Welcome to the daily naked pair podcast brought to you by rocket glue. The first ever brand focused on supporting parents with special needs children. Naked parent nation is a group of parents with special needs children, who are willing to give all the rubble stripped it all down and take a look at ourselves, our parenting, our family and our plans create a life beyond our wildest dreams. On today's show, we'll be discussing our activism stimming health and mental wellness, you won't want to miss it. Hello naked parent nation, and welcome to today's episode of The Naked parent podcast. My name is Chad ratliffe. And I'm your host. And before I introduce you to our guests today, let's start by sharing our community's code. Naked parent nations a worldwide community of parents raising children with all kinds of needs, we come together to share our Naked Truth, support our fellow parents, and inspire the inner growth that each of us needs to build the life and family of our dreams. For the parents that are struggling, we want you to know that we will love you until you can love yourself. For your children, we pray and send power from our collective group. As we come to understand our divine nature, we realize that there's no need to feel sorry for ourselves, be angry or feel lack, we come to understand that our feelings of limitation and separation are only in our minds. Through Self Realization, we expand our consciousness so that the challenges that perplex us today, dissipate one by one until we're able to able to see and experience gratitude and beauty in everything just as it is. We have the power to create any kind of life we want for ourselves and our families. We do this by living in the naked present moment, one day at a time. Esther and Jerry Hicks call it the science of deliberation. And we call it the answer to all of our prayers. So let's continue this journey as individuals, parents and professionals with a short breathing exercise to get kind of centered and focused. And if today's The only time you take for yourself today, let it be a nice moment of peace and calm. So if you sit up tall with your spine, erect, your face forward, your chin down and slowly close your eyes. And then lift your gaze up to that center right between your eyebrows. And then just feel your body and listen to the sounds in the room that you're in. And just be there with yourself for a moment. And as you sit there, I'm going to read some words and thoughts for you to ponder. With each breath, I inhale the energy of positive thoughts. I deserve to feel hopeful right now. I'm doing the best I can for my child. I love myself exactly as I am. I love my children exactly as they are. Deep breath in, hold it an exhale and then listen to it one more time. With each breath, I inhale the energy of positive thoughts. I deserve to feel hopeful right now. I'm doing the best I can for my child and love myself exactly as I am. I love my children exactly as they are a deep breath in, hold it and then let it all go Oh. And open your eyes and come back to the show where I want to introduce you to Aaron Garcia, who's the author of two books, the case of sensational stems, and Tiger Livi. She wrote these books on disabilities and chronic illness. She's a teacher and parent of an autistic child. She grew up with a brother with a rare syndrome. And we're excited to have you on the show. Welcome to the show. Aaron.