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aVERY BRIGHT LIFE — 119 episodes

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118. The Thing That Happened At The Mall And How We Handled It

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117. Changing The Label With Diane Dupuy (Founder of Famous People Players)

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116. We're All In The Same Boat—Different Cabins, But The Same Ship

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115. Lisa's Laundry List of Grievances, Updates, And A Happy Ending

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114. Look How Independent My Mom Is (Getting)!

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113. Talking About Relationships, Love, and S-E-X… Disabled Teen Edition

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112. Avery Interviews Her Friend About College (Inclusive Ed Program)

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111. Explaining Religion, God and Heaven To Kids and Folks With Intellectual Disabilities

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110. How To Explain Politics (and voting) To Our Kids With Intellectual Disabilities

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109. 100% Avery

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108. Do We Have To Expose The "Festive Fib?"

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107. Talkin' T1D With My BFF

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106. Nightmare On Advocacy Avenue: The Haunting Of A Disability Parent

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105. Menopause and Mom-ing: Disability Parent Edition

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104. Dopamine and Devices: Finding Balance in a Digital World

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103. Avery’s Summer Adventure and Unexpected Challenges

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102. Updates And My Current Obsession

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101. Summer Camp Prep With Julie Cole

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100. Not What Planned, But Here We Are

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99. Chromosome Disorders, DNA, And Other Sciency Stuff

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98. Bruh Lion

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97. Singing The Praises of Moms and Nurses

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96. Why We Love Cheer

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95. Mom Meh

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94. The Dark Side of Dischord And Other Chat Apps

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93. REPOST of Happy Things Are Everywhere

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92. Everything No One Tells You About Parenting A Disabled Child: A Conversation With Kelley Coleman

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91. This Trick Isn't Cheating! It's A Tool.

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90. Not Judging But... Let's Have A Word About Words

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89. Epilepsy Imposter

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88. Seizure Plan, Sugar Shows, And Sharey Christmas

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87. This Is Why My Mom Is The Way She Is

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86. Where The Heck Do We Go Now?

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85. CTSD or cPTSD...Trauma's Trauma, Mama

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84. Oh Rats, It's Creepy Creeps

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83. Inclusion Delusion

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82. We Can't Believe THIS Happened (AND... Summer Hiatus Alert)

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81. One Love, Two Ducks

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80. Data Discrimination

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79. Overbearing "Momster"

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78. Just Shush And Don't Be A Ham Sandwich Of A Human

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77. Thirsty Monkey

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76. Two Year Podiversary: A Behind the Scenes Story Time

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75. Take Our Epilepsy Fact or Fiction Quiz

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74. Dealing With Fear: Disability Parent Addition

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73. A 'Sick' Story time and... the emergency skill every kid needs to practise

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72. Slap Those Spuds...and other (sometimes embarrassing) parenting stories

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71. My apologies...What I'm sorry for and why

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70. It's My Party And I'll Advocate If I Want To

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69. New (to us) Disability Related Lingo

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68. Four Helpful Tools To Develop Independence For ND Kids

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67. Shopping Bags: People Who Make Errands Icky

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66. Mind Your Words: Personal Comments Are Not Welcome

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65. Ten (Doable!) Ways To Clear Your Cluttered Mom Mind

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64. When To Step In And When To Step Back

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63. Small Wins, Big Fails and Little Life Lessons Learned

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62. Summer Summary And... An Announcement

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61. Summer Hiatus Alert - Burned Out and Bitey

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60. Talking About Disabilities With Neurotypical Kids

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59. DNA, Genes and Rare Chromosomes Disorders: What Does It All Mean?

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58. May-rry Christmas...

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57. Avery's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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56. A Matter Of Perspective

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55. Negative Nelly

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54. When Your Child With Disabilities Chokes

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53. Who Are The Glass Children?

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52. Pet Parties... just because

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51. Exposing Exclusion

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50. Mishmash And A Medical Update

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49. Viral In A Good-ish Way

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48. It's Our 1 Year Podiversary!!

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47. Sharing Our Script: How To Respond To Unsolicited Comments and Questions

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46. Ten Easy Entertaining Activities For When You're Stuck At Home

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45. Miss Independent

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44. All About Epilepsy

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43. Mom In The Middle

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42. Silver Linings and Golden Moments

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41. Helping Kids Navigate Grief

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40. Talking To Brick Walls And Other Dense Objects

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39. Kids Are Not Content

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38. It's A Bulldozer! It's A Helicopter! It's An Over-Parenter!!

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37. Stuff About Us, Epiphanies and A Bucket List

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36. Hiatus Alert! (We'll be back Jan 6th!)

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35. In-Betweeners

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34. Gatekeepers, Guilt and a Great Idea

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33. Parenting "Seasons" and What's It's Like When Your Child Regresses

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32. My Mom Is A Hypocrite

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31. Pardon My Language: Is It Okay When Mom Swears? (Yes, yes it is)

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30. Five tangible ways to help a parent who is raising a child with disabilities

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29. TV Like Me: 10 Must Watch Shows On Netflix About Disability (from a parent's perspective)

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28. On Thin Ice: Teaching Kids With Disabilities to Skate

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27. Tough Talks: Talking To Kids With Intellectual Disabilities About Troubling Events

93

26. A Story, A Rant, and Tips for Keeping Your Parenting Cool

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25. Tip and Tricks For Talking Really Well

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24. Don't Sneeze On My Sandwich

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23. Everyone Is Leaving Me

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22. Stop Being So "Positive": What Is Toxic Positivity?

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21. Happy Cute Things Are Everywhere

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20. Love Is Blind And... Otoplasty

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19. Shots, Shots, Shots, Shots...

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18. We Are ABL

102

17. Trust Your Gut and Doctors Don't Know Everything

103

16. Good Night Sleep Tight

104

15. Friends

105

14. Fourteen Questions With Avery

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13. Don't Worry, Be Happy

107

12. Please Don't Judge

108

11. My Big Brother: Life When Your Sibling Has Disabilities

109

10. Pandemic Potpourri and Childbirth

110

9. Keeping Our Kids Safe: Abuse In The Disability Community

111

8. How To Make Your Digital Content Accessible & Why It's Important

112

7. Online School—The Naked Truth

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6. Motherhood Special—Thoughts On My Mother, Me as a Mom and What Motherhood Might Look Like For Avery

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5. The BMC

115

4. My Daddy

116

3. D Day

117

2. Not Special

118

1. Who The What The?

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