2ND EDITION
A Complicated & Beautiful Brain is an in-depth guide that helps the reader to identify and support individuals with complex mental health and learning challenges in a different, and more helpful way. This book offers many case examples of puzzling presentations that are often unknowingly related to prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE) and expands upon what this can look like across the lifespan. With prevalence rates as high as they are, so many of us will relate, and it is my hope that people will feel better understood and supported immediately as a result.
Take a step towards furthering your understanding of the implications of PAE/FASD from a front line and family perspective, and discover hope and strategies that will help those affected to live their best lives. This book highlights opportunities and rational for a more collaborative effort towards reducing both the impact, and the incidents of PAE.
This book is written in a way that can be enlightening and supportive to anyone who is neurodiverse; anyone with complicated mental health issues, which often include the effects of PAE/FASD. It is also for anyone who loves and supports them.
This book has been very helpful for:
- Individuals, and family members
- Policy makers re: social services and health care
- Medical practitioners
- Child and youth workers
- Early childhood educators
- Developmental service workers
- Allied health professionals (ie. Social Workers, Psychotherapists, Speech and Language Pathologists, Occupational therapists, Recreational therapists, Physiotherapists)
- Camp counsellors
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Police officers and paramedics
- and more
Mental Health conditions and FASD is in all of our circles, so this book is written for all of us. Enjoy... it is up to all of us to support healthy pregnancies, healthy children, adults and families.
FROM THE AUTHOR
I very much look forward to expanding our community and continuing to raise awareness while providing education with this work that comes from a place of love and hope. Here’s to empowering you and your loved ones! ~ Angela
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“It’s a beautiful book that allows you to pursue further information. The book is practical… it gives you pathways to do something. I absolutely love this book. I think it’s one of the best books that has hit the market recently in respect to FASD.” ~ Dr . Peter Choate
"Angela's depth of knowledge and warm, strength-based approach bring years of training and experience into a respectful space for people to grow and learn. This book will help caregivers and service providers create supportive environments for improving work and lives, leading to more positive outcomes." ~ Tracy Grant, Founding member of FASD ELMO Network
"Finally, a book about FASD that will equip families, professionals, and front-line workers to better understand, appreciate and support individuals affected by prenatal exposure to alcohol. Angela Geddes has written a book that equips us with facts about Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) including ways it can present itself across the lifespan along with compelling evidence of why we all need to care about this complex, lifelong medical disorder affecting an estimated 4% of Canadians (CanFASD, 2019)." ~ Nancy Lockwood, FASD Consultant / Educator
“If only this book had existed when I was starting my FASD journey! Angela has put together the information in such a way that it is not only understandable, but very actionable. The way she includes instant access to resources in each chapter is brilliant.” ~ Jeff Noble, Founder and CEO of FASD Success, Podcast Host of The FASD Success Show
