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370: When Silence is Louder than Sound, with Luke Williams

August 13, 2026

Heavy metal calms my son down. That sentence still doesn't feel intuitive to me, even after nearly two decades of parenting a neurodivergent kid, but it's exactly what my kid shared with me several years ago.In this episode, my son Luke joins me again to talk about the role music has played in his life as an autistic, ADHD adult — not as background noise, but as an actual regulation tool. We talk about how different genres serve completely different nervous system needs for him, why fast, int...

369: PANDAS: When Strep Inflames Your Child's Brain, with Andrea Jones, Rn, BSN, FHP

August 06, 2026

Rage that comes out of nowhere. A glassy, far-away look in your child's eyes. Bedwetting after years of dry nights. Sudden separation anxiety in a kid who used to walk into school without a backward glance. These aren't always "just" neurodivergence — sometimes they're signals of something medical happening in the brain and nervous system.I'm bringing back nurse and functional medicine practitioner Andrea Jones for a conversation about PANDAS, Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder As...

368: Preparing for the Back-to-School Transition, with Penny Williams

July 30, 2026

The end of summer brings a very specific kind of dread for so many of us parenting neurodivergent kids — that creeping feeling that starts in July and gets louder every single day school gets closer. I know it well. I spent years bracing for the school year instead of preparing for it, and there is a real difference between the two.In this episode, I'm sharing the five areas I've learned, through thirteen years of trial and error, that make the biggest difference in a smoother back-to-school ...