When Pier and I first met it was love at first sight and we felt that we had each met our soul mate. Eventually, we got married and started to create our Green Zone Life, filled with joy, fun, excitement and adventure. We each had budding careers, purchased our first home and had plans for a future ...

Most of us allow thoughts to drop into our minds randomly, without any control over what we are thinking. Our minds spend a lot of time replaying what has already happened, almost like a movie playing in our heads. Often, it’s a movie we wouldn’t particularly want to see again, because it reflects s...

Our lives can become so busy with the day in and day out activities that we either have to take care of or choose to spend our time doing. Sometimes, this leads to feeling like we are on a hamster wheel going through the motions, but not really taking time to just be still. I often have to remind my...

One of my favorite mantras today is “I am where I am” or “It is what it is”.

That wasn’t always the case, as I remember a time in my life where I was railing against what I felt was happening to me. When we first received the diagnosis of Autism for our daughter Gabbi, I thought “This shouldn’t be ...

In autism land, we hear a lot about the challenges and struggles of having a different brain. Unfortunately, we don’t hear enough about the gifts of having a different brain. Not the giving, getting, and buying kind of gifts, but rather, your innate, natural gifts. The strengths that come with your ...

As 2021 ends, it's a good time to reflect on what's happened in the past year and use it to gain more clarity about what we want to create for ourselves in the New Year.  Many call this setting New Year's resolutions or intentions.

There is a lot of power in setting intentions.  They can provide...

It is ridiculous how time seems to speed up when you aren’t looking. One day it’s January and then all of sudden, you look up and it’s December. Since I make every effort to value time, I can’t stand it when that happens. It makes me feel like we spend way too much time just standing around with our...

Friendships are a complicated thing for autistics. We don’t always know when someone is a friend and when they have stopped being a friend. Oftentimes, we find ourselves in unrequited friendships, where the other person is not interested in friendships with us. No matter your age or diagnosis, all a...

Wherever we are on our journey, we will have to get to a place of acceptance of what is before we can move in the direction of creating is the life that we want.

I spent many years in denial, wishing my situation wasn’t what it was. “Having a diagnosis of Autism for my daughter wasn’t in my plan, h...