3 Tools to Help you Survive the Holidays after Your Spouse Becomes Disabled
After your partner acquires a disability, routine becomes your friend. Out of the ordinary days can leave you and your spouse both feeling irritable and exhausted. Sadly, that’s true even on special days like Thanksgiving or other holidays. Many of my counseling...
3 Scary Things that Can Happen when Your Therapist Doesn’t Understand Special Needs Parenting
In honor of Halloween, today I’m sharing 3 scary stories with you. When you’re raising a child with special needs, it’s normal to think some ‘unforgiveable’ thoughts. It’s also understandable that you’d have some big worries about the future. It makes perfect sense...
Two Worksheets to Help Adults with Disabilities Overcome Anxiety
A few weeks ago I was at a conference speaking to a room full of self-advocates about recognizing and overcoming anxiety. Someone in the crowd asked me “Do therapists get anxious? How do you do deal with it?” I shared that I don’t just use worksheets to help adults...
How Special Needs Moms can Create Self-Care Rituals when Self-Care Routines are Just Too Much
The special needs moms who I see for counseling often say that they want to create a self-care routine. But they feel powerless to do so. It’s hard to get to the gym for yoga class at 6AM on Thursday when your child was in the ER having seizures until 2AM. Spending an...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.
