Brave Together Podcast: Support and Community for Caregiving Parents
This is Brave Together Podcast. On Brave Together Podcast, co-hosts Jessica Patay, Susanna Peace Lovell and Dr. Zoe Shaw, will share interviews, celebrate stories, explore challenges, and rally hope for the motherhood journey. Through this inspirational and resourceful podcast, may all caregiving parents know that they are not alone. We Are Brave Together is a global nonprofit that creates community for mothers raising children with disabilities, neurodivergence, or complex medical and mental health conditions. The heart of We Are Brave Together is to preserve and protect the mental health of caregiving moms everywhere.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 266
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Walking on Eggshells with Epilepsy with Erin Rusling
Hello Brave Friends! In this story episode, #172, we enter the world of a parent living on unstable ground. An emotional state riddled with fault lines, shifting plates and the possibility that even …
What Do I Do When My Kid is Being Bullied?
Hello Brave Friends! This is an Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
In this episode, #171, we are responding to the quest…
The Importance and Responsibility of Adopting Children Who Have Experienced Trauma with Jenell Jones
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to practical episode #170, in which we are discussing the importance and responsibility of adopting older children who have experienced trauma. We cover what you need to …
When Severe Allergies Join the Family with Susanna Peace Lovell
Hello Brave Friends! This is story episode, #169, in which we talk about the underrated difficulty level of being a parent to a child with extreme allergies. When we bring home a newborn, all we want…
When Your Spouse is Not Very Involved in Disability Caregiving
Hello Brave Friends! This is an Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
In this episode, #168, we are tackling the HIGHLY rel…
Accessing Mental Health Benefits with Natalie Elliott Handy (Part 2)
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to practical episode #167, a TWO PARTER, in which we are diving into the nitty gritty around accessing mental health benefits and services. In Part 1 we focus on what ser…
Accessing Mental Health Benefits with Natalie Elliott Handy (Part 1)
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to practical episode #167, a TWO PARTER, in which we are diving into the nitty gritty around accessing mental health benefits and services. In Part 1 we focus on what ser…
Crying on the Steps of the Regional Center with Kelley Coleman
Hello Brave Friends! On this story episode, #166, we are stepping into the shoes of a brand new care-giving parent, who, like so many of us, left the hospital and was immediately faced with piles of …
Will A Caregiver Support Group Make Me More Depressed?
Hello Brave Friends! This is an Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
In this episode, #165, we are discussing how to get t…
From Childhood Accident to Fierce Advocate with Kevin McGuire
Community is Everything with Megan Loden
Hello Brave Friends! On this story episode, #163, we are exploring one mom’s experience, when not one but TWO of her seemingly thriving, healthy children were diagnosed, right in the middle of high s…
How to Handle January Expectations When You are an Exhausted Caregiver
Hello Brave Friends! This is another Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
In this episode, #162, we’re discussing how to h…
Welcome to Season 6 and All That I Am NOT Doing in 2024
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to Season 6! We are so excited to roll out another vibrant season of Story episodes, Practical episodes and Ask Us Anything episodes for YOU the caregiving mom.
In this t…
ADHD & Honoring Your Kid's Experience with Debbie Reber
Hello Brave Friends! On this, our final episode of Season 5, we have such a great guest for you. Debbie Reber, who you guys probably know already, is a parenting activist, bestselling author, speaker…
Traveling with My Sister with Kendall Albrecht
Hello Brave Friends! On this story episode we are exploring the sibling experience. As caregiving parents, it’s hard to give each child the same amount of attention. The neurotypical child’s experien…
Comparison within the Disability Community
Hello Brave Friends! This is another Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
Today we’re discussing the topic of comparing. W…
Strength-Based IEPs with April Rehrig
Hello Brave Friends! Welcome to today's practical episode with April Rehrig. She's going to talk about strengths-based IEPs. Have you even heard of that? I don't think I'd ever heard of it until rece…
A Break is Necessary for Breakthroughs with Krysten Leighty
Hello Brave Friends! On this story episode we are exploring the vital yet (especially in our community) illusive act of taking a break.
Our storyteller is Krysten Leighty whose daughter Lana, was dia…
How to Respond to Frustrating Comments
Hello Brave Friends! This is another Ask Us Anything episode in which YOU, the listener, get to write or call in and, you guessed it, ASK US ANYTHING!
Today we’re discussing how we handle it when fam…
How to Free Yourself from Mom Guilt with JoAnn Crohn
Hello Brave Friends! One thing I wish I could free all moms from is MOM GUILT. I know you've heard me talk about this before, and it is just in the way of us thriving for sure. It's like a boulder th…