You have the power to change the future of your own family (for generations), and at the same time the future of this world.

Our children are crying out for us to show up differently than the way we were raised. We need to set aside our preconceived notions about how children should be in order to fit in to the norms of this society, and give them what they really need to thrive. Children have a lot to teach us – if we will listen to understand. 

Here’s a powerful truth: 

When we become better humans, we raise better humans. 

The potential to change the future is in the hearts and minds of parents. We have an opportunity to re-parent and grow ourselves into the guides and mentors that these next generations need.

What do you want for your children?

Many parents when asked what they want for their kids say pretty much the same thing – 

You want your kids to be healthy and happy.

I’d like to take this a bit deeper…

In addition to being healthy and happy, do you also want your children to value and love themselves and grow into their full potential? Do you want them to be emotionally secure in all their relationships, including their relationship with you? 

Peaceful empowered parenting is not about raising children to become what this society deems to be acceptable or successful. There are plenty of people considered to be successful, showing distressing signs of low self-worth and doing destructive things. Our society is in a world of trouble since it’s been created out of a paradigm of control, violence, manipulation, and suppression of feelings and needs. 

We have to do things differently in order to raise emotionally secure, resilient, thriving children. 

Gabor Mate MD shares a powerful truth in his book – The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture: “Our society devalues the things that children need to develop.” He writes, “it so happens that parents today take their cues from a culture that has lost touch with both the child’s developmental needs and what parents require to be able to meet those needs.” 

Mothers are blessed with innate parenting instincts that are perfectly aligned with children’s developmental needs. Yet most mothers are alienated from their own deepest instincts and intuition. 

Mothers are NOT to blame, though. Most moms are dealing with an enormous amount of ongoing stress, judgement and pressure. As a mother, you may be handling everything and everyone’s needs to the point of exhaustion. With no time for yourself, it’s no wonder you may not be able to see, feel or hear your inner voice and to be present to what’s happening beneath your child’s behavior. 

You may have started out with great intentions to raise a happy, healthy child. But along the way something went wonky and you may have a child who’s acting out with upsetting behavior. It’s difficult to not react negatively to this behavior, so you end up over time damaging the most important thing – your relationship.

If you’re recognizing this in your family, give yourself an enormous amount of compassion. You were not given the understanding and tools you need to raise children within a culture that doesn’t value or support healthy parenting or the true needs of children.

For many people, parenting has become all about managing behavior. There are plenty of parenting books and courses that will tell you how to control your child by managing their behavior. It becomes all about getting compliant kids. Compliance might seem like the goal, except control and manipulation don’t work for building healthy relationships and intrinsic motivation to do good things. 

Yet when you don’t know what else to do, it’s easy to get caught up in the constant struggle of trying to manage behavior.

Can you imagine a different path?

Imagine if this was your parenting experience…

• You are an empowered leader in your family, and everyone feels safe, secure, and connected with each other. 
• Your children feel unconditionally loved and accepted, and they are empowered to grow into their full potential.
• They are emotionally secure, and they know how to be with all of their feelings, including disappointment or anger.
• Your home has a relaxed, peaceful and fun atmosphere, without power struggles. 
• There is respect and cooperation between you and your kids and you listen to each other. 
• You prioritize your needs and honor your feelings, so you are emotionally equipped to support your children in their feelings and upsets. 
• You have a deep connection and a strong, healthy relationship with your kids. 
• If there are siblings, they look out for each other and when conflicts arise, they work it out. 
• You feel a sense of calm and confidence in relating to your kids. 
• They trust you and will confide in you when difficult situations arise in school or with friends.
• You find the work of parenting to be deep, meaningful and fulfilling. And you’re actually really enjoying your children!

Let’s go a little further into the future. Imagine if you could say this about your teen-age or adult children…

• They have a strong sense of who they are and fully believe in themselves. 
• They know their value and don’t look outside of themselves for approval.
• They are emotionally secure, empowered, resilient and self-motivated.
• They trust their feelings and intuition. 
• They are independent and confident in managing their lives.
• They like to hang out with you, and you have a life-long healthy, positive relationship.
• They are free from addictions and feel secure to say no in unsafe situations.
• They are present, focused and fulfilled in work and healthy relationships.
• They have developed an inner strength and an ability to face life with confidence. 
• They are in harmony with themselves and their environment. 
• They are critical thinkers and creative problem-solvers. 
• They have the ability to collaborate and communicate. 
• They love themselves unconditionally and value their authenticity and uniqueness. 
• They love and value the authenticity and uniqueness of others.

Does this seem unachievable? I don’t think so. There is a paradigm shift happening right now where parents are committing to raising up the next generation to create a better family life – as well as a better world for us all. We are fostering the future adults needed to create peace, healing and change in this world.

