Newsletter - October 17, 2025

Oct 17

Angela’s Books have been revised already and we have French Versions!

Research is evolving by the minute, and learning is lifelong… We have new statistics, new perspectives, and strategies to help individuals and their families live their best lives… Angela maintains that although she has participated in and contributed to a lot of formal research, her most meaningful learning continues to come from the people who live with a ‘Complicated and Beautiful Brain’ everyday either personally or as a caregiver. She is honoured and proud that she is in a position to share what she has learned more broadly.

A Complicated & Beautiful Brain (2nd edition)

A Complicated & Beautiful Brain is an in-depth guide that helps the reader to identify and support individuals with complicated and often puzzling mental health and learning challenges that may be related to prenatal alcohol exposure (PAE). This book explores, in great detail, many case examples of what PAE effects look like across the lifespan with the goal of helping people feel better understood and supported.

Take a step towards furthering your understanding of the implications of PAE/FASD from a front line and family perspective, and discover hope and strategies that will help those affected to live their best lives.

**What People Are Saying**

“It’s a beautiful book that allows you to pursue further information. The book is practical… it gives you pathways to do something. I absolutely love this book. I think it’s one of the best books that has hit the market recently in respect to FASD.”
*- Dr. Pete Choate*
“This book is truly incredible. I am a young teen with FASD and I felt that it was me coming out of the pages. Angela’s book has really changed my way of thinking and life so I am very thankful. So, thank you Angela, you saved my complicated and beautiful brain and gave me hope.”
*- Teen with FASD*

"Angela's depth of knowledge and warm, strength-based approach bring years of training and experience into a respectful space for people to grow and learn. This book will help caregivers and service providers create supportive environments for improving work and lives, leading to more positive outcomes."
*- Tracy Grant, Founding member of FASD ELMO Network*
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Price: $35 CDN
Available for purchase through Amazon
French version now available!

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Not Your Typical Parenting Guide (2nd edition)

This book is for everyone who loves and supports people with puzzling, spirited, creative, and sometimes impulsive and reactive approaches to life. It gives tips and strategies to support common areas of challenge for people with Complex Neurodevelopmental Disorders (CND) that can include attention, memory, behavioural, social, emotional, mental health, and sometimes learning difficulties.

These symptoms are often found with:

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Williams Syndrome
Learning Disabilities
Trauma and Attachment disorders
The effects of Prenatal Alcohol/Substance Exposure (PAE) and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
Some people who may also have mental health conditions including but not limited to Anxiety, Depression, Borderline Personality Disorder, Oppositional Defiance Disorder (ODD), Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), emotional dysregulation… and more.