Bio

February 8th, 2010
by tamara

When Parker was 18 months old he was diagnosed with PDD NOS, (Pervasive Developmental Disorder, Non-Specific). By the time Parker had his 3rd birthday, the diagnosis officially changed to Autism, High-Functioning.

Tamara had a successful and thriving national speaking career prior to becoming a parent. As the mother of a challenging, high-needs child, she felt her true test of everything she had ever taught across the nation to others up on a stage, had come back to greet her head-on in her own home and personal life.

Applying the principles of transformation that she had previously used to transform her own businesses and professional career years before, she applied and used to transform her personal life and relationship with her son at home.

In a commitment to ‘practice what she preached,’ she left the speaking platform far a few years to own-up to her own teaching and DO it at home with what seemed an impossible personal mountain to climb.

Now, 8 years later, after that first diagnosis, through dedicated, devoted, serious work, Parker is now active in mainstream education, and is doing exceptionally well. He has out-performed and over achieved all the specialists predictions, diagnostic labels and limiting beliefs. Parker is nothing short of a true miracle today. He, an autistic child, is now forming deep emotional bonds with family, loves to make others laugh, can be hugged and cuddled without jumping or screaming to the touch. He is here, now.

“Parker is stronger, more resilient, and exceptonal than I could ever imagine being. He transcends every day his own list of labels that trail hIs diagnosis of autism. Labels like OCD, Sensory Integration Dysfunction, ODD, and Bi-Polar Disorder.

To move through what he’s had to move through and to achieve what he has is a testament to the infinate possibility that is within every one of us.

He is the teacher to the teacher. I have lived Into and through the knowing and realizing that anything is possible! If we can SEE it we can  BE it!

I have learned most intimately that labels never defne us if we don’t allow them to. We defne who we are and what we can experience.”