Wide Open Spaces: A Wellbeing Journal for Parents of Neurodiverse Children

Are you a parent of a neurodiverse or deeply feeling child (with or without diagnosis)? Have you found yourself battling for an EHCP, navigating the traditional education system, a specialist provision or the everyone-at-home experience without much support?

Or maybe you parent a school refuser or an anxious child?

Have you lost a sense of your true self under the weight and responsibility that is parenting a complex child?

Are you in overwhelm or burn out?

If you find yourself saying yes to any of the above, then you're in good company!

This journal is a hand held out in the darkness, a path back to your self through understanding your own needs and practising the sort of comforting and energising, hits-the-spot self-care that can power you through the ups and downs of parenting in a neurodiverse family.

It provides a warm sense of community where you will feel completely held as you discover how to regulate and centre yourself and how to enliven your life beyond your role as a parent or carer through short journalling prompts and imaginative activities designed specifically for this parenting experience.

Part fill-in journal and part anecdotal memoir, Wide Open Spaces also unpacks how you can come to understand your child's dysregulated behaviours and communicate in a way that makes your life easier.

And it's a kind, insightful and uplifting read. From supporting your child's emotional literacy and coping with big emotions, to rapport building, PDA, co-dependency and more, Louise Fearn offers gentle, easy to practise support.

It leads you, cheerily, in the direction of peace and a more balanced and fulfilled family life.