EPISODE · Apr 3, 2025 · 24 MIN
177. Villain Energy That Makes You Feel Alive
from Overcome the Overwhelm for Special Needs Moms · host Lauren Lowery
You’ve been the calm one. The patient one. The reliable one.Especially as a special needs mom, your days are filled with caregiving, advocating, managing, fixing, organizing, remembering....for everyone but yourself.And somewhere along the way, you stopped being a person.You became... a system.Well, this episode is your invitation to shake off the dust.To break a few invisible rules.To channel a little “villain energy," not the evil queen kind, but the “I get to exist for myself, too” kind.In this episode, we’re talking about tiny acts of rebellion that make you feel awake, alive, and human again. The red lipstick on a Tuesday kind of rebellion. The blasting-My-Chemical-Romance-alone-in-your-car kind. The “I’m wearing sparkly boots to pick up my kid, because I felt like it” kind.Because dependable without aliveness? That’s not motherhood. That’s erasure.So if you’ve been craving something more—not more on your plate, but more of you in your life—this episode will feel like oxygen.Let this be your reminder:You can still be devoted without disappearing.And you don’t need permission to feel good again.You just need one tiny, rebellious spark.
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You’ve been the calm one. The patient one. The reliable one.Especially as a special needs mom, your days are filled with caregiving, advocating, managing, fixing, organizing, remembering....for everyone but yourself.And somewhere along the way, you stopped being a person.You became... a system.Well, this episode is your invitation to shake off the dust.To break a few invisible rules.To channel a little “villain energy," not the evil queen kind, but the “I get to exist for myself, too” kind.In this episode, we’re talking about tiny acts of rebellion that make you feel awake, alive, and human again. The red lipstick on a Tuesday kind of rebellion. The blasting-My-Chemical-Romance-alone-in-your-car kind. The “I’m wearing sparkly boots to pick up my kid, because I felt like it” kind.Because dependable without aliveness? That’s not motherhood. That’s erasure.So if you’ve been craving something more—not more on your plate, but more of you in your life—this episode will feel like oxygen.Let this be your reminder:You can still be devoted without disappearing.And you don’t need permission to feel good again.You just need one tiny, rebellious spark.
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