Embracing the Battle: Recent Episodes
Laura Kasbar
This is the twenty sixth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the twenty fifth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the twenty fourth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the twenty third episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the twenty second episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the twenty first episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the twentieth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the nineteenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the eighteenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the seventeenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the sixteenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the fifteenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the fourteenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the thirteenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the twelfth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the eleventh episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the tenth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the ninth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the eighth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the seventh episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the sixth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the fifth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the fourth episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the third episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
This is the second episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children with Autism.
My first memory is of myself, alone on a surfboard, and I know I am going to die.
I am two years old. I have been swimming since the age of ten months, and surfing with my father for about that long, so I’m not afraid of water. However, this time is different.
My dad lets go.
I am lying on the board, and when the (very small) wave comes, he lets go. I don’t know letting go was his intention. I don’t even know he has let go until I hear his voice get further and further away.
I am looking at the shore in the distance and know I will never make it there. I scream over and over, “Save me! Save me! Save me!”
But—I don’t die. I don’t get hurt. I do yell at my dad, with a toddler’s pronunciation, “Why did you wet go! I aahmost died!” But after about five minutes, I want to go out again. And this time I tell him, “Wet me do it mysewf!”
Thirty minutes later, I am having the time of my life.
This is the first episode in a new podcast series from Laura Kasbar, called "Embracing the Battle". The story of how she overcame adversity and through God's help raised a family of children with Autism, and went on to found a company to help others with her innovative Discrete Video Modelling technique learned from helping her children.
The day before publication I received last minute review edits from a person whose literary advice I highly esteem. She told me that I had too many irrelevant details which, although interesting, aren’t necessary to the story. She also said that in some places it was a bit too personal.
I want to tell the reader that I know all of this.
I know that I wrote this book from a very personal place.
I know that I have added details that seem irrelevant to the story.
I know that it is a departure from other books on this subject.
I did this because I want you to know me, and to know that I am not Superwoman. My children are not one-in-abillion
savants. I make mistakes. I fail.
The grace of God alone has saved me from falling on my face. (Oh, and I also know that “you’re not supposed to talk about God.”)
The writing may be amateurish, but it is genuine. I ask you all to reserve judgement (on anything) until the end of the book as things tend to take a dramatic turn as time goes on. My goal is not to win a Pulitzer Prize (which is well beyond my ability anyway). I wrote this book because I want you to know what is possible, and to demonstrate how old-fashioned ingenuity can and needs to permeate our everyday life. I want to warn you to not let your failures deprive you of your successes.
A path to happiness can always be found, even if the destination changes half way through the journey.
And who’s to say that your new destination won’t be one thousand times more beautiful than the place you thought you were going?
I just finished reading this book, and I don’t think I’ve ever been as captivated by a story as I have by this one. Embracing the Battle reads like a best-selling novel and I couldn’t put it down. When Laura Kasbar first asked me to consider writing this foreword, I was hesitant mainly because my schedule was currently over-full! I just didn’t have the time to try to read and digest a book, then write a foreword – and she was asking for it in ONE WEEK! But, as you’ll see in the pages to come, Laura has that quality that every child with special needs should have in a parent: She believes that any problem WILL have a solution, and she won’t stop at anything until that solution is implemented.
I’m not sure how you got me to carve out a few extra hours in one of my office’s busiest weeks in the middle of flu season, with my own book deadline approaching, all the while launching a new radio show. The same way you didn’t take no for an answer when trying to find help for your own children and have eventually gone on to help thousands of other children with what you created. You are a mom on a mission!
I’ve always said that when a child is diagnosed with a poorly understood disorder (like autism), we usually see that parent become an expert in that particular disorder and will quickly learn more than the child’s own general doctors. Laura Kasbar took this concept and turned the dial up to ELEVEN!
I want everyone to read this book! Pediatricians, therapists and anyone else that is on the front lines of screening for autism as well as any parent with concerns about their child’s development. There are dozens of books written by mothers who have fought this battle, but Embracing the Battle offers solutions.
As a pediatrician I thought I knew about every available therapy for kids with special needs… I didn’t. I wondered, “Am I the only one that doesn’t know about this?” Why doesn’t everyone know about this, AND USE IT?! I even asked one of my colleagues, who is a local expert in biomedical treatments for autism. The limit of his knowledge on Gemiini was, “I think one of my patients uses it and likes it” and that was it.
About an hour into reading, I put the book down and immediately called three of my patients and one of my family members and told them to start the Gemiini program with their kids. These kids ranged from a two-year-old that was just diagnosed with autism last week, to a 28-year-old with Down syndrome that has had just about every therapy available – except for this one. The book goes on to cite a substantial amount of positive clinical evidence for Gemiini’s Discrete Video Modeling. This helps me recommend this therapy without hesitation.
Thank you for asking me to write this foreword, as I would have never read this book otherwise: I’m just too busy. I would have missed out on this amazing information. This will help so many of my patients! Gemiini’s Ten Signs of Autism screening tool is now given to all my parents of toddlers, and it is making my job a lot easier!
Dr. Jim Sears, Pediatrician
This book is dedicated to all of the parents
who keep the faith and fight love’s battle
despite waiting for years to hear their
child’s voice. You are the real heroes
of the story. And to the greatest
warrior mother of all time,
the Mother of God.
Who is she that cometh forth as the morning rising,
fair as the moon, bright as the sun,
terrible as an army set in array?
-Canticle of Canticles 6:10
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Copyright © 2018 by Laura M. Kasbar, All rights reserved.
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www.gemiini.org
Copyright © 2018 by Laura M. Kasbar, All rights reserved.