Fearless Parent™ is devoted to education and awareness about children’s health. We promote and advance the rights of those who are passionate about evidence-based medicine, wellness, green living, and holistic parenting choices.
Children can heal and thrive. The way forward starts with hope. Trust your heart. Use your head. Pause to interrupt the reflex. Dig deep to find answers. Defy convention. Question authority. Say no thank you. Be fearless.
We are doing the work. We are figuring out who to trust, connecting with experts who are finding a better way. These include cutting edge clinicians, researchers, lawyers, and activists who are brilliant, professionally generous, and some of the bravest people you will ever meet. We work to build a compassionate community of fearless parents and thought leaders.
Scroll down to meet some of them.
Fearless advisors
Kelly Brogan, MD is a holistic women’s health psychiatrist, author of the New York Times bestselling book, A Mind of Your Own, the children’s book A Time For Rain, and co-editor of the landmark textbook, Integrative Therapies for Depression. Her latest book Own Your Self sits atop the Amazon charts just days after its launch. She completed her psychiatric training and fellowship at NYU Medical Center after graduating from Cornell University Medical College, and has a B.S. from MIT. in Systems Neuroscience. Kelly is board certified in psychiatry, psychosomatic medicine, and integrative holistic medicine, and is specialized in a root-cause resolution approach to psychiatric syndromes and symptoms. She is on the board of GreenMedInfo, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, Functional Medicine University, Pathways to Family Wellness, Mindd Foundation, SXSW Wellness, Chickasaw Nation Wellness, and the peer-reviewed, indexed journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. She is a certified KRI Kundalini Yoga teacher. Listen to her podcast here and a mother of two.
Tahra Collins is a spiritual guide, a Reiki Master, a certified ThetaHealing practitioner, and an Evidential Medium. She is an artist and blogs for her platform A Guided Soul. Tahra was a Senior Agent at Art + Commerce, a WME/IMG company, in New York City for thirteen years. She also worked as an assistant stylist for Italian Vogue, French Vogue, W, Harper’s Bazaar, and Wallpaper* magazines. Tahra dedicates her personal practice and professional service in support of the collective awakening, which is unveiling the transformative, healing power of love and unity consciousness. She is passionate about travel, connection with community, and healing through ritual, ceremony, and transformational breathwork.
Mary Coyle, DIHom is a homeopath with extensive training in homotoxicology and German Biological Medicine. She is the director of the Real Child Center in New York City, which offers a holistic approach to autism, ADHD, sensory processing disorder, and prenatal care. Homotoxicology utilizes cellular drainage, nutrition, and time-tested homeopathic techniques to stimulate the self-healing mechanism in your child. It is a therapy geared to enable your child to move to the next level of health. Mary writes and speaks about detoxification at the cellular level. Listen to her podcast here. She is a contributing author of Cutting Edge Therapies for Autism (Skyhorse, 2014). She is the mom of two.
Sayer Ji is the founder of the world’s most widely referenced evidence-based natural health resource, GreenMedInfo. He is CEO and co-founder of Systome Biomed, Vice Chairman of the National Health Federation, Steering Committee Member of the Global GMO Free Coalition (GGFC), a Reviewer and Editor at the International Journal of Human Nutrition and Functional Medicine. Sayer founded GreenMedinfo in 2008 in order to provide the world an open access, evidence-based resource supporting natural and integrative modalities. He is the dad of two.
Robert Krakow, Esq is the principal of the Law Office of Robert J. Krakow in New York City, focusing for more than 30 years on the trial of civil and criminal cases, with a specialty in vaccine injury cases. Prior to forming his firm, Bob was a prosecutor for the decade of the 1980’s with the New York County District Attorney’s office and served as Bureau Chief in the Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York. Bob is committed to working for individuals with disabilities, serving for 15 years as Board Chair and member of one of New York City’s largest not for profit organizations serving individuals with disabilities. He founded and/or serves/served on the boards of many prominent autism and vaccine safety advocacy organizations. He is the dad of two.
Christiane Northrup, MD is a visionary pioneer and an internationally-respected authority in the field of women’s health and wellness, including the unity of mind, body, emotions, and spirit. A board-certified OB/GYN physician, Chris graduated from Dartmouth Medical School and completed her residency at Tufts New England Medical Center in Boston. She was an assistant clinical professor of OB/GYN at Maine Medical Center for 20 years. Chris’s work has been featured on Super Soul Sunday on OWN, The Oprah Winfrey Show, the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, The View, Rachael Ray, Good Morning America, 20/20, and The Dr. Oz Show. Chris is included in Reader’s Digest’s “100 Most Trusted People in America” and Oprah Winfrey’s Super Soul 100, a group of leaders who are using their voices and talent to awaken humanity. Chris is a multiple New York Times best-selling author whose books have been translated into 24 languages. She is the mom of one.
