Interview 15: Non-Custodial Motherhood

Cristina Miller on Showing Up from Afar

12.16.25 | Interview | 47 min

In this deeply honest conversation, we sit down with Cristina Miller, writer, content strategist, and founder of The Mother Rogue, a growing resource and support community for non-custodial parents and families navigating autism. Cris shares her courageous story of becoming a long-distance, non-custodial mom, the heartache of choosing stability for her son over residential custody, and the mental health challenges she faced during that transition. She opens up about navigating stigma, rebuilding her identity, and learning how to stay meaningfully connected to her son across distance, diagnosis, and time.

Cris also reflects on her later-in-life autism diagnosis and how it transformed her understanding of herself, her parenting, and her advocacy. For any parent feeling overwhelmed, misunderstood, or shut out by the legal system, Cris offers raw encouragement and lived wisdom: you are a good parent, your relationship with your child can remain strong, and you don’t have to navigate this journey alone.

Check-Out The Mother Rogue: https://stillmom.com/

Music Credit: Nathan Byrne with Reel Byrne Media.