Close your eyes and imagine a fruit tree – a tree with great potential to bare amazing fruit, but right now it is stuck, has little fruit, and it needs help. Now imagine you are given the job of supporting the health and fruit growth of that tree. Where would you start? Would you start at the leaves and forget about the roots? Most of us know that without water, nutrient filled soil, and sun, all trees eventually become unhealthy, and will likely bare little or no fruit.

At Feeding Futures we see emotional regulation, advances in development, and increased mental health as wonderful fruit growing on a strong and supported tree. Unfortunately, new clients often come to us with years of therapies and interventions that have ignored the roots of their tree. Sadly, many of the most common Autism, ADHD and Anxiety interventions try to fix the lack of fruit by only watering the leaves. It is easy to see why most interventions don’t work for the long term, and why they can often cause further issues.

To carry the tree analogy further, our nervous system is like the trunk of a tree, the trunk needs to bring all the great stuff from the roots to the very top of the tree. Through years of work, we know this to be true – we cannot address any developmental or emotional challenges without helping to fully support a Healthy Nervous System, which starts at the roots.

A Healthy Nervous System Is Rooted In:

Quality Sleep
Nutrition – Adding in Good and Taking Out Offenders
Exercise
Positive Safe Relationships
Play
Sunshine
Nature
Sensory Integration
A Calm & Regulated Body

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