The fever is here.
The cough won’t quit.
The anxiety is building.

This is a simple, core treatment to build your child’s qi to keep them healthy in all the ways. You will learn the difference between the qi we are born with and the qi we make every day from food and breath, and how to build “true qi,” the refined energy that circulates in the channels, nourishes every organ, powers the immune system, and keeps your child calm, centered, and resilient. When this is strong, your child has beautiful nutritive energy running through their core and a protective field around them. This is your maintenance treatment. Everything else builds from here.

So many babies are prone to gas, constipation, reflux, and colic. Their digestive organs are inherently immature and they are adapting to a bright, cold world full of gravity. We have to help their qi find its way. I will teach you tui na techniques you can do while you are already holding your baby, massaging the spine, the palms, and the abdomen to harmonize and descend qi, move food stagnation, and warm trapped cold. Together we can make your baby much more comfortable and you can shower every new mother!

At some point, every child gets a belly ache so this treatment alone is worth the course. If it’s chronic you can do this daily and will see incredible results. I’ll show you how to optimize digestion and move stagnant qi. I will teach you how to roll the spine, knead the abdomen, and use specific stomach channel points to get things moving immediately. It just takes minutes to get rid of stomach pains.

This is one of the most important modules I will ever teach you because a fever is an incredible opportunity to vent pathogens. A fever is also what frightens parents most. A fever is the immune system turned on high so it can burn up a pathogen. When we suppress a fever, we suppress the immune response along with it and can push pathogens deeper into the body where they will linger. In this module I will teach you how to help the body vent heat outward so your child is more comfortable and less inflamed, while their immune system can still do its job. It’s incredibly empowering to do a few tricks on your child’s body and watch the temperature decrease immediately! I don’t want you panicking, I want you knowing exactly what to do.

You will learn how external pathogens, what Chinese medicine calls wind, cold, heat, and damp, enter the body and what to do the moment you feel something coming on. Gua sha on the neck and back at the first sign of a cold is one of the easiest and most powerful tools in this course. I will also teach you how to treat the face, clear phlegm and heat, and address the cough so you can nip it before it settles in. I’ll share my favorite pediatric herbs to take the moment any signs come on so it never turns into anything but a little stuffy nose.

When we go to sleep at night, the qi from the exterior moves toward the core to rest and regenerate. Our blood is the anchor for our spirit at night. When children have trouble sleeping, there is almost always some blood deficiency. The spirit has no cushy bed to rest in. I will teach you how to nourish that blood, calm the shen (mind-spirit), and build a simple nighttime routine using acupressure, tui na on the forearm and scalp, and adjustments that actually help your child (and you) settle, stay asleep, and wake restored. You’re welcome!

Anxiety can come from a number of disharmonies, but all anxious children benefit from teaching the heart and kidneys how to communicate again. The heart holds joy. The kidneys hold faith and security. When they lose their connection, anxiety moves in. Think of it as couples communication therapy for two organs that have forgotten how to dance. I will teach you the specific points and tui na to restore that conversation and anchor the spirit back into the body. What a gift we can give these children by stopping this potential cascade of anxiety into their adulthood.

ADHD is a symptom, not a disease. It is usually a pattern of deficient yin and excess yang, heat rising to the head with nothing to anchor it. I differentiate the daydreamer type, floating away because there is no anchor, or the hyperactive type, overwhelmed by heat and unable to settle. The treatments are slightly different but easy to combine for the child with both manifestations. This is one of the most common conditions I treat in my office and I know how much families can suffer from the outbursts and power struggles that the lack of anchor can bring to a child’s spirit. This will help so much!

Pain is simply stagnation of qi and blood. I’ll show you simple ways to move that so the body can be free again. Children heal so quickly, but we can help move things along with acupressure, instead of just freezing it with ice that drives pathology deeper. I’ll show you an herbal oil, a stone, and acupressure seeds that keep qi flowing while the body is healing.

This module is non-judgmental and grounded in empowerment, not fear. Whatever you decide about vaccines, this module gives you the tools to prepare your child’s body before vaccination and support their recovery after. I will explain what happens in the body from a Chinese medicine perspective and give you a specific protocol to keep your child as balanced and strong as possible throughout the process.