Chaos with Kori

<p><br /></p><p>I thought I was just being responsible.</p><p>Turns out… I might be controlling everything just to feel safe.</p><p>In this episode, I talk about:</p>why I can’t “stand down”what my brain does when I...

<p></p><p>Some episodes are planned.<br>Some are written.</p><p>And some… just come from a place you can’t ignore.</p><p>Yesterday was Lily’s birthday.</p><p>In this episode, I talk about the kind of grief that doesn’t...

<p></p><p>You ever feel like life hands you something good… and then immediately dumps on it?</p><p>In this episode of Chaos with Kori, I talk about what I’ve started calling the “shit-covered cherry” effect — that...

<p>In this episode of Chaos with Kori, I talk about a realization that hit harder than I expected: how often I’ve stepped into the role of emotional medic in relationships, friendships, and life.</p><p>Always...

<p></p><p>There are seasons in a woman’s life where she is becoming someone new — not because she chose it, but because life took her there.</p><p>Teenage years. Postpartum. Parenting. Menopause. The quiet shifts no one...

<p>Why does my brain always think it sees something coming?<br />In this episode of Chaos with Kori, I’m talking about patterns — the ones that help, the ones that protect, and the ones that sometimes send me spiraling...

<p>What happens when you realize the reason your heart has been vibrating, your brain is running marathons, and your nervous system feels like it’s been shot out of a cannon… is your own coffee machine?</p><p>In this...

<p> The One with the Squirrels</p><p>Autistic elopers are like squirrels.</p><p>Everything can be calm. Regulated. Peaceful.<br />And then one tiny thing irritates their brain — and they’re gone.</p><p>In this episode...

<p>No one hands you a manual for your child.</p><p>In this episode of Chaos with Kori, I talk about the truth of parenting a neurodivergent, high-support-needs child — the exhaustion that sleep doesn’t fix, the...

<p>We went to the ER because something wasn’t right.</p><p>My autistic, nonverbal child hadn’t eaten for days. He wasn’t drinking. He was clearly uncomfortable—and unable to tell us what hurt. We didn’t go looking for...

<p>Sometimes support doesn’t end with a conversation.<br />Sometimes it ends with an email.</p><p>In this episode of Chaos with Kori, I talk about what it felt like to be unexpectedly dropped by my therapist — the...

<p>Christmas doesn’t always look like the movies — and that’s okay.</p><p>In this post-Christmas reflection episode of Chaos with Kori, I talk about what the holidays really looked like for our family this year: quiet...

<p>My big kid just turned eighteen!!<br>Christmas is a week later.<br>And somewhere between those two moments, time reached in and took my breath away.</p><p>In this episode of Chaos with Kori, I reflect on the memories...

<p>What starts as responsible research and good intentions quickly turns into a 45-minute bathroom boss battle.</p><p>In this episode of Chaos with Kori, Kori shares the painfully funny, brutally honest story of her...

<p>Ever catch yourself comparing your Level 10 chaos to someone else’s sunny-sky life and somehow deciding you’re the problem?</p><p>Yeah. Same.</p><p>In this episode of Chaos with Kori, I talk about the emotional...