V.A. – The Children’s & Teen Summit

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V.A. – The Children’s & Teen Summit

With 25 experts sharing information about fostering, enhancing and understanding our kids, you can do something to improve the health, well being and lives of your children.

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Learn how best to foster what comes naturally to our children: vitality, happiness and whole health. And, be the best parent or caregiver you can be!

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Understand elimination diets and how to do them with your families
Discover how brain development impacts issues like time management and sensory disorders
Get to the root of what is making your kids sick
Learn how to remedy common childhood illness at home, naturally
Be healthy: mental health, emotional health, addictions, diet, epigenetics, the list goes on…
Find out what you can do to help your girls express themselves
And so much more!

With 25 expert presentations, the Children’s & Teen Health Summit is a wealth of knowledge you do not want to miss! This invaluable resource is intended for parents, children and teens everywhere!
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25 video slideshow presentations ($269 value, mp4 format or watch online)
25 audio presentations ($134 value, mp3 format)
Hundreds of pages of interview transcripts ($69 value, PDF format)
25 PowerPoint presentation files ($29 value, PDF format)
All for a amazing price!

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Our Amazing Presenters:

Alison Smith, BA Psych, BEd, Life Coach, Gentle Parenting Specialist. Allison Smith takes us through the concepts of gentle parenting and how employing these concepts and practices can and does encourage more harmony, cooperation, and understanding in the home.
Cooperative Kids, Happy Parents: The Gentle Parenting Secret
Handling meltdowns and tantrums
Setting limits and empathy
When gentle parenting is hard
Being gentle on yourself
Amber Brooks, DC, CACCP, RN, BSN. Amber Brooks describes for us an integrative approach she uses with sensitive children including craniosacral therapy, chiropractic, and nutrition.
Testing and Healing the Sensitive Child
What is craniosacral therapy and how it can help your child heal
Why chiropractic care is an essential part of self-care
What tests to do when you need to find the root of your child’s illness
ADD, Autism, allergies, genetics…
Anne-Sophie Dumetz, Game-changing Mama. Anne-Sophie Dumetz challenges parents to be the best they can be, to make change, inspire, and be inspired so their children can do the same in their own way and in their own lives.
Being a Game-Changing Parent
Top gems learned from the most inspiring game-changing parents
How being a game-changing parent improves the health of our children
Parenting as a verb
Brenda Wollenberg, Nutritionist, Specialist in Natural Wellness for Children. Brenda Wollenberg gives us the skinny on childhood obesity: its causes and roots, effects on our children (mind and body), and the solutions.
Childhood Obesity
The top things that are making our children have such challenges with their weight
What effects can weight issues have on our children
Three ways for us parents to take action
The one thing we can take out of our children’s environment that can help them to maintain a healthy weight (and it isn’t junk food)
Bruce Lipton, PhD. Bruce Lipton introduces us to the revolutionary science of epigenetics, the fact that it is not their genes that determine how healthy our children are, but the choices we help them to make regarding lifestyle and belief.
Epigenetics – Empower Your Kids
Do our genes determine our health? How our genes are turned on and off
How belief plays a major role in the status of our health
The major causes of ill health
The future of our health and epigenetics
Carla Atherton, MA, FDN. Certified Yoga Instructor. As a mother of a daughter with some big health challenges, Carla Atherton frankly and honestly shares her insight about how to handle these challenges, become a health advocate for her children, and stay sane and healthy, yourself, in the process.
Parenting Children With Big Health Challenges
