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7 STEPS TO INCREASE YOUR CHILD’ S
HEALTH and
Happiness
BY AMANDA HINMAN
Sometimes it takes a serious health challenge, ours or our childrens, to reconnect us with our health, vitality and our joy. From personal experience I’ ve come to believe that our children’ s health challenges are directly linked to the area of OUR greatest growth potential as mothers. When we, as moms, deeply understand, accept, and learn to appreciate the transformation that unfolds as we guide our children to vibrant health and happiness, we release our own self-defeating habits and are able to reach for the stars.
I broke through my own limiting beliefs and discovered my passion for the healing and supportive work I do today as a Family Health Coach, speaker, and author after my oldest daughter started having seizures at age 8.
I’ ll never forget the Sunday afternoon that April when I was standing at the kitchen sink making dinner and heard grunting sounds. I turned over my shoulder to see my daughter, Julia, hunched and convulsing and drooling from the mouth. My child was having a
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