For parents of children with special needs
You have given everything. This part is for you.
I know the exhaustion that doesn't show. The appointments, the funding, the nights, the way your own life quietly moved to the bottom of the list. This is a group where none of that has to be explained.
Where this comes from
I remember it vividly: my healthy baby boy developing meningitis at three months old. Three months in hospital. He came home a child with special needs — spastic cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and more. Overwhelmed, insecure, devastated, tired and sad, yet happy he was still alive, we set off on the journey of his recovery.
Twenty-two years later he is still here, living a full and joyful life alongside his disabilities. Raising him taught me things I would never have learned otherwise — and the biggest one is that ease is not something you earn at the end. It's available now, and it's a choice.
Beyond the Challenge
Ten sessions, in a small group
- Ten group sessions on Zoom, every two weeks, two hours each
- Each session opens with a meditation or a movement lesson, so you arrive in your body before you speak
- Then a real conversation on the theme — bring your questions, your edge, your week
- A private Telegram group between sessions
- Recordings of every session, so nothing is lost if life gets in the way
- Ten to fifteen people maximum, so it stays safe and close
What we work through
Grief and acceptance
Not only at diagnosis. Grief returns at every new life stage. How do you ride that and still live fully?
Surviving, thriving, or living true
The swing between exhaustion and forced fun — and the third thing underneath both.
Relaxation and well-being
If I relaxed, my son relaxed. Your nervous system is part of your child's environment.
Where am I coming from?
Are we caring, or secretly still hoping to fix? Care from a different place is a different act.
Partnership
Divorce rates are higher among parents like us. What actually keeps two people together through this.
Who is on your team?
You get a say in which doctors, therapists and teachers surround your family.
Daring to dream big
What is still possible — without falling back into striving or martyrdom.
Let it be
The thing our children keep teaching us, and the hardest one to learn.
Seeing the perfection
The moment in the worst hour when everything went quiet and I knew all was well.
Integration
What you'll actually carry home, and how to keep it alive.
Practical
- Format
- Ten sessions on Zoom, every two weeks, two hours each
- Group size
- Ten to fifteen parents
- Language
- English, or Dutch if the group is Dutch
- Next group
- Forming now — write to me to be told when dates are set
- Investment
- €850 per person, including a private coaching call.
- Paying
- In instalments if that helps — monthly, or spread across the programme. And if the amount is out of reach right now, say so on the call. We'll find something that works; I would rather you were in the room.
Tell me where you are
A free intro call, 45 minutes. No pitch — I want to know if this group is right for you.
Or reach me directly judith@judithsimon.nl WhatsApp Telegram