No one does it perfectly, that’s not possible. But even if you were able to create a little bit of this outcome for your family, would that be amazing?

I invite you to believe in your children and in yourself. I invite you to step into your ability to be the empowered heart-centered leader in your family and take on this most sacred and important endeavor. 

Join me in beginning this transformation by entering your email in the box on the right.  

There are two things you can do to reduce the toxic load in your child’s body – and yours:

1 – Limit Exposures

2 – Optimize Detoxification

Limit Exposures

Consider the exposures over which you have some control. One of the most important things you can do is buy organic whole foods instead of processed conventional GMO foods. Then take a look at the products that you buy for your home, such as toys, furniture (especially mattresses), cookware, and cleaning products.

You can use an air purifier to reduce the toxins circulating in the air – and a water purifier for clean pure water. Body care products like soaps, lotions, shampoo, etc. can contain a lot of chemicals that can be absorbed through skin. There are many non-toxic alternatives on the market that work just as well or better than the toxic products.

Optimize Detoxification

Detoxing is happening all the time in a healthy, well nourished body.

The safest and most effective way to reduce your child’s toxic load is to make changes to their diet to optimize their normal ability to regularly remove toxins. 

The main organs involved in detoxing are the liver, kidneys, large intestine, lymphatic system, and skin. The body is always working to neutralize and break down the toxins so they can be moved out of the body.

Optimal nutrition is necessary for detoxing.

Detoxing is a complex process that is completely dependent on adequate nutrients, including enzymes, vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and antioxidants. And what’s needed most is a good balance of healthy microbes in the gut.

Many people think that detoxing simply means removing or eliminating, so they go on cleanses or fasts. People can get worse doing cleanses or fasting if they do not have the nutrients needed to detox. Extreme fasting and cleansing can be counterproductive in a body that’s undernourished.

Gentle detoxing is good, but be cautious about doing intense detoxing with your kids. Extensive detoxing with supplements or chelation may be necessary if your child has a chronic illness and a difficult time detoxing, but this should be done with a qualified health practitioner.

Reasons why kids might have a difficult time detoxing:

Gut Dysbiosis and Dysfunction

Gut dysbiosis is an imbalance in the bacteria and other flora in the gastrointestinal tract. This is very common in kids and can be caused by antibiotics, environmental toxins, stress, poor diet, C-section birth, and other issues. If your child’s gut flora is not optimal, their ability to detox is compromised.

Genetic Impairments

It’s common for kids to have genetic mutations called polymorphisms or SNPs that compromise the body’s ability to detox. You can have your child tested, and a nutritional program can help to normalize the detox process.

Nutritional Deficiencies

As I mentioned, detoxing requires sufficient nutrients. Some kids have specific deficiencies that may need to be addressed with supplementation. You can do lab testing for nutrient levels and work with a knowledgeable health professional to balance your child’s unique nutritional needs. There can also be nutrient overloads and the wrong supplements may make existing issues worse or can create new problems.

Body Burden

A cumulative effect of multiple toxic exposures can overwhelm the body. Some kids have ongoing exposures giving them a bigger body burden than their system can handle.

Stress

Emotional stress affects every system in the body, including detoxing. In order to detox efficiently, your child’s stress levels need to be kept at a minimum.

The Optimal Diet for Detox for Kids

The safe way to optimize detoxification is with food – specifically unprocessed, organic whole foods.

Here are some of the foods necessary for detoxing:

Colorful Fruits and Veggies

Kids need a variety of colorful fruits and veggies that contain phytonutrients to support detoxing. The phytonutrients in these foods are key because they positively affect the liver and other organs and they reduce inflammation and oxidative stress.

Small amounts of different colored fruits and vegetables will add up to a wealth of phytonutrients that will make a huge difference. A fun game for kids is to try to eat all the colors of a rainbow in a day. Let them choose their fruits and vegetables so that they can say at the end of the day they “ate a rainbow”.

Fermented Foods and Root Vegetables

A healthy diverse gut microbiome is essential for detoxing, since it helps digestion, improves nutrient absorption and affects multiple areas of detox function. Subscribe to my email list to get more information about optimizing the gut microbiome.

Fermented foods include kefir, fermented vegetables, sauerkraut, pickles, yogurt, kombucha, natto, and miso. If you’re buying them rather than making them, make sure these foods are fermented properly.

Root vegetables are the prebiotics that the healthy gut microbes love to eat. Add carrots, turnips, radishes, dandelion root, chicory, jicama. Check out all the different types of root vegetables in the produce section of your store.

Foods Containing Sulfur

Particularly important vegetables for detoxing are those containing sulfur. These include garlic, as well as broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables. Add in these foods in as much as you can. Subscribe to my email list to learn how to encourage your child to LOVE to eat healthy food.

