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
When Ableism Confronts Your Children with Larkin O'Leary
We’re all naturally afraid of “different” but what if “different” happens to be YOUR child? How do we react when other parents or kids have a hard time interacting with our child or fail to acknowled…
Will I Be Enough with Maureen Hoff
When are we enough? When our child’s health improves? When the doctor offers us a high five? When we accomplish everything on our to-do list without crying? Being a medical mom isn’t like a regular j…
The Wave: Normalizing Grief with Meghann Crane-Russ
Did you know grief can be disenfranchised? Have you ever caught yourself welling up or feeling angry when parents of neurotypical, undisabled, healthy kids talk about the different milestones they’re…
A Better Mom Would Have Fixed This By Now with Rachel Ulriksen
Our darkest days as parents, buried inside us, can rot us from the inside out. Our darkest days shared, can free us and make others feel less alone. It takes courage to share our pain though, especia…
Top Tips For Raising a Spicy Kid with Mary Van Geffen (Part 1)
In this practical episode Jessica interviews Mary Van Geffen, an international parenting coach and parent educator for overwhelmed moms of strong-willed & Spicy Children™. In this episode they get in…
Top Tips For Raising a Spicy Kid with Mary Van Geffen (Part 2)
In this practical episode continuation, Jessica interviews Mary Van Geffen, an international parenting coach and parent educator for overwhelmed moms of strong-willed & Spicy Children™. In this episo…
Overwhelming Guilt and a Path to Acceptance with Laura Barrett
When a child is born with a genetic disease, as a parent, it can feel like we’ve already failed them. Suddenly our child’s future is full of torturous “WHAT IFS” and the urge to blame ourselves can b…
Finding Community When Your Child is an Addict with Heather Ross
It is in Jessica’s heart and vision for this podcast to spend more time shedding light on today’s topic of mental health, addiction and shame. Having a sick kid and having a kid struggling with addic…
Thomas' Way with Nicola Irvine
When your child experiences the world through the altered lens of disability it can be difficult to stay on the same road, let alone understand each other. Social norms and the invisible pressure to …
Season 4 Trailer
Hi Brave Friends! In this trailer host Jessica Patay, the girlfriend who “gets you” and your beautiful and brutal journey, shares the plan for Season Four. Hint, it includes even more compassionate a…
Back to the Future, with Effie Parks
(This is the fifth of five re-releases of host Jessica Patay's favorite episodes from the last two years before we introduce Season 4 of Brave Together.)
Jessica loves this episode because she loves g…
A Movement to Change Spaces (Toileting with Dignity)
(This is the fourth of five re-releases of host Jessica Patay's favorite episodes from the last two years before we introduce Season 4!)
Jessica loves this episode because it raises a VITAL issue that…
"A Joyful Life is Ahead" with Chris Patay
(This the third of five re-releases of host Jessica Patay's favorite episodes before we introduce to Season 4.!)
Jessica loves this episode because, well, she loves her husband! She is extremely grat…
The YaYa Sisterhood
(This is our second of five re-releases of host Jessica Patay's favorite episodes before we introduce Season 4. )
Jessica loves this episode because it demonstrates the beauty and life-giving quality …
The Beginning of We Are Brave Together
During this break between Season 3 and Season 4, we will be re-releasing Jessica Patay's top 5 favorite episodes. To kick us off, we're taking it all the way back to the beginning!
We Are Brave Toget…
Turning Advocacy into a Business
In this practical episode - and our final episode for season 3, Jessica Patay and Michelle Sullivan explore how Michelle has turned advocacy into a thriving business; her insights are inspiring and w…
The Wiggles’ Biggest Fan
In the lives of families with children with unique needs or disability, there are often (sometimes unusual) habits created to keep our kid safe, or calm, or to reduce sensory overload, pain, or unnee…
Reframing Boundaries
In this practical episode with Suzi Lula, Jessica and her guest discuss a new way of thinking around boundaries. What are they, really? What does it mean to “set boundaries” in a way that honors and …
In His Own Words - Ryan’s Diagnosis
In this very special episode (Episode 100!), Jessica shares the story of the night in 2016 she and Chris told their son Ryan about his Prader-Willi syndrome diagnosis. Ryan was 13 at the time of this…
Healing the ‘Not Enough’ Wound
With so much overwhelm, it can be easy to crumble under a sense that we are either ‘not enough,’ or that we are ‘too much.’ In episode 99, Laura Lee and Jessica Patay explore a topic recently covered…