The Empty Nesters Welcome Dr. Rita!

The Nesters welcome Dr. Rita Eichenstein,Phd., and authior of the new book, "Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children.  With compassion, clarity, and an emphasis on practical solutions, Dr. Rita Eichenstein's Not What I Expected: Help and Hope for Parents of Atypical Children walks readers through the five stages of acceptance (similar to the stages of grief, but modified for parents of special-needs kids). She helps readers understand their own emotional experience, nurture themselves in addition to their kids, identify and address relationship wounds including tension in a marriage and struggles with children (special-needs and neurotypical), and embrace their child with acceptance, compassion and joy.