The Lost Pines Learning Collective

🧘‍♀️Monday Mantra🧘‍♀️

Nat'l PTSD Awareness Day was this past Saturday. I'm taking a moment to reflect on the realities of a particular kind of parenthood.

We've all seen the memes comparing the lived experience of parenting special needs children to PTSD-like stress responses in war veterans. While the research isn't a direct 1:1 correlation, the overlap in symptoms is real: chronic hypervigilance, disrupted sleep, sensory and emotional overload, and the constant need to stay "on."

We build schedules that function more like scaffolding than plans. We choose flexibility over consistency because regulation matters more than appearances. We look permissive from the outside, but we're doing the hardest kind of real-time advocacy on the inside.

It's hard. And it's also beautiful. So when you question yourself this week (or any week), remember: You're not off track. You're building a different map.

🧘‍♀️Monday Mantra | 6.22.26🧘‍♀️

It's Men's Mental Health Awareness Month, and following Father's Day weekend, we're taking a moment to applaud those fathers who are doing the work their children may never fully see.

Researchers have identified "breaking the cycle" as a major theme among dads intentionally choosing to parent differently then they were parented, and we're here for it.

Cheers to dads showing up in new ways. It's not easy, and we see you 👏👏

This mantra's for the dads: Healing myself is part of loving my children.

May lessons are a wrap and June session begins this weekend!

Half of June classes are already at capacity, but I see (1) spot left in a few of them. And Coach Roger opened up an extra Preschool class on Saturdays to make room for a handful of extra Beginner II swimmers!

Jump in while you can 💦 We'd love to have you! 🤗

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