Hey guys, this is Sarah. Welcome back to the preview alliance podcast and today I have a really special

guest and we're going to talk about a topic that I'm sure everybody has dealt with but first

I want to introduce her.

Courtney, welcome to the preview lines podcast.

Thank you.

Thanks for having me.

Super excited.

So I DMed Courtney on Instagram,

where our relationship started that way. It is not. d. was like drawn towards your content about essentially sensory and nervous regulation and just like your open honesty about your journey.

So let's catch our listeners kind of up to speed tell us a little about you your journey and why your Instagram is blowing up

Okay, well I am a pediatric o-T I originally was not a pediatric o-. I was a OT that worked in hand therapy. So I started off with my journey

in occupational therapy working in a hand clinic with surgeons and would do make

splints and do therapy with them. But then I got pregnant during the

pandemic. And so I worked throughout the pandemic, but then after I had my

daughter,

I just really suffered with like a lot of postpartum anxiety

and some depression also.

And so I felt like I had a lot of developmental anxiety,

I guess some people could say about your child like you're anxious and worried

am I doing everything right everything feels like it's on you to manage all of their

appointments and their development and so I had had experience working with

neurodivergent individuals like as a nanny while I was in grad school so I was like

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