Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball
Truth: Kids don’t come with a handbook! But what if there was a parenting handbook that aligned with your healthy living values?
In each episode of the Healthy Parenting Handbook Podcast, mom of 4 Katie Kimball interviews experts in fields like nutrition, medicine, psychology, parenting, technology, entrepreneurship, and more to give parents tools to raise healthy, independent kids.
Intentional parents, here comes clarity about what you can DO to keep your kids physically and mentally healthy!
Healthy Parenting Handbook with Katie Kimball
007: Do Tics Start in the Gut? Answers for Families of Kids with Autism with Dr. Piper Gibson
I realized during this interview (and never before) that my own husband had a tic off and on for years in our early marriage and before.
Seriously!
He was always told it was either neurological/anxiety or that he should see an eye doctor (who didn’t know what to do). For years we tried to figure out environmental patterns like what season or climate/city/state it might happen in or stop happening after being present for a few weeks.
But what if…it was all in his GUT???
We’ve done a lot of gut healing for him over the years, including reversing a chronic autoimmune disease, and he hasn’t experienced the blinking for a really long time.
If you’re interested at all in the gut-brain connection and how to help kids on the spectrum and/or with tics resolve them, OR how to help your own kids understand how to talk about and interact lovingly and respectfully with kids struggling with something like a tic, this is a must-listen.
Dr. Piper Gibson needed answers so badly for her own son that she left the SAHM mom life and went back to school to find a solution that no one else could give her. (Spoiler: There’s a reason she’s known as a tic expert, and wait until you hear how it all went with her son!)
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Resources We Mention for Gut Health
- Reducing chronic inflammation in kids
- Applying functional medicine to autism
- What’s Making Our Children Sick? by Dr. Michelle Perro (Amazon/Bookshop.org)
- Strategies to help kids go gluten and dairy-free
- Strategies to help kids with SPD to eat
- Watch a mini-interview I did with Piper about her new book on tics!
- Tic Talk by Dr. Piper Gibson
- Find Dr. Piper Gibson online
- Follow her on social media: Facebook, Instagram
- Kitchen Stewardship
- Raising Healthy Families
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- YouTube shorts channel for HPH
- Find the Healthy Parenting Handbook at raisinghealthyfamilies.com/podcast
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