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As a Certified Child and Brain Development Nutritional Advisor, Iâm able to:
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- Understand the impact of nutrition on a childâs IQ, cognitive capacity, memory, concentration, reading, spelling, writing, academic potential, and learning issues such as dyslexia and dyspraxia
- Perform child-health risk assessments, including brain function, reading and writing, hyperactivity symptoms, blood sugar imbalances, and fatty acid, phospholipid, and amino acid deficiency risks
- Track a childâs growth, body mass, height, and body composition, and use scientific formulas to estimate their daily caloric needs, adjusted for boys and girls, age, metabolism, and activity level
- Build a personalised nutritional programme considering a childâs gender, age, and individual calculations of protein, carbohydrate, and fat; assess, plan, and monitor food and fluid intake
- Identify the risks of obesity and diabetes, which factors lead to unhealthy fat gain, the role of inherited genes, and apply strategies to achieve a healthier body weight
- Share advanced knowledge on the links between nutrition and a childâs brain, mood, behaviour, depression, aggression, ADHD, autism, and epilepsy, including dietary considerations
- Evaluate parental influences on a childâs food choices, rate the effectiveness of their feeding behaviours, put forward methods for mitigating picky eating, and conduct taste training games
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As a Certified Fertility Nutritional Advisor, Iâm able to:
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- Understand the science of how reproductive organs work and understand the importance for this in helping my clients conceive
- Assist my clients in tracking their menstrual cycle length, body temperature, cervical mucus, and luteinising hormone surge
- Analyse my client´s menstrual cycle data in order to estimate her fertile window and her day of ovulation for her following menstrual cycle
- Estimate my client´s time to conception based on how often and when she is able to have sexual intercourse
- Identify factors which may lower fertility odds such as a poor diet, poor sleep, stress, and harmful chemicals
- Perform health risk assessments and symptoms of common medical conditions which would need to be referred to a medical doctor
- Be able to explain and coach my clients on how the foods they eat impact their fertility hormones and reproductive cycles â and suggest how my clients can use this knowledge to change their nutrition and improve fertility odds
- Share advanced knowledge on conditions which may reduce my client's chances of having a child, including endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, premature ovarian failure, and more
- Explain the fundamentals of assisted reproductive techniques such as in vitro fertilisation, intrauterine insemination, and intracytoplasmic sperm injection
- Help my clients gain a deeper understanding of the importance of male fertility and how to help boost his fertility odds too!
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As a Certified Stress Management Advisor, I'm able to:
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- Understand and explain the impact of internal triggers, thoughts and emotions, which can lead to feeling overwhelmed, anxious, fearful, worried, or angry, elevating risk for stress
- Evaluate factors which may be increasing your stress, including family, work, relationships, trauma, rumination, negative thinking, and other lifestyle behaviours.
- Perform health risk assessments to evaluate levels of perceived stress, anxiety levels, potential stressors, thought patterns, emotional regulation, work burnout, parental strain, and more
- Share and explain advanced knowledge on the link between stress and mood disorders, including social anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and toxic anger
- Help you to change your mindset and reprogramme your subconscious mind using Hypnotherapy, Guided meditation and Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Teach you how your mindset can influence your interpretation of events, and how this changes your perceived level of stress or overwhelm.
- Help you to understand how your genetic make-up may play a role in your reaction to trying circumstances, but how your environment and internal reactions have a larger influence.Â
- Assess what current coping strategies you use to deal with stress; these may be positive, such as exercise or negative, such as overeating.
