How Important is Support in Parenting? with Special Guest Marjorie Aunos

I was in the hospital, trying to figure out what that meant in terms of the spinal cord injury, how how life was going to turn out. And I got scared that someone was going to come, that somebody in the hospital would flag me as a potential risk for for my son. And I knew how my clients had to struggle with that, and had to fight for their rights to be recognized. I feared that I would be put in the same position. My practice changed in that respect, but more in terms of understanding the emotional turmoil and how the gaze of everyone can really impact your parenting or your fear around parenting.   Meet Marjorie:  Marjorie Aunos, Ph.D. is a psychologist, inspirational speaker, author and researcher from Montreal, Canada. Her expertise is working with parents who have intellectual disabilities. In 2012, she sustained a Spinal Cord Injury in a car accident. Mother to a 16 months old at the time, the accident and subsequent injury gave her an interesting perspective on parenting and disability. Marjorie believes that focusing on our strengths of character can lead to living a fulfilling life. With her family she learned to be a solution-finder to make her world more accessible. Instagram: @ninjamarj Twitter: @ninja_marj Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/ninjamarj LinkedIn: Marjorie Aunos