Friendships and Special Needs Parenting
It seems that making new friends is harder as an adult. There are also seasons in life where friendships seems lacking or we feel especially isolated. When it comes to friendships and special needs parenting, it feels as if we often feel isolated or lacking in...
When Special Needs Families Go To Church
When special needs families go to church they do not always have positive experiences. While there are families who have found churches who are supportive, encouraging, and inclusive, this unfortunately is the exception. In today’s podcast Erin and I talk about...
What About Dignity and Respect? When Our Disability Attitudes Fail Us
As parents of kids with disabilities, we want our children to be treated with dignity and respect. But what if we, as parents, don’t model that? I’m going to say something that will make a lot of people uncomfortable: sometimes we are the ones who treat our children...
New Year’s Resolutions for Special Needs Moms
Everyone is talking about resolutions, but it’s hard to think about resolutions when we’re in the middle of messy, and hard, and you want to scream, “somebody please send me a lifeboat!” As the waves of hard come and go, there are a few things I need to...
Top 5 Posts of 2016
Can you believe that 2016 is almost done? There is so much we can talk about that has touched all of us in some ways, so rather than focusing on that type of recap, here are the top 5 posts on the blog. Posts to offer you some hope and encouragement as you finish the...
Ellen Stumbo writes and speaks about finding beauty in brokenness with gritty honesty and openness. She's passionate about sharing the real – sometimes beautiful and sometimes ugly – aspects of faith, parenting, special needs, and adoption. Ellen’s writing has appeared on Focus on the Family, LifeWay, MomSense, Not Alone, Mamapedia and the Huffington Post.