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My field of expertise is helping to balance the brain chemicals in children who have neurobehavioral disorders (like Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, Autism, and Prader-Willi Syndrome).

#1: besmirched tea (Besmirched Tea) on Oct 20, 2019 [HINT] [SPOILER]

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I thought it was gonna be a balance/decision between love and happiness. I just saw a 2005 Richard Jeni stand up special where he said that the choice between being single and married is the choice between loneliness and frustration. My wife and I both thought that was hilarious...

I can imagine that working in that field can be both rewarding and heartbreaking. I have to admire you, Teresa, for taking on that job.

Besmirched, that is so funny.

Norma, for me it is really rewarding, because I did tons of research to figure out how to make it work, and when it works, everybody is happy.

Kids with neurobehavioral disorders often have too little serotonin and dopamine, too much cortisol, and unbalanced oxytocin. I have a list of 9 things that have to be in place to balance the brain properly (based on research), and if parents to them all, it works like magic. My son John (FAS) and my daughter (Karie) have very few behavior problems now, compared to before I knew what to do. It really is amazing. The picture here is my daughter. The happy face represents serotonin and the heart represents oxytocin.

Amazing, Teresa! I admire your work.
I supposed it was going to be balance between love/family and career, as we were talking about this with a friend a couple of days ago. In our time we put our careers on hold for our families, and our daughters (in law in my case) doing the opposite.

Thanks so much, Claudia!

This is an all-around great puzzle in terms of image and meaning. It is fascinating to learn what you do and so good to know that it can be done.

Yes, Marjorie, there is nothing more fascinating than the human brain and nothing more satisfying than figuring out why people/kids/parents do what they do, so we can minimize the problems and maximize the success, joy, satisfaction, happiness, and love.

Wonderful!

Thanks, Jewel!

Found to be solvable with moderate lookahead by wombatilim.

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