by Sonia Voynow | Jan 6, 2019 | Empowered Parenting, Seeing Your Whole Child
Recognizing ambivalent loss and making way for compassion The other day I took my son, Noah, over to the Department of Motor Vehicles to get his picture taken for a new ID card. It is no one’s idea of a good time, but we had the day off and it was something that...
by Sonia Voynow | Sep 22, 2018 | The Art of Self-Care
When my son was diagnosed with autism around the age of two, it was as if the ground underneath me had suddenly shifted and wasn’t so solid anymore. I was struggling to understand what the diagnosis meant, and it was agonizing to see my son plateauing and even losing...
by Sonia Voynow | Jun 8, 2012 | Empowered Parenting, Seeing Your Whole Child
With all the ups and downs of raising a child on the autism spectrum, there are some “mantras” that I have embraced to help me stay centered. Take the notion of equanimity, for example. I was reintroduced to the word in an ethics class five or six years ago. And here...
