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Connection First
Each episode is available in both English and Español. Fabi is on a mission to promote connection-based relationships with our children. She believes that by healing and nurturing our inner well-being, we can become the parents we aspire to be—parents who truly meet our children’s needs.
As an immigrant mom from Venezuela, Fabi has spent the last 15 years living between Sydney and London. She is an author and a passionate advocate for Conscious Parenting, with a particular focus on the impact of screens on kids.
Connect with Fabi on social media @connection_first or reach out via email at hello@fabianacoll.com.
Connection First
#21 Connection and Acceptance in Autism
I had the honor to interview Natalia Sánchez de León recently. Natalia is an autism consultant; she has a school for parents of neurodiverse kids and is the author of a children's book about autism.
Natalia is the mother of an autistic child, Tavi, and since his diagnosis, she has been committed to learning and supporting other families and creating awareness around autism in her Instagram community, crecer_contigo.
I invited her to my podcast to talk about connecting with autistic children, and I loved learning more about Relationship Development Intervention (RDI), a family-based, natural intervention that addresses the core symptoms of autism by focusing on building social and emotional skills.
This was a conversation that gave me so much hope for neurodiverse kids and the new strategies to help them develop social and emotional skills, focusing on family connection and understanding and empathy towards autistic children.
Any family, with neurodiverse kids or not, can benefit from listening to Natalia's insights and experience.
Enjoy!
Fabi x
Acknowledgments:
-This is my translation of the interview, which was conducted in Spanish. I apologize in advance if the translation isn't completely accurate.
- Some of the books mentioned in the episode:
"Self-Compassion" by Kristin Neff
"The Reason I jump" by Naoki Higashida
"The Power of Neurodiversity" by Thomas Amstrong
"Autism Breakthrough" by Raun K. Kaufman
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