Herbs and Spices

Chlorella, cilantro, parsley, ginger, and turmeric are powerful detoxing foods. Hint – you can add some of them to smoothies. You might want to experiment with adding these foods to your child’s diet a bit at a time.

Healthy Protein

Protein is essential for detoxification. The body cannot effectively detoxify without amino acids (building blocks of protein) to bind the converted toxins in the liver so they can be carried out of the body. Protein also stabilizes blood sugar. It’s ideal to include some protein in every meal.

Good sources of protein are pastured eggs, wild fish, grassfed meat, and pastured poultry. The quality of animal protein is vital – it should always be organic, grassfed, wild, or pastured.

Vegetarian sources are miso, natto, tempeh, and hemp or pea protein powders. Beans are a good way to get protein and fiber. Raw, organic nuts and seeds are also great for snacking and added to meals.

Avoid fish with high mercury content. This includes bluefish, grouper, mackerel, marlin, orange roughy, sea bass, shark, swordfish, tilefish, and tuna (canned albacore, yellowfin, bigeye, ahi). Shellfish is often contaminated with mercury and other toxins. Farmed fish may contain hormones, PCBs and other toxic chemicals.

Healthy Fats

Cold-pressed, organic, non-GMO fats are also important. Grassfed butter and fats and oils from avocados, coconut, flaxseed, and olives are essential for detoxification.

The second step in the optimal diet is to remove toxic foods and food triggers.

Avoid Toxic Foods

Organic food is vital to reduce exposure to pesticides, herbicides, and GMOs. Buy foods in season and from local organic farmers. Or better yet, grow your own food.

• Avoid foods that contain preservatives, food colorings, and artificial sweeteners.
• Avoid food that comes in cans, plastic containers, or cardboard. Instead buy whole foods with minimal packaging.
• Use glass, ceramic, or stainless-steel containers for heating and storing hot food.
• Avoid plastic bottles.
• Cook with non-toxic pots and pans that aren’t worn or scuffed to minimize release of toxic compounds while cooking.
• Sugar is a toxic food since it can stress the body systems and create inflammation, making it more difficult for the body to effectively clear toxins. Read about healthy sugar alternatives for kids.

Avoid Food Triggers

It’s important to identify any foods that might be causing adverse food reactions in your kids. Removing these foods will reduce inflammation and help the gut to get back in balance, which will support the detox pathways. This is especially important if your child has a chronic illness. Wheat, dairy and sugar are the biggest culprits in inflammation so think about reducing or removing these foods.

Healthy Elimination

It’s important for kids’ bodies to have healthy elimination. It’s necessary to keep their bowels moving. They need one to two healthy bowel movements a day. This means they need to eat plenty of fiber and drink plenty of filtered water.

Toxins are removed through pooping, peeing and sweating so make sure this is all happening regularly!

Other safe ways to detox:

Epsom salt baths

Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate, a compound comprised of two minerals – magnesium and sulfur. Both of these minerals are essential in helping to flush toxins from the body. Epsom salt baths can be a safe way to increase levels of both magnesium and sulfate since they can be absorbed through the skin.

How to take an Epsom salt bath:

Dissolve 1 or 2 cups of Epsom Salts in a standard size bath with warm (not too hot) water. Soak 2-3 times a week for at least 15 minutes and up to 20-30 minutes. Don’t use soap in the bath and, rather than rinsing off, let the Epsom salt dry and stay on the skin for maximum absorption.

Sweating

Toxins are released through the skin through sweating. Regular exercise is important. It’s great to let kids work up a sweat with exercise. Jumping on a trampoline or rebounder is a great way to stimulate the lymphatic system to remove toxins.

Infrared Saunas

It’s safe for kids over age six to use infrared saunas for up to 20 minutes. One of the benefits of a quality infrared sauna is that it produces a lower temperature than the conventional type of sauna and the surfaces don’t get hot enough to cause contact burn. But make sure you watch your kids during and after the session to see how they react to the heat.

In addition to detoxing, a sauna can be nurturing and calm the nervous system. A good time for kids to take a sauna is before an evening bath or shower. It can get them relaxed for bedtime. Bouncing on a mini-trampoline or rebounder right before a sauna can open up the skin pores and stimulate lymph flow.

Safety Guidelines for Saunas

• Drink water before and during a sauna. Coconut water is a good electrolyte replacement drink.
• Don’t allow the sweat (toxins) to reabsorb into the skin. Take a shower immediately after a sauna.
• Use a sauna with zero EMFs.
• Saunas are not recommended for babies or very young children.

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It makes your job as a parent much more difficult when your kids don’t listen to you. It’s exhausting, really.

