Ep.141 Mama Monday: Mom Liza Blas on How Chronic Illness Impacted Her Neurodivergent Kids' Mental Health Struggles Artwork

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Ep.141 Mama Monday: Mom Liza Blas on How Chronic Illness Impacted Her Neurodivergent Kids' Mental Health Struggles

December 19, 2022 • Season 1 • Episode 141

About This Episode: It's Mama Monday! This week, I'm talking with Liza Blas, host of the podcast "Very Happy Stories" and mom of neurodivergent children. Her story also involves chronic illness, and we talk a lot about how it's all intertwined. Here are just some of the topics we discussed:

-How she passed down a "toxin load" to her children during birth
-How Lyme Disease and Pans/Pandas affect her children
-The difference between Pans and Pandas
-How mold exposure played a role in her children's health struggles
-What she learned from her child's partial hospitalization program
-How she "invested in herself" in order to keep her sanity

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