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MomTalk with Christy Conner of The Nesting Life
FASD Family Life
07/30/22 • 67 min
Welcome to Season 3 of the FASD Family Life Podcast. I am your host, Robbie Seale. I am an FASD educator, advocate and mom of five incredible people; including three teens diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. If my 30 years of parenting has taught me anything it is that the struggle is real and so is success.
This third season of the FASD Family Life podcast is a lot of fun. It's called MomTalk. I invited other mom's raising children and youth with FASD to join me for a coffee and a chat about real life, real struggles and real successes. It is my hope that by listening to our conversations you have the sense that you are not alone; we all get things wrong and we find out that when we know better we can do better.
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Please join me and my special guest Christy Conner for a nice hot cup of coffee we we talk about real life including the delights and the dilemmas we all expereience as parents on this unique journey.
Christy Conner is an adoptive working with foster and adoptive families for over 8 years. She has seen the challenges of parenting children from hard places. Her experieinces combined with her desire to help other families led her to continue to educate herself on trauma-informed and attachment rich parenting models. Christy has created The Nesting Model to help families build their best "nest". For more information you can find her at,
https://thenesting.life
WANT TO MEET OTHER PARENTS RAISING KIDS WITH FASD?
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You will be invited to join our monthly online support group on Microsoft Teams.
Our support group is a fun, lively place to connect with other parents who get it. We have group members from around the world.
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MomTalk with Betty Cornelius of CanGrands
FASD Family Life
07/15/22 • 44 min
Welcome to Season 3 of the FASD Family Life Podcast. I am your host, Robbie Seale. I am an FASD educator, advocate and mom of five incredible people; including three teens diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. If my 30 years of parenting has taught me anything it is that the struggle is real and so is success.
This third season of the FASD Family Life podcast is a lot of fun. It's called MomTalk. I invited other mom's raising children and youth with FASD to join me for a coffee and a chat about real life, real struggles and real successes. It is my hope that by listening to our conversations you have the sense that you are not alone; we all get things wrong and we find out that when we know better we can do better.
SUBSCRIBE NOW so you never miss an episode of FASD Family Life.
Please join me and my special guest Betty Cornelius for a nice hot cup of coffee as we talk about REAL LIFE for the reality 75,000+ Canadian Grandparents who are raising their grand children. Betty Cornelius is the mother of 2 sons, 3 granddaughters, 32 foster and founder of CANGRANDS NATIONAL KINSHIP SUPPORT. Betty says, "Knowing I am loved by my grand DAUGHTER makes the sun shine in my life!"
Betty Cornelius is the founder of CANGRANDS KINSHIP NATIONAL SUPPORT, a national grass roots organization providing information and support to the 62, 500 kinship children being raised by grandparents and other kinship family members. Betty provides encouragement, moral, and emotional support to kinship families. She has her finger on the pulse of any Parliamentary Bills that effect kinship families such as Bill 210, Bill 67 as well as medical, parenting, legal and or political issues. Betty is a warrior and strong advocate for kin-children and kin-headed households having been denied access to one grandchild or rescuing another from an abusive situation.
She also established the first Kinship Conference and Camp in Canada which has become a lifeline for kinship caregivers. This event gathered 70 isolated and marginalized kinship families with the youngest grandchild is under 2 and the oldest in their 80's together for a week of education and fun.
Have a question for Betty? LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/corneliusbetty/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cangrands
Twitter: https://twitter.com/cangrands
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WANT TO MEET OTHER PARENTS RAISING KIDS WITH FASD?
Subscribe to the FASD Family Life Community for only $10 / month
You will be invited to join our monthly online support group on Microsoft Teams.
Our support group is a fun, lively place to connect with other parents who get it. We have group members from around the world.
SIGN UP TODAY to be part of our next meeting
https://www.fasdfamilylife.ca
or message me on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/robbie.seale.1
MomTalk with Jillana Goble, "A Love Stretched Life"
FASD Family Life
07/08/22 • 79 min
Welcome to Season 3 of the FASD Family Life Podcast. I am your host, Robbie Seale. I am an FASD educator, advocate and mom of five incredible people; including three teens diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. If my 30 years of parenting has taught me anything it is that the struggle is real and so is success.
This third season of the FASD Family Life podcast is a lot of fun. It's called MomTalk. I invited other mom's raising children and youth with FASD to join me for a coffee and a chat about real life, real struggles and real successes. It is my hope that by listening to our conversations you have the sense that you are not alone; we all get things wrong and we find out that when we know better we can do better.
SUBSCRIBE NOW so you never miss an episode of FASD Family Life.
Please join me and my special guest Jillana Goble for a nice hot cup of coffee we we talk about complicated mothering, hope and the gift of grae and perspective our children have taught us. Jillana is the mother of 5 children and has recently released her debut memoir called,
A Love-Stretched Life
Stories on Wrangling Hope, Embracing the Unexpected, and Discovering the Meaning of Family
This life is real and complicated, messy, colorful, good, exhausting, and exhilarating—often simultaneously. It’s easy to feel overburdened by life’s demands. Looking out into the world as well as under the roof of our home may cause us to question, “How did we get here? And how will we get through?”
