Take the Next Step with Amy Julia Becker

Is Your Marriage Just Surviving? Disability, Chronic Stress, and Caregiving • Monica DiCristina, LPC

Are you exhausted from caregiving? Anxious? Burned out? Do you find yourself resenting your spouse or keeping score in your marriage over who does most? Therapist Monica

When Grief Has No Words: Helping Kids With Disabilities Process Loss • Sissy Goff, LPC-MHSP

How can we help a child grieve when they may not have the words to tell us they’re hurting? Therapist Sissy Goff joins Amy Julia Becker to explore how children with disa

Finding Spiritual Rhythms in the Chaos of Caregiving • Jen Pollock Michel

What happens when the rhythms of caregiving make it difficult to establish any rhythms at all?  That’s the question guiding author Jen Pollock Michel as she considers wh

How to Navigate IEP Meetings and Disability Services • Meghan Burke, PhD

Do you have to fight everyone around the table to advocate well for your child? Many parents feel intimidated by disability advocacy. They worry they're not doing en

What We Need to Know About Disability and Happiness • Misty Coy Snyder

Overwhelmed, isolated, afraid of the future? You don't have to figure it all out at once. Author Misty Coy Snyder joins Amy Julia Becker to talk about family life an

Raising Capable, Confident Kids: Disability + Parenting • David Thomas, LMSW

How can my child with a disability learn and grow? What does it look like to cultivate capability while honoring their limitations? When am I wrongly making life easier f

Be Unapologetically Impatient: Disability + Parenting • Christina Cipriano, PhD

When your child needs support now, “just wait” isn’t good enough. Chris Cipriano, mom and developmental psychologist, helps parents of children with disabilities move fro

Your Family Matters • A New Season of Take the Next Step!

Parenting a child with a disability can feel overwhelming, isolating, and uncertain, but you don’t have to figure it out alone. Take the Next Step offers encouragement an

How Disability Changed This Dad’s Idea of “Normal” with Mike Erre

E25—What do you do when the child you imagined isn’t the child you have? Pastor Mike Erre experienced the slow dismantling of achievement-based parenting when his son wit

From Fear to Future: How Families Plan for a Good Life with Sheli Reynolds, PhD

E24—"I don't know what life can look like for my child." If you've ever felt that, this episode is for you. Sheli Reynolds, PhD, is a leader in disability innov

How to Find Your People When You Feel Invisible with Katherine Wolf

E23—The meals stop coming. The texts slow down. And suddenly you feel like you’re navigating disability alone. Friends can be great at showing up in a crisis, but how do

Disability + Siblings: What the Research Says with Meghan Burke, PhD

E22—Is having a sibling with a disability hard on kids? Researcher Meghan Burke has spent years studying (and living) this question. Her findings might surprise you. In t

After Diagnosis: Grief Isn’t the End of the Story with Dr. Curt Thompson

E21—As the mom of a daughter with Down syndrome, I have felt my fair share of complicated emotions over these past twenty years. And sometimes, I haven't known what

Disability + Family: What Is Good? What Is Hard? with Renee Dollenmayer

E20—Does your child struggle to understand who they are in a world that sees disability as a deficit? Renee Dollenmayer, founder of Even If Ministries, shares how living

Disability and Simple Faith Practices for Exhausted Parents with Pam Harmon

E19—Many parents of children with disabilities carry deep spiritual questions and have very little space to process them. Amy Julia Becker talks with Pam Harmon about spi

Your Child’s Behavior Is Communication with Emily Longino

E18—Your child isn’t “misbehaving.” They’re trying to be understood. Many children with disabilities communicate through behavior, especially when spoken words aren’t ava

Why “Special Needs Ministry” Isn’t Enough with Rebecca Wall

E17—Is your family welcome at church? If Sunday mornings leave you more exhausted than encouraged, you’re not alone. Rebecca Wall, Executive Director of With Ministries,

Parent + Caregiver: How to Do Both Without Burning Out with Juli Henderson

E16 — Parent and medical caregiver. Many parents of children with disabilities know the complexity of these two full-time roles. Juli Henderson, founder of In Our Arms, w

Disability: Tragedy, Inspiration… or Something Else? with Matthew Mooney

E15 — Tired of feeling like you have to “fix” your child—or turn their life into an inspiration story? Parents of kids with disabilities are often pushed toward two extre

How Disability Parents Can Get Organized Without Burning Out with Angela O’Brien

Ep 14 — If paperwork and clutter are exhausting you, you’re not alone. Professional organizer Angela O’Brien, mom to a young adult daughter with Down syndrome, talks with