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**At Peace Parents Podcast**

The At Peace Parents Podcast is your source for all things related to understanding, supporting, accommodating, and advocating for your demand avoidant or PDA child. It will completely transform the way you think about your PDA child’s brain, behavior, and parenting, and support you in finding your path to more peace and stability in the home. For more information see www.atpeaceparents.com

Latest Episodes:

Ep. 145 - Toilet Training and Pathological Demand Avoidance - Part 3 Feb 10, 2026

Show notes

This episode is for parents who are interested in toilet training in a PDA-informed way.

This the third episode in my three-part series on toileting and Pathological Demand Avoidance.

In this episode I cover toilet/potty training with your PDA child or teen. Specifically, I cover the following:

Is my child or teen in a good place for toilet training?
Story of toilet training my older son before I knew of PDA, and why I think it still worked (spoiler - we intuitively did a lot of accommodating).
10 tips for if and when you decide to toilet train your PDA child or teen.

I hope this is helpful for you and your family.

xoxo,

Casey

PS - New to PDA? You can take our free 6-minute quiz to learn how well your child or teen fits the profile.

Ep. 144 - Helping Your PDA Child or Teen Get to A Doctor's Appointment Feb 06, 2026

Show notes

In this episode, I spoke to a grandmother raising her 8-year-old PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance / Pervasive Drive for Autonomy) Autistic grandson who she had been homeschooling for a year-and-a-half after school trauma in first grade.

We discussed:

- Helping her grandson attend an in-person appointment with the pediatrician, so he could get a refill of his medication.

- The different approaches she could take to decide her actions in this tough situation.

- The fear of losing trust and the progress they have made by forcing him to the doctor's office.

- Experimenting with ideas for how to prepare her grandson for the doctor's visit with an indirect mode of communications, and how to leverage his special interest of elevators to support him accessing medical care.

We hope you enjoy this conversation as much as I did. It's from our live show "Parenting PDA Your Way" that I host on our social media at 1pm ET on Fridays.

Warmly,

Casey

PS - The grandma in this episode mentions our Paradigm Shift Program. Want to join the waitlist for the next cohort? Here's the link.

Ep. 143 - Toileting and Pathological Demand Avoidance - Part 2 Feb 03, 2026

Show notes

This is my second of three episodes about toileting and PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance or Pervasive Drive for Autonomy).

This episode is focused on what to do if your child has challenges with:

1 - Wiping

2 - Accidents

3 - Holding and constipation

4 - Pooping outside the toilet

5 - Peeing outside the toilet

Of course, I'm talking through taking a PDA/nervous system approach to helping your child or teen with these challenges. If you want to take a deeper dive into understanding why your PDA child or teen has these challenges, please check out my previous podcast episode (Ep. 142).

Also, in this episode I mention the decision making process I teach parents who are trying to decide when they should change their child or teen's diaper if doing so causes activation. If you want to learn more about making such decisions (or others), I teach how to do so in my free masterclass: School, Screens and Siblings, Oh My! Here's a link to where you can sign up for it for free:

https://at-peace-parents-podcast.captivate.fm/sssoh

xo,

Casey

Ep. 142 - Toileting and Pathological Demand Avoidance - Part 1 Jan 30, 2026

Show notes

This is my first of three episodes about toileting and PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance or Pervasive Drive for Autonomy).

This episode is focused on how to think about toileting over the long term with your PDA child or teen. Specifically, I talk through:

1 - Your questions in the following categories: wiping, holding and constipation, potty training, going outside the toilet, and accidents

2 - Logic and root cause of toileting struggles through the PDA lens

3 - What a stickiest basic need is and whether or not your child is in burnout

4 - 5 things to try in your home now

5 - Tracking progress so you can see clearly if this approach is helping your child

I hope it’s a helpful episode for you.

Xo,

Casey

PS - New to PDA? You can take our free 6-minute quiz to learn how well your child or teen fits the profile.

Ep. 141 - Getting Started Parenting Your PDAer Jan 28, 2026

Show notes

In this episode I spoke with a mom of a 4-year-old PDAer (Pathological Demand Avoidant) and a 10-month-old baby living in an apartment in Scotland.

