad, the snotty-crying ugly.

    You can leave a message with us in a number of ways:

    • Firstly you can leave a message using speakpipe here: SpeakpipeTSWU

     (Please note calls need to be limited to 90 seconds)

  • Or, if the thought of hearing your own voice gives you ‘the ick’, then send us an email to [email protected]
  • Whatever way you choose to get in touch, we really want to hear your thoughts, views, musings, rants and confessions (we love a confession!) .

    Thanks for listening and being a part of our podcast community -It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen. 

    Follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime. Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers.

    30 min
  • When Professionals Go Rogue with Joanna Grace | S3 | E4

    Join Rachel, Sarah and Lucy on Episode 4 of "The Skies We’re Under" podcast as they debate prioritising your own food or your family’s faces and Lucy has another top titty tale.  

    We also hear Part 2 of Rachel’s discussion with the superb Joanna Grace (Joanna Grace (@jo3grace), Instagram Sensory Projects.) We are thinking about the professionals who stick it out and those who go rogue for the sake of families. And as ever, we hear from another listener of the podcast.

    We’d love to hear from you – we love sharing stories, we love hearing how things are going, the good, the bad, the snotty-crying ugly.

    You can leave a message with us in a number of ways:

    • Firstly you can leave a message using speakpipe here: SpeakpipeTSWU

     (Please note calls need to be limited to 90 seconds)

  • Or, if the thought of hearing your own voice gives you ‘the ick’, then send us an email to [email protected]
  • Whatever way you choose to get in touch, we really want to hear your thoughts, views, musings, rants and confessions (we love a confession!) .

    Thanks for listening and being a part of our podcast community -It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen. 

     

    Follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime. Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers.



    40 min
  • Trust Your Instinct with Joanna Grace | S3 | E3

    Bring your tissues this week as we feel utterly seen by the wonderful Joanna Grace (Joanna Grace (@jo3grace), Instagram Sensory Projects.) Her wisdom, wit and general wonderfulness. We are so grateful to also hear from our fantastic listeners.

    Also includes talk of top titties, wimping out and attempting to gain work/life balance.

    We’d love to hear from you – we love sharing stories, we love hearing how things are going, the good, the bad, the snotty-crying ugly.

    You can leave a message with us in a number of ways:

    • Firstly you can leave a message using Speakpipe here: SpeakpipeTSWU (Please note calls need to be limited to 90 seconds)
  • Or, if the thought of hearing your own voice gives you ‘the ick’, then send us an email to [email protected]
  • Whatever way you choose to get in touch, we really want to hear your thoughts, views, musings, rants and confessions (we love a confession!) .

    Thanks for listening and being a part of our podcast community -It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen. 

    Follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime. Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers.

    39 min
  • Superhormonal Not Superhuman | S3 | E2

    Join Lucy and Rachel on Episode 2 of 'The Skies We’re Under' podcast as they ride the waves of frustration, rage, broken systems, unhelpful comments and hormonal imbalance on the good ship HTS Rifton.

    Rachel talks about continence systems and products (Uribag, Rifton) and the continued challenges of transitioning from Childrens' to Adult Services

    Lucy and Rachel reflect that as awesome as we are, we are not Superhuman, and that the decisions we’re forced to make and the comments we hear build an unhelpful myth of resilience.

    HRT patches are praised for helping navigate the stormy waters, and also, helpfully, not killing your families… Menopause

    We’d love to hear from you – we love sharing stories, we love hearing how things are going, the good, the bad, the snotty-crying ugly.

    You can leave a message with us in a number of ways:

    • Firstly you can leave a message using speakpipe here: SpeakpipeTSWU

     (Please note calls need to be limited to 90 seconds)

  • Or, if the thought of hearing your own voice gives you ‘the ick’, then send us an email to [email protected]
  • Whatever way you choose to get in touch, we really want to hear your thoughts, views, musings, rants and confessions (we love a confession!) .

    Thanks for listening and being a part of our podcast community -It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen. 

    Follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime. Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers.

     

     

     

    30 min
  • We're Back! | S3 | E1

    For our first episode of season 3 Rachel, Sarah and Lucy have a long overdue catch up on where life has taken them since the end of Season 2 and the biggest items on their ‘F**k That Lists.’

    In our new ‘What do you need to know’ section Lucy helpfully takes us through everything you need to know about Universal Provision and EHCPs (IPSEA, SENDIASS )

    Finally Rachel rounds things off, with our first caller to the podcast, and an open invitation to our lovely listeners to ‘join in’.

    We’d love to hear from you – we love sharing stories, we love hearing how things are going, the good, the bad, the snotty-crying ugly. 

