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Join me, Momina Salim, Pediatric Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach in exploring the inner workings of our children's brains and bodies with leading Integrative Child Health Experts. Helping Children Thrive is a resource to empower parents, caregivers and practitioners by sharing the latest research, tools and most importantly HOPE that children can recover and regain their health, life and potential.
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Dr Laura Froyen is on a mission to help parents reclaim peace, joy, and connection. She helps parents find the root cause of their triggers and heal them once and for all. she does this by guiding parents to tap in to their intuition so they can parent from a place of feeling calm, confident, and aligned. As a Mom of 2, She understands how importan…
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Award-winning public speaker, New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned health expert, Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD believes the key to improving public health is scientific literacy. She creates educational resources to help people improve their day-to-day diet and lifestyle choices, empowered and informed by the most current evidenced-bas…
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Dr. Stephanie Davis, DC, received her doctorate from Northwestern Health Sciences University. Prior to chiropractic school, she was a microbiology and biochemistry research scientist for several corporations and the University of Minnesota. She has extensive post-graduate training in Functional Medicine through the Institute for Functional Medicine…
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We have talked a lot on this podcast about how to help children with ADHD, Autism, SPD or other conditions. One important aspect about helping neuro-divergent children is parenting them in a supportive way. To help parents find answers to questions about parenting, our guest on the show this week is Debbie Reber. Debbie Reber is the founder and CEO…
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Many parents are struggling to understand the sensory needs of their child and how to help them. They may or may not have received a diagnosis of Sensory Processing Disorder. Often times, this diagnosis comes along with other diagnosis of Autism, ADHD and/or Learning Disabilities. On this week's episode, I have Carol Kranowitz, the author of the gr…
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Vision plays an important role in conditions like ADHD, ADD, Autism and Sensory Processing Disorders and vision therapy is often overlooked as a vital piece in their children’s recovery. On the show today, our guest is Dr Bryce Appelbaum, who joins us to talk about The Misdiagnoses and Missed Opportunities of Vision: why healthcare has it all wrong…
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Dr. Roseann is a mental health trailblazer, founder of The Global Institute of Children’s Mental Health and Dr. Roseann, LLC who is, “Changing the way we view and treat children’s mental health”. Forbes magazine called her, “A thought leader in children’s mental health”. Her work has helped thousands reverse the most challenging conditions, such as…
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Dr. Elisa Song is an integrative pediatrician, pediatric Functional Medicine expert, and mama. In her integrative pediatric practice, Whole Family Wellness, she’s helped 1000s of kids get to the root causes of their health concerns and helped their parents understand how to help their children thrive— body, mind, and spirit—by integrating conventio…
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Welcome to Season 2 of the Helping Children Thrive Podcast. Since airing season 1, I have taken the decision to focus my practice towards serving families of children who are either diagnosed or suspected of ADHD. Keeping in view of this shift, in this new season, I will talk about and investigate various themes in a functional, biomedical approach…
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This week on the blog, I interview Dr Natasha Beck and we talk in detail about how to help support our children's health. Many parents are overwhelmed when their children are newly diagnosed and are at a loss of where to start to help them and what to do. In this interview, we go through the steps to help our children. Dr. Natasha Beck MPH, Psy.D i…
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Anxiety among children is on the rise and increasingly, parents are struggling to find ways to help support their children. To talk about anxiety and to provide parents tips and tools, my guest today is Dr Mary Wilde. Dr Mary is a board certified pediatrician, author, Podcaster, TEDx speaker and mom of eight. She runs her practice Imagine Pediatric…
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The episode this week is the answer to every parent's first question to me. "What is making our children sick?" My guest, Dr Michelle Perro has been an advocate for children's health for many years and talks in detail about why our children are getting sick and gives us tips and tools on what to do. Michelle Perro, MD, DHOM is a veteran pediatricia…
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Today on the show my guest is Dr Melina Roberts. We talk about a topic and near and dear to all parents hearts, especially new parents: How to introduce solids to babies and what to feed our kids!! Dr. Melina Roberts is a Naturopathic Doctor, Author of Building a Healthy Child, TEDx Speaker and Founder of Advanced Naturopathic Medical Centre in Cal…
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This week on the podcast we talk to Dr Julia Rucklidge about the role and importance of nutrition in overcoming mental health conditions like ADHD among children. Dr. Rucklidge, is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Canterbury, Australia. Over the last decade, she has been running clinical trials investigating the role of broad…
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This week on the podcast, I Interview Jess Sherman, the author of the book Raising Resilience. While teaching high school Jess became concerned to learn that most of her students were on medication. When she discovered the profound impact of nutrition and stress on resilience she set her mind to helping the busy, frustrated, worried parents of thes…
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This week on the podcast, we return to focusing on the mouth in our kids! My guest is Dr Staci Doctor Staci Whitman is on a mission to create a cavity-free world. She is the founder of NoPo Kids Dentistry where she takes a whole-body, holistic, and functional approach with her patients. Her dentistry/practice is grounded by science and powered by l…
