SOS: Save Our Summer

Simple, practical tools to help overwhelmed parents reclaim their sanity this summer

pssst: It’s about way more than Summer

Summer without (sun)burnout

Summer shouldn't feel like a three-month endurance test, yet for many parents—especially in neurodivergent families—that's exactly what it becomes.

This workshop, based on SOS —Save Our Summer: How to Actually Enjoy Your Kids (And Yourself) This Summer, offers practical tools to transform your approach to the season. You'll leave with a personalized summer framework that honors everyone's needs (including yours), strategies for setting boundaries without guilt, and simple practices to prevent — or recover from — parent burnout, overwhelm, languishing, CEO-of-Summer-Exhaustion.

No Instagram perfection required—just straightforward solutions for creating a summer where you're not just surviving, but actually present enough to enjoy the moments that matter.

For just $37, you get access to all the material in three different depths, three different styles so you can make the most of the content, however you learn best.

What do we cover?

Workshop Topics

  1. Understanding Burnout and Big Feelings - Helping parents recognize the signs of burnout, understand the difference between stress and burnout, and address emotional challenges including parent anger/rage in a shame-free way.

  2. The Compass: Putting Your Needs First - Teaching the "big rocks theory" where parents learn to prioritize their own needs as the foundation for family wellbeing, rather than sacrificing themselves.

  3. Self-Compassion as Fuel - Addressing how parents talk to themselves, dispelling myths about self-compassion, and providing practical alternatives to negative self-talk.

  4. R.E.S.T. Systems for Summer Sanity - Introducing practical tools including:

    • Realistic Rhythms over Rigid Routines

    • Environment over Effort

    • Scaffolded Support over Shame/Blame

    • Toolboxes over Tight Techniques

  5. Practical Strategies for Neurodivergent Families - Special considerations and adaptations for families with neurodivergent members, including sensory needs, executive functioning support, and communication approaches.

What You'll Get

When you sign up, you’ll instantly get access to:

  1. A presentation-format guide to the contents, modeled after our workshop

  2. The comprehensive companion workbook, which includes all the material you need to make the most of the workshop presentation and so much more — it’s 60 pages of additional planners and worksheets and a deep dive into how, truly, to save your summer.

  3. A 35-minute podcast-style audio overview of the material for all the parents who don’t have time to read, but love a good podcast-while-commuting-or-folding

    What can you expect from the material? You’ll leave with concrete tools including boundary-setting scripts, pushback-plans, science-backed tools for neurodivergent brains (yours and/or your kids), a complete Summer Burnout Prevention Plan, and practical strategies to create a summer where everyone's needs matter—including yours—without the Instagram-perfect pressure or parental guilt.

Worksheet Include…

  1. Big Rocks Planner: You are the biggest rock, but what exactly does that mean? This worksheet will help you figure out your essentials

  2. Big Task Planner: Break overwhelming tasks into concrete next steps

  3. Block Schedule: Blanks, Examples, Unscheduled Item Collector

  4. W. A. V. E. Method for Managing Pushback: Specific scripts for when things get squirrely

  5. Summer Burnout Prevention Plan - Daily essentials, weekly necessities, and emergency response strategies

  6. Minimum Viable Summer Checklist - Identifying what truly matters to your family

  7. Tactical Self-Care Reference Card - Quick strategies for when you have 5, 15, or 30+ minutes

  8. Summer Values Framework - Clarifying what summer actually means for YOUR family

  9. Boundary-Setting Scripts - Exact language for setting limits with family and friends

  10. Neurodivergent-Friendly Summer Strategies - Sensory tools, transitions, and routines

"Imagine ending August not with that desperate countdown to school, but with a calm certainty that you showed your children what it looks like when a parent's needs matter too—and discovering that when you thrive instead of just survive, the whole family flourishes."

Parenting is hard.

But it doesn’t have to be this hard.

For an investment of $37, you have a chance to completely transform your relationships — to yourself first, and also: your kids, to your partner or co-parent, to everyone else around you.

Because this is the science: when parents thrive, kids thrive. Maybe youve had the formula backwards for a long time: sacrificing yourself so your kids can bloom.

It’s not your fault: everything around us tell us that’s how you do it.

But now it is your responsibility to do something different: to believe that YOUR sanity, your mental well-being, your joy and thrive matter, deeply, they come first — if you want everyone around you to have the same chance.

And not just for this summer! These are tools that will last into the school year, into the years to come. They are relationship game-changers that will teach your kids what it means to care for themselves when they are adults.

This is about a legacy of thriving, of joy, of connection, belonging, and blooming.