About the Happy Mama Retreat

Our retreat started as a collaboration of three special needs mamas in 2012, simply because we longed to get together in person with the other mamas who made up our online support system. It was a success right from the start, and has been held annually every year since.

Penny Williams

Retreat Co-Founder & Coordinator. Parenting Mentor. Award-Winning Author.

Penny was thrust into the all-consuming world of parenting a special needs child when her son, then six, was diagnosed with ADHD in the Fall of 2008. Through the years since, they have discovered additional diagnoses including Sensory Processing Disorder (SPD), Dysgraphia, Written Expression Disorder, significant Executive Functioning delays, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Penny currently writes for ADDitude Magazine, the #1 national publication dedicated to ADHD, and other various parenting and special needs publications.

Penny is the award-winning author of four books on ADHD — Boy Without Instructions, and What to Expect When Parenting Children with ADHD, The Insider’s Guide to ADHD, and The Hidden Layers of ADHD. She’s also a parent trainer, teaching online courses and offering parent coaching for those raising kids with ADHD and/or autism.

She is currently the sole facilitator of the Happy Mama Retreat.