Discussion about the challenges parents of health challenged children face
Where to find support
Why support is vitally important
Tips on how to take care of the caregiver (you!)
Daniel Kalish, DC. Dan Kalish explains how toxins in our environment and food supply affect the brains and bodies of our children.
Childhood Illness and Our Toxic Burden
How toxins cause hormonal disruption and affect the brain
What are the sources of these toxins
How we can protect our children
How we repair the toxic brain
Donna Jackson Nakazawa, WRITER and LECTURER. Donna Jackson Nakazawa explores how adverse experiences we encounter in childhood directly and profoundly affects our health when we become adults.
Childhood Disrupted: How the trauma we experience as children affects our physical and emotional health as adults.
What are ACEs
How do ACEs affect our health as adults
What can we do to heal
How can we parents prevent and/or heal ACEs in our children
Emily Roberts, MA, LCP. Emily Roberts gives some guidance on how to encourage and inspire our girls to assertively express themselves, handle the pressures of social media and peers, and improve low self esteem.
Helping our Girls Express Themselves
Friends and frenemies
Communicating with confidence
Becoming the director of your own life, who am I?
Building family bonds
Jacqui Fleury, Naturopathic Doctor (ND) Jacqui Fleury, ND, gives us the lowdown on how important it is to fully educate ourselves and our girls about the usage of the pill and explains the pros and cons.
Girls, Hormones, and the Pill
Why girls are put on the pill
Reasons why our children have abnormal issues with sexual development such as early menses and puberty
What we should know about the pill (side effects, changes to physiology, long-term effects)
What we can do when the pill is not the best choice
James Maskell, Healthcare (R)evolutionary, one of the founders of the Functional Forum, and CEO of the Evolution of Medicine. James Maskell stops by, again, to discuss why our healthcare system is failing us and what we need to do to build a new model of care for our families.
Let’s Fix Our Healthcare System (not just a problem in the USA).
Update on our current evolution of family care
Why our system needs to be rebuilt rather than re-formed
The power of community and peer support
Navigating the current system
Jennifer Wiessner, LCSW, AASECT, Sex Therapist. A frank and open discussion with Jennifer Wiessner about how we can shatter myths and taboos around talking about sex and sexuality with our children in order to enable them to be sexually healthy.
Raising Sexually Healthy Children
Why being sexually healthy is an integral part of our overall health
What ages should you talk sex with your kids and what do you tell them
What do you say? Having age-appropriate conversations
How examining our own sexual health is essential to teaching healthy sexuality to our children
Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN. Kaayla Daniel tells us why soy may not be the beneficial food so many believe it to be and why a traditional diet may be the most healthful way to feed our families.
The Whole Soy Story
What is wrong with soy
Where soy is hidden in our diets
Traditional diets and their health benefits
Is the cod liver oil you are taking helping or harming you?
Kelly Brogan, PhD. Kelly Brogan draws from her extensive knowledge about psychiatry and human health to tell us how we can deal with, treat, and overcome mood and mental health issues like depression using a functional approach to the body and without drugs.
The Functional Model and Mental Health
What causes postpartum depression and what to do about it
The real root causes of mental and mood disorders
What is wrong with the current treatment of depression
How to heal naturally from mental and mood disorders without drugs
Marc David, MA, Founder of The Institute for the Psychology of Eating. Marc David shares his own childhood story of ill health, how he regained it through nutrition, He explores the many ways we can view eating and how we can enlighten both ourselves and our children about why we eat and how we can view eating to encourage a healthy relationship to food and our bodies.

