Find what’s actually driving it
The meltdowns. The sleep. The food battles. The stomach aches. They may not be separate problems.
A 30-day guided group where we look underneath all of it together — and you come away with a plan built for your child, and someone who knows what they’re looking at beside you the whole way.
Most families have a part of the day the whole house braces for.
You know roughly when it’s coming. You’ve moved things around it, planned around it, apologized for it. And somewhere along the way you started wondering whether a better parent would have solved this by now.
I want to tell you something it took me a long time to understand about my own son: you’re not looking at a behavior problem that happens to show up at the same time every day. You’re looking at a body that runs out of what it needs at the same time every day.
That’s a different problem. And it has a different answer.
Why the things you’ve tried didn’t hold
You’ve probably already tried something. A diet you read about. A supplement a group swore by. Cutting sugar. Cutting dyes. Maybe it did nothing. Maybe it worked for two weeks and then stopped, which is somehow worse.
These things usually don’t hold because of order. A child’s system has a sequence to it — what you steady first determines whether the next thing works. Take a food away before the foundation is set and you remove a small part of the load while the rest carries on. Add a probiotic to an unsettled gut and it can make things harder rather than easier. Change three things at once and you learn nothing from any of them.
Where we start, and why there
We work on three things first: sleep, blood sugar and digestion. Not because those are the problem, but because in most of the children I see, they’re what’s producing the problem.
A child who slept badly, who’s running on a blood sugar crash, and who’s physically uncomfortable can’t regulate. Not because he won’t. Because the machinery isn’t available to him.
These three are also the fastest-moving things we have, and the safest to work on together. Steady them, and everything after works better.
This is the same foundation I use with families in my full program, shortened to what can be done well in a month.
Nothing is coming off your child’s plate. We’re just upgrading what’s on it.
If your child eats six foods, I’m not going to ask you to make it five. We don’t take anything away in these 30 days. Where something in the cupboard has a cleaner version, we upgrade it as it runs out — same food, same plate, better version. Most children never notice.
There is a right time for changing what a child eats. It isn’t the first month, and it isn’t something I’d want you doing on your own.
What’s included
What you’ll have on day 30
Not a guess, and not a stack of things to try. Here’s what you’ll actually walk away with.
Nobody asked why my son was carrying all of this at once
I didn’t come to this work through a textbook. I came to it as a mom.
I took my son to four doctors and came home with four labels and four plans. The allergist handled the allergies. The gastroenterologist looked at his stomach. The pediatrician focused on his behavior. Nobody asked the question that kept me up at night — why was one child carrying all of this at once?
Then someone finally looked at the whole picture instead of one symptom at a time. It wasn’t five problems. It was one fire, burning in different rooms.
That afternoon redirected my career. I earned a master’s in human nutrition and functional medicine so I could turn clinical language into something a parent could actually use at the kitchen table at midnight.
Symptoms are clues, not the whole story. My job is to help you see what they’re pointing at and figure out where to start — not hand you another stack of disconnected ideas.
The October group starts Monday the 12th
Access opens Monday, October 12 and our four live calls are Wednesdays at 10am Pacific — October 14, 21, 28 and November 4. Enroll by October 5 so I have time to read your assessment and write your plan before we begin.
Questions parents ask me
If the last few years have taught you to be careful with hope, I understand that better than most.
This is thirty days, a plan made for your child, and somebody who knows what they’re looking at, right beside you.
Join the October group →This program is educational and nutritional in nature. It is not medical advice and is not a substitute for care from your child’s physician. Nothing here is intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Individual results vary. Please keep your child’s healthcare provider informed about dietary changes and supplements.