Eileen Devine

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 185: Eileen Devine on Supporting Children with Pre-Natal Substance Exposure · 25 Nov 2019 podcast

And so when we think about the brain, it only makes sense that if if there was a brain that was exposed to alcohol or any other substances prenatally, that it would change in structure and function.

And the re the way that we would recognize that is through the behaviors because they're connected.

So we see those behaviors as symptoms.

Thank you so much.

I'm so excited to be here.

I've been really looking forward to this.

Yeah, no, I'd be happy to because it it it speaks so much to the to the work I do um every day that I'm honored to do with parents.

I um am a social work, I'm a therapist that has a private practice where I work one on one with parents and and only parents and that'll get a lot clearer why that is as we get deeper into the conversation.

Um, but what the parents that I work with all have kids with neurobehavioral differences or challenges that have challenging behavioral symptoms.

And so that's that's my professional life.

I do a lot of work with parents actually all over the the world utilizing our wonderful technology today that makes that possible.

I did not always do this work.

I was I was a social worker for a very long time in another line of work, um, and then was able to become a mother.

I have a

12-year-old um son and shortly after he was born we um decided to expand our family through adoption and two months into that process, so eight short weeks after we kind of signed the dotted line and said, Okay, we're in this, they said it'll probably be a year, and we said, Okay, and and eight weeks later they called us and said, a beautiful baby girl is born today, and um her birth parents have picked you.

to be her parents.

And so that was a wonderful blessing.

It um left my husband and I with two babies.

They're only fifteen fifteen months apart.

Um and because of that closeness and age, I think that's one of the reasons we started seeing very quickly that my daughter's development was not

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