{"podcast":{"title":"Beautifully Complex","slug":"beautifully-complex-222562","podcast_index_feed_id":222562,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/6137613/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://beautifullycomplex.life","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/9361ca7a342cf3a3f5d6d62fb5bc6078.jpg","author":"Penny Williams","episode_count":365,"summary":"Join parenting coach and mom-in-the-trenches, Penny Williams, as she helps parents, caregivers, and educators harness the realization that we are all beautifully complex and marvelously imperfect. Each week she delivers insights and actionable strategies on parenting and educating neurodivergent kids — those with ADHD, autism, anxiety, learning disabilities... Her approach to decoding behavior while honoring neurodiversity, and parenting the individual child you have will provide you with the tools to help you understand and transform behavior, reduce your own stress, increase parenting confidence, and create the joyful family life you crave. Penny has helped thousands of families worldwide to help their kids feel good so they can do good. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beautifully-complex--6137613/support .","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beautifully-complex-222562"},"episode":{"title":"348: Good Sleep for Neurodivergent Kids, with Melisa Moore, Ph.D.","slug":"348-good-sleep-for-neurodivergent-kids-with-melisa-moore-ph-d","published_at":"2026-03-05T01:00:02+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beautifully-complex-222562/348-good-sleep-for-neurodivergent-kids-with-melisa-moore-ph-d","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beautifully-complex-222562","url":"https://www.spreaker.com/episode/348-good-sleep-for-neurodivergent-kids-with-melisa-moore-ph-d--70372828","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/mgln.ai/e/p1887/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/70372828/348_good_sleep_for_nd_kids_rev_022726.mp3","summary":"Sleep can feel like the one thing that makes everything else harder. When our kids don’t sleep, their nervous systems are fried, their emotions are bigger, and our own capacity shrinks fast. I’ve lived it. If you’re parenting a neurodivergent child or teen who struggles to fall asleep, stay asleep, or wind down at night, you are not alone and you are not doing anything wrong. In this episode, I’m joined by Dr. Melisa Moore, clinical psychologist and author of The Good Sleep Guide for Neurodivergent Kids. We talk about why sleep is often more complicated for kids with ADHD and autism, from circadian rhythm differences to anxiety, medical comorbidities, and specific sleep disorders. We unpack what “balancing the ideal with your family’s real” actually looks like at bedtime. That includes rethinking sleep hygiene, creating routines that truly calm your child’s nervous system, and letting go of guilt when something unconventional, like background audio or a favorite show, genuinely helps your child fall asleep. We also explore the powerful language shift from “go to sleep” to “wait for sleep,” why calming and occupying the mind matters, how sleep associations affect night wakings, what’s different about teen sleep, and what the research really says about melatonin and magnesium. If sleep has felt like a battle in your home, this conversation will bring clarity, compassion, and practical strategies you can try tonight. Listen in and let’s make bedtime feel a little more doable. You can find additional resources at parentingadhdandautism.com — because it’s not just about the struggles, it’s about progress, one step at a time. Show notes and more resources at parentingadhdandautism.com/348 Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/beautifully-comple…","meta_description":"Sleep can feel like the one thing that makes everything else harder. When our kids don’t sleep, their nervous systems are fried, their emotions are bigger…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beautifully-complex-222562/episodes/348-good-sleep-for-neurodivergent-kids-with-melisa-moore-ph-d/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beautifully-complex-222562/348-good-sleep-for-neurodivergent-kids-with-melisa-moore-ph-d.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}