- To build a personalised stress management program, considering your individual, main external stress causes and internal triggers
- Help you create a personalised go-to list of techniques to build your stress resilience based on nutrition, exercise, sleep, thought patterns, emotional intelligence, mindset, and so on
- Coach and track your stress progress over time, including levels of perceived stress, anxiety, growth mindset, positive affect, exercise, and sleep
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As a Certified Sleep Management Advisor, Iâm able to:
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- Explain the impact of not getting either enough sleep or having poor quality rest, and how it can impact other areas of your life, including work productivity, parenting and cognitive functioning
- Teach you the role of circadian rhythms and how a misalignment between your own internal sleep-wake cycle and your social calendar can lead to increased health complications
- Evaluate factors in your environment which can be disrupting your sleep, including room -temperature, bed comfort, lights, noises, kids, pets, partners and more
- Help you create a personalised sleep environment and bedtime routine to limit distraction and increase comfort
- Perform health risk assessments to evaluate levels of daytimes sleepiness, perceived stress, overweight risk, physical activity, and more
- Show you how the foods that you consume regulate your sleep hormones and your circadian rhythms, and how you can use this knowledge to support a restorative rest
- Explain advanced knowledge on sleep disorders, including insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnoea, and parasomnias
- Build a personalised sleep program, just for you, considering your individual goals, and your own internal clock, and external detractors as well as personalised hypnotherapy scripts and audios you can take to bed with you to help aid a restorative night's sleep
- Track your sleep progress over time, including time slept, quality of sleep, daytime tiredness, and social jetlag
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As a Certified Nutritional Therapist, Iâm able to:
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- Help you to recognise the impact of nutrition on health and gene expression and understand the relationship between free radicals and DNA damage
- Analyse antioxidant capacity and put forward nutritional recommendations to increase antioxidant protection
- Help you to understand the influence of plant-based foods, polyphenols, phytochemicals, probiotics, and fibre on health promotion and disease prevention
- Perform nutritional assessments, detect probable nutrient deficiency risks, and formulate personalised dietary strategies to help correct them
- Identify which factors either increase the bioavailability of required nutrients or hinder their absorption and utilisation
- Build personalised food plans to help improve your health symptoms and put forward nutritional recommendations for common health conditions
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As a Certified Detox Specialist, Iâm able to:
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- Perform symptom assessments, evaluate detoxification capacity, and put forward tailored nutritional recommendations to enhance detoxification
- Recognise sources of exogenous and endogenous toxins, identify symptoms of exposure, and devise nutritional strategies to help you alleviate them
- Build personalised short-term nutritional plans based on current state of health and detoxification goals; assess, plan, and monitor nutrient intake
- Identify your risks of exposure to toxin types, such as mutagens, genotoxins, neurotoxins, mycotoxins, carcinogens, heavy metals and petrochemicals
- Help you Understand internal elimination and biochemical detoxification pathways, which particular nutrients enhance them, and which agents hinder them
- Analyse your diet, sleep and hydration journals, help you organise shopping lists, offer cooking or recipe ideas, track your progress, and monitor food reintroduction
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As a Certified Dietary Supplements Advisor, I Can:
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- Perform symptom assessments, evaluate nutrient deficiencies, analyse antioxidant capacity, and provide dietary and supplemental advice
- Provide test results with personalised recommendations and adjust doses for exercisers, children, teenagers, pregnant women, and people over 50
- Calculate exact dosing for each nutrient and how to obtain these from either whole foods and/or supplements
- Interpret supplement labels, including chemical names and ingredients used as fillers, binders, lubricants, and coatings
- Identify the best supplements to recommend, how they interact, and exactly how and when to take them
- Evaluate toxicity, safety, and side effects of vitamins and minerals and requirement for phytochemicals, enzymes, probiotics, and fibre
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As a Certified Clinical Weight Loss Practitioner, Iâm able to:
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- Perform a body composition assessment, weight history evaluation, and metabolic analysis, assess health risk, and track anthropometric changes
- Identify symptoms of food addiction, food intolerances, acute stress, or circadian irregularities, and make recommendations to alleviate them
- Evaluate food records, fluid intake, and fitness level, and build you a personalised nutritional, activity and lifestyle programme for effective fat loss
- Identify your main triggers of food cravings and overeating, how your hunger hormones are regulated, explain and coach you in dieting psychology, and weight re-gain predictors
- Calculate your individual protein, carbohydrate and fat requirements for weight loss, and adjust a diet plan based on your activity level and metabolic needs
- Help you to apply advanced strategies for successful fat loss, including SCM coaching techniques, motivational systems, and personality typing
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What is The U URSELF ROUTINE?
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It's a tried and tested routine that I've been using to help parents prevent Parental Burnout and guide children over the past 20 years.
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Most parenting problems are simply down to a lack of clear and consistent rules and routines. Yet these are your keys to FREEDOM.
You wouldn't build a house without a blueprint to follow, so why would building happy, healthy children be left to luck?Â
And why put all that pressure on yourself to wing it?
When starting out as first time mums, we're not trying to reinvent the wheel. If there's a proven way that can guide you, gleaned from the knowledge, expertise and experience of billions of mums before you, why not follow that?
