204. Do Support Groups Actually Work? The Hard Truth About Finding Your People - with Sara Intonato

Do support groups actually help, or do they reinforce the very mindset that keeps parents stuck?

In this episode, I sit down with Sara Intonato to unpack this difficult question.

Both of us (and probably you) have lived the same reality:

Hypervigilance,

burnout,

the constant demand of raising a non-speaking child.

When we went looking for help, what we found in traditional support spaces was not growth or even help.

Unfortunately we found:

cycles of venting without direction

low expectations presented as acceptance

and a normalization of hopelessness

This is a hard but beautiful conversation, that digs deep and lets us find out what really helps.