In this innovative and engaging workshop, Brandy Vanderheiden, MFT, SEP, will discuss the psychological impacts of prolonged stress that are common to parents of children with special needs. She will focus on why understanding how your body processes stress could be your most useful tool for reducing it. Attendees will learn how to identify signs of stress not only in thoughts, behaviors, and emotions, but in physiological cues, along with suggestions to use indelible improvement in stress-reduction. When stress is lowered, connection, ease, and joy are more possible within the family.