Children’s brains are constantly absorbing all sorts of things all around them, so you are competing with a lot of stimuli to get your child’s attention.

Most of the time they want to cooperate, but kids have priorities of their own. They are constantly exploring and their main priority is to play. They can get pretty wrapped up in their play to a point that they block out everything else.

How to Get Kids to Listen to You and Cooperate with You

You can’t make your kids listen to you without doing some damage to your relationship. But you can connect with them in a way that they will want to listen to you.

Brain research shows that people are more open to another person’s influence if they feel connected to them. The most effective way to engage cooperation with anyone is to first calmly connect and then make a request.

This is especially true for children. If your kids don’t feel connected to you, they will be resistant to your rules and guidance. I’ll share some suggestions on how to calmly connect and engage cooperation with your kids in another post. But I first want to point out something significant:

It’s hard to be calm when your kids don’t listen!

Why is this so hard?

Let’s be real. It’s not easy to show up as the calm, connected parent you want to be when you’ve got responsibilities, schedules, tons to do, and a lot to worry about.

There also might be something deeper going on….

We all want to be seen, heard and understood. These are core human needs. Most of us have had experiences as children or in significant relationships where we didn’t feel heard.

When you were a child, did you feel truly seen, heard and understood by your parents? Or were your thoughts and feelings mostly discounted or ignored?

I think this is one of the reasons why it feels so bad when our kids don’t listen to us. It can bring up this deep longing to be heard that was never really met.

When your child ignores you, it can trigger some deep unresolved feelings. And you want to try to solve it with threats or consequences.

But here’s the problem…

Threats, consequences and yelling actually lessens your influence and creates more power struggles.

In moments of yelling or threatening consequences, kids brains go into a stress response and the part of the brain that controls executive functioning shuts down. Then it becomes more difficult for them to see your point of view and want to listen and cooperate. They may cooperate out of fear of consequences, but would you rather your child be self-motivated to follow your guidance instead of doing what you say out of fear?

If your children feel like you don’t understand them and are trying to control them, they will be resentful – and that’s what leads to all the struggle. They’re not feeling understood and they don’t want to listen and cooperate. It’s vitally important to recognize this and create an ongoing safe space for your kids to feel heard and understood.

Connection is the only reason your kids willingly follow your rules. When you have an ongoing strong connected relationship with your kids, they actually want to cooperate, and they will listen to you.

A connected relationship with you – the most important person in their life – helps to develop your children’s emotional intelligence and the executive functioning in their brain.

When kids are emotionally intelligent, they are more sensitive to the cues of others and have the ability to see and feel something from another’s point of view.

Executive function is the ability to follow directions, prioritize, perform tasks and solve problems. All kids are on an ongoing path to develop executive functioning, and it may not be fully developed until age 25-30.

What kids need is an understanding parent who is calm, patient and can hold the emotional space for them so they can develop these abilities.

Connecting with your kids with understanding and empathy is the way you can truly influence and guide your kids and have a peaceful cooperative home. And quite honestly, it’s what makes parenting really worth it for you – to be able to feel that sweet deep connection with the ones you love so much.

I have so much compassion for you if you’re dealing with these struggles. It’s difficult to manage, it depletes your energy and takes the fun out of parenting. 

But take heart! There are tons of success stories of health being restored in kids diagnosed with all sorts of chronic conditions. And behavior challenges can disappear once you make some key changes.

What does it take to solve these issues?

You need to get to the cause of what’s happening in your child’s brain and body. What lies beneath the behavior? Once you understand the root causes, you can take steps to address what’s causing it.

Did you know that aggressive behavior and frequent meltdowns can be the result of physical imbalances in the body and brain? The possible underlying physical causes of intense behavior might surprise you.

Since each child is unique, you’ll need to put on your detective cap and look for clues and triggers to determine what might be going on in your child. Addressing the behavior, the emotional stress and the underlying physical imbalances can make a big difference in your child’s health and well-being – and your peace and sanity.

I created this short powerful course for you:

Solve Your Child’s Distressing Behavior and Explosive Meltdowns

Understand why they behave the way they do, know exactly what to do to change it, and gain respect, cooperation and peace in your home.

The behavior is not the problem…rather a window to what is really going on. There’s a reason why your child has such crazy aggressive reactions to what seems like nothing.

In this course I go into what lies beneath your child’s behavior. We explore the common emotional stresses as well as the underlying physical imbalances in the body and brain that can cause aggressive behavior, meltdowns, ADHD, mood disorders, anxiety, depression. Most parents aren’t aware of this.

You’ll be able to understand your child in a new way, and their terrible behavior will start to make sense to you. And you will know exactly what to do when your child is acting out or going into one of those horrible meltdowns. 

