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In episode 5 Lauren and Rina talk about a skill we have all had to develop as parents of disabled children – advocacy - with Mum of two and lawyer Caroline MacPake (Withers professionally).

Systems of support aren’t always automatically in place for disabled children and their families, and the world simply has not been designed for disabled people. As parents of disabled children, we have to champion, persuade and shout loudly on our kids behalf.

This week our topic is “extreme juggling”. We talk to full time architect and mum, Helen Gamble-Shields about the challenges faced whilst juggling roles as carer, mum and architect and what she has learnt along the way.

Helen’s wonderful humour combined with her raw accounts of diagnosis, epilepsy and having to be in that constant state of alert give us a deep insight into their lives.

In the third episode of the F**king Normal Podcast, we talk to single-mum Vicky about relationships, whilst parenting a disabled child.

We discuss the lows of living with an abusive ex-partner, to the highs of Vicky and her disabled child’s ‘little love bubble’, with some dating stories, relationship thoughts, general ‘tittle tattle’ and hard won wisdom, along the way.

In the second episode Lauren and Rina speak to Gemma Sherlock and Jess Honeyball, both mothers of disabled and non disabled children about their experiences of those sibling relationships, parenting and making the decision to have more children.

In the first F**king Normal Podcast episode Lauren Fenton and Rina Teslica discuss the topic of Loneliness and how important it is to find friends who really get what it’s like to raise a disabled child, by interviewing single-mum, Genevieve Porritt.