Parenting Your Porcupine, Part 1, with Antonia Rathbun Lindsey

Living with FASD is an educational and human interest show for those living with the effects of prenatal exposure to alcohol, their loved one and anyone interested in learning more about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, brought to you by someone with both professional and living experience with FASD. Antonia Rathbun Lindsey is a retired Registered Art Therapist, Board Certified Child and Family Therapist, and credentialled Disabilities and Minorities Specialist who has written a book for professionals and parents called Parenting Your Porcupine: A Toolkit for Working with Children with FASD, other Drug Effects & Neurodiversity. She discusses a diathesis stress approach to attunement, authenticity and attachment, using art therapy and sensory-based, communication and interactive repair strategies gleaned from 30 years work in the first wave of research and clinical intervention with foster, adoption, kinship and recovering birth families of young children to young adults with neurotoxin exposure and trauma in treatment, outpatient mental health and culturally-based community programs. She was Late Deafened and physically disabled by a progressive genetic condition 25 years into her career, has lived experience with neurodivergence and invisible difference; she joins us from her studio in France where she paints, writes and provides consultation by Zoom in English, German, French, ASL “and bad Dutch.”   If you would like to suggest topics of the show or just to say hello, you can reach me at [email protected].   If you would like to become part of the podcast community, hop on over to Facebook and join our group “Living with FASD Podcast.” Another excellent supportive community is “Flying with Broken Wings,” also on Facebook. To order a copy of my book, Sip by Sip: Candid Conversations with People Diagnosed as Adults with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD), the Amazon link is: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGMQLBLH. As soon as Parenting Your Porcupine is out, I will share ordering information; I have previewed it and it is AMAZING! I am a Certified Facilitator of FASCETS Neurobehavioral Model. If you would like information about the neurodevelopment model and would like to book a training for agencies or community groups, please reach out to me here: https://calendly.com/kaspertrainingandcoaching/consultation If you would like to talk with me about coaching services, either as a parent of a child with FASD, or as a neurodivergent adult (perhaps by listening you’ve begun to question if prenatal alcohol exposure could explain some of your struggles in life), please reach out to me here for a complimentary consultation: https://calendly.com/kaspertrainingandcoaching/introductory-chat-with-patti As always, thank you for tuning in this week. Please consider liking/subscribing/sharing this podcast. Have a wonderful week and stay tuned for Parenting Your Porcupine, Part 2!