And you’re going to know what to do to PREVENT the disturbing behavior and all the unnecessary stress and get your kids to cooperate with you rather than against you. 

Here’s the info about the course:

Solve Your Child’s Distressing Behavior and Explosive Meltdowns

The best mattress covers for allergies, dust mites, bed bugs and pet allergens are those that are non-toxic, breathable and waterproof!

Mattress covers for allergies are made to keep the dust mite allergens and the bed bugs from getting in and out of your mattress. These critters love to get into mattresses, and covers with protection that can block them can help with your allergies.

The covers must fully encase the mattress (6 sided) and they must have a pore size small enough to block these tiny allergens from getting through. Pore size is the space between the fibers.

Why is Waterproof So Important?

With the likelihood of wetness from spills, liquids, sweat, and nighttime accidents, it is important to prevent bacteria and mold as well as stains ruining your mattress. Sleeping in a clean bed that is free from bacteria and mold is obviously important to the health of your family.

A plastic membrane creates the most effective barrier since nothing can get through plastic – it’s not porous or permeable. For this reason, plastic makes the cover waterproof, and you definitely need waterproofing for your kids’ beds.

But here’s the problem with plastic covers…

Most plastic covers are made with vinyl/PVC or a type of urethane. Vinyl/PVC contains carcinogens, and the plasticizers that are used to soften the hard PVC plastic and make it flexible enough to use as mattress covers are phthalates or phthalate variants. Phthalates are a clear health risk; these compounds do not belong in your kids’ sleeping environment. Even “phthalate-free” vinyl is not to be trusted.

Urethane can be tricky – there are some types that can be safe and others not so much.

You don’t want your family to be exposed to harsh chemicals and toxins.

Plastic can be hot to sleep on – it’s not breathable at all. You need air flow between your mattress and cover. And plastic can also be crinkly or crunchy, which is the last thing you need when you’re trying to sleep.

Organic Cotton Mattress Covers for Allergies

You can get tightly woven cotton fabric covers with small pore sizes that are considered allergen and dust mite-proof. It’s best if the cotton is organic if you’re going to buy cotton dust mite covers. Organic cotton dust mite covers are light and cool fabrics that can do the job of blocking allergens. However, these covers are not waterproof.

You really need waterproof covers for your family if you want to protect the mattress. For this reason, I usually recommend getting organic cotton dust mite covers and adding an organic waterproof mattress pad to cover it. Buying both the cover and pad can get a bit expensive though.

Now you can get the best of both worlds in one safe, non-toxic, breathable mattress encasement!

We finally have the best mattress covers for allergies that are effective in blocking allergens, while completely waterproof and also safe and non-toxic.  

These covers are light, cool and breathable and they encase the entire mattress. The membrane fabric does not allow any allergens to pass – it protects from pollen, mold spores, animal dander, and even bed bugs and fleas.

The waterproof plastic membrane is non-GMO, bio-based, derived from corn starch. It’s approved by GOTS, so we know for certain it’s safe and non-toxic. This membrane is sandwiched between two layers of organic cotton stretchable jersey that provides airflow and makes it soft and breathable. There is no crunchy, crinkly sound. It’s free of all the toxins and it has 100% waterproof protection that is silent to sleep on.

Here is where you can find it:

Learn more about waterproof mattress protectors – what’s safe and what to avoid:

What makes the EnviroKlenz Mobile Air Purifier System different from other air purifiers?

The 2-stage filter system doesn’t just filter airborne toxins, it neutralizes and destroys them, so nothing is re-released into your indoor environment except truly clean air. 

The EnviroKlenz uses an earth mineral process to break down chemicals so they are gone forever. This is a safe, yet powerful way of destroying even the worst contaminants found in indoor air.

Air purifiers with plain activated carbon or granulated carbon are not as effective in removing VOCs and formaldehyde. The EnviroKlenz Air Purifier is much more efficient. It clears air quickly of VOC’s and formaldehyde through the natural capabilities of the earth mineral compounds. 

The EnviroKlenz is:

• The best air purifier for allergies and asthma
• The best air purifier for smoke
• The best air purifier for VOCs and formaldehyde
• Perfect for indoor air pollution in homes, apartments and office spaces  
• Quiet, compact and mobile – you can move it around in your home!
• 3rd Party Tested and Certified
• It is non-toxic and safe – creates no chemicals or byproducts, ever, making it safe for all who breathe!