Promoting a Healthy Psychology Around Eating In Our Children
The main food issues that can impact our children, in particular
Health issues that can crop up when children have an unhealthy relationship with food
How our children can have a healthy relationship with what they put into their bodies
Marydee Sklar, Time Management Expert, Executive Functioning Success. Marydee Sklar helps us to become the master of our own time through giving life-changing tips and insight about time management and how understanding our brains is key.
Stretching Time
The chaos and disharmony that can occur when we cannot manage or time
How understanding our brains can make or break the functionality of a family, performance in school and work, and overall happiness
Actionable steps to take to make life easier, fuller, and with time to do everything we need and desire
Maureen Towns, RN, BScN, MA. Maureen Towns frankly shares her experiences and insights as a mother of four, two of whom battled with addictions in their adolescence.
Getting Your Child Through Addictions
Why children and teens use drugs and alcohol
Detecting the warning signs that something is wrong
What to do if your child has an addiction
How parents can stay sane and centred
Pam Killeen, Writer, Independent Researcher, Health and Wellness Coach. Pam Killeen frankly discusses the epidemic of addictions and fertility problems rampant in our youth and gives us the reasons for what is happening, what might happen if we don’t change our practices, and how we can secure the future of our species.
Youth, Addictions, and the The Demise of Our Fertility
What causes addictions and what can we do nutritionally to overcome addiction
How to prevent future addicts
The top reasons why our fertility is on the decline
What we can do to stop this decline
Roger L Price, Respiratory Physiologist and Integrative Health Educator. Roger L. Price explains how, without proper breathing, nothing else works properly for our children including cognition, physiological processes, even emotional stability and gives us tips on how we can help our children to “just breathe.”
The Impact of Our Breath and Breathing
How issues like posture, mouth breathing, and stress affect our children’s health -what is proper breathing
Why we don’t already know how to breathe properly
What we can do to asses and fix issues caused by improper breathing such as asthma, digestive disorders, bedwetting, etc
Sarah Ballantyne, PhD. Sarah Ballantyne explains autoimmunity, its prevalence in our young population, and how we can potentially halt the autoimmune process.
Autoimmunity and the AIP Diet
An in-depth explanation of the immune system and the onset of autoimmunity – when our bodies start to attack themselves
What causes autoimmunity
What we can do to halt the autoimmune response
How to be a mom while battling our own health issues
Sayer Ji, Author, Researcher, Activist, and Thought-leader. Sayer Ji outlines the debate over vaccines including the dangers of the current schedule of immunizations, the current threat to our rights as parents to be informed and to make choices, and what we need to know to make the best choices for our families.
Our Right to Know, Our Right to Choose: A Frank Look at Vaccines
What is pro-vaccine vs. pro-choice
What is it about the current schedule of vaccines that is endangering our children
What is a vaccine injury
Alternatives to vaccination
What parents need to know to protect their children
Sonia Story, Rhythm Movement Training Specialist. Sonia Story introduces us to the concepts around neurodevelopmental movement therapy and how it works on the brain’s development to rectify a myriad of health and developmental problems in children using simple but targeted movements.
Optimal Brain and Sensory Processing with Neurodevelopmental Movement
How early movement and reflexes affect health in childhood and beyond
Simple techniques to integrate reflexes
Benefits of NM
How to use NM for big developmental and sensory issues
Tom Malterre, Tom Malterre feeds us some powerful information about nutrition and using the elimination diet to further improve the health of our children.
Nutrition and Elimination Diets
Why healthy foods can sometimes be harmful
What is the elimination diet?
What issues can arise if you eat foods to which you are sensitive
Autism, lethargy, fatigue, mood issues, you name it…all because of that gluten?
Wendi Combes, RN. Wendi Combes walks us through a variety of safe, effective home remedies that should be in every home “medicine” cabinet.
Home Remedies for Everyday Illness
Homeopathy and tissue salts
Why we shouldn’t fight a fever with Tylenol
What to do before we rush off to the pharmacy
The five pillars of natural remedies
Will Revak, Creator of the Orawellness Healthy Mouth System. Will Revak of Orawellness runs us through what makes for bad oral health, what makes for good oral health, and ways to regain and maintain the health of our children’s teeth
Raising Cavity-Free Kids
What mineral is essential for healthy teeth
What do we use if not toothpaste?!
How nutrition affects oral health and how oral health affects our overall health
Yes, there is a correct way to brush!

Meet Your Host
Meet Your Host

Carla Atherton is the Director of Lotus Health, a writer and editor, workshop instructor, nutrition and health educator, Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, yoga teacher (200 hour), Children’s Health Advocate and mom of three. She is p assionate about health and wellness, which, to her, involve all aspects of health including the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. Carla encourages creativity, self-empowerment and love when working with children, youth and adults so they can find their own power to make their lives full of inspiration, happiness and meaning.
Digital Access

25 video slideshow presentations ($269 value, mp4 format or watch online)
25 audio presentations ($134 value, mp3 format)
Hundreds of pages of interview transcripts ($69 value, PDF format)
25 PowerPoint presentation files ($29 value, PDF format)
All for a amazing price!

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