I’m thrilled to announce that my book, The Healing Way: What I Have Learned from Raising a Son on the Autism Spectrum That Transformed My Grief into Awareness, Empowerment, and a Relationship with the Divine, is in print and my gift to the heroic caregivers of children with high support / special needs. It is a map, a compass, a path forward for any caregiver who is ready to embark on a journey to heal, create, and transform.

I will be posting weekly, offering my insights and perspectives about complex parenting, self-care, intuition, channeling, spirituality, and the benefits of taking the inward journey to deepen self-awareness, presence, and to live with an open heart.

Purchase your copy (paperback or eBook) on Amazon and Barnes & Noble. The eBook will be available soon on both platforms. And head on over to my website, thespiritualcaregiver.com, and take a look at my son Austin’s Art page. I’m so proud of him.

Much love to you and your family, Kristen

About the book:

The Healing Way, the essential paradigm-shifting guide to transform parents of special-needs children in order to move out of survival mode and into whole-hearted acceptance for the life they are living with the child they were meant to have, includes life lessons to build self-awareness and emotional resiliency by engaging parents with real-life scenarios, self-reflective writing prompts, visualization techniques, and a map for their journey. Mother of a child with autism, Kristen O’Meara wrote The Healing Way based on 10 years of transformative internal work, an MA in counseling psychology, mindfulness training, and practicing the art of spiritual healing.

After Kristen O’Meara’s son Austin was diagnosed with autism in 2009, she worked through a long period of grief and subsequent awakening that inspired her to journey within to grieve, heal, and create change in her life. Her journey has become a way of life. Following her intuition and heart, she understands the compassionate commitment to grieve and how to integrate the changes that come from a healing journey. Shedding limiting beliefs opens the mind to accept truths from the heart and the emotional resiliency to trust that complex parenting is the journey—the sacred relationship between parent and child is illuminative—the light parents need to walk forward with their child in love.

The Healing Way offers its readers insights and strategies for a vast series of topics including:

• How understanding your internalized limiting beliefs and expectations can lead to enormous breakthroughs in self-awareness and healing

•How using your intuition and self-reflective inquiry strengthens your emotional resiliency and trust in yourself as you engage in complex parenting every day

• How building objectivity and curiosity leads to creatively connecting with your child who may not communicate through speech, sight, sound, or mobility

• How channeling your child’s higher self can help unlock a deeper connection with them and a better understanding of your life together

About the Author and Her Son:

Kristen O’Meara has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and has worked in nonprofit mental health and education for many years. She has advanced certifications in mindfulness and intuitive development and extensive training in spiritual healing modalities. Bridging her experiences with complex parenting, counseling work, and a sophisticated toolbox of healing techniques, her first book, The Healing Way, is the culmination of her life’s work.

Austin is a teen boy who can tell a joke with the timing of a highly trained comedian, and he is always searching for the next pun. Like a sly fox, he notices everything and is equally curious about what he sees. He loves using his imagination, creating worlds within worlds in his mind. He is also an artist, natural explorer, and steward of small creatures, and he loves surprises.

Kristen and Austin live in Northern California with Ruby Rose the tortoise and newly adopted kittens Kit, Olivia Grey, and Shadow. They spend a lot of time talking about Pokémon and Transformers, watching movies, taking long drives in the evening to “downtown and country roads,” listening to music, and going to comic bookstores.

©Kristen O’Meara 2026