Living Inspired with Autism
Antoinette Freedgood is a certified life coach empowering parents of autistic children.
Using empathy, personal experience, and proven strategies, she helps families confidently navigate autism, celebrating strengths and fostering growth, resilience, and positive change for both children and parents.
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Episodes
70 episodes
How to create emotions on purpose. Part 5
Most of us believe that emotions simply happen to us.We think our child’s behaviour makes us frustrated, a family member’s comment upsets us, or a situation at school causes our stress.But your emotions are created by your thought...
Embracing Discomfort for Growth in Autism Parenting. Part 4
What if the thing holding you back is not failure, rejection or disappointment, but the emotions you fear those experiences might create?In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, we continue the emotional skills series by ...
Indulging in Emotion: Breaking the Loop Part 3
In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, Antoinette continues the emotional skills series by exploring something many autism parents experience but do not always recognise: indulging in emotions.This ...
Allowing Emotions - A Parent's Guide Part 2
In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, Antoinette continues the emotional skills series by exploring something that sounds simple, but can feel incredibly uncomfortable in real life: allowing your emotions....
Emotional Awareness for Parents of Autistic Children No. 1
Emotional Skills Series. Podcast 1In this episode of Living Inspired With Autism, Antoinette begins a powerful new series on emotional skills for parents of autistic children.As parents, we often move through life feeling...
The Impossible Is Just Something That Hasn’t Happened Yet | Autism Parenting, Belief & Possibility
Have you ever imagined something beautiful for your autistic child’s future, only for your brain to immediately shut it down with, “Be realistic”?In this episode of Living Inspired With Autism, Antoinette speaks directly to the pa...
Autism Parenting: What If More Is Possible for Your Child?
As parents of autistic children, we are often handed limitations.From doctors, schools, specialists, systems, reports, assessments and well-meaning people who speak in predictions, timelines and “realistic expectations.”But what h...
Believing in mircales
The Beliefs That Are Quietly Limiting Your Child’s Future (And How to Change Them) What if the beliefs you’ve been given… are the very thing holding you back? In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism<...
Self-Worth & Self-Responsibility: Taking Your Power Back as an Autism Parent
What if the way you see yourself is shaping everything… your exhaustion, your confidence, your parenting, your relationships?And what if that’s the one thing no one ever taught you how to change?In this episode of Living Inspi...
What If Your Child Has Been Listening All Along? | S2C (Spell to Communicate) Explained
What if everything you’ve been told about your child… isn’t the full picture?In this very special episode of Living Inspired with Autism, I sit down with my first-ever guest, Olivia, a Spell to Communicate (S2C) practitioner<...
Ease vs Evolving: The Quiet Choice That Changes Everything
What if the thing you’re craving most… is also the thing keeping you stuck?In this heartfelt episode of Living Inspired with Autism, Antoinette opens up a powerful conversation that so many parents are quietly living through: th...
Policing Yourself
What if the exhaustion you feel isn’t just from parenting… but from constantly managing how others experience your life?In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, we explore something many parents carry quietly… the habit o...
The Successful Autism Family Blueprint: From Survival to Calm, Connection and Control
What if autism parenting didn’t have to feel like constant survival?In this powerful episode, I take you inside The Successful Autism Family Blueprint — the framework I wish someone had given me at the very beginning of my journ...
Choosing the uncertainty
In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, we are talking about something most parents of autistic children know all too well: uncertainty.But this is not about learning how to handle more. It is about recognising that you ...
You Don’t Have to Be Positive to Be Powerful
There’s a quiet pressure many parents of autistic children carry.To stay grateful. To stay inspirational. To stay positive no matter what.But what if power has nothing to do with positivity?In this honest ...
You are the asset
If you have been living in survival mode… this episode is for you.In today’s conversation, we explore a powerful shift that changes everything:What if you stopped treating yourself like a side hustle… and started treating yourself li...
Use disruption as fuel
Disruption is part of parenting a child with autism. The meltdowns. The cancelled plans. The financial pressure. The constant feeling that life is off balance.In this episode, I’m sharing a powerful shift that changes everything. Disrupt...
Stop wanting it to be easy
What if the reason parenting autism feels so heavy is not because you are failing, but because you are trying to make something easier that was never meant to be?In this powerful episode of Living Inspired with Autism, An...
What Do You Want to Believe?
In today’s episode of Living Inspired With Autism, Antoinette dives into what she believes is the cornerstone of everything. How belief shapes the way you parent, work, care for yourself, and lead your family.
Becoming on purpose
Who Are You Becoming?This episode invites you to stop defining yourself by your past and start orienting your life around who you are becoming.So many of us unconsciously use what we have been through, what we have tried, o...
What if it gets better from here....
Hello, friends. I’m Antoinette. Today, we’re talking about something vital: reclaiming your future. This isn't about ignoring the very real challenges of parenting a child with autism; it’s about reclaiming the mental space that belongs to you....
Are you unconsciously negative?
Are You Unconsciously Negative?Most people don’t think of themselves as negative. Especially parents who are doing their absolute best.In this episode, we explore something much quieter and more exhausting than obvious ne...
What do you think first thing in the morning?
What do you think first thing in the morning?Not your plans.Not your to-do list.Not who you need to be for everyone else.But the very first thought that arrives before you are fully awake.In this episode, we gently ...
Redefining Hard Days: Inner Strength Unleashed. Autism
Hard days.We all say it.“I had such a hard day.”“Today was just one of those days.”In this episode, I gently and honestly challenge what we mean when we call a day “hard” not to dismiss your experience, but to help you see...