I am continually amazed at the sleuthing my friend Julie does to stay ahead of Lulu’s many physiological and endocrine-related issues. Nearly every week, Julie reports on another test or study they are doing to try to figure out why Lulu behaves the way she does.

When I was in veterinary practice, what I most enjoyed was the internal medicine aspect of care. I loved learning about how the body worked and how everything is interrelated. The human and animal bodies are truly amazing creations. It is a wonder that our bodies work as... more

I have a ton of really awesome resources sitting around here on my bookshelves, so I am going to start through them and share snippets of wisdom with you from some of my favorite attachment gurus.

Beatitude House in North Carolina is the ministry of Matthew and Fawn Bradley. I frequently have the pleasure of seeing them at conferences throughout the United States. Their ministry is just that—a Christian based approach to many aspects of attachment therapy and healing.

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Sometimes families are dealing with kids who only have attachment issues or attachment disorder. Other times (and often this is the case) there are other issues thrown in the pot. One of those issues is Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) or Alcohol Related Neurological Disorder (ARND).

I remember reading something written by Foster Cline years and years ago. In his book Hope for High Risk and Rage-filled Children, he writes about an unnamed therapist who described FAS kids like this:

I remember... more