Jillana Goble has been there. With honesty, faith, and a dose of humor, her debut memoir, A Love-Stretched Life, chronicles what she's continually learning on the suspension bridge between reality and hope. A mom via foster care, birth, and adoption—in that order—for nearly two decades, Jillana has experienced life’s curveballs. Her come-as-you-are posture amidst a daily reality far different than she ever imagined reassures you that you’re not alone if your life isn’t tidily wrapped in a bow.
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Thank you to my friend and fellow podcaster, Natalie Veccione of FASD Hope podcast for introducing Jillana and I to one another. Natalie is connector extraordinairre!
WANT TO MEET OTHER PARENTS RAISING KIDS WITH FASD?
Subscribe to the FASD Family Life Community for only $10 / month
You will be invited to join our monthly online support group on Microsoft Teams.
Our support group is a fun, lively place to connect with other parents who get it. We have group members from around the world.
SIGN UP TODAY to be part of our next meeting
July 12, 2022 at 10:00 am and 6:00 pm (MST) Canada/USA
https://www.fasdfamilylife.ca
or message me on facebook
https://www.facebook.com/robbie.seale.1
Resources mentioned in this epsiode:
A Love Stretch Life, by Jillana Goble
https://www.tyndale.com/p/a-love-stretched-life/9781496453402
FASD Family Life Community
Next meeting July 12, 2022
email for more infomation: [email protected]
FASD Hope Podcast, hosted by Natalie Veccione
https://www.fasdhope.com/
Blazing New Home School Trails, by Cindy LaJoy & Natalie Veccione
https://www.amazon.ca/Blazing-New-Homeschool-Trails-Developmental-ebook/dp/B096L4DBBM
Research & Resource Edition: FASD Communities with Gigi Davidson
FASD Family Life
06/21/22 • 38 min
Aloha Community Platteville
We have a beautiful five-bedroom home that sits on four lush acres outside Platteville, Wisconsin. Our young adults can thrive in a structured, calm environment that combines the safety of 24-hour staff oversight with the coziness of a home family environment.
Each resident has a bedroom, access to communal spaces, where she can watch movies, play video games, participate in crafting, cooking or just relax.
Additionally, our expansive property allows for plenty of outdoor activities including gardening and maintaining a hobby farm.
The Program/Admissions
After years of structure and support — both at home and at school – that protective scaffolding falls away when our kids reach age 21. As a result, it’s not uncommon for many individuals with FASD to grapple with unemployment, substance abuse and homelessness.
Ours is an FASD only based program, developed collaboratively with Montana’s’ Farm in The Dell project and customized to meet the needs of our population. We provide the tools to achieve daily functioning skills, including duties such as preparing dinner or tending to our farm animals. This enables our residents to have a sense of responsibility, collaboration and productivity.
Our FASD-trained staff are on site 24\7.
Give us a call at: (808)-523-8191
We’ll listen. Our program is designed to create a life that balances independence and autonomy for your child and peace of mind for you. https://fasdcommunities.org/housing/
EPISODE RESOURCES:
The Canadian FASD Research Network
https://canfasd.ca/national-fasd-strategy/
FASD Respect Act
https://nofaspolicycenter.org/the-fasd-respect-act/
NoFASD Austraila
https://www.nofasd.org.au/
National Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Strategic Action Plan (health.gov.au)
Christmas Season Survival Guide
FASD Family Life
11/19/21 • 38 min
Here we are, my friends, episode 39 the FASD Holiday Survival Guide. I am grateful to be spending this time with you again today wherever you are. I am Robbie Seale, parent of five kids, four via adoption each prenatally exposed to alcohol and trauma. I know the struggle is real and so is success.
Whether this is your first episode or your 39th, I invite you to grab a nice hot cup of coffee with me, as we chat parent to parent. Today we are doing to get REAL as we talk about Christmas in our homes.
Last year I said, “NO MORE! I am never doing Christmas again!” I am mom of five kids and I’m saying I’m never doing Christmas again. I meant it... and I knew I wouldn’t follow through. Instead I would try differently rather than harder. But I wonder, if you felt that way too?
Before the holiday season is in full swing I would like to you to settle in with me as I share my 12 Christmas Season Survival Guide with you.
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A Message From The Heart.
FASD Family Life
06/11/21 • 26 min
Welcome to FASD Family Life the podcast where we get real about raising children and youth with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. Robbie Seale, podcast host, is the mother of five amazing kids; four of whom were adopted and prenatally exposed to alcohol. Robbie is also an FASD Educator and Advocate passionate to help families raising children with FASD thrive. Robbie knows the struggle is real and so is success.
Happy Mother's Day
FASD Family Life
05/10/21 • 1 min
From my heart to yours, Happy Mother's Day.
You are loved. You are not alone.
Suppertime Struggles and Successes
FASD Family Life
04/16/21 • 21 min
In episode 5 Robbie Seale answers your questions and explores some tried and tested accommodations that will reduce the daily struggles for you and your child with FASD.