She had just learned about PDA one month ago and had already made huge and brave changes in her home and parenting to support he son.

We discussed:

- How to start making a parenting paradigm shift if you are new to PDA.

- The importance of an experimental mindset as you are trying out new ways of supporting and accommodating your PDA child.

- How to pick your priorities for boundaries in the home. In this case we focused on safety around the baby, bedtime, and bathing once a week.

- How nervous system activation is cumulative over time (months and years) for PDA children and teens, which means we don't have to be perfect with accommodations, just consistent.

This episode is from the show we stream live on Fridays on our social media, "Parenting PDA Your Way." I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

With love,

Casey

Mentioned in this episode:

Want to check out our special "Try Before You Buy" offer for the Paradigm Shift Program. Use the link below to learn more and join the program waitlist to get access to the offer.

Paradigm Shift Program

A Pathologically Demand Avoidant OT on Burnout, Recovery, and Supporting PDA Kids in Practice | Ep. 140 Jan 23, 2026

Show notes

Sorcha Rice is an occupational therapist and the clinical manager of Neurodiversity Ireland, who I met at their 1st conference last year. She identifies as AuDHD and PDA and spoke with me about how she understands and experiences PDA, what her childhood and teen years were like before she was diagnosed, going through burnout and recovery, how she manages her nervous system now, and some of the practices she incorporates to support her PDA occupational therapy clients.

It was wonderful to connect with Sorcha and hear her insights and so much of her story!

I hope you enjoy it too.

Xoxo,

Casey

PS - You can find more about Sorcha on instagram at both @ot_sorcharice and @neurodiversityireland

And in our conversation she also recommended a resource for other OTs - Kim Barthel.

Ep. 139 - PDA Child Is Unable To Eat Or Drink Because Of Loose Tooth Jan 21, 2026

Show notes

In this episode I speak with a mom of a six-year-old PDAer who wouldn't eat or drink and was extremely dysregulated during a holiday because of a loose tooth.

We discussed:

1 - how internal demands and losses of autonomy like losing a tooth matter as much as external demands.

2 - the importance of understanding PDA as a fluctuating nervous system disability.

3 - creative ideas for deepening accommodations the next time there is a loose tooth.

I hope you find the episode helpful. It's from the show we stream live on our social media on Fridays, Parenting PDA Your Way.

xo,

Casey

Ep. 138 - The 10 Hardest Lessons I Learned in 2025 As A Mom of 2 PDA Kids (Part 2) Jan 16, 2026

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Here's part 2 of my episode on the 10 hardest lessons I learned in 2025. They include:

6 - Your PDA child can go into burnout even if you're fully accommodating them.

7 - Burnout can feel like you are making no progress, especially with an internalizer.

8 - Screens can be a wonderful thing.

9 - Your kids will surprise you.

10 - Spirituality sustained me.

xoxo,

Casey

Ep. 137 - The 10 Hardest Lessons I Learned in 2025 As A Mom of 2 PDA Kids (Part 1) Jan 14, 2026

Show notes

Happy New Year! I'm kicking off 2026 by sharing the 10 hardest lessons I learned parenting my PDAers (often the hard way) in 2025.

The first five are in this episode:

1 - There are some things in life you can't outsource

2 - The key to sanity is accepting constraints and finding agency within them

3 - Doubt about PDA is the antidote to dogma

4 - The importance of trusting yourself in the face of judgement

5 - Burnout with trauma is different than burnout without trauma

xo,

Casey

Ep. 136 - Teaching Frustration Tolerance to My PDA Child? Dec 09, 2025

Show notes

In this episode I talk with a mom about her 7-year-old daughter - with PDA, ADHD and anxiety - about when she might help her build her frustration tolerance, and when she likely cannot.

We also dive in on a specific challenge she was facing when her both her daughters need support at the same time.

The conversation is from Parenting PDA Your Way, the show we stream live on our Facebook, Instagram and YouTube most Fridays at 1pm ET.

I hope you find it helpful!

xo,

Casey

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