Category: Events

Your Child and Type 1 Diabetes Quickstart Session Coming Up Fast!

November 8, 2021

Educating on the topic of Type 1 Diabetes and supporting parents who are looking for answers is a passion of mine, as it was my own daughter’s diagnosis that launched me into the work I do today. At the time of her diagnosis, which was 10 years ago now, not many knew or were teaching parents anything about diabetes except carbs in and carbs out, no causes or possibilities, and most people only told me what I couldn’t do, rather than what I could do. And I wasn’t interested in THAT. Especially since the advice was wrong and based on their limitations, not mine, and not my daughter’s. The current  situation remains the same. No quality information, and certainly no solutions. Our family’s journey has been valuable, and I am grateful for it all, yet I think that it can and should be easier for parents who want to go in the right direction from day one, not 10 years from now, but now.

 

During this Quickstart Session, I will walk you through the causes and details of Type 1 Diabetes, the fundamentals of health required for healing, and provide the answers and support you need to get you started on the road to not only better blood sugars, but better health overall: for your child, for your whole family, for you.

 

Date: November 13th, 2021

Time: 1-3pm Saskatchewan, Canada, time.

 

Book a Meet and Greet with Carla to find out more and register.

 

Or cut to the chase and register NOW!

 

Carla Atherton, MA, FDN-P, is the Director of the Healthy Family Formula and the HFF Practitioner Training Academy, Host and Producer of the Children’s Health Summit, Author of Family Health Revolution, Host of the Family Health Revolution Podcast, Empowerment Coach, Holistic Family Health Freedom Consultant, and children’s health advocate. Spurred on by the love for her three glorious and grown children and her husband, Carla’s mission is to support families to achieve their best health through information, guidance, and empowerment.

Carla lives on an acreage in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, where she works from a home office. In addition to empowerment and health coaching and leading “Hero’s Journey” creative writing workshops, Carla also works with families from all over the world on the reversal of conditions such as, Autoimmunity: Type 1 Diabetes, PANDAS/PANS/Autoimmune Encephalitis, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity; Asthma, Allergies, Eczema, and Reactivity; ADHD, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, Learning Disabilities; Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health Disorders, Eating Disorders, ODD; Other Neurological Conditions; Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolic Disorders; Untangling Mystery Symptoms, Complex Cases, and Co-Morbidities (having more than one condition); Mold Illness; Multiple Chemical Sensitivity; Lyme; Other Infection; and Addictions. Carla is on a revolutionary mission to empower families to transcend our new normal of ill health and chronic disease.

Get Your Power Back!

September 15, 2021

I am so excited to announce an exclusive way to work with me AND be a founding member of my new upcoming HFF app!!

6 Week “Get Your Health, Energy, Confidence, Calm, and Power Back: How to Move from Super-Overwhelmed to Superwoman Without Sacrificing Your Active Life and Insatiable Passions” program!

Are you an exhausted, overwhelmed mama or professional wanting to reclaim your energy, joy, and health and the health of your family?

How are you supposed to help yourself and your family if you can’t find the right support? 😱

Is it actually possible to be your healthiest and best self AND heal your children without burning out or falling apart?! 🤯

I bet you’ve tried various doctors and practitioners who either don’t know how to help you or leave you feeling alone and without a plan or support, received well-meaning but inaccurate (and maybe even discouraging) advice from family and friends, searched far and wide on the internet only to find the same old empty or even confusing and conflicting information, or maybe you’ve even turned to medications so that you and/or your children could find some relief… And nothing has quite worked for you, right?

How do you find the ⏰ TIME ⏰ to take care of yourself so that you can “bring it” in your life … if you’re a professional in a caregiving role, a stay at home mother, or both!?

How do you justify spending money on fitness classes, private coaching, supplements, organic food, massages, or other self care if you barely use them, haphazardly and inconsistently engage in them, or if they take time and money “away” from your family?

😨 Why is it so nerve-racking to “let go” and let your family take care of themselves for a while?

Is the constant battle to be everything to everyone really worth it?

Can you really regain your family’s health without burning out and falling apart, yourself?

🤔 And when should you find the time for yourself, time for friends, time for connecting with other mamas like you who are feeling like you feel?

🤔 Should you even spend money on things like supplements, classes, coaching, and personal interests when your loved ones aren’t well, when there are just so many things to pay for and pay attention to?

🤔 Are you eating well, exercising, sleeping well and deeply, meditating, breathing? How often do you engage in these activities and practices?

🤔 What about creating, finding joy, finding your purpose?

STOP. JUST STOP.

If any (or all) of the above questions run through your head… day after day… I might be able to help.

