7 Unique Travel Tips that will Help You Enjoy a Vacation with Your Disabled Spouse
If you’re a caregiver whose partner has become disabled, you may have wondered if you’ll ever enjoy a vacation with our disabled spouse again. When I meet with counseling clients who are caregivers to a disabled spouse, I often hear this worry: “We had been planning...
Is it Wrong to Feel Grief when Your Child is Diagnosed with a Disability?
I’m a therapist who supports both people with disabilities and their parents. Because of this, I hear perspectives from all sides of disability related discussions in my office.Should we use person first language or identity first language?Is it better for a disabled...
Should I Get a Formal Autism Diagnosis as an Adult?
Maybe you’ve known from a very young age that you were different.Or perhaps you started to piece together a possible explanation after you failed at something. After college, a job, or a marriage didn’t work out, you started to wonder why things were so hard for...
7 Awesome Support Group Activities for Special Needs Parents
I recently wrote a post about 7 things you must do to create a special needs parents support group that’s actually supportive. Since publishing it, I’ve heard from many parents who said that the post helped them create a meaningful peer support group. Some asked if I...About the Mental Wellness + Disability Blog
Hi, I’m Rose Reif!
I offer counseling to disabled and neurodivergent people and their family members in my Cary, NC office.
Here on the Mental Wellness + Disability blog, I write posts intended to offer resources, useful strategies, and support to disabled and neurodivergent people and the people who love them.
