Wide Open Spaces: A Wellbeing Journal for Parents of Neurodiverse Children

Wide Open Spaces is a journal and memoir for parents of neurodiverse or deeply-feeling children, offering self-care techniques, community, and anecdotal advice to help navigate the challenges of parenting. It provides a warm sense of community, ensuring parents feel completely held as they discover how to regulate and centre themselves and enliven life beyond their role as a parent or carer.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 21 January 2025
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Are you the parent of a neurodiverse or deeply-feeling child? If so, you're not alone. This journal is a hand held out in the darkness, offering you a path back to yourself. It shows you how, by understanding your own needs and practising comforting, energising, hits-the-spot self-care, you can power through the ups and downs of parenting a neurodiverse family. With short journalling prompts and imaginative activities designed specifically for this parenting experience, it provides a warm sense of community, ensuring you feel completely held as you discover how to regulate and centre yourself and how to enliven life beyond your role as a parent or carer. Part fill-in journal and part anecdotal memoir, Wide Open Spaces unpacks how you can come to understand your child's dysregulated behaviours and communicate with them in a way that makes your life easier. From supporting your child's emotional literacy and coping with big emotions, to rapport building, PDA, co-dependency and more, gentle, easy-to-follow advice runs throughout. Wide Open Spaces is a kind, insightful and uplifting read that guides you, cheerily, in the direction of peace, and a more balanced and fulfilled family life.

Weight: 386g
Dimension: 139 x 216 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781805013013