And, while I don’t claim to know it all, I HAVE helped thousands of women who have the same fears and desires as you, to transform their health and the health of their children by creating a sustainable step by step action plan. They call themselves warrior, revolutionary, empowered mamas. 💪

And yet…

Not that long ago, I was in your shoes.

Those early days were rough.

I’d take a step forward only to take three more back. I was drowning in overwhelm, sadness, grief, fear, anger, and loneliness.

If that’s in any way how you feel right now…

Let me give you a road map, so that you stop hitting dead ends or getting lost on back roads, and instead take the fast lane to a body, mind, and attitude that you can be proud of.

Let me show you that you can absolutely revolutionize your family’s health. 💪

👇 Here is what I’m proposing. 👇

I’ve had a TONNE of exhausted, overwhelmed mamas and professionals reach out to me asking for my help.

So, branching from previous programs I have run and the one-on-work I’ve been doing with clients, I had this bright idea to build a step by step plan to guide you from super-overwhelmed to superwoman in 6 weeks.

No fluff. No messing around, just a simple plan to take you from disempowered and feeling lost to empowered and confident.

✅ If you are interested in claiming one of the 10 spots available in my program, email me (clientcare @ healthyfamilyformula.com) or message me on social media with the phrase: “I’m ready to grab the controls and fly the plane.”

👉 More details to follow tomorrow here in this blog, on facebook: facebook.com/healthyfamilyformula, Instagram @hff_revolution, Clubhouse @empoweredfamily, and in my newsletter (sign up on this website)!

May you and your family be well.
Revolutionary Mama,
Carla.

Carla Atherton, MA, FDN-P, Empowerment Coach, Family Health Consultant, is the director of The Healthy Family Formula, host of The Children’s and Teen Health Summit, author of  Family Health Revolution, editor, book junkie, research geek, insatiably curious mother of three grown (son age 23), almost grown (daughter age 20), and growing (daughter age 18) children, one of whom has Type 1 Diabetes. Carla lives on an acreage in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, where she works from a home office with families from all over the world on the reversal of conditions such as, Autoimmunity: Type 1 Diabetes, PANDAS/PANS/Autoimmune Encephalitis, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity; Asthma, Allergies, Eczema, and Reactivity; ADHD, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, Learning Disabilities; Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health Disorders, Eating Disorders, ODD; Other Neurological Conditions; Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolic Disorders; Untangling Mystery Symptoms, Complex Cases, and Co-Morbidities (having more than one condition); Mold Illness; Multiple Chemical Sensitivity; Lyme; Other Infection; and Addictions. Carla is on a revolutionary mission to empower families to transcend our new normal of ill health and chronic disease.

The ADHD Toolkit LIVE!

May 12, 2021

New speaking event coming up!

My friend and colleague, Bob Dietrich, is interviewing me and over 10 other amazing experts on The ADHD Toolbox LIVE!

This FREE video series is packed with tools, strategies, and free gifts and is a must have for any parents and teachers who work with children or teens that have ADHD, autism, Asperger’s, sensory disorder, or any other behavioural or learning challenges.

My topic? Easy Holistic Strategies to Improve Behavioural Challenges.

I am so honoured to be participating again this year, and this time LIVE!

Register FREE here.

Carla Atherton, MA, FDN-P, Family Health Consultant, is the director of The Healthy Family Formula, host of The Children’s and Teen Health Summit, author of  Family Health Revolution, editor, book junkie, research geek, insatiably curious mother of three grown (son age 23), almost grown (daughter age 20), and growing (daughter age 18) children, one of whom has Type 1 Diabetes. Carla lives on an acreage in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, where she works from a home office with families from all over the world on the reversal of conditions such as, Autoimmunity: Type 1 Diabetes, PANDAS/PANS/Autoimmune Encephalitis, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity; Asthma, Allergies, Eczema, and Reactivity; ADHD, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, Learning Disabilities; Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health Disorders, Eating Disorders, ODD; Other Neurological Conditions; Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolic Disorders; Untangling Mystery Symptoms, Complex Cases, and Co-Morbidities (having more than one condition); Mold Illness; Multiple Chemical Sensitivity; Lyme; Other Infection; and Addictions. Carla is on a revolutionary mission to empower families to transcend our new normal of ill health and chronic disease.

Hero’s Journey Creative Writing Experience for Youth

March 12, 2021
I can’t wait to get rolling on another online creative writing program! Creative Writing for Youth (ages 14+; 10 weeks). Teaching writing is my heart!
 
