🌱 Explore "The Inhabitable": The First Step of Return

Stories, support, and soul-work for mothers of autistic and special needs children radically alchemizing their grounded venture of life design beyond caregiving

💁‍♀️ Who Am I?

I’m Cheniece Patrick: a solopreneur, new hobbyist podcaster, Tarot certified attuned Reiki Master, and proud Mother to my two amazingly pretty toddlers on the autism spectrum.

…And I didn’t plan to create a ‘personal brand’... I just wanted to survive my own life, without disappearing.

My story DID NOT unfold the way I imagined it would:

I’m raising my two autistic children with special needs whom I adore immensely. I’ve also navigated suppressed fertility, mental health struggles, identity loss, and the kind of grief that doesn’t have a clear ending… …the kind you carry around with you quietly while STILL being required to show up every day.

My motherhood transformed everything for me, especially my sense of who I was allowed to be… And like many other special needs parents, I've experienced the particular kind of isolation that comes from navigating a path few others understand: The grief that lives alongside profound love. The guilt that accompanies wanting something for yourself beyond caregiving…

After months of experiencing emotional tumult and a sticky depression during which I barely knew myself, I re-started my old writing practice as a lifeline… as a way to make sense of the complexities that motherhood, particularly of the special needs variety, brings to the table. Writing became the ONE way I could effectively articulate My (particular, uncommon) Truth.

📚 What You'll Find Here

✔️ A free download of The Survival Mode Exit Strategy Workbook - A beautiful and gentle practical guide to help you start stepping out of Survival Mode and into a life that feels more like your own.

✔️ Bi-weekly-ish Letters That Meet You Where You Are - No platitudes. No empty inspiration. Only grounded storytelling, honest reflection, and practical wisdom from someone walking this path alongside you: a mom of two autistic special needs young children who’s choosing intentional living even in the thick of it.

Typical issues contain features such as:

• A grounding personal story

• A journal prompt, reflection, simple self-return ritual, or easy reclamation practice/exercise/challenge (+ sometimes a downloadable resource .PDF)

• An open engagement prompt and link to the Anonymous Share Box

✔️ Companion Microcast- Audio episodes where I share the unfiltered highs, lows, and revelations of autism motherhood. Think: raw, honest, and deeply personal. Listen to my unfiltered audio diaries capturing the 2AM doubts, the guilt-ridden confessions, and the unexpected breakthroughs worth celebrating.

✔️ Direct Support Line - Feel free to send a message to ask me anything about Motherhood, burnout, identity, and self-care, and I’ll answer in an exclusive post or chat reply.

✔️ Subscriber Group Chat Lounge – Engage in a private (non-social media) community space for deeper conversations.

✔️ Connection Without Pressure - This isn’t a bustling community space demanding your participation… It’s connection at your own pace, in your inbox, where you can show up fully or simply receive. Both matter here.

👉 Start Here: Essential Reads

If you're brand new, these pages and posts capture the essence of what “Inhabitable” aims to be:

Creating A New Kind of Community for Special Needs Moms

🎧 Audio Diary #1: Finding Myself in the Bathroom Mirror

Imagine a World Full of Walmart Dads: What a Chance Encounter Taught Me

🏆 Mission & Values

Mothers like us deserve better than what’s out there currently:

Most parenting support is either too clinical, too toxic-positive, too hustle-driven, or completely disconnected from our reality of raising neurodivergent children (while also trying to maintain our own identity).

I wanted to create something that I needed myself: something human, spiritual, practical, and sustainable.

NOT a program you have to complete. NOT a course you’ll feel guilty about not finishing.

But a steady, nourishing presence. A place where you can grow slowly, softly, with others who understand…

The Inhabitable is my way of saying:

You deserve a life that feels like yours. You deserve support that actually meets you. You deserve a community that gets it.

And now, you get to have that…

With hope and solidarity,

Cheniece ♡