Raising Taylor Strong

Raising Taylor Strong Our girl Taylor 💛 Non-Verbal •Mowat-Wilson/Autism • Sharing root-cause support that helped reduce her seizures, ER trips, meltdowns & my burnout.🔬HTMA
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07/22/2026

“Let’s Monitor it.”

“Here’s another prescription.”

“Let’s wait and see.”

I heard this so many times with Taylor that I stopped expecting anything different. We’d be in appointments for hours just for monitoring, no answers, and@always with a new script.

Taylor was One year old with eight different prescriptions and now she’s down to two. I’d walk into appointments with a notebook full of concerns and walk out with a shrug, despair, and a follow up appointment in three months with eight different specialist.

For years, It felt like we lived at the hospital. Then one day I stopped asking and starting searching. “What else can I do to get to the root and not just address the symptom?”

That single shift changed everything for us. Not because the doctors were wrong- we’ll always need them- but because I finally started looking underneath the symptoms instead of just monitoring them from the outside.

If you’ve been told “wait and see” one too many times….you’re not impatient. You’re not overreacting. You’re a parent who knows there’s more to the story. 💛

Now our story is forever evolving just like yours but we can take some control to help out the process.

07/07/2026

I love catching these two ❤️❤️

07/07/2026

If your child struggles with sensory processing, you understand why something so “small” like sitting through an entire movie, is so HUGE. It allows us to do an activity together as a family…..we usually have to pick one parent over the other to go, rarely together, because of her sensory processing.

The dark room, the loud surround sound, sitting still for two hours (well she still barely does that), the crowd, my anxiety…..it was/is just too much. I never give up on trying and we continue to have progress.

One of the biggest things that helped us get here? Changing her diet.

Non-GMO, anti-inflammatory, organic, and replacing deficient minerals. I started improving what was going into her body, and slowly the sensory overwhelm started to ease. She could tolerate more. Regulate a little easier. Handle environments that used to send her over the edge. It didn’t happen overnight - this was years of me working on it. All while burning myself out so don’t do that! So just saying…..if you’re in the thick of the hard sensory days, hang in there. Progress can look like a whole lot of little wins that add up 💛

If you have any “small” wins you’re celebrating with your kiddo. I’d love to hear about it. 👇🏽

06/24/2026

If you have a kid on the spectrum, you already know — the things they decide to do are next level. 😂

No warning. No reason. Just Taylor, fully reclined in the back, deciding the BEST place for her foot is right next to my face while I’m behind the wheel. Why? Couldn’t tell you. Does she think it’s hilarious? Absolutely.

And honestly? These are the moments. The random, ridiculous, “where did THAT come from” things that crack me up and keep me on my toes. Parenting Taylor means I never, ever know what’s coming next — and somewhere along the way I learned to just laugh and roll with it. 💛

Living with a Mowat-Wilson kid in the house means the unexpected is the everyday. You learn to find the funny, because if you didn’t, the wild moments would run you ragged.

So now I HAVE to know I’m not alone in this. 👇🏽

Tell me the craziest, most random thing YOUR kid randomly started doing out of nowhere. The weirder the better — let’s make each other laugh today. 😂💛

Your labs came back “normal”… but you feel anything but. 💚If you’ve been told you’re “just stressed” or “just tired” whi...
06/23/2026

Your labs came back “normal”… but you feel anything but. 💚

If you’ve been told you’re “just stressed” or “just tired” while your body is screaming that something is off — this one’s for you.

Here’s what I wish someone had told me years ago: standard bloodwork is a snapshot. It catches one single moment in time. But the depletion that builds up from years of caregiving stress? That hides in places a routine blood test often doesn’t look.

That’s where HTMA comes in.

Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis is a simple, non-invasive test (just a small hair sample — no needles, no clinic) that reveals your body’s unique mineral blueprint. It shows us 20+ minerals, your adrenal and cortisol patterns, thyroid indicators, and heavy metal burden — the real story behind your burnout, brain fog, and hormone chaos.

And here’s why it matters SO much for moms like us: chronic caregiving quietly drains the exact minerals that regulate cortisol and your hormones. HTMA shows us precisely where you’re depleted — so we can restore your body with precision, not guesswork.

When I finally tested, I learned I was deeply depleted in the very minerals my nervous system needed to cope. That answer changed everything.

You don’t have to keep guessing, mama. You deserve real answers. 💚

Curious what your body’s been trying to tell you? Tap the link in my bio to learn about HTMA. 👉🏽

06/23/2026

I thought the exhaustion was just my life now. The brain fog, the rage that came out of nowhere, the way I’d lie awake at 2am wired and depleted at the same time. I told myself this was just what motherhood looked like. What being a caregiver looked like.

It wasn’t.

It was my hormones. It was perimenopause colliding with years of running on empty. And no one — not one doctor — connected the dots for me.

So I learned to do it myself.

Now I help caregiving moms like you understand what’s actually happening in your body, support your hormones and minerals, and finally stop pouring from a cup that’s been empty for years.

Because here’s the truth I wish someone had told me: you deserve support too. 💚

If you’re a mom who’s always the strong one, the one everyone leans on — follow along. This is your space.

Follow for hormone + mineral support made for moms like us. Free guide in bio. 👆🏽

Nobody handed me a guide for this. 💚For years I blamed myself for the exhaustion, the rage, the brain fog — convinced so...
06/18/2026

Nobody handed me a guide for this. 💚

For years I blamed myself for the exhaustion, the rage, the brain fog — convinced something was wrong with me.

It wasn’t me. It was perimenopause, and almost everything I thought I knew about it was a myth.

Swipe through for the truth no one explained 👉🏽 and save this for the day you need the reminder that you’re not broken — your body is shifting, and shifting bodies deserve support.

Which myth had you fooled? Tell me below 👇🏽

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