What is your hero’s journey? Led by seasoned writer and creative writing workshop instructor, Carla Atherton, students will attend weekly live zoom calls and write about a variety of topics, personal musings, and life events becoming more self-aware, empowered, less stressed (depressed, anxious), and more centred through the process. It’s a stellar workshop, and no one comes out of it unchanged, not even me, the instructor!
 
Registration is open now; Proposed start date: March 21, 2021; Space is limited; Sundays, 12:45-1:45pm
Register here (note the cost reflects discounted youth programming rates).
Contact Carla for more information.
Email: clientcare at healthyfamilyformula.com
Schedule a 15 minute meet and greet: https://go.oncehub.com/CarlaAtherton

 

Carla Atherton, MA, is the Director of the Healthy Family Formula, Host of the Children’s Health Summit, Health and Nutrition Coach, Writer and Editor, Curriculum Developer, Publisher, Workshop Leader, Yoga Instructor, Health (R)evolutionary, and Children’s Health Advocate.

Carla holds an MA in English Literature with a heavy educational background in Women’s and Gender Studies, Psychology, and Academic, Business, and Creative Writing and also attended Simon Fraser University’s Magazine Editing and Publishing Workshop before she created, published, and acted as editor-in-chief for her magazine, Cahoots, for 8 years.

She has led many workshops in health and wellness, creative writing, philosophy, media studies, essay writing, and critical thinking for children, youth, and adults since 1998 and has written, produced, edited, and delivered thousands of pages of articles and curriculum for online as well as in-person delivery.
On top of being a prolific published author, herself, Carla has 21 years experience in teaching and editing creative writing, composition, non-fiction, memoir, articles, and academic writing in the academic, community, and creative spaces. Carla aids writers to take their projects from conception to fruition, from an idea to an impactful piece of literature that sings with the author’s voice. Her passion is to help others to find voice, find the beauty in their stories, and ultimately  transcend them through mapping out their own hero’s journeys.

What’s the Rush?! Another Important Cause of Stress

March 12, 2021

An excerpt from Family Health Revolution: The Definitive Approach to Elevating Your Family’s Health by Carla Atherton

 

“The fast pace of our lives is vastly contributing to the decline of our mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual health. We live in a culture where being busy isn’t only the norm but is often glorified. In this culture, there’s no time for rest, taking care of our bodies, or listening to our bodies or each other. Tune in to feel the insanity this is causing society as a whole. Picture a traffic jam with honking horns and rude gestures or a long line-up at the grocery store at 5:00 p.m. Imagine you’re feeling imbalanced, didn’t sleep long enough, are hungry, too busy, late for something, or aren’t feeling well with a cold or flu or worse, a chronic condition. These situations can put the body into full-on fight or flight multiple times a day.

 

In our modern culture, there’s little time for patience, and people want things now. We’ve become accustomed to instant gratification and often don’t notice the beauty of our earth, the people around us, or ourselves. If we don’t take notice, it’s harder to be grateful for what we have. If we don’t pay attention, we don’t care, and if we don’t pay attention to ourselves, we miss signs and symptoms of brewing disease and ill health. The speed at which modern families live gives rise to the quick fix and medicalization of health, without addressing what’s driving the decline in mental and physical wellness.

 

Again, human beings aren’t supposed to live under chronic stress. When the body gets tired and can’t cope with the stress any longer, imbalance occurs, then disease, then symptoms, and if it’s bad enough, death. In order to reduce stress and thereby give the body an opportunity to heal and ultimately become dis-ease-free, significant shifts can be made. We can address external stressors through making changes to jobs and relationships that are toxic to us and employ stress-relieving activities, such as meditation and exercise. We can also address internal stressors by first identifying them then taking action to heal using functional/lifestyle/radical medicine and a holistic approach. The first step in reducing stress is to identify how we view our lives: what we do every day, how we handle situations, and if we respect and listen to the body and act upon those discoveries.

 

It’s impossible and not necessary to eradicate all stressors in life. Stress can actually be a positive force in that it can increase our chance of survival when we need to take quick action in a dangerous situation. It’s when stress becomes chronic that it starts to harm us; therefore, it is important to understand how to manage the stress that is not an imminent threat to our survival. We won’t die if we don’t get to that appointment on time, but our bodies will react as if we will. Add all of those stressful moments of every day together, and you have a body wired, tired, worn out, and chronically ill.

 

Some stressors can be dealt with by modifying lifestyle, such as exposure to toxins, nutrition, and exercise. You can control the amount and quality of sleep you get, eat healthy foods, reduce your exposure to toxins, eliminate food from your diet you’re sensitive or allergic to, exit bad relationships, and even change how you think and act by employing mental exercises and exploring spiritual philosophies and practices. (Refer to Part III of the book).

