We have all heard the oxygen mask analogy…remember to put yours on before you try to help other people. Why is it that in  motherhood, especially medical motherhood, we have such a hard time doing just that?

Today, the girls talk about mental health, specifically anxiety. They discuss Katrina’s journey with deciding to start medication. They chat about how often, asking for help feels like failing. Ultimately, they discuss the importance of re-focusing on what is important…making sure you are your best self for you and your family. 

“You can learn to swim, but right now you need a floatie.” -Katrina

Here’s what you don’t want to miss:

• Family History
• Medication
• Failure
• Judging ourselves
• Re-focus

How are you taking care of your own needs today? Let us know in the When Autumn Comes Society or send us a DM on Instagram! We’d love to hear from you! While you’re at it, consider supporting the podcast .

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Katrina finds more than just wood when she goes to the basement. Tune in to find out what shenanigans she is up to up in Canada. 

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It’s 2025, a New Year…Did you make a resolution? Have you broken it already? This year, the girls are focusing on small changes. Because who has room for lofty resolutions when you spend your days caring for everyone else? Since we mentioned caring for others…maybe these habits need to focus on ourselves. 

Join Suz and Katrina as they plan a year’s worth of small resolutions. These are small changes, one per month, to focus on caring for themselves. Think of them as monthly self care challenges! 

“So, each month, we’re going to do one thing.” -Suz

Here’s what you don’t want to miss:

• Grab your paper
• 12 habits
• You are worth it

We truly hope you will join us for this challenge.  Share how its going in the When Autumn Comes Society or send us a DM on Instagram! We’d love to hear from you! While you’re at it, consider supporting the podcast .

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Camp Hope Full, is an amazing weekend every year. We join up with our community, families with children of all abilities and camp. This event is so much fun, and such an important fundraiser for the Apricity Hope Project. Tickets are on sale at APRICITYHOPE.ORG

Join us!

New Year, New Beginnings, New You. Girl, your future's so bright! But is it? Let’s be real. Join us for this year’s dis-affirmations. It’s a jolly good time!

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New Years is a time for re-entry from the holiday fog, renewal of goals and ideas, and reflection upon the year before. Everyone talks about resolutions and how they will be a new and better person in the coming year. We plan to accomplish more, be better, clean our dirty houses. But what if we don’t? What if just surviving is enough? This was the plan for this episode. But today, the girls take a turn. 

Rather than planning next year with resolutions, join us as the girls reflect on 2024. This was a year of highs and lows, as all years are. With medical motherhood, the highs can be so very high, but they can also be joy in calm days. The lows are ever so low. Let’s all raise a glass of coffee or wine, no one’s judging, to surviving 2024!

“I ate a lot of pie.” -Suz

Here’s what you don’t want to miss:

• Christmas Break
• 2024 Recap
• Looking Forward to?
• Resolutions
• Minor Self Care

Happy New Year everyone! Are you someone who makes resolutions? How did 2024 treat you? Let us know in the When Autumn Comes Society or send us a DM on Instagram! We’d love to hear from you! While you’re at it, consider supporting the podcast .

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Suz is a planner who likes to drag her friends into her pipe dreams. What is her latest plot?

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Tis the season of family visits and travel, baking cookies and decorating, shopping for all of the gifts…Its enough to make your head spin. But how do you manage all of the demands when every day life is already so demanding?

Today, Suz and Katrina talk all things Christmas. They discuss their ideal and what the holidays look like in reality. We hear the ways in which they have created their own magic, even when disease takes them away from typical family memories. Ultimately, Suz and Katrina share what they have done to preserve sanity and joy around the holidays. 

“I have a problem and it is Christmas.” -Suz

Here’s what you don’t want to miss:

• 11 Christmas Trees
• Dream Christmas
• Family Gatherings
• Making your own Magic
• To me or For me

The holidays are tricky to navigate for a lot of us. Throw in a healthy does of special needs and it is easy to spiral into a ball of stress. Have you found ways to make managing the holidays easier? Let us know in the When Autumn Comes Society or send us a DM on Instagram! We’d love to hear from you! While you’re at it, consider supporting the podcast .

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This morning, at 4 AM, the girls are chatting winter wear. Do we call that warm winter hat a beanie? Is it a tuque? Most importantly of all, how do you get your hands on a limited edition AHP warm winter hat? Tune in to find out!

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• Follow Suz: @suzgeoghegan
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Having a child in the PICU is traumatic. Losing a child, moreso. How does someone navigate returning to the PICU with their second child, after having lost their first in the very same unit? Today, the girls sit down and talk about just that. 

Benji is home now, after a recent hospitalization. This hospitalization was sudden and unexpected. The girls unpack what happened, how Benji is doing now, and how Suz is navigating the trauma of it all. 

“The last time I had been in the ED was the last time I rolled in with Lorelei; and she never rolled out.” -Suz

Here’s what you don’t want to miss:

• What happened?
• Cracker barrel
• Car accident of medical motherhood
• Noninvasive support
• Band Aid

Trauma in medical motherhood is real. Community can help you feel more supported. Have you had a chance to plug in? Let us know in the When Autumn Comes Society or send us a DM on Instagram! We’d love to hear from you! While you’re at it, consider supporting the podcast .

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