While most air purifiers simply collect particles from the air, the EnviroKlenz has been tested and validated to capture, neutralize and destroy:

• Chemicals
• Formaldehyde and other VOCs
• toxic gases
• allergens
• wildfire smoke
• tobacco smoke
• fine particles
• mold, bacteria, viruses, and odors

This results in:

• Better sleep and concentration
• Reduced snoring
• Reduced allergies & asthma attacks
• Reduces viruses
• Clears wildfire smoke
• Protects people with multiple chemical sensitivities
• Protects babies and children’s developing brains and bodies
• Stronger immunity
• Reduced coughing and wheezing
• Reduced dry mouth and runny nose
• Prevents toxic exposures
• Boosts overall long-term health by providing your lungs with purified air

This innovative solution includes: 

• EnviroKlenz Air Cartridge – made with patented earth mineral technology to effectively capture and neutralize 99.9% of VOCs, pathogens, chemicals, odors, and other airborne contaminants; third-party tested and validated
• HEPA Filtration – captures harmful particulates, like dust (including silica dust from pottery and construction), allergens, pet dander, microorganisms, and more

Additional features of the EnviroKlenz Mobile Air System include:

• Maximum Coverage – efficiently filters air spaces of up to 1,000 sq ft (CADR 300) with 3-5 air exchanges per hour, making it perfect for homes, apartments, office spaces, and more 
• Quiet, Compact, & Mobile – includes a 4-speed blower with easy-to-adjust knob for maximum air exchange with minimum noise; wheels for easy portability to any room; sleek design fits in any space 

Two Models to Choose From:

1. Standard EnviroKlenz Mobile Air System with all of the features and capabilities above.
2. EnviroKlenz Mobile Air System Plus has all of the technology of the standard system PLUS additional UV-C 9w bulbs to more thoroughly reduce molds, bacteria, and viruses – and for internal cleaning of the system. This UV model has indicator lights on the power switch that tell you when the HEPA filter and the UV lights need to be replaced.

EnviroKlenz Mobile Air System’s Earth Mineral Capability

Using a patented process, the natural capabilities of the earth mineral compounds – titanium dioxide, magnesium oxide and zinc oxide – in the filter break down and neutralize an array of chemicals, biological pathogens, and pollutants of any kind.

THE PROCESS:

“Adsorptive neutralization” is a fancy way of describing how the patented technology uses earth mineral compounds to break down and neutralize harmful airborne contaminants on a chemical level.

This proven process eliminates toxins for good, without ever releasing anything back into the environment, resulting in cleaner and safer indoor spaces.  

Other air filters can re-release captured contaminants into your environment

The EnviroKlenz technology neutralizes contaminants on a chemical level with earth minerals so that they are destroyed for good, leaving nothing behind to re-release even as the filters continue to capture more contaminants.

Most dirty filters are bad for the planet. EnviroKlenz technology’s neutralization capabilities make it completely sustainable by deactivating harmful contaminants in a non-toxic way, meaning you can recycle your dirty filters safely without polluting the environment.  

While most dirty filters transfer dangerous contaminants onto you, the EnviroKlenz filters are safe to handle when it’s time for a replacement.

Testing – 3rd Party Tested and Certified

The EnviroKlenz technology is put through 3rd-party testing, evaluating the technology by itself to prove its performance capabilities before incorporating it into products.  

With this 3rd-party testing, EnviroKlenz confidently delivers a proven solution that you can trust to keep your family healthy and breathing clean air.  https://enviroklenzairpurifiers.com/testing/

Try it out and see if it helps. Most people can feel the results within a few days!

View the EnviroKlenz Mobile Air System.

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The inescapable conclusion is…

There is no safe level of exposure

Extremely low levels of chemicals have a major impact on your child’s developing brain.

Risk assessments done by the EPA show that babies and young children are about ten times more vulnerable to chemicals than adults. Their neurological, immunological, respiratory, and other biological systems are still developing. Their ability to detoxify all the substances coming into their fragile systems is limited.

Low-level chemical exposures during the susceptible period of development can cause more harm than high doses later in life. Chemical exposure during the critical period of brain development is particularly alarming.

Are Products Tested for Safety?

You might assume that baby and children’s products are tested and would not be on the market if they were unsafe.

The fact is that most chemicals in the furniture, mattresses and products in your home have never been evaluated for safety – not even the most basic safety review. Most have never been tested for toxicity to infants and small children.

Even when science shows that a chemical is toxic and exposure is causing brain or health issues, it can take years before manufacturers are banned from using it in products, if it is banned at all. Typically, when a chemical is finally banned, manufacturers are allowed to replace it with alternatives that are untested and likely just as toxic.

It may take 5-10 years or more between when we suspect harm and when there’s sufficient scientific proof of cause and effect to ban the substance. This timeframe can span your child’s most important brain development years, and by then it might be too late.

We simply cannot rely on our government or manufacturers to keep products safe.

