Unpacking Autism Unpacking Autism – Introducing Reena Before diving into the full episodes, learn a little more about host Reena Anand, her background, the impetus behind the podcast.Reena AnandSeptember 21, 2022
Autism 6 Steps to an Autism Friendly Christmas Christmas can be stressful for an an Autistic child As you know, my eldest son is autistic and over the years we’ve adapted how we…Reena AnandDecember 22, 2020
Autism 6 Tips on Engaging with my Autistic Son spoiler alert: see the child before the autism I've experienced an array of reactions when I explain to people that my son's autistic - and…Reena AnandApril 13, 2020
Autism Mummy Doesn’t Always Know Best; the Benefit of Coaching in Parenting Being a mum of an autistic child I've learnt to flexibly adapt my plans to suit my eldest's mood - often it works but sometimes…Reena AnandMay 12, 2019
Autism How my autistic child made me a better communicator We were over the moon when our son was born five years ago. After my earlier miscarriage - see Don’t say the ‘M’ word - I…Reena AnandApril 2, 2019
Asian Culture How I’m turning yesterday’s pain into tomorrow’s promise I'm the eldest of three children who grew up in a traditional Indian Gujarati household where the gender roles were squarely defined. This meant that…Reena AnandMarch 11, 2019
Asian Culture Don’t say the ‘M’ word Seven years ago I lost my baby. Though others didn’t call it that. It was called a ‘missed miscarriage’, a foetus, a zygote and ‘it’…Reena AnandJanuary 22, 2019
Autism Autism, Airports and Indians Autism creates an interesting reaction amongst Indians. There’s the Fix-Its who’ll say “we’ll find a doctor in India that will have a cure” (because obviously…Reena AnandJanuary 4, 2019
Asian Culture Handling Grief Cancer When I was 22, I stopped my Masters degree to became a full time carer for my terminally ill mum; she had cancer. She’d…Reena AnandDecember 22, 2018
Society Accepting Life’s Lemons So, like most working mums, I pretty much work at full throttle 100 percent of the time. A typical day looks a bit like this:…Reena AnandDecember 10, 2018