 

For the issues we can’t always control, such as accidents, physical injury, and infection, by nurturing ourselves and bodies in every way, keeping our immune, detoxification, and digestive systems functioning well, by maintaining a healthy brain, and by freeing our bodies from the burdens of unhealthy lifestyle choices so they can focus on healing, we can recover much more quickly and fully when disaster strikes or when we’re challenged with a problem we couldn’t prevent.”

Take control of your family’s health! Order the full book here!

And if you order now, you will receive the Companion Guide FREE with your purchase!

 

Carla Atherton, MA, FDN-P, Family Health Consultant, is the director of The Healthy Family Formula, host of The Children’s and Teen Health Summit, author of  Family Health Revolution, editor, book junkie, research geek, insatiably curious mother of three grown (son age 22), almost grown (daughter age 20), and growing (daughter age 18) children, one of whom has Type 1 Diabetes. Carla lives on an acreage in rural Saskatchewan, Canada, where she works from a home office with families from all over the world on the reversal of conditions such as, Autoimmunity: Type 1 Diabetes, PANDAS/PANS/Autoimmune Encephalitis, Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, and Celiac Disease and Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity; Asthma, Allergies, Eczema, and Reactivity; ADHD, Autism, Sensory Processing Disorder, Learning Disabilities; Depression, Anxiety, Mental Health Disorders, Eating Disorders, ODD; Other Neurological Conditions; Obesity, Type 2 Diabetes, and Metabolic Disorders; Untangling Mystery Symptoms, Complex Cases, and Co-Morbidities (having more than one condition); Mold Illness; Multiple Chemical Sensitivity; Lyme; Other Infection; and Addictions. Carla is on a revolutionary mission to empower families to transcend our new normal of ill health and chronic disease.

Trauma Mind Body Superconference

June 19, 2020
Oh, you guys, I am sooooooooo excited about this! I have the great honour and privilege to be speaking along with my most trusted and revered gurus in health and wellness during the Trauma Mind Body Superconference! I am absolutely humbled (and quite frankly star-struck) to be amongst this exceptional group of health luminaries and revolutionaries. DO NOT miss this one – 90 speakers on:
 
Mind and Body
Brain, Nervous System, and Somatic
Functional Medicine
Energetic Approaches
Social and Developmental
 
Including Dr. Joe Dispenza, Dr. Christiane Northrup, Dr. Datis Kharrazian, Dr. Tom O’Bryan, Lynne McTaggart, Dr. Isabella Wentz, Dr. Elisa Song, Dr. Kelly Brogan, Dr. Ben Lynch, Dr. Jeff Bland, Dr. Stephen Porges, Dr. Joe Mercola, Dr. Lissa Rankin, Nick Ortner, Caroline Myss, Pedram Shojai, Mastin Kipp, Dr. Deitrich Klinghardt, Dr. Christine Schaffner, Jodi Cohen, Dr. Peter Levine, Dr. Aristo Vojdani, Dr. Neil Nathan, Dr. Carrie Jones, Donna Gates, Dr. William Walsh, Dr. Gerald Pollack, Dr. Rollin McCraty, Wendy Meyers, Jason Prall, Lloyd Burrell, Dr. Gabor Mate, James Maskell, the list goes on and on and on.
 
Find me in the Social and Developmental category!

Healthy Gut Happy Child Summit

May 4, 2018

In functional medicine, we are learning more and more about how the health of the gastrointestinal tract affects every aspect of our lives on this planet. It is the singlemost important factor in health.

Why? Well, for instance, our bodies are heavily colonized by tiny organisms that together make up our microbiota, and these little critters are either opportunistic and pollute our bodies with toxicity or are beneficial creating nutrients such as B vitamins and digesting our food for us to absorb into the bloodstream – they are a massive part of our immune and digestive systems, and the status of the microbiota determines our mental and cardiovascular health, as well.

And this is only a teeny tiny part of the story. The passage from our mouths to our bottoms is clearly the most important life journey. What goes in and what comes out are significant factors in whether we live a long and vital life or if we become plagued with illness and disease.

Learn more about GI health by over 20 experts in this exciting field at the Healthy Gut Happy Child Summit 2! And catch my talk there, as well, where brilliant host Elissa Arnheim and I talk about some of the basics of good GI health as well as one enemy of gut health that most of us are missing, EMF exposure.

Don’t miss it!

Beyond Your Wildest Genes Podcast Interview

August 1, 2017

I had the honour of being interviewed for The Centre for Epigenetic Expression’s wildly popular podcast, Beyond Your Wildest Genes, and it was just released today!

