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Phase 1
Sacred Awareness
Refusing the Story
- The sentence you’ve been handed
- Different, not broken
- The mother on the job
You leave with one page, titled with your name: what you were handed, and the sentence you’re choosing instead.
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A written course for mothers of autistic and disabled children
Both Things Are True
You can grieve the life you thought you’d have and still love the one you’re living. Both are true.
A course and a companion for mothers of autistic and disabled children who are tired of being told to stay positive. Twelve short lessons, a companion AI that knows every one of them, and a workbook to write in. Built from my own lived experience as the mother of two NICU graduates with special needs.
No video. Nothing to post. Ten minutes at a time, in whatever gap your day leaves you.
Begin the course · $149One time. Lifetime access.
Twelve short lessons, a companion AI that knows every one, and a workbook in two formats. Ten minutes at a time. Lifetime access.
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The parking lot
The meeting went fine.
You’re sitting in the car outside the school. The meeting went fine. Nobody said anything new. And you’re crying, and you can’t say why.
Here’s what I think is happening. Somewhere along the way, in a folder, a report, a graph with your child’s name below the line, you were handed a sentence. Something is wrong with him. You took it in as a fact. It’s been sitting in the passenger seat ever since.
The sentence you were handed about your child is not a fact. It’s a story. And it’s making everything harder than it has to be.
Nothing is wrong with your child. The sentence is what made this so heavy, and the sentence was wrong.
Your life is hard because of circumstances that are real and won’t change. It may also be hard because of a story you were handed. If so, that story is the only part of this that can leave.
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Where I was
I’m not going to be the one who says the worst thing here.
When my son began missing milestones and then regressing, I thought something was wrong with him. I thought I couldn’t be a good mother to a child like him. I felt guilt for my grief, which is its own kind of cruelty.
I screamed in the car. I wailed on my commute while the person in the passenger seat sat silent, at a loss for the correct thing to say. There just isn’t a correct thing.
The bottom wasn’t the diagnosis. It was the sentence. When I stopped believing it, what changed wasn’t his neurology. It was my ability to be his mother.
I wrote this course from there. Not from the other side of it, because there isn’t another side. From inside it, as the person I got to be once the sentence was gone.
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What it is
Twelve lessons, four phases.
Each lesson takes about ten minutes to read. Each one ends with one small thing to write. You can do it in a therapy parking lot. Two lines count. The whole course bends to your hardest day.
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Phase 2
Beautiful Audacity
Saying the Unsayable
- The things you’re not supposed to say
- Grief nobody brings food for
- Rage, and what it’s telling you
You leave with a page of truths in your own words, and the discovery that rereading it doesn’t make you a bad mother.
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Phase 3
Intentional Alignment
Making Room
- What your week actually holds
- Necessary weight
- Something that belongs to you
You leave with a shorter week, with real dates on it, and one thing on the calendar that’s yours.
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Phase 4
Anchoring Affirmations
The Life You Didn’t Plan
- The life you were supposed to have
- Designing inside the constraint
- Keeping it
You leave with the shape of your days written out as a design you chose, and a five-minute weekly check for the weeks it falls apart.
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Your companion
The way I walked through it, turned into a companion.
A general AI doesn’t know how I did this. And you can’t teach it, because if you already knew the way, you wouldn’t need the course. That way is what you’re getting. It’s built into the companion: every lesson, the rules I hold to, and the things it will never say to you.
You open it, tell it where you are, and it meets you there. No prompting. No setup. Type the way you’d text a friend who has sat in the same parking lot.
It’s an AI built from my experience and writing. It isn’t me answering you personally, and it isn’t a therapist.
What you can ask
- “I don’t know where to start.”
- “I’m in the school parking lot and I don’t know why I’m crying.”
- “Help me look at my week honestly.”
- “I want something on my calendar that belongs to me.”
It reflects
You say the thing, and it shows you what you said. It never adds a feeling you didn’t name.
It plans
It turns what you tell it about your week into something you could actually live, small enough for your hardest day.
It designs
It helps you build days around what you want them to hold, inside the constraints that are real.
It holds
It keeps you company between lessons. Going quiet for a week isn’t failure, and it won’t treat it like one.
It knows the course
Pick the lesson you’re on and it helps with that page: the sentence you were handed, the letter, the week written hour by hour, the thing that’s yours on the calendar. It never writes your answers for you. It helps you find them.
What it will never do
- Name your feelings for you.
- Call you a warrior, or tell you you’re doing amazing.
- Suggest something is wrong with your child, or talk about cures.
- Weigh in on therapies, medication, diet or school placement. That’s for your child’s team.
- Judge anything you did, thought or felt before.
