Overcoming Autism Behavioral Challenges Through Gut Health and Natural Nutrition Plans

But for any parent to visit her would be the best thing for a child who has autism, because she has benefited my daughter in every possible way that imaginable, that I would never thought would happen, ever. We spend our time in supermarkets, no outbursts. We go shopping. There's no flapping around with her hands anymore, and I feel positive now to bring her out. My name is Sabrina O'Brien. I live up in Sandyford, and I'm a pharmacist technician. We had bad, bad, bad time with my daughter. We didn't understand it. We weren't aware of the circumstances. We got a diagnostic, and they said that she has autism, and that was it. I didn't know what to do. We didn't know where to go. So I just presumed we were gonna get help off the HSC, and they were gonna inspire us on what to do next. But we didn't get anything, and she was getting worse, and the drama was getting worse. It was, like, tantrums, like, all day long, just never stopped. We'd be crying on stairs, I would be, at nighttime, when she slept. So I was literally like, I didn't know what to do. Literally. I was at that stage of life, I was like, "What's happening? How are we gonna get through this?" I was like, "No, this is not terrible twos. I have another child, and we've never experienced this. This is not terrible twos, or terrible threes, or whatever youse are telling me. This is something different." I googled a lot of people online, 'cause I was like, "We're not gonna get help anywhere." So we were researching and researching, and then I brought her to therapists, play therapists, and she was recommended to me, she was. And I didn't think there was anything wrong with the way I fed her, because she was able to speak to me that she liked healthy food, and that was fantastic. When I went and met Ebele, I was like, outstanding. She has changed our world. She has. For the better. Now, we were hesitated at first to go, because we were told, "She will help you." And I was like, "Is there help out there? Is it gonna happen? Is it more money?" And we never really saw an outcome of what we were trying to achieve. But we just wanted to make her better. When she was recommended to me, uh, and it was so far away from us, out in Malahide, we were like, "Let's just do it." It was the best journey I've ever taken in our lives, because what she has done for us has changed my daughter completely. When I first went down to Ebele, I was like, "This is not gonna happen. This is just, they're just gonna tell us what to do." And I didn't even know it was all about the gut. What she has done for us has shocked me completely, because I work in part health, but I've never, ever experienced what she has shown me, and what could actually change in our lives, and she has changed our lives. And it's just unbelievable, and I would... I have recommended her already to a few people. I will never leave her. She's stuck with us. [laughs] The minute we went and met her first, we felt the positivity from her, the welcoming. When we walked through that door, I felt that I didn't have to say sorry. I didn't have to apologize to what way my child was gonna behave. I felt home from home when I met her, and she related so well to my daughter that I couldn't believe. My daughter would sit with her, and she had conversation with her. I was like, "What's going on here?" [laughs] And my daughter was so at ease with her that I was like, "This journey is just beginning for us." It was a big step for us. Like, we've had a tremendous change in our lives. I went back to work, which was not expecting, and she has changed that for me. She's a phenomenal woman. I was honored to be, that she's looking after me and my daughter. She has brought just tremendous life and happiness back into the home. I thought I was giving my child all the benefits of food. She was eating healthy foods, and I thought I was feeding her all this. But it was wrong. To give me that food plan. She'd send you videos of what way to relax the child, to relax her. We do it every night. It's like a yoga routine that she has given us, and she loves it.