TPP 263: Processing When a Child is Newly Diagnosed, with Dr. Lynyetta Willis
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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children
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What emotions do parents typically feel right after a new diagnosis?
One thing I would say is this is just a label. It's just something that our field puts on a particular constellation of symptoms, if you will, quote unquote, and numbers and things like that. How this can be most powerful is to ask the question, OK, now that I have this information, what do I do? How do I use it?
Welcome to Tilt Parenting, a podcast featuring interviews and conversations aimed at inspiring, informing, and supporting parents raising differently wired kids. I'm your host, Debbie Reber. And I just have to say before I even introduce this episode, I am traveling right now post-move and I forgot my good microphone. I'm sitting in a closet in my friend's house in Seattle using really not so great earbuds. So I apologize for the audio quality for the introduction, but rest assured the interview itself was recorded with my regular setup. Anyway, on to the show. This week, I am talking with Dr. Lynetta Willis, a psychologist turned family coach who specializes in empowering women in their relationships.
A lot of Linietta's work combines her foundation in psychology and trauma healing with best practices and empowerment coaching to help her clients strengthen their parenting, partnerships, and personal growth to create joyful, connected, and harmonious families. So there are so many things I could have talked with Lynetta about, but for today's episode, we focused our conversation on navigating the emotional fallout after a diagnosis, a difficult and real process for many parents of differently wired kids. We talk about the sister emotions of grief and guilt, the importance of self-compassion and self-care in the process, how to handle different reactions in partnerships, and more. This is one of those packed conversations with lots of great insights, and I love how Linietta's passion for her work shines through.
I hope you enjoy it. And as always, I just want to say thank you so much for being a part of this Tilt Parenting revolution. If you want to stay in the loop about important news, new classes, and special live events, you can sign up at TiltParenting.com. Thanks so much. And now here is my conversation with Lynetta. Hello, Lynette. Welcome to the podcast. Hi, how are
you? I'm so glad to be here. I'm
happy to have you here. We had this scheduled for months and months ago. And it's funny how that seems like a long time ago and how nothing has really changed between now and then in life. So true. I'm happy to be finally having this conversation with you. And I would love if you could, you know, I've read your bio, your credentials and the fancy stuff. But if you could take a few minutes to just tell us a little bit about who you are in the world and what you do and maybe your personal why for doing that work.
Yes, yes. So I am a family empowerment coach and trained as a psychologist. I have two children, ages nine and 12. I feel like I probably should know that faster, but they just grow so doggone fast. I just can't keep up anymore. And let's see, I now do I had a private practice for a number of years. And before my daughter was born, I closed it when we moved to
a new city.
And I always thought I was going to open it again. That was always the intention. And it was probably about. two years in, I said, yeah, I'm not opening this thing again. And I decided that I really wanted to have a wider reach and help people not just in my area that come to my office, but, you know, all over the globe. So I started looking into coaching and fell in love with it. And now I literally coach people all over the world. I have a parenting group program that I run called Triggered to Transformed. And there are people in there from all over the world, which just gets me so excited to be able to touch so many lives and connect with so many people. And so my why, oh, wow. You know, I grew up in
a time and in a family where things like children should be seen and not heard and spare the rod, spoil the child and stop crying before I give you something to cry about. And all those types of phrases were used.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What emotions do parents typically feel right after a new diagnosis?
0:00–5:55
2
How does Dr. Willis differentiate between a psychologist and a family coach?
5:55–11:34
3
What is the PATHS framework and how can it help families process a diagnosis?
11:34–17:31
4
How can parents move from grief and guilt to self‑compassion and self‑care?
17:31–24:41
5
What practical steps can couples take to stay aligned after learning their child is differently wired?
24:41–30:51
6
What is “stable misery” and how can families recognize and shift out of it?
30:51–35:56
7
How does the “Triggered to Transformed” program support parents in real‑time moments?
35:56–41:09
8
Where can listeners find Dr. Willis’s resources, workshops, and coaching offers?
41:09–44:11
Speakers
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