Description of the interview:

In this interview, we introduce you to our friend, Carla Atherton, Creator and Director of The Healthy Family Formula. She is a family health coach, mother of three teens, and a family health professional and advocate, and has started a Family Health Revolution that we all should be a part of! Here we talk about what we are facing as to the ill state of our children’s health, that childhood chronic illness is on the rise, and how we can use the principles of functional medicine and lifestyle medicine to turn this alarming trend around.

Over the last 5 years, Carla has been working to help reverse this trend and has developed some powerful and effective family health coaching programs that I want you to know about:

  1. Children’s Health Revolution: Raising Whole Healthy Children in Our Ailing, Modern World Family Health Coaching Program (Basic Family Health Coaching Program)
  2. Optimizing the Health of Children with Chronic Illness Program
  3. Optimizing the Health of Children with Type 1 Diabetes Program
  4. Healthy Parent, Healthy Baby Program
  5. Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: Mental Health Program
  6. Untangling Autism and ADHD Program

When Carla’s own daughter received an upsetting diagnosis in 2012, she and her family were launched into a new life of needles and doctors and dead ends. And after experiencing the ups and downs of parenting a child with chronic illness and recognizing what was not available to her and her family, she found the answers, herself. She set out on a mission to make sure that she would be the support she had so much trouble finding and to provide the information she spent years gathering with as many parents who need it. And she has developed a unique, empowering, and life-changing way to help people prevent ill health and regain, recover, and maintain truly good health: The Healthy Family Formula, which is the result of researched, cutting edge information + professional, attentive support, and the online Healthy Family Formula family health coaching programs.

Do you have a child with a diagnosis? Do you have a diagnosis? Or do you simply want to feel better, have your children feel better, to move past ADHD, fatigue, obesity, autoimmunity, and other conditions that are affecting your life? Do you know there is more that you can do but are not sure where to start?

Then listen to this podcast!

 

 

Moms: Stop Juggling Symptoms and Jumpstart Your Family’s Health, Vitality, and Happiness.

June 19, 2016

Have you been madly juggling your family health and are finding that you are getting tired of the juggle? Have you been having trouble keeping all of the balls in the air these days, and one more ball in the air just might put you over the brink? Are you ready for some help in putting some of that burden down, to find simple yet effective answers to your fatigue, burn-out, and level of stress? Are you ready to seek out what is creating your ill health and finally to lead your family into not only good, but optimal health?

Click Here

Learn how to lead your family to greater health, vitality, and happiness

I created this 30-day challenge to help people to stop accepting that feeling like crap all the time and succumbing to diseases like diabetes and ADHD and obesity as the new normal. It may be common, but not healthy, to feel headachy, exhausted, depressed, and maxed out every day. It should not be normal for your children to feel this way, either. People need to know that there is a better way to live that can be achieved by adjusting lifestyle, eating right, moving more, and paying attention. When you start to pay attention to what you are putting into your mouth and mind, once you slow down and assess and respond to what your body needs, you are guaranteed to feel better, and once you know what that is like, you will never go back to the new normal again. That won’t be good enough for you or your family anymore.

I have been there. Forgetting what it was like to actually have abundant energy every day or what it was like to spring out of bed ready to meet the day’s challenges rather than dragging myself through it. I thought the struggle was something we all did. I thought I was prone to migraines and that popping Advil was something I had to do to get by. I thought Tylenol was the answer to my children’s fevers. I thought I was just one of those people who got bloated when I ate bread, but I still ate the bread. I never thought to look for the causes. Until I started to get fat and my knees started to give me trouble and my fatigue caused me to fall asleep while reading to my children and in the middle of a sentence. I started to heal myself through investigating why I was getting sick.. And then my daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes. That’s when I really gave my head a shake. Something just didn’t compute. And I knew that there was more to this thing called health.

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August 15

June 19, 2016

Do You Need Help? Family Health Coaching. Why You Need a Plan.

August 9

June 19, 2016

Children’s Health Through Building Community and Tribal Parenting with webinar or video.

August 2

June 19, 2016

How to Get What You Need from Your Healthcare Team.

July 26

June 19, 2016

Healthcare, Not Sickcare: Building Family Health.

July 19

June 19, 2016

What is Functional Family Health? Why You Need to Know

July 12

June 19, 2016

Raising Healthy Kids.

July 5

June 19, 2016

Back to the Basics: Why We Need to Relearn What We Have Been Taught About Health.

June 28

June 19, 2016

The Most Common Illnesses in Children.