Episode 238 — Engage In ACTIVE Healing
Guest: Sargent Goodchild • Date: January 9, 2025
Episode Overview
Sarge Goodchild shares how simple, foundational movements like crawling can unlock incredible potential for children with developmental challenges. His holistic approach improves health, fosters independence, and demonstrates the life-changing power of movement.
About Sargent Goodchild
Sargent L. Goodchild Jr. began life as a brain-injured child. At four years of age, Sargent was diagnosed with a seizure disorder. None of the many professionals who met with Sargent were capable of seeing his potential. The best medical advice his parents were given was to put him on anticonvulsant and muscle-relaxing medication. He was eventually placed on various combinations of seven different medications. The effects of which were incredible toxicity without seizure control. It was too much for his parents to bear. Through a friend, they found neurodevelopmental therapy, and within nine months of beginning a functional movement program, he became both seizure and medication-free, as he still is today.
Sargent has been working with children with various disabilities/challenges for 30 years as a practitioner of NeuroDevelopmental Movement ®. He has been the subject of numerous newspaper articles and was recognized for his accomplishment with an internationally adopted child in a news story for WBZ-TV in Boston that was subsequently picked up by the CBS affiliates in New York City and Philadelphia. In addition to running Actie Healing, Inc., Sargent is on the board of advisors for Documenting Hope, Bioregulatory Medicine Institute, and Healing Complex Kids.
You’ll Discover
Three Key Things To Have In Place (4:18)
Why The Pons Is So Important (8:19)
How Active Healing Differs From PT and OT (17:24)
The First of Three Factors To Address (28:29)
The Second of Three Factors To Address (30:43)
The Third of Three Factors To Address (32:21)
Ways To Prevent SIDS (36:39)
Sarge’s Backstory (40:14)
The Relationship Between The Midbrain and Seizures (43:52)
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