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The Other Side of Special

Navigating the Messy, Emotional, Joy-Filled Life of a Special Needs Mom

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Find Hope, Joy, and Community as a Special Needs Mom For the special needs mom who yearns for community and support on what can be a lonely road, The Other Side of Special reminds you that you are not alone, your best is good enough, and even on the hard days, there are blessings to be had. As you pour your energy and resources into raising a special child, it's easy to struggle with feelings of isolation, competition, guilt, and overwhelm. Here's the encouragement and practical help to navigate the emotional reality of your situation. In The Other Side of Special, three mothers raising children with physical, medical, mental, and emotional special needs have joined forces and pooled their experience and expertise to provide such a resource. They take a deep dive into the most common emotions felt by special needs moms. They acknowledge the hard things as those who have been there. They celebrate the unique joys of being a special needs mom. And they offer encouragement for the journey, remaining realistic about the challenges special needs moms will continue to face.
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      March 13, 2023
      In this disorganized outing, Take Heart podcast cohosts Brown, Clime, and Holt probe the challenges of bringing up children with complex medical issues. After the authors met serendipitously in a writing group, they realized that while their children’s diagnoses differed, they shared the “messy emotions” of raising special needs kids—among them the grief over the dream of a healthy child—that can bubble up unexpectedly. They normalize doubt in God when it feels as though “he has forgotten you,” and assure readers that they can find evidence of his providence if they look for it. While certain anecdotes resonate—arriving at yet another event that lacks wheelchair access, for example—the individual authors’ narratives are woven together in each chapter without clear delineation, making chronologies and stories hard to keep track of. As well, they too often frame their struggles with a sermonic tidiness in which the answer tends to be faith, rather than fully exploring hard-to-reconcile emotions like depression. Despite some moments of insight, this is a missed opportunity.

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