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
77 episodes
The school called.....again...!??
Seeing the school’s number pop up on your phone can make your stomach drop before you even answer.In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, I’m talking about the emotional weight parents of autistic children can car...
When autism no longer controls you
What if the obstacle you are facing did not have to disappear before you could experience more freedom?In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, Antoinette explores what it means to become the parent and person for whom an...
Learn the skill of feeling unsafe
What if the goal was not to feel safe all the time, but to trust yourself when life feels uncertain?As parents of autistic children, uncertainty can become part of everyday life. You may be thinking about your child’s development, school...
You Are the Asset Masterclass
As a parent of an autistic child, you may have become exceptionally good at caring for everyone else while slowly placing yourself at the bottom of the list.In this warm and powerful masterclass, Antoinette invites you to se...
Planning for Families
Plans can bring structure, direction and calm, but what happens when the day suddenly looks nothing like the one you carefully mapped out?In this episode, Antoinette explores how parents of autistic children can plan with intention while...
Change
Change can be exciting, positive and something you have chosen, while still leaving you feeling completely exhausted. In this episode, I share what our recent house move has taught me about having compassion for yourself in the messy middle of ...
Emotional Capacity
In this episode of Living Inspired with Autism, we are talking about emotional capacity and what it means to feel difficult emotions without making them an emergency. As parents of autistic children, we can often feel emotionally ma...
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 miracles
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...