Greer Kirshenbaum
Greer Kirshenbaum PhD is an Author, Neuroscientist, Doula, Infant and Family Sleep Specialist and Mother. She trained at the University of Toronto, Columbia University, New York University and Yale University. Greer has combined her academic training with her experience as a doula and mother to lead The Nurture Revolution. A movement to nurture our babies’ brains to revolutionize mental health and impact larger systems in our world. Greer wants families and perinatal practitioners to understand how early caregiving experience can boost mental wellness and diminish depression, anxiety, and addiction in adulthood by shaping babies’ brains through simple intuitive enriching experiences in pregnancy, birth and infancy. Her book is called The Nu
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twenty-five years experience, and is the author of the bestselling book Rest, Play, Grow: Making Sense of Preschoolers (or anyone who acts like one). She is
on faculty at the Neufeld Institute, operates a counselling practice, and
speaks regularly about child and adolescent development to parents,
childcare providers, educators, and mental health professionals. She
continues to write, do radio and television interviews, and speak to the
needs of children and youth based on developmental science. Deborah resides
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Kimberly Seals-Allers
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Her first book, The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy, a first-of-its-kind pregnancy guidebook for black women from a sociological perspective, was released in 2006 and nominated for an NAACP Image Award. The top-selling Mocha Manual series continued with The Mocha Manual to Tur