Get Your Power Back!

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.

Conquering the Battle Within: Trauma Summit for Parents and Professionals

I was honoured when Shannon VanderZwaag, founder of Love Laugh Lead, asked me to speak for a summit that aims to provide resources for first responders and healthcare professionals, people who both work with others who experience potentially traumatic and stressful events and also have increased opportunity to experience stress and trauma, themselves, due to the nature of their work.
During our interview, we spoke about self-care for healthcare professional as well as self-care for parents who are not healthcare professionals but who serve those roles in their families just the same. We also spoke about the challenges people face (and how to address them) of those who both work in the healthcare field AND play the double duty of being at the head of their own family’s healthcare team.
Listen to our interview and more online and FREE here! Summit starts August 26th!

Mountains Rise from Earthquakes Creative Writing Experience for Parents

As you may know, I not only write newsletters, blog posts, and books. I am also a poet and an essayist with a masters degree in English Literature. I have been facilitating writing classes for the last 21 years, since my firstborn was 9 months old (yep, he’s 22 now!). And teaching writing has been the most rewarding experience of my vocational life. You will see why in a moment.
 
Libraries and bookstores are my churches, and I feel such a sense of satisfaction, of completion and peace when I see the raw, pulsing syllables of my thoughts splashed on the page. I love the freedom creative work can give me to just, well, be flawed, human, AND beautiful. My book was not a place for that. Nor is the social media medium. But my poetry, my creative non-fiction, well, that’s where it gets real.
 
A few months back, I ran into a student who was in the very first workshop I led for adults. She did a double-take as did I before it dawned on us how we knew each other. She told me how important the class was to her and how it changed how she saw herself. Many students have told me this over the years, but it is not me who has done this for them, but through the experience of the class they discovered their own buried insight, value, and wisdom. I only had to shine the light and hold it for them until they saw the details of their own experience. They then realized that their stories mattered, that they mattered. And you matter, too: your stories, your voice, the wisdom you have come to. Writing is an outlet, it helps us to make sense of things, it helps the writer move from strife to beauty, it connects us to others.
 
I had a bad mom day the other day (yes, those still happen when your children get older) and thought to myself, I must connect. I need to create something out of this. Parenting a child who has a big health challenge is a unique experience, and parents never come out unchanged. So, my brain got ticking, and I created a new creative writing program for parents who have had or are having experiences like mine: A Creative Writing Workshop For Parents of Children with Health Challenges (Online).
 
Using the concept of the hero’s journey as both the starting point and the anchor for the workshop, we will explore storytelling as connection with others, self-expression, and making sense of our experiences as parents who have been through a lot in our role as caregiver.
 
If you are interested in this powerful offering, find out more here on the program webpage.
And if you have questions, email directly to [email protected]

Objectives

The Mechanics

Writing fundamentals
 
Poetry and creative non-fiction
 
Storytelling
 
Metaphor and language
 
Receive feedback from the group, Carla, and your assigned partners

The Experience

Weekly

Live workshop instruction (1 hour) each Sunday at 4:00pm Saskatchewan, Canada time (same time zone as Guatemala)
 
1 Introspective Assignment (daily practice) and 1 Expressive Assignment (writing) each week
 

The Possibilities

Find connection and support
 
Heal trauma
 
Find voice and be heard
 
Make sense of your experience
 
Move from burnout to empowerment
 
Turn pain into poetry and strife into wisdom
 
Realize your inner power
 
Become more grounded and present for yourself and families
 
Provide a creative outlet
 
Work through the muck
 
Heal your body and heart
 
Identify your many hero’s journeys
 
 

Course Details

Class Begins: September 20

Duration and Cost: $500CDN (approximately $375USD) for 10 weeks of live ONLINE weekly sessions (recordings of replays will be available), exploratory assignments, and a final project complete with Carla’s feedback.
 
Registration: Registration is on NOW. Since the class is live and crafted for each intimate group, there is a limit to the number of students accepted. Therefore, if you are interested, please don’t wait to register. No application process is required. All you need is the desire to write and the dedication to your own self discovery and healing process.
 
Once registered, you will be emailed the orientation information and login access to our course page.
 
 
What is your hero’s journey?