Therefore, it’s up to us, as parents, to make informed decisions about which products we will allow in our children’s environments. And take precautions to prevent exposure as much as possible.

When it comes to babies’ and young children’s fragile brain development, there is no safe level of toxic exposure.

There is Good News!

Although you may find this alarming, my intention is not to spread fear. It is to empower you with knowledge and for you to know there are choices.

As a new parent, you probably receive all kinds of well-meaning advice. The best advice of all is to become informed and then simply do the best you can with the resources you have and what feels right to you.

The good news is that there is a lot you can do to reduce or eliminate some of the major exposures and give your child a safer environment. Fortunately, there are alternatives to many of the toxic products being sold.

At Healthy Child, we’ve been studying the issue of toxicity in baby and children’s products for over 20 years. We’ve made it our mission to find safe, healthy alternatives.

Where do you begin?

Here are the biggest ways that children are exposed to toxins in the home –

• Toxic Mattresses
• Toxic Air
• Toxic Tap Water

Toxic Mattresses

Begin with what your children are sleeping on. Your child’s mattress is likely to be the most prevalent toxic exposure, since it’s up-close, extensive, and long-term.

Babies sleep on a mattress for 10-14 hours or more a day during their most fragile developmental years. During this time, they are lying directly on the mattress, breathing in and absorbing chemical off-gassing.

Learn more about crib mattresses

Children continue to need protection and they grow older and are sleeping in their own “big-kid” beds. Typical twin, full, queen and king-size beds contain unsafe materials, including flame retardants.

Learn more about kids’ mattresses

Toxic Air

The air inside your home can be more toxic than you realize. Indoor air pollution can cause many different symptoms and may create chronic health issues.

Learn about the solutions to Indoor Air Pollution

Toxic Water

Most tap water in homes is not safe to drink. There are many contaminants in water that have been linked to cancer, hormone disruption, nervous system damage, developmental issues, and fertility problems.

Here is a partial list of contaminants in tap water:

• Pesticides, herbicides
• Solvents, detergents, VOCs
• Lead, mercury, aluminum, arsenic, copper, chromium, cadmium
• Viruses, bacteria, cysts and parasites

Learn how to purify the water in your home

With wildfires in the western US and Canada, the air quality has been quite bad in many areas across the US. Air currents are causing smoke to drift thousands of miles east, bringing dangerously unhealthy air quality readings throughout the US, including the East Coast and the Midwest. With the west being so dry, it’s only going to get worse with more fires.

Children are more susceptible to respiratory irritants because their lungs are still developing, and they breathe faster than adults. Particles from fire smoke can be very small, between 0.4 and 0.7 microns. These particles can be inhaled deeply into the lungs.

Particles from wildfire smoke also increases susceptibility and severity to respiratory infections, including COVID.

The good news is that these particles can be removed from your indoor air with the appropriate air purifier for fire smoke.

Here’s what you can do if your air quality is bad

Stay inside if you can and keep your windows and doors closed. If you’re using an air conditioner, keep the fresh-air intake closed and the filter clean to prevent outdoor smoke from getting inside.

If you need to be outside during poor air quality, don’t rely on dust masks or any sort of cloth mask. Get a mask with a particulate respirator that is “NIOSH-approved” and marked N95, N100 or P100.

Get an air purifier for smoke with a true medical HEPA filter that removes particles down to 0.3 microns. Avoid “ozone air purifiers” and “ionic air purifiers” as these are not effective at removing fine particulates.

HEPA filters alone do not remove chemicals and gases so it’s important to use a HEPA air filter that includes technology that will capture toxic gases and other VOCs in the air.

The EnviroKlenz patented earth mineral technology is a safe and effective technology that utilizes safe earth minerals to capture and destroy airborne toxic and noxious gasses, particulates, allergens, bacteria, viruses, and other allergy triggers. It’s one of the best I have found for efficiency and value.

My heart goes out to all those affected by the wildfires and other tragedies. May we all be safe and feel love and compassion for each other.

Give yourself a break.

Give up trying to be perfect, it’s never going to happen. There is no such thing as perfection in the realm of parenting. It’s messy and chaotic and it can be emotionally draining. It might be the hardest thing you’ll ever do. You may know some moms who seem to have it all together, but if you look deeper, you might find that they have a bunch of flaws too.

No one is getting it right all the time – so it’s time to stop comparing yourself to others! Let go of the need to control others’ perceptions, opinions – and just be you. There is no need to prove yourself to anyone.

This is not a time to have high expectations of yourself. Deep self-acceptance is what’s needed here. Whatever you are doing is enough.

You are more than enough just the way you are, without needing to do or be anything else. I’ll say that again. You are more than enough just the way you are.

How does that feel?

I invite you to make this your ongoing mantra.

“I am more than enough.”

