I have a kid with autism. I have been stressed, overwhelmed, frustrated, lonely, misunderstood, felt woefully inadequate, falling apart, felt like I was in a nightmare, feared my child, felt defeated, cried A LOT and more.

I wanted to end it. But I just couldn’t do it.

Something inside of me said I can figure this out. That my child needed me.

For total transparency I am still figuring things out, but life is much better than it was.

I developed the RISE system out of necessity. If I wanted different results, I needed to take different actions. If I wanted to have different actions I needed to change my thinking.

And that is what started it all. Changing my thinking was the first step to building RISE. RISE is a daily system of simple actions that keep me in a much better place to be the mom I wanted and find help for my son’s profound autism we so desperately needed.