For the Love of Our Children

Omtimes Interview:  Rose-Anne Turunen

Interviewer from Omtimes: Deb Graves

Note:  This article is edited for space.  For the full article, read OM Times September 2010 Edition

We are the voice of our children and we need to take personal responsibility to find all potential solutions for their best health and well-being. When we embark on this wonderful journey of parenthood, there are so many questions and unknowns — when our children get born with special needs, those questions and unknowns become even bigger in our minds. Often we get diagnosis and outcome predictions that can seem daunting and even very disheartening. I want to encourage all parents to find the strength to take full personal responsibility for finding solutions to keep their children healthy and happy. They truly are our future. On the new ebook and online resource, For the Love of Our Children, there is Information in how to get help about alternative solutions into the hands of the parents who are actively searching for answers. It is also there to help raise funds to sponsor special needs children with products and services that we have found make profound life-changes.

Omtimes: You just recently launched a new web site and eBook called For the Love of Our Children… What inspired this?

I recently did a life purpose exercise that was very interesting, because it asked me to list the things that made me angry, the things that I am passionate about, and my talents. Well it turned out that it was easy to list all of the above and most of them had to do with helping children to live the best and healthiest lives possible, and spreading the word using my writing and filming talents. Now the wonderful thing that came out of this exercise was that I discovered that I was already very much on track for my life purpose, which is healing our Relationship with life. I actually bought the domain name, FortheLoveofOurChildren.com years ago because I knew that I wanted to create something to help other parents who have children with special needs, but in all truth, I didn’t know at the time what it was that I was going to create. A book was always at the back of my mind… but it never fully took shape, just some random notes here and there. Then recently I did a radio interview with Lee Gerdes, of Brain State Technologies and I knew that I needed to get my son down to Arizona to see him and get the brain training done. But the cost of flying down there, getting the treatment, staying there for a week, etc etc was a bit daunting for me. And I thought to myself, if I’m holding back getting this treatment done that could very well be completely life-changing for my son, how many other parents are holding back for their children too? And that’s when the idea became a reality with a clear purpose. Not only did I want to share all the information I have gained over the years on my personal journey with my son, but I wanted to be able to help other parents who want to find the solutions for their children, but since these types of treatments aren’t covered by regular insurance, may have to say no due to financial circumstances.