Does it feel silly to say that? Is there another voice inside you saying, No, I’m not enough – because I’m not doing _______ (whatever you feel you should be doing)? We all hold some version of this belief, and it’s time to let it go.

Say these words to yourself every day as often as you remember until that other voice goes away.

“I am more than enough.”

Keep telling yourself this; it’s true.

How are you holding up?

Maybe you’ve got the job of “homeschooler” while also trying to work from home. It’s especially hard if your child struggles with online learning. Maybe you’re having a lot of tough moments. Your kids are probably dealing with strong feelings about missing out on things. You might be worried about the impact of social isolation, too much screen time and continual mask-wearing on your little ones.

You can expect behavior issues from your kids as a normal response to stress. You are likely to be getting more whining, sibling fighting, rudeness, sleep issues, and regression into old behaviors.

And what about you and your need for connection? How are you feeling about your life being interrupted and upended? Are you feeling overwhelmed with all the extra burden?

Parenting is hard enough in normal situations, but this ongoing pandemic can cause a huge amount of stress, anxiety, overwhelm, sadness and heartache for parents.

Take some deep breaths.

What if you saw this as an opportunity?  An opportunity to slow way down and be present and connect with your kids in a deeper way than ever before? To trust that something better can come out of this. If you’ve been longing to have a more fulfilling experience in parenting and a better relationship with your kids, perhaps now is the time.

The most important thing you can do for your family in this challenging time is to cultivate a sense of calm and happiness within yourself so you can create a peaceful home of love and connection. How about creating a state of calm bliss within yourself? Yes, this is possible.

Kids look to their parents to determine how to react to something bad happening. They’re tuning in and watching you carefully to learn how to respond to all the uncertainty. They feel what you’re feeling more than what you are saying. If you’re anxious and tense, they can feel that within themselves.

What do you want your children to remember from this period in time?

The memories that people have during times of crisis get deeply embedded in the subconscious. Impressions that your children pick up during this time will stick with them. They will especially remember how they felt about what was happening – their emotional state. What they will remember most about this time is how it felt to be at home with their family.

What if your children could look back on this time of the big pandemic, and the thing that struck them the most was that their home was a fun and peaceful place of love and connection? And this was a time that they felt the safest and most connected with you?

What if this was the time that they learned how to be calm, grateful and happy – no matter what was happening. It was a period of time in their childhood when they tapped into their inner resiliency, and this changed how they lived the rest of their lives.

Maybe that’s the gift in all of this. This can be the greatest opportunity for you and your family.

What’s important right now is for you to feel as good as you can possibly feel, so your kids can feel your emotional stability, your love and resiliency versus your stress, fear or irritation. Which is why it’s so important to take care of yourself.

You can’t put yourself at the bottom of the list. If you’re depleted, you have nothing to give and everyone suffers. Do you want your kids to have the best of you or what’s left of you? No matter how positive your intentions, you can’t be a good parent when you’re stressed out and depleted. If you’re overloaded and running on empty, you will fall apart when your kids are acting out their own stress.

Self-care. Oh yeah, that.

Self-care has become the new buzzword in parenting. Moms talk about scheduling “me time” as if it’s something that they need to grab on to and make happen somewhere within an already busy and impossible schedule. That’s why it doesn’t happen.

I think about self-care in a much deeper way – it’s re-parenting yourself with love and compassion. If you don’t have time to “do self-care”, you can nurture yourself in small ways throughout the day. You can make moment-to-moment choices to give yourself the love that you so deeply deserve, whether it’s doing small things to make you feel better or simply responding lovingly to your own thoughts. When you shift your energy and how you feel about yourself, it’s amazing how it can change your whole family and what’s happening around you.

There will always be moments when you lose it. We all do. Self-care is making it a habit to tune into yourself throughout the day, regularly monitoring your mood and tending to your thoughts and emotions so you can adjust, rewind, and return to a feel-good state. With practice you can more frequently feel your inner happiness.

So that at the end of the day, you feel good about yourself and not depleted. So that everyone around you feels better.

It’s true that when mom is happy, everyone is happy – and everything goes so much better! How much fun, happiness, joy and bliss can you experience with your kids?

Imagine what it would be like to feel calmer, less overwhelmed and more energized. Imagine what it would be like when you establish a sense of peace and calm in your home. Imagine having deeper levels of connection and conversations with your kids. Maybe they’re even cooperating more and helping out around the house – and rebelling less.

I want to help you get there. I know it won’t happen unless it’s easy to do and doesn’t take much time. So I’ve put together some quick and easy things that will help you find your way. This will go a long way in creating that calm, peaceful home you are looking for amidst the craziness that’s happening all around you. Let’s get you into a state of calm bliss!