LifeCoachLaura -
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City: Winston-Salem
State: NC
Country: USA
Member since: Apr 03, 2008
Last logged in: Dec 03, 2008
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My husband and I have lived in Winston-Salem for about nine years with our son Harrison.  He is 10 and somewhere on the spectrum, with a lot of sensory issues and severe oral apraxia.  Fortunately, he's also hyperlexic and has been spelling words since about age 2, so he uses an aug/com device to communicate.  We have three cats (Skeeter, Angus and Bo) and a basset/lab mix named Jake-the-dog.  Harrison goes part time to a regular charter school, with the help of an aid.   He spends the rest of the school day at ABC of NC, a developmental center for children with autism.  He is the happiest person I know and the joy of our lives, despite the many challenges.  If we ever get 100% potty trained, I'm throwing a big party!  We're about 93% there, but I look forward to the day when that is no longer an issue. 

I've been a life coach for about 2 years and just completed my certification program with Dave Ellis's program called Coaching from Falling Awake.  I got into life coaching as a client who was looking for some and found that it really spoke to my skills as well as my interests.   It's a juggling  match everyday, but isn't life always that way?

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Mother Warriors
by LifeCoachLaura on 10.07.08 - public - 74 visits

I just finished Jenny McCarthy's new book of the same name. I know she is controversial in some circles, but I appreciate her using her celebrity and her big mouth to bring attention to a serious subject. As she pointed out, we have no Ronald McDonald houses, we have no wing in St. Jude's. I certainly feel like a mother warrior and I enjoyed reading the profiles of some of the moms (and a dad) that she has encountered in her travels who are fighting for their kid's well-being. I certainly support the personal choices that each family makes about the care of their child but I can't for the life of my understand why people (especially doctors) would be against things like diets and supplements that can't hurt and might help. I also don't get why the anecdotal evidence of 100,000 families is not considered "real" evidence. The biggest thing that I like about Jenny is her "wake up call" to the medical establishment that parents, and especially moms, are THE expert on their own child. It doesn't matter how little education they have or if they even can speak proper English, doctors do not know what's better for your child then you do. I feel so blessed to have found a doctor at last who believes this too and is willing to combine her expertise with mine to do what is best for my son.

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shannonj
Posted on Fri, 10 Oct 2008

I'm glad to hear that it is something I can recommend to others.....She is really bringing hope to this community

frogfoot1969
Posted on Wed, 8 Oct 2008

I enjoyed the book too. I am glad the language was a little better than Louder than Words. I felt OK letting my Mom read this one, lol.

mercurymom
Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008

Please, please leave that feed back on amazon or barns and noble book sites...and read what is already there. Many are like us..but we are getting hit by the "Jenny is a quack" bunch as well. Jenny and Stan have ask that we post NICE remarks and keep encouraging parents new to bio-med with our own stories. Thanks....Cheryl :)

Motherof4
Posted on Tue, 7 Oct 2008

You tell 'em, Warrior Woman!

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