Ashley Dunn Support Coach

Ashley Dunn Support Coach Helping parents navigate big behaviors and emotions 👧🏽🧒🏼Ages 5-12 | CWU Lecturer | Former Teacher |🌐 Virtual coaching
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More words from families I’ve had the pleasure of working with.Every child is different. Every family comes with their ...
05/14/2026

More words from families I’ve had the pleasure of working with.

Every child is different. Every family comes with their own story, their own challenges, their own strengths. This work is never one sizes fits all and that’s what makes it meaningful.

05/12/2026

And then sometimes - not always - things feel okay. More than okay. And instead of waiting for it to fall apart I’m trying to just let that be true for a minute.

Hope is easy to dismiss when you’re used to bracing for the next hard thing. I’m learning to hold onto it when it shows up. To let the good moments just be.

If things feel hard right now, they won’t always. And if things feel okay right now I hope you let yourself feel that too.

Sometimes the best way to understand what this work looks like is to hear it from the families who have lived it.These a...
05/07/2026

Sometimes the best way to understand what this work looks like is to hear it from the families who have lived it.

These are real parents navigating real challenges — sensory struggles, big emotions, school transitions, not knowing where to turn. And what they found on the other side was a path forward.

If you’re wondering whether support like this could help your family — send me a message. I’d love to connect.

05/05/2026

If you’ve ever tried a parenting strategy from the internet and had it completely fall apart — you’re not alone.

There is so much advice out there on social media. Scripts for every situation. Step by step strategies telling you exactly what to say and how to say it.

But most of it doesn’t account for your child’s temperament, their sensory needs, their history, the way they experience the world. Or your capacity as a parent.

No script was written for your specific child. Generic advice isn’t wrong. It’s just incomplete.

You’re not failing because the strategy didn’t work. You’re just parenting a human being. And that requires something more tailored than a caption on the internet.

04/30/2026

Kids don’t learn to manage frustration by being told to calm down. They learn it by having somewhere safe to practice falling apart and trying again.

Thats what play gives them.

04/27/2026

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the growing. It’s getting started.

Before you can plant anything you have to w**d. And some days the w**ding feels like too much.

Parenting can feel a lot like this. Before new skills can take hold you have to work through the hard stuff first. The behaviors that aren’t working. The patterns that need change.

Its unglamorous. It’s slow. And it’s easy to feel like you are failing when really you are just in the w**ding phase.

The w**ding is the work. It has to happen before anything else can grow.

People don’t often talk about how much time and energy it takes to get support and advocate for your child’s needs. I’v...
04/22/2026

People don’t often talk about how much time and energy it takes to get support and advocate for your child’s needs. I’ve been in the process for months personally and still have a long way to go. It reminds me just how important it is to keep going.

04/20/2026

You are allowed to make mistakes.
You are allowed to not have all the answers. To do this differently than everyone else. To change course when something isn’t working.

The parents I work with carry so much weight trying to get everything right. But here’s what I know after working with families every week — the fact that you’re asking if you’re doing it wrong means you’re paying attention.
And paying attention is the whole job.

Good parents make mistakes. They ask for help. They show up even when they don’t know what they’re doing.

That’s not failure. That’s exactly what your child needs.

04/15/2026

You’re not imagining it.
You know something is going on with your child. You’ve felt it in your gut, seen it at home, noticed the patterns that don’t quite add up. And then you bring it up — to a teacher, a doctor, a family member — and they look at you like you’re overreacting.

That is one of the loneliest moments in parenting.

But you are with your child every single day. You see what happens before school, at dinner, at bedtime. You notice the small things that never make it into a 20 minute appointment or a classroom observation.

Your instincts are data. They matter.
The fact that others don’t see it yet doesn’t mean it isn’t there. It means you’re paying closer attention than anyone else in the room.
Keep advocating. Keep asking. Keep trusting what you know.

And if you don’t know where to turn — send me a message.

04/13/2026

Asking for help is not a sign that you’ve failed your child. It’s one of the most powerful things you can do for them. Even the professionals need support sometimes — especially the professionals.

If you’ve been on the fence about reaching out, I hope this helps.

Sometimes the most important thing a parent can do is ask for help. Two months, real progress, and a family that feels ...
04/09/2026

Sometimes the most important thing a parent can do is ask for help. Two months, real progress, and a family that feels supported. This is what parent coaching alongside child sessions can look like.

If you’re navigating something similar I’d love to connect. Send me a message and let’s book a call to see if my services are the right fit for you.

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