Neurodivergent Families: Reparenting Yourself While Parenting Your Children

In this week’s episode of The ADHD Women’s Wellbeing Podcast, we’re exploring the complexities of parenting as a neurodivergent individual and how our own lived experiences can shape the way we support our neurodivergent children, helping to foster more resilience, compassion, and understanding.

I’m joined by Holly Blanc Moses, a therapist and parent coach with over 23 years of experience supporting neurodivergent families. Holly shares her personal and professional insights into emotional regulation, reparenting, and how self-advocacy can transform both our parenting and our wellbeing. Together, we unpack how breaking generational patterns and modelling self-compassion can foster resilience in both parents and children.

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What You’ll Learn:

• How understanding our own ADHD helps our children
• The challenges neurodivergent parents face when raising neurodivergent children
• How emotional regulation helps both parents and children navigate stress
• What reparenting involves and how it can break harmful generational cycles
• How to release the “shoulds” of parenthood and define parenting on your terms
• Ways to nurture grit, resilience, and self-advocacy in your children
• The importance of modelling self-advocacy and asking for support

Timestamps:

• 02:33 – Holly’s lived experience of having neurodivergent children
• 05:16 – Challenges and insights to parenting neurodivergent children
• 08:55 – Recovering from generational trauma and undiagnosed neurodivergence
• 10:34 – Parental pressure and emotional regulation
• 16:14 – Reparenting and developing self-compassion
• 24:10 – Modelling resilience and fostering independence
• 25:00 – Encouraging self-advocacy in children as a parent

This episode is about giving yourself permission to slow down and parent in a way that honours both your needs and your child’s. If anything, let it be a reminder that if what you are doing works for your family, that is enough, no matter what anyone else says.

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Links and Resources:

• Find my popular ADHD workshops and resources on my website [here].
• Follow the podcast on Instagram: @adhd_womenswellbeing_pod
• Visit Holly's website or connect with her on Instagram @hollyblancmoses

Kate Moryoussef is a women's ADHD lifestyle and wellbeing coach and EFT practitioner who helps overwhelmed and unfulfilled newly diagnosed ADHD women find more calm, balance, hope, health, compassion, creativity and clarity.