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Listen to this episode, "How a Journey with Epilepsy and a Mom's Instincts Created Hope with Jennifer Simmons" as mom, author, and epilepsy consultant, Jennifer Simmons joins Dori Durbin!

Meet Jennifer Simmons, author of "A Mom's Will: A Story of Hope and Determination in Overcoming Will's Mysterious Illness" and mother of a son who struggled with epilepsy. When her son Will experienced his first seizure at age two, Jennifer entered a world of fear and uncertainty. In this episode she shares her family's journey navigating various medical treatments and strict diets until his seizures were under control. Jennifer offers emotional advice for advocating for your child, trusting your instincts as a parent, and finding hope. She also reads a heart-pulling excerpt from her book and talks about the resources that helped her family cope with Will’s epilepsy diagnosis. This is a MUST listen for any parent.

• How They Saw Different Forms of Seizures
• How They Navigated the Medication Struggles
• What is the Medical Ketogenic Diet
• Proof of Improvement: Halloween on the Diet
• Who Jen's Book is For
• How She Found Necessary Resources
• A Brief Reading of "A Mom's Will: A Story of Hope and Determination..."
• Why You Need to Trust Your Parent Gut
• How You, Too Can Find Hope in Their Story
• Where to Find Her Book and More
  
  

More About Jennifer:
Jennifer Drake Simmons is a devoted mom to sons Will and Blake and wife to her high school sweetheart, Brian.  She graduated with honors from Virginia Tech where she received a B.S. in Nutrition and Exercise Science. Jennifer pursued a career in event planning and fundraising with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society in Washington D.C. before she moved home to Pittsburgh, PA. She stays busy making jewelry and volunteering on multiple boards and booster clubs.  Jennifer offers support, encouragement and resources to families living with epilepsy.

Buy Jennifer's  Book:
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Follow Jennifer:
https://facebook.com/amomswill
Email: jensimmons4@outlook.com

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More about Dori Durbin:
Dori Durbin is a Christian wife, mom, author, illustrator, and a kids’ book coach who after experiencing a life-changing illness, quickly switched gears to follow her dream. She creates kids’ books to provide a fun and safe passageway for kids and parents to dig deeper and experience empowered lives. Dori also coaches non-fiction authors, professionals, and aspiring authors to “kid-size” their content into informational and engaging kids’ books! Find out more here:  https://doridurbin.com/

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“At the end of the day, people and the planet are connected,” says Dr. Manasa Mantravadi, “And the lasting impact between the two are not going to be felt by us, but by our children, and our children's children.”  In this episode, Brooking Gatewood sits down with Dr. Mantravadi – pediatrician, mother, advocate, 2022 Reusies® Judge, and founder of the stainless steel container company Ahimsa - who set out to change the systems that expose children to harmful plastic food packaging and pollute the planet.

Resources:

• Ahimsa
• The Unwrapped Project
• Environmental Working Group
• Plastic Free Restaurants
• Upstream’s Learning Hub: Reuse in Schools

Dr. Alicia Lieberman is a renowned psychologist, professor, author, and researcher who directs UCSF’s Child Trauma Research Program. As a trilingual and tricultural Jewish Latina born and raised in Paraguay, she has a special interest in cultural issues involving child development, child rearing, and child mental health. In this episode, she explains how she helped develop the TRIADS framework, a model for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) screening and strength-based counseling based on trust, empathy, consent, and mutual respect.

Here’s where you can learn more about the people, places, and ideas in this episode: 

• Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of UCSF’s Child Trauma Research Program
• Adverse childhood experiences, also known as ACEs
• Trauma and Resilience-informed Inquiry for Adversity, Distress, and Strengths, also known as TRIADS, a framework to talk with patients about adverse childhood experiences and create healing relationships
• California ACEs Learning and Quality Improvement Collaborative, also known as CALQIC, a CCI program
• CCI: TRIADS Framework: An Approach to Understanding, Helping, and Healing People Who Experience Trauma
• CCI: Widening the Health Care Lens: Lessons from CALQIC’s Opening Session on Childhood Trauma and Healing

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Seeing little children suffer from various medical emergencies can be a heart wrenching experience, but you don’t have the luxury of time to wallow in pity if you’re the pediatric emergency medicine physician on duty. Nkeiruka Orajiaka grapples with this reality every day. Born and raised in Nigeria, Nkeiruka has always been passionate about medicine and she especially likes working with children – a quality that she believes to be essential for anyone who is seeking to start a career in her field. Learn more about what a day in the life of a pediatric emergency medicine physician looks like as Nkeiruka gives us a detailed description in this conversation with Dr. Richard Marn. Plus, learn about Nkeiruka’s loftier goals in global medicine and her newly found path to explore her other passions.

Just four years ago, pediatrician Dr. Orit Stolar was dead set against using cannabis to treat the autistic children under her care. “I would say, ‘you’re off the wall — this is a dangerous drug, it’s illegal.'”

Today, she is running one of the only clinical trials in the world looking at how cannabis can help autistic children, and seeing results in her clinic.

So what changed?

“One kid,” Dr. Stolar explained on The Cannabis Enigma podcast. One of her patients came for a periodic visit vastly improved. “I was very sure it’s not something I did, so I asked the mother, ‘what did you do?’ And she quietly said, ‘you know, I’m giving him cannabis.’

Dr. Stolar stayed up all night that night looking for medical research on cannabis and autism. She couldn’t find any, so she set out to create it herself.

One of the biggest problems she faces in using cannabis as a treatment, she explained, is that it’s extremely difficult to know if the plant, or oil extract in her case, is staying consistent over time.

“That’s what’s happening in my clinic. A family starts and says, wow, this really, really helping my child. And then the next month they say, oh my God, it’s gotten really, really bad. And I don’t know if it’s gotten bad or if it’s the bottle that is changing,” she said.

Dr. Stolar thanks all of her colleagues on her study: Dr. Dedi Meiri of the Technion, who analyzes the blood, Prof. Ilan Dinstein of Ben-Gurion University and his team, who do the sleep analysis and EEG, her team at Assaf Harofeh — for everything.

Edited and mixed by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man. Produced by Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man, Elana Goldberg, and Matan Weil. Music by Desca.

In today's episode we're talking with Dr. Amna Husain, a board certified Pediatrician in New Jersey. In this episode we discuss Dr. Husain's decision to start her own Pediatric Concierge practice, her use of Instagram to find new clientele, and her amazing work in the field of Pediatrics. Follow Dr. Husain's IG @dr.amnahusain and her awesome website & blog at puredirectpediatrics.com. 

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Dr. Lea Ann Lund talks about her passion for pediatric medicine, how she found her path and how that colors motherhood.
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