If you tell it you’re thinking about dying or hurting yourself or anyone else, it stops the lesson completely and points you to real help: 988 in the US, text HOME to 741741, or your local emergency number.
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Open it from any lesson or workbook page.
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Sign in to Claude. A free account works.
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Type the way you’d text a friend. Start with “I don’t know where to start” if that’s true.
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What you get
Everything that comes with it.
- Twelve written lessons across four phases, each doable in about ten minutes.
- A companion AI that knows every lesson and keeps you company on a hard Tuesday at 11pm. It reflects, helps you plan a week you could actually live, and helps you design days that hold something of yours. It won’t name your feelings for you, and it won’t tell you what your child needs. Ready the moment you open it, with nothing to set up.
- The interactive workbook. One page for every lesson. It saves as you type, and you can download your pages whenever you want.
- The printable workbook. The same pages as a fillable PDF, for the mother who wants paper and a pen.
- Your Phase 1 page and your sentence card, to print, tape inside a cupboard, or save as a lock screen.
- One hand-off and two trials, with real end dates, so the week gets lighter in a way you can see.
- Something that’s yours on the calendar, and a plan for the week it gets interrupted.
- Lifetime access to the lessons, the workbook and the AI.
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Is this for you
Who it’s for, and who it isn’t.
It’s for you if
- You’re the mother of an autistic or disabled child, newly diagnosed or years in.
- You love your child and some days you don’t like your life, and you’re tired of feeling guilty about both.
- You have ten minutes, not an hour.
- You’d rather write than watch.
It isn’t for you if
- You’re looking for a cure, a recovery plan, or advice on therapies, medication or school placement. That’s a conversation for your child’s team.
- You want someone to tell you you’re a warrior.
- You need crisis support right now. Please call or text 988 in the US, or your local emergency number.
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Who wrote it
Hi, I’m Cheniece.
I’m a wife and the mother of two NICU graduates with special needs. My son is non-verbal. My daughter speaks with echolalia, in one- and two-word sentences. Speech, feeding and ABA fill most of our weekdays.
I write Little Alchemies for mothers in survival mode who want a life that feels like their own again. I’m not a therapist or a clinician. I’m a mother who learned this on the job, and this course is what I’d hand you if you were sitting in my passenger seat.
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Questions
Before you decide.
What do I actually get?
Twelve written lessons, a companion AI, and a workbook in two formats. The lessons hold the method. The companion knows every lesson and helps you with the one you’re on, the way I would. The workbook is where you write. There’s no prompting and no setup.
Do I need to be good with AI?
No. There’s nothing to set up and nothing to “prompt.” Open it and type the way you’d text a friend who gets it. If you don’t know where to start, tell it exactly that. It knows what to do with it.
Isn’t this just ChatGPT?
No. A general AI guesses from the whole internet. This one is built from my lessons, my writing and the rules I hold to, so it stays inside the course and answers like someone who has sat in that parking lot. It also won’t do things a general AI will, like guess at what you’re feeling or weigh in on your child’s care. Ask both the same question and compare.
What is the companion AI, exactly?
It’s an AI built from my experience and writing. It knows the lessons and can help you with the one you’re on. It isn’t me answering you personally, and it isn’t a therapist. If you tell it you’re in crisis, it will stop the lesson and point you to real help.
Is there a limit on how much I can use it?
The companion runs in Claude, and a free Claude account works. Claude’s own usage limits apply, and on the free plan they reset over time. Your access to the companion itself never expires.
Is what I write to it private?
I can’t see your conversations. They run through your own Claude account, and the companion saves your conversation only in your own browser. Nothing is posted anywhere.
What happens after I buy?
The course opens in the Alchemy Lab right away, on web and phone, with the companion and both workbooks linked from the lessons. You keep all of it. When I improve a lesson or the companion, you get the update automatically.
Is this therapy, or a replacement for my child’s clinicians?
No. It’s written by a mother, not a clinician, and it doesn’t replace care for you or your child. Questions about therapies, medication or school placement are for your child’s team. This course is about the part that’s yours.
I barely have ten minutes.
Each lesson is built for your hardest day. Two lines count. Skipping a week counts. Nothing expires.
Do I have to share anything?
No. There’s no group and nothing to post. Your writing stays with you. The interactive workbook saves only in your own browser.
I haven’t done the free workbook yet.
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The course
Both Things Are True
Twelve lessons · companion AI · workbook in two formats
- 12 written lessons, about ten minutes each
- The companion AI, ready the moment you open it
- The interactive workbook, saved as you type
- The printable, fillable workbook
- Your sentence card and Phase 1 page
- Lifetime access and every future update
$149 one time
Begin the course
Lifetime access. Read it at your own pace.
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