The U URSELF Routine is one routine that covers seven different areas. These are all co-dependant on one another. To help you remember the seven parts of the routine, below is a mnemonic to remind you of each one, using the words âYou Yourselfâ abbreviated, and spelt U URSELF.Â
- U = U time
- U = Us time
- R = Recreation
- S = Sleep
- E = Esteem
- L = Love
- F = Food
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Together these are The U URSELF Routine. They're a perfect guide of what every child needs, and why, to be happy, healthy, and successful. Following this routine will help you to plan and prepare your child's day and trouble shoot any issues.
One area depends on another, so even if your child has a consistent bedtime routine, if you don't also look at your child's recreational and eating habits too, that'll affect their behaviour.
Like a missing piece of the puzzle, leaving out one area will fail to give you the complete picture. All the pieces or parts of the routine need to be tackled at the same time.
We all do it. We focus on an area we feel is the problem and focus on that one area, failing to find a solution to our children's unwanted behaviour.
Thatâs because you need to include your childrenâs habits in all areas, even the ones you're happy with that cause no issues.
They may be a good eater, but what are they eating and when?
Eating habits and nutrition can all affect their quality of sleep and cause sleep problems.
Who Cares for YOU If You Donât?
U Time comes first in the U URSELF Routine because âYouâ are the most important part of the routine and the most important person in your childâs life.
All the routines and rules in the world wonât make a difference, unless you yourself, are in a good place to carry them out ) hence the âYou Yourselfâ or âU URSELF Routineâ).
Your child will challenge your rules and routines and thatâs normal. That can be exhausting for you. Often, the easiest option seems to give in. But you have to remain strong when they rebel or they will be in control.
Your child's health and happiness relies on you to take the lead, so your health and well -being are vitally important.
U Time is exactly thatâtime for âYou.â
To build that inner strength and confidence you need to coach, teach and guide your child. And to nurture yourself.
As mum's it's common for us to neglect our own health when weâre busy. The only time we really appreciate our health is when weâre unwell or unable to function. Our lack of health and well-ness then takes center stage.
Its time to appreciate your wonderful body and mind, and stop apologizing for taking a break or doing something for yourself. Itâs okay to take good care of you and do the things you enjoy, without feeling guilty.
Self-care should be your priority foremost.
I mean, who cares for YOU if you donât?
Life has a funny way of slowing us down and making us conscious.
This can come as a physical illness, an unexpected accident, or burnout.
Feeling your bodyâs discomfort and not being able to do what you want, is the surest sign from Life, itâs time to slow down and reassess.
Life challenges you to take time and space to think and reflect on those habits you rarely, if ever, notice.
Mumatherapy offers courses, programs and 1:1 parent coaching, to help you prevent parental burnout and unhelpful or unhealthy habits. Using meditation and hypnosis to help you relax and restore. The much awaited, on-line, guided meditation course- From Burnout to Being, helps busy mum's on the verge of Parental Burnout to rebalance and reset. There can be no better use of your time than that.
Even the most outgoing and sociable amongst us, need some alone time to plan, ponder, reflect, and recuperate.
But you neednât wait until youâre forced, or itâs too late!
âU Timeâ should be an everyday, self-care, priority.
Self-care means
sleeping well
eating healthily
exercising
meditating
learning
laughing
Spending time with loved ones, and doing things you enjoy.
Not just a soak in a bubble bath!
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  WHO CARES FOR YOUR CHILD IF YOU CANâT?
If youâve ever flown on an aeroplane, youâll be familiar with the safety drill, put on your own safety vest and masks before your childrenâs.
Taking care of âYouâ is a priority because if you donât, then you wonât be able to care for your child or anyone else. Yet many selfless mum's put the needs of others, especially their childrenâs, before their own.
You are not being selfish by taking care of your own needs before anyone elseâs. Itâs essential. If you donât, youâll burnout.
A happy parent equals a happy child.
Never neglect or underestimate the importance of time for yourself.
You can read more about The U URSELF Routine in,  The Confident Parentâs Guide to Raising a Happy, Healthy & Successful Child and The Powerful Proactive Parentâs Guide to Present Parenting.
You can find both books from all good book retailers worldwide including Amazon, in paperback, audiobook, Kindle, Audible and iTunes versions.
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