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Julie Legg chats with Carol Siege, certified professional coach, keynote speaker, and mother of four neurodiverse sons. Carol brings practical insight drawn from decades of lived experience navigating ADHD, autism, learning differences, anxiety, and more within her own family.
Carol shares how parenting her “alphabet soup” family led to her passion for supporting other parents through her coaching work. From emotional regulation and sibling dynamics to twice-exceptionality and self-care, this episode is full of real-world strategies for raising neurodiverse children while staying grounded yourself.
Key Points from the Episode
- What it’s really like to raise four children with overlapping neurodivergent needs
- Why sibling relationships can be both challenging and transformational in neurodiverse families
- How understanding your child’s diagnosis changes everything
- What “twice exceptionality” means and why it often goes unnoticed
- How Carol helps young adults find their footing beyond school
- The daily rituals that helped Carol stay grounded through it all
- What most parents get wrong about supporting neurodivergent kids
- Why self-care isn’t selfish, it’s essential
- The one thing Carol believes every neurodivergent child needs to hear
Links
- LINKEDIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carol-siege/
- WEBSITE: https://familypathwayscoaching.com/
- INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/siege.carol/
Thanks for listening.
- Visit ADHDifference.nz to find past episodes, videos, links, or to say hello!
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- Julie Legg is the author of The Missing Piece: A Woman's Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD
Chapters
1. Meet Carol Siege (00:00:00)
2. Raising Four Neurodivergent Kids (00:01:31)
3. Alphabet soup of diagnoses (00:02:23)
4. Finding harmony in the home (00:04:26)
5. Discovering ADHD/autism at a young age (00:06:45)
6. Making sense of what a diagnosis means (00:09:54)
7. Family Pathways Coaching and common parental concerns (00:12:23)
8. Practical strategies to help support neurodivergent children (00:16:19)
9. Reframing Neurodivergence: It’s Not Brokenness (00:19:59)
10. The Hidden Challenges of Twice Exceptionality (00:22:20)
11. Final Reflections + A Message for Fellow Parents (00:26:45)
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