    You can leave a message with us in a number of ways: 

    • Firstly you can leave a message using speakpipe here: SpeakpipeTSWU

     (Please note calls need to be limited to 90 seconds) 

    • You can send us a voice note from your phone to our email address at [email protected] 
  • Or, if the thought of hearing your own voice gives you ‘the ick’, then send us an email to [email protected] 
  • Whatever way you choose to get in touch, we really want to hear your thoughts, views, musings, rants and confessions (we love a confession!) . 

    Thanks for listening and being a part of our podcast community -It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen.  

    You can find the transcripts for each episode on our website. 

    Follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime. Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers. 

     

    30 min
  • Sex, Puberty and ’When I die’ | S2 | E16

    Bonus episode about: 

    • Finding a therapist on the Affinity Hub website focused on Parent/Carers
  • Writing an ‘If I die” book
  • Spinning plates and choosing to drop them
  • Life As-Pland fantastic resource for equipping parent carers with brilliant planners, journals and stickers  https://lifeas-pland.com/
  • Being an employer and recruiting PAs – If you would like to see some some of the policies and contract documents that Rachel uses with her son’s PAs, please email [email protected] 
  • Puberty and keeping our young people clean and tidy - plus periods
  • Finishing off the podcast with sex 
  • We recorded this Live Podcast event with special thanks to questions from listeners and people attending the event.

    We love creating The Skies We’re Under podcast and want to continue. You could  help us by liking, following and reviewing the podcast wherever you listen.   Maybe even share an episode with a friend or in social media  

    Email your stories, comments and questions to [email protected] to join in or follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime.  

     Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care. 

    39 min
  • Sh*tometer and Camel Toe | S2 | E15

    For our final episode of Season 2 we have the trio back together. Rachel, Sarah and Lucy reflect on life and;

    • our need for counselling (hint you can find therapists focused on parent carer well-being at Affinity Huband Lapis)
  • the awesomeness of Acute Liaison Nurses
  • the gap between our capability and capacity
  • knowing what we need to let go of and what we should hold onto
  • knowing when we need help in our next step
  • how society’s ableist thinking is so engrained we don’t even notice it
  • All this is sandwiched between a Shitometer and Camel Toe.

    It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen.  

    Email your stories, comments and questions to [email protected] to join in or follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime.  

    Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to book into one of our parent workshops or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers. 

    45 min
  • Too Peas in a Podcast | S2 | E14

    The formidable Mandy Hose & Kate Mulholland are Australian podcasters. Their podcast 'Toopeas in a Podcast' began life to talk about mothering twins with disabilities and to make the world a better place. It is now a podcast with over a million downloads and reaching parents, families, 'peafessionals' and 'rectums' around the world.  

     

    Don’t know what we mean? Listen to find out more: 

    • Terminolopea 
  • Surviving on the Disability Parenting Desert Island 
  • The importance of that “Me Too” moment and finding our own story 
  • How to spot parents of twins  
  • Living today like we are trusting our tomorrow selves 
  • We feel so privileged to share the humour, kindness and awesomeness which are Kate and Mandy. It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen – this small act helps us be seen by more people.   

    Email your stories, comments and questions to [email protected] to join in or follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime.   Our next podcast live event on zoom is 18th May, join us by clicking here  

     Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers.  

    55 min
  • My Daily Miracle | S2 | E13

    Rachel and Rochelle have husbands with the same name and children with the same cheeks and level of complex disabilities. This podcast is full of laughter and also manages to cover traumatic topics such as suicide, still birth and child loss.

    We joke and stumble through; 

    • Blended diet - successes and failures
  • Epilepsy – Keto diet
  • Supporting friends through baby loss
  • There is also a revelation (despite Sarah’s warning about revealing too much in the podcast).

    Rochelle blogs over at My Daily Miracle. She’s a mum of two and works as an LSA in a special needs school. You can find everything Rochelle at www.mydailymiracle.co.uk and at My Daily Miracle on Facebook and @lifewithlissencephaly_rochelle on Instagram.

    It would make our day if you could like, follow and review the podcast wherever you listen.  Email your stories, comments and questions to [email protected] to join in or follow us on Instagram @BornatRightTime.   

     Head to www.bornattherighttime.com to book onto one of ‘The Skies We’re Under’ live events (our next one is 8pm (GMT) Thursday 18th May), find a parent workshop or CPD-certified training for practitioners in communication, collaboration and personalised care with parents/carers.  

    50 min

About The Skies We’re Under

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Nurse, author and Director of Born at the Right Time, Rachel Wright talks to fellow parents of people with disabilities and others in their community. With the power of story telling, laughter, swearing and useful information they create solace in knowing the warts and all truth of this off piste version of parenting.

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