Wide Open Spaces: A Wellbeing Journal for Parents of Neurodiverse Children by Fearn, Louise

Are you the parent of a neurodiverse or deeply-feeling child?

Have you found yourself battling for an EHCP or navigating the traditional education system, a specialist provision or the everyone-at-home experience without much support?

Or perhaps you're in overwhelm or burn out, lost under the weight and responsibility that comes from parenting a complex child?

If you find yourself saying yes to any of the above, then you're in good company!

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.

Author: Louise Fearn
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 01/21/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781805013013

About the Author
Louise Fearn is a writer and meditation teacher with a background in social work. She also works as a sense of self facilitator and is the parent of two neurodiverse children.