Nathan Oxenfeld on Natural Vision Improvement

Melissa Daniels returns to share her new course entitled Confidence with Strabismus which she launches this week. Join before Friday March 1 to be part of the live Zoom calls where she answers questions and shares bonus material. Use the following link and enter my discount code, HEAL10 to get 10% off the course. 

https://learn.strabismussolutions.com/early-bird-confidence-bundle

Living with double vision is challenging and Helen Jacobson shares how she has been able to go from constant double vision to seeing double only about twenty percent of the time through vision therapy and prism lenses for driving. She also shares her some of her experiences as a vision therapist for the past 24 years.

Denise discusses amazing vision therapy results with Diane Krebs, who details how she did vision therapy in conjunction with craniosacral work and other therapies for her son nineteen years ago. She also did passive vision therapy recently for her own traumatic brain injuries (TBIs). We discuss the emotional side of brain injury and the positive results that come as a result of healing the brain.

Resources mentioned: Craniosacral therapy, Bal-A-Vis-X, passive vision therapy (therapuetic lenses, syntonics).

Diane's doctor is Dr. Amy Thomas at Arizona Vision Therapy Center: https://www.azvisiontherapy.com/

Gina Brown, wife, editor and publisher for Robert (Buzz) Crockett tells what it was like to experience his journey to 3D with him.  You will love as she shares his excitement and joy in seeing depth at last and in sharing his story through his book.

Robert Crockett's book:
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=robert+crockett+cross-eyed+optimist&crid=214N732REW4ZD&sprefix=robert+crockett+cross-eyed+optim%2Caps%2C225&ref=nb_sb_noss
Gina Brown's website: https://www.novaheartmedia.com/gina-brown

Denise speaks with Dr. Angela Dobson who assisted Robert Crockett in gaining 3D vision at age 70.  His goal was to see in 3D before he died, and he was able to achieve that! Her story is amazing as well.  Tune in for all the details!

Robert Crockett's memoir, Cross-Eyed Optimist is available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Cross-eyed-Optimist-Learned-Straightened-Therapy/dp/1999574125#:~:text=This%20is%20Robert's%20story%20of,a%20proven%20alternative%20to%20surgery. 

Dr. Dobson's website: http://vision-sense.ca/

Denise discusses tips for assisting optimal development in babies with neuro optometrist, Dr. Sarah Lane. In addition to being an optometrist, Dr. Lane is a certified yoga teacher, a HypnoBirthing Childbirth Educator, and a student of many body movement and reflex integration methods.  As of March 2023, she is also a certified Functional Medicine Health Coach, well on her way to becoming a certified functional medicine practitioner. She seamlessly weaves these strategies into her holistic vision practice.

Resources mentioned in the podcast: 

https://www.drsarahlaneod.com/store/p20/USA_ONLY_Meaningful_Moves%3A_guide_for_everyone.html

https://www.movewithyourbaby.com/

https://www.focusvisioncenter.com/

Denise discusses vision therapy with former vision therapist, Collin Welsch. He was Hanah VanderMeulen's therapist and also consulted with Melissa Daniels early on. He shares tips and success stories, including how he used the socratic method and Skeffington model in his work.

Resources mentioned in the podcast:
WOW Vision Therapy website success stories: https://wowvision.net/category/success-stories/
WOW Vision therapy on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@WowVisionTherapy/videos
The Shape of the Sky, by David Cook: https://www.oepf.org/product/the-shape-of-the-sky/

*I do not benefit financially from any of these links or this podcast. This is a public service only.

Denise discusses vision therapy with Hazel Dawkins who did therapy in the 1980s and wrote several non-fiction books for the layperson on the subject. She has also used vision therapy as subject matter in her mystery novels. She is one of the authors who inspired my previous guest, Michael Lievens to pursue vision therapy.

Hazel's ebooks available on Amazon (some also available in print)
 
Suddenly Successful Student and Friends: https://www.amazon.com/Suddenly-Successful-Student-Friends-Dawkins-ebook/dp/B008LMT7YE/ref=sr_1_5?crid=1V1XYKWEWSIZI&keywords=hazel+dawkins&qid=1689743215&sprefix=hazel+dawkins%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-5
Eye Sleuth: https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Sleuth-Yoko-Mystery-Book-ebook/dp/B005M5PJ1S/ref=sr_1_4?crid=1V1XYKWEWSIZI&keywords=hazel+dawkins&qid=1689743350&sprefix=hazel+dawkins%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-4
Eye Witness: https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Witness-Yoko-Mysteries-Book-ebook/dp/B07N1Z4GNG/ref=sr_1_6?crid=1V1XYKWEWSIZI&keywords=hazel+dawkins&qid=1689743350&sprefix=hazel+dawkins%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-6
Eye Sleuth's Ghostly Vacations: A Dr. Yoko Mystery: https://www.amazon.com/Eye-Sleuths-Ghostly-Vacations-Mystery-ebook/dp/B00TYU2QQ8/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1V1XYKWEWSIZI&keywords=hazel+dawkins&qid=1689743350&sprefix=hazel+dawkins%2Caps%2C181&sr=8-3
Eyes on the Past: https://www.amazon.com/Eyes-Past-Yoko-Kamimura-Mystery-ebook/dp/B07FRL6YMJ/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1689743350&sr=8-2
Hazy Memory (her memoir): https://www.amazon.com/Hazy-Memory-Hazel-Dawkins-ebook/dp/B094G42ST7/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1689743350&sr=8-1

Suddenly Successful  is available from OEPF: https://www.oepf.org/shop/?s=suddenly+successful&post_type=product

Child psychologist Dr. Sara Morrow describes how she discovered vision therapy and the success her son, Zephen has had over the course of the past three and a half years. She describes how he has gained alignment of his eyes and emerging depth perception.  
Zephen’s diagnoses from the developmental optometrist at age 10 were as follows: 

• Alternating exotropia (both eyes could turn outward, a form a strabismus) 
• Vertical strabismus of left eye 
• Vertical heterophoria (a vertical misalignment of the eyes that, a type of binocular vision dysfunction) 
• Supression of binocular vision 
• Fusion with defective stereopsis (inability for his brain to fuse together the images from his two eyes) 
• Fourth nerve palsy (tilting his head to turn his right eye forward, an accommodation to see better) 
• Spasm of accommodation, (both eyes, trouble adjusting eye muscles transitioning from near to far) 

Dr. Morrow's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rootcauseofhappiness 

Elisa Beth Haransky-Beck is a SomaticNeuroDevelopmental optometrist. She shares her take on integrating vision through whole body movement using her own brand of yoga, which she calls EmbodyVision Yoga. This episode includes a yummy visualization.

Recommended book: Somatics  by Thomas Hanna

Website: https://www.enliveningconsciousness.com/