Ramona Kossowan helps us recognize trauma as a mom parenting a child with disabilities - it's not what you think!!

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Ramona Kossowan discusses how parents can release trauma, regulate their nervous systems, and embrace their own worth beyond caregiving. Ramona walks us through her intuitive, strategic process for trauma release, offering insights on how unresolved trauma can keep us stuck in survival mode and disconnected from joy and creativity.

You Matter Beyond Caregiving: Importance of recognizing your own needs and worthiness beyond your role as a caregiver.
Trauma in Special Needs Parenting: Trauma isn't limited to catastrophic events but can be experienced as a chronic feeling of unsafety and helplessness, contributing to a highly dysregulated nervous system.
Co-Regulation and Nervous System Health: Children unconsciously pick up on their parent’s emotional state. Grounding and trauma release can improve both the mother's well-being and the child’s emotional stability.
Living in Survival Mode: As moms we need to ask “What do I need?” as a first step towards healing, especially for moms who are always in “go mode.”
Signs of Trauma in the Body: Ramona lists common physical and emotional manifestations of trauma, from brain fog and autoimmune conditions to random bursts of crying and a sense of hopelessness. 

- Caregivers are worthy of care and attention, beyond their capacity for caregiving.
- Trauma release can help reset the nervous system, reducing hypervigilance and burnout.
- Practical steps to release trauma gently and strategically, offering a tangible shift in weeks.
- The importance of building a life that honors your needs, boundaries, and joy—beyond survival mode.
- How to recognize trauma symptoms that may be affecting your emotional, physical, and cognitive well-being.

Words of Encouragement from Ramona: Be proud of yourself. You are doing amazing work, and it's okay to prioritize your healing and well-being. 

Resources Mentioned:

Downloadable resource: https://ramonakcoaching.com/gentle-trauma-assessment/

Ramona Kossowan transformed her life from stuck and directionless to the grounded, compassionate leader she is today as the founder of Ramona K Coaching. As a certified Gentle Trauma Release Practitioner, Personal Empowerment Coach and fitness professional, Ramona’s passionate about empowering women to create deep, sustainable transformations in their lives. She gently makes way for women to clear the baggage that’s in the way and build a new, empowered identity. It’s never too late to make that change and embrace your greatness.

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Music Acknowledgement: Audio Coffee - Denys Kyshchuk

Editor: Scott Arbeau

Link for book: The S.H.I.N.E. Principle: The special needs mom's path to strength, hope and happiness by Valerie Arbeau

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