Mission Statement

To provide a place for parents and family members to meet and share experience, strength, give hope and awareness, to other families who have similar experiences raising children with ADD/ADHD, SPD, Anxiety, ASD, mental health diagnosis, developmental and behavioral challenges. Through sharing in this experience of raising these hard to raise kids, we grow stronger and more resilient.

Easy to Love is a 501 (C) (3) Non-Profit Organization

Thursday, December 15, 2011

Idea's Welcome

As we work on planning out 2012 groups we thought it would be nice to get ideas from everyone! What topics would you like to talk about? Guest speaker ideas? Shoot us an email and we will work on adding them to our schedule!!

utaheasy2love@gmail.com

Hope everyone has a wonderful Holiday Season.
See you next year!
Lindsay

Thursday, December 8, 2011

Newsletter

Hey Everyone! In January we will be sending out our FIRST Quarterly Newsletter! Make sure to subscribe on the top right hand corner of the blog or on the left side of our facebook page!
The Easy to Love Newsletters will include interviews, up and coming group information, community information and more!


Lindsay

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Monday, December 5, 2011

Christmas Social Story

The Holidays are a struggle for Miss Emma... she has struggled with all the chaos and change since her first Christmas.
The decorations, smells, outings, family gatherings leading up to Christmas are very overwhelming and have often led to melt downs. The week of Christmas is insanity and there is not really a way to get out of a lot of it. The 23rd is always her Christmas with her dad (we separated before her first Christmas) & a big change this year is that she will be doing an overnight 23-24th, 24th is the family Christmas dinner and all the Santa shenanigans, Christmas day is a whirl wind and then the 26th is her birthday. It's A TON packed into days. We are changing things this year to accommodate Emma and her struggles. Less 'get togethers' and group things etc.
Last year when I felt she had gotten to an age she could understand more, we started talking things through to prepare her for certain events. It did seem to help some of the anxiety.
I decided to take the Christmas a little further and create a social story. After pricing them (OUCH!) I decided to do my own and tailor it to our families traditions. It worked really well... it did not take away all of her anxiety but she was at least prepared for what was to come.
These pictures are from last years... I have tweaked a few things for this year, but it is still similar.
**I picked a few of the pages to give a general idea**












































































Lindsay