The Caffeinated Advocate

11/27/2025

From my caffeinated heart to yours — wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with warmth, nourishment, and those special moments that refill your cup and inspire your spirit. ☕🍁✨

Here’s to my fellow caregivers, advocates, community builders, and everyday heroes who pour so much love into our world. Your presence, your persistence, and your compassion make all the difference.

May your day bring warm connections, laughter around the table, and a little space to breathe and just ... be.

I’m grateful for this community, for your trust in me, for your shared stories, for your visions to help me make it a better world, and for every shared step on this journey toward hope, inclusion, and brighter days for all. 🌻💛

Happy Thanksgiving, sweet friends — may your mug (and your heart) be full today.

11/17/2025

Near or far, in person or virtual, support matters. I am so grateful for those I’ve met via screen whom I may never even meet physically, but have been there and will always be there, just as I will for them.

Create that village. Find that tribe. To quote one of my books, you are NOT alone. 🫶🏻

Credit: Scary Mommy scarymommy

11/16/2025

Not speaking with one’s mouth does not “speak for” one’s intellect. Please presume competence and be mindful. Everyone deserves respect and grace.

11/13/2025

Love, love, love this from Autism Caring Center!
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Kindness is powerful when it’s personal. 💙

In our autism community, kindness might look like:
✨ Checking on a parent who’s had a long week
✨ Sharing a tool or tip that made life easier
✨ Saying thank you to a teacher or therapist
✨ Showing up to support local families

These small gestures ripple out further than we know.
Pass it on today and tag someone who brings kindness to your world.

11/13/2025

Many of us are used to making charts for our kiddos. Man, I remember those days! Well, how about a chart for parents and caregivers? Hey, why not?! Some of these I need to use as reminders for myself. 🫶

11/12/2025

Connecting women, and growing my hometown community. 🫶
As I officially relaunch my business on 1/1/26, I'm also answering a call that has been on my heart. 💚

Email me at chughes@thecaffeinatedadvocate.com if you're from my hometown of White Oak, PA (or a surrounding location; I would not say no to anyone!) interested in an initial exploratory meeting to discuss ideas, goals, and a united vision moving forward for the community. I also plan to create a Facebook group as well.

I'm so excited to create this for the hometown I love so very much.

Ladies, who's with me?

11/09/2025

It’s not hard. There’s no “special way” to speak with, to interact with, or to treat someone with a .
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Treat them like people.
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That’s it. 💁🏼‍♀️

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11/08/2025

Did you also read this in two different ways? Is it just me?! 🤣

11/08/2025

I’m gonna leave this RIGHT HERE. 🙌🏻

11/06/2025

Please help me to make one mama's journey a little easier. 🫶

I posted last week about the mother of a young boy with autism who is appealing a Medicaid denial for Ensure protein drinks. There's a good chance the coverage will come through, but has not yet. In the meantime, I am in need of donations of Ensure in either vanilla or strawberry (*chocolate is being introduced but the other two are current favorites). For anyone who would like to help, please reach out to me and I can arrange pickup or share my address for shipping. For anyone who wants to donate financially instead, Venmo and CashApp are also options and I can provide that information privately.

This world is hard, guys. Let's continue to take one another's hand to guide us along.