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With the current focus of the world, there has been a lot of attention and focus on immunity. I wanted to talk more about that on the podcast. My guest this week is Jessica Donovan of Natural Super Kids. Jessica Donovan helps busy mums raise super kids with healthy food and natural medicine. As a Naturopath, she has an intricate understanding of ho…
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This week on the podcast, I am interviewing Carla Atherton. We talk in depth about the role of a Family Health Coach and the value they add to a family's wellness journey. Carla Atherton, MA, FDN-P, is the Director of the Lotus Health Project and the Healthy Family Formula Practice and Practitioner Training Academy, Host of the Children’s Health Su…
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This week on the podcast, I have a very special guest! I had the opportunity to talk to Kiran Krishnan about our children's microbiome and the connection that has to our children's health. Kiran Krishnan is a Research Microbiologist and has been involved in the dietary supplement and nutrition market for the past 18 years. He comes from a Universit…
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This week on the podcast, I welcome Dr James Greenblatt. Dr Greenblatt is a pioneer in the field of integrative medicine and has treated patients since 1988. He is dedicated to the Personalized, Evidence-Based Treatment of Mental Illness. After receiving his medical degree and completing his psychiatry residency at George Washington University, Dr.…
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This week, our guest is Luminara Serdar who works with children with Autism. Luminara Serdar is an autism recovery expert, helping parents discover and address the root causes of their child’s challenging autism behaviors so that a child can be calm, happy, develop to peer level and gain independence. And so parents can feel competent, empowered an…
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On the episode this week, I have welcomed, Piper Gibson from Regenerating Health. Piper Gibson is a Doctor of Advanced Holistic Nutrition, Board Certified Doctor of Natural Medicine, and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner®. Piper helps scared, frustrated, and overwhelmed parents get access to the tools and testing they need so they can ge…
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This week on the podcast, I will be interviewing Lorraine Driscoll about ways to support our children's brains by addressing the brain-body connection. Lorraine is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and specializes in pediatric nutrition, gut-brain healing and educational therapies that help to retrain the brain. Her unique approach is both holisti…
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On today's episode my goal is to empower all parents listening in. I think when people listen to words like Genes and DNA, it can get complicated and overwhelming. So let us pair it back and get to the basics to explain why all this is so vital in our and our children’s health journey! Our guest today is Dr Erika Gray, the Co-Founder and Chief Medi…
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How many of you breathe through your mouth, especially at night? Have you noted whether your child breathes through their mouth or nose while they sleep? Do either you or your child snore at night? Do you wake up tired after a full night's sleep? Is your child super grumpy upon waking up in the morning? Have you or your child had a diagnosis of sle…
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My guest this week is Patricia Lemer. Patricia is a licensed professional counselor, holding a Masters of Education in counseling and learning disabilities from Boston College and a Masters in Business from Johns Hopkins University. She practiced as an educational diagnostician for over 40 years. She was a co-founder and served as Executive Directo…
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On this episode we focus on the importance of prenatal health and what parents should do to prepare themselves before they conceive their child. This week our guest is Dr Ari Calhoun. She is a perinatal and pediatric Naturopathic Doctor and Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner who is passionate about helping her clients achieve an optimal sta…
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My guest this week is Peter Sullivan. Peter is the founder and CEO of Clear Light Ventures, Inc., as well as an environmental health funder who focuses on toxins and wireless safety. He has spent the last 17 years focusing on environmental health. Peter’s work on detoxification and EMF (electromagnetic fields) have been featured in the book Toxin T…
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On today’s show we talk about Nourishing Diets for the optimal growth and development of our children. Sally Fallon Morell is best known as the author of Nourishing Traditions and the Founding President of the The Weston A. Price Foundation. Sally advocates for the consumption of nutrient dense foods and not falling prey to fads and marketing aroun…
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On today’s show we talk about Sensory Processing Disorder in children. Children with sensory processing disorder issues have great difficulty processing and acting upon information received through their senses. Sensory Processing Disorder isn’t a true diagnosis, yet, because it is not a standalone diagnosis in the DSM-V (Diagnostic and Statistical…
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Nourishing our children well plays a vital role in the way they grow and develop, the way they behave, how they learn and how they interact with their external environment. In today's world, our diets have increasingly become loaded with sugar, exceeding daily recommendations, affecting our children's health. We will learn more about that today on …
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My guest today is Jennifer Caryn Brand who is an integrative and clinical nutritionist and the founder of Jennifer Caryn Brand Nutrition. Jennifer is a relentless detective putting her strong knowledge of nutritional biochemistry to work for you, to identify what’s driving symptoms and health problems in order to address the root cause of them. On …
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My guest this week is Kelly Dorfman who is a licensed clinical nutritionist that specializes in targeted nutrition therapy to address complex medical problems. Kelly calls her self a nutritional detective, and looks to bridge the gap between a presenting signs and symptoms and medical diagnosis with what might be happening with the diet. Cure Your …
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Welcome to the Helping Children Thrive. Need help with improving your child’s health using integrative approaches? Check out my Instagram page -full of information, latest research, tips and tools for parents who want to be more effective with improving their children’s health and behavior. Want to work with me? Contact us here. Music Credit: First…
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