Lawrence Palevsky, MD is a New York State licensed pediatrician who utilizes a holistic approach to children’s wellness and illness. Larry received his medical degree from the NYU School of Medicine in 1987, completed a three-year pediatric residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC in 1990, and served as a pediatric fellow in the ambulatory care outpatient department at Bellevue Hospital, NYC. Since 1991, his clinical experience includes working in pediatric emergency and intensive care medicine, inpatient, and outpatient pediatric medicine, neonatal intensive care medicine, newborn and delivery room medicine, and conventional, holistic and integrative pediatric private practice. Larry is a diplomate of the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and Past–President of the American Holistic Medical Association.
Pat Robinson was a critical care nurse for 17 years. She has invested over 10,000 hours learning about natural alternatives, reading many hundreds of medical research studies, and assisting thousands of people about holistic health issues. Pat is passionate about sharing the amazing power of the body to heal itself. Her focus is wellness promotion through whole food nutrition. Learn more about her work at Pat’s Farmacy and Heal Thyself, an online community of over 400,000. Pat is also a passionate and knowledgeable unschooling advocate. She is the mom of one.
Rev Dr Frankie Timmers is a Religious Science minister and spiritual director of Center for Spiritual Living in Morristown, NJ. She is a counselor and teacher of metaphysics, and has facilitated workshops at women’s centers, prisons, senior housing communities, 12 Step programs, Morris County Community College, Rutgers University, the Rotary, and the Kiwanis. Frankie leads regular meditation and other programs at a variety of venues, including the Morris County Correctional Facility. A citizen of the world, Frankie was born and raised in the Netherlands, and also educated in France and the US. She is spiritual midwife to many, supporting them to discover their own divinity as a way to experience healing at all levels. Frankie is most deeply inspired by the ancient wisdom teachings like Sufism and the early Christian female mystics. She received her honorary doctorate of divinity in 2017.
James Turner, Esq is a partner in the Washington, DC law firm of Swankin & Turner. He is Board Chair of Citizens for Health, the consumer voice of the natural health community; President of the National Institute for Science, Law & Public Policy; and President of Voice for HOPE (Healers Of Planet Earth). Jim worked with Ralph Nader and wrote The Chemical Feast: The Nader Report on Food Protection at the FDA. As an attorney, Jim represents consumer, environmental and public interest groups, as well as businesses and individuals, on a wide variety of regulatory and other legal matters concerning foods, drugs, health, the environment, and product safety. He has served as Special Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Food, Nutrition, and Health, and to the Senate Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Research. Jim represented a consumer coalition that successfully opposed an FTC effort to ban the words organic, natural, and health food from commerce. He was lead attorney on a successful petition to the FDA to reclassify acupuncture needles, thereby permitting their legal importation and distribution. Jim graduated from Ohio State University Moritz College of Law and served as a gunnery officer in the US Navy. He is the dad of one.
Titles and Name Convention
You may notice that we prefer to be on a first name basis with our writers, radio hosts, and guests. Please know that we have deep respect for our experts but we find that the use of honorifics and titles can create emotional distance. Radio, in particular, is an intimate medium. We value professional expertise; however, we also seek the honest exchange of ideas between thoughtful individuals whose authority is not purely a function of the titles they may (or may not) possess. Most of all, we aspire to make connections based on our essential humanity.
I was so inspired and heartened by the correspondence between Professor Umberto Eco and Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini in the book Belief or Nonbelief? that I wrote a post about it: Say My Name (Not My Title). I share an excerpt of the Eco-Martini exchange below [pp. 17-18, 27].
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Dear Carlo Maria Martini,
Act of prudence, I also said. Indeed, what has been asked of the two of us could prove awkward — an exchange of opinions between a layman and a cardinal. It might appear that the point is for the layman to solicit opinions from the cardinal in his role as a prince of the Church and a shepherd of souls. Such a thing would constitute an injustice, to the one appealed to as well as to his listener. Better that we carry out this dialogue… an exchange of ideas between free men. What’s more, by addressing you this way. I mean to underscore the fact that you are considered a leader of intellectual and moral life, even by those readers who are not committed to any belief or teaching other than that of reason…
Umberto Eco
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Dear Umberto Eco,
Every tiny step toward understanding the great simple things means progress toward sharing the reasons why we hope…
Carlo Maria Martini