Research & Resources Edition: WRaP 2.0 - FASD Coaching Partnership Project with Cathy Cross
FASD Family Life
03/02/22 • 23 min
With more than 20 years lived experience I know it can be a struggle to find resources and research to support you, your family, and your child with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. That's why I have embarked on a new initiative to interview the movers and shakers in the FASD Research and Resources community and bring you Research & Resource Editions of the FASD Family Life podcast. These Research & Resource Editions of the FASD Family Life Podcast will give you information on a variety of FASD networks, resources, training events, and conferences, as well as fascinating FASD studies for your participation and interest.
In this Research & Resources Edition of FASD Family Life Research & Resources edition I am delighted to speak with Cathy Cross, Executive Director of The WRaP 2.0: FASD Coaching Partnership Project. https://wrap2fasd.org/
The WRaP 2.0: FASD Coaching Partnership Project is a five-year collaboration (February 2021 to January 2026) between the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Community and Social Services and Alberta’s 12 FASD Service Networks.
Through the services of FASD Instructional Coaches, including at-the-elbow assistance and professional development, school authority staff will be supported to enhance their capacity to meet the education needs of students with FASD (Early Childhood Services – Grade 12).
Objectives
• Increase the capacity of teachers and schools to meet the educational needs of children and youth (ECS to Grade 12) with FASD.
• Teachers and school leaders will increase their knowledge and skills regarding how to support students with FASD by engaging in current best practices as shared by the FASD Networks through FASD instructional coaches.
• Schools will enhance their capacity by incorporating FASD-informed approaches into their classroom communities, as part of a continuum of supports and service.
EPISODE RESOURCES:
WRaP 2.0 Website
https://wrap2fasd.org/
ROBBIE'S SOCIALS:
https://www.facebook.com/robbie.seale.1
Robbie Seale | LinkedIn
Robbie Seale (@robbie.seale) • Instagram photos and videos
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WORLD TOUR in Holland: FAS-PROJECT
FASD Family Life
03/04/23 • 28 min
Welcome to Season 4, episode 22 of the FASD Family Life Podcast. This is the only show about FASD hosted by an FASD Specialist and parent with 30 years lived experience. I am Robbie Seale, your host and mom to five incredible people; including three teens diagnosed with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder. It is my passion to help families thrive. To learn more about me and my work check out my website, https://fasdfamilylife.ca/
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) refers to a constellation of disorders resulting from prenatal exposure to alcohol; the manifestations include birth defects, developmental disabilities, and neurological and behavioral problems.
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder is a common disability impacting 1 in 20 people in the general population in the US, which is nearly 3 times more common than Autism.
This week I am in the Netherlands where it is estimated that 2000 babies annually are born with FASD.
I am speaking with Nienke Peters and Luke Schut to learn about an innovative photo book project that they have been involved in to raise awareness of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Holland.
Luke Schut is the Project coordinator of the FAS-project. Her background is in pedagogics. She came in contact with the FAS-project through her Masters program. Luke says "I am the most inspired by all these parents and caregivers, and the warm and caring FASD community. Let’s keep sharing stories with each other to make FASD more visible."
Nienke Peters is mother of 4 bio kids and grandmother of 4. Fostered 12 children with FASD and still fostering a boy with FASD and NAS. Met Allard de Witte in 2014 when he photographed one of our foster sons. Her family has been part of the Buddy Project of Witte Bos for over 4 years now.
‘Het Witte Bos’ is a non-profit organization, which initiates transmedia project on the cutting edge of journalism, art and society. The FAS-project started as a journalistic initiative, but eventually developed into a big multimedia awareness campaign, showing the potentially dangerous consequences of alcohol consumption during pregnancy. By storytelling, the project raises attention to a relatively unknown problem in a personal way. The FAS-project started in 2013 and launched with the book FAS-kinderen (Children with FAS).
After this the fas-project continued under the name FAS2025. In the past years the project developed and gained a wider reach & more impact. FAS2025 tells the story of Isiah, Lorenzo, Marcella, Mila and Jasmijn, following their journey towards adulthood for ten years. Their stories are told by a collection of stories, portraits and mini-documentaries. To give children with FAS(D) a face, make FAS(D) less abstract and to tell what FAS(D) means to them and how it impacts their lives. The project also consists of expositions, books, a podcast, a college tour to inform future professionals about FAS, readings at professional organizations who (may) come in contact with FAS(D), and a buddy project in which children/youngsters with FAS(D) are matched to a buddy to have a nice time together.
Link to purchase the book Children with FAS/Kinder mit FAS
https://fasproject.nl/en/product/children-with-fasd/
The English website: https://fasproject.nl/en
Have a comment or question about the show, email me at [email protected]
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How many episodes does FASD Family Life have?
FASD Family Life currently has 115 episodes available.
What topics does FASD Family Life cover?
The podcast is about Adoption, Parenting, Kids & Family, Foster Care, Podcasts, Self-Improvement and Education.
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The episode title 'The Intermission' is the most popular.
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The average episode length on FASD Family Life is 42 minutes.
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Episodes of FASD Family Life are typically released every 6 days, 20 hours.
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The first episode of FASD Family Life was released on Mar 19, 2021.
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