I'm Kris Burbank.
However you found me, I'm so glad you did!
My story is probably a lot like yours -- colorful, complicated and constantly evolving.
I love sharing what I've learned and collaborating with others to help make life less hard.
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Over the years, I've struggled to balance the many roles in my life.
I’ve lost myself at times and become frustrated with my responsibilities as a parent and caregiver. I’ve struggled, sunk, and found my way back to the surface time and again.
As someone who insatiably seeks out knowledge and meaning to help me navigate challenges, I've also learned how expanding our perspectives, enhancing our understanding, and building our circles of support help us create more possibility from our realities.
This is especially true for parents of individuals with disabilities.
An author, mother, certified coach, and believer that “the glass-is-usually-half-full,” I love working with parents to help them figure out how to make the most of their lives. I truly enjoy helping people navigate parenting (even when It's messy) with joy, compassion and humor.
No matter what challenges you face...
Or what challenges your children have, I hope you’ll explore this website and discover something new that interests and maybe even excites you.
Here's how I help parents like you...
Coaching
As a compassionate yet candid coach, I can help you get clear on what matters most to you and how to have more of it in life. We'll work to discover what adjustments you can make to feel more fulfilled, despite the challenges of parenting and caregiving, identify resources, and plan for your future. This is completely personalized.
Course
My self-paced online program Embracing Another Normal: The Digital Course, is designed for busy parents, grandparents, and guardians of children and young adults with physical, developmental, neurological and other medical challenges who want actionable advice and insight on how to thrive, not just survive, as a family.
Book
Written from the heart with practical tools and inspiring stories, my book helps families with disabilities build resilience, confidence, and joy. Co-written with Dr. Linda Hoopes, it illustrates how making even small changes in the way we think about ourselves and our loved ones can help make life less overwhelming and more rewarding.
“I wish I’d had access to such encouragement and reassurance when I was a young mom
—but I’m so glad to have it now. Truly grateful.”
--Dianne, Parent in Connecticut
Together we can make life less difficult and more rewarding.
As the proud mother of three adult children, including a son born four months premature with spastic quadriplegia cerebral palsy, I continue to learn life’s lessons almost daily. I know parenthood is hard, but I also know that support and community and knowledge can enable us to be our truest and best selves and help those we love even more than we think we can.
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My newsletter, Another Normal, provides information and resources to help young people with disabilities bloom and grow. Every issue delivers timely and well-curated knowledge about what matters most to you right to your in-box. No matter what life holds, your "normal" is whatever you make it. Another Normal helps cut through the clutter so you can enjoy figuring it out along the way.
