Who is this sooz?!
Hi, it’s me, Sooz, your Holistic Wellness Mentor.
If you’re here, I likely have a soul contract with your child that has guided you and there’s something they want you to know that they need help expressing. I’m here for it.
I’m an obscenely experienced nanny and educator using Medical Medium® information and my decades of experience working with children to help grown-ups raise thriving kids and evolve into their fullest, most authentic selves.
Most resources out there pertaining to raising kids don’t account for the physiology of the child or the life-changing properties of the holy foods Mother Earth has gifted us and they don’t recognize our children triggering us as a sacred invitation to heal.
To me, these are the foundations of raising kids.
I bring an effortless blend of practical, no-nonsense tips for addressing behavioral challenges and getting healing tools into little bodies, plus divinely guided wisdom for navigating our grown-up triggers and trauma responses that impact the family dynamic.
I believe our children are supposed to trigger us, that it’s part of their divine purpose here on Earth. I believe those triggers are a gift and that raising kids is the PhD program for the soul.
i can help with
I have a knack for all things food, sleep, and behavior. I am fluent in child and adept at translating their words and behaviors into something grown-ups can understand. I am also deeply intuitive and often receive messages directly from the children themselves.
I offer support for all things raising kids including food for children, encouraging picky eaters and introducing new foods, solving behavioral challenges, soothing sleep issues, mitigating temper tantrums and meltdowns, supporting sensitive and divergent nervous systems, meeting physiological needs, reaching developmental milestones, navigating grown-up triggers and stored trauma, the unflattering emotions that come with raising kids that no one talks about, reducing overwhelm, chronic illness, strep, EBV, sensory processing disorder, autism, ADHD, PTSD, rashes, PANDAS, acne, raising kids while healing yourself, cleansing with kids, and more.
I often recommend foods and/or supplements to include, foods to avoid, angels to work with, lifestyle tweaks, somatic tools, and I even walk you through what to say and what to do and how to do it and why for those especially tricky situations.
*Please note: this is NOT for you if your child is experiencing a medical emergency. I am not a medical professional of any kind and I cannot help with emergency situations. I am an expert at the all day every day challenges of raising kids.
I’ve been working with children for the better part of three decades, as a babysitter, a professional nanny and household manager, and an educator. The children I’ve had the honor of working with have taught me everything I know.
Children truly are my life’s work.
I started out working in the church nursery when I was 9 years old (such an upgrade from sitting in a pew listening to the sermon), got my first paid babysitting job at age 11 (he was 6 months old with cloth diapers and metal diaper pins and plastic pants omg), and I’ve been working with kids in some form ever since.
I’ve done tons and tons and tons of babysitting, I’ve been a professional nanny and household manager for over 14 years, and I worked as a teaching artist and educator for seven years. I’ve lived, worked, and studied in many different places around the U.S. and abroad, with kids and grown-ups in many different homes and schools, with wildly different resources, which has helped me to develop a deeply intuitive understanding of children’s needs and motivations and a knack for easily interpreting and supporting the most confounding behavior.
For the past two years, I’ve been working with grown-ups all over the world as a mentor, providing support and guidance along this wild ride of raising kids.
Experience
As a caregiver:
I worked with infants, toddlers, school-aged children, several different sets of twins, nanny shares, only children, multiple children, work from home parents, parents who worked and traveled extensively away from the home, establishing sleep and feeding schedules, breast-fed babies, formula-fed babies, preparing healthy meals and snacks, homemade baby food, school lunches, family meals, teaching calm and effective communication skills, potty training, registering for classes and activities, helping with homework and school projects, driving to/from classes and activities, playdates, purchasing clothing and toys, sensory processing disorder, ADHD, hearing loss, sleep issues, picky eaters, tantrums, meltdowns, RV life, international travel, domestic travel, packing suitcases, moving the household, and SO MUCH MORE for so many families.
As an educator:
I specialized in arts integration, weaving art and digital media into academic curriculum to provide more accessible entry points for learners. I was lead teacher in multiple in-school and after-school K-8 programs, teaching a variety of subjects including photography, writing, yoga, nutrition, science, and various art forms. I worked with diverse learners ranging from kindergarten through college, in public and private schools. I also collaborated with and mentored classroom teachers, developing curriculum and designing assessment tools together, co-teaching, teaching professional development workshops, and helping them integrate the arts into their own teaching styles.
As a mentor:
A big part of what I do is helping to interpret children’s behavior and connect the dots so that their grown-ups are better able to use their intuition to apply MM info. If you haven’t raised a lot of kids, it’s hard to know what’s normal and what’s not, where to hold the line and where to bring in more support, and when you’re living a different lifestyle than many of your friends and family members it can be extra confusing. I shed light on what is actually going on.
Every session is a combination of tricks and tools you can implement right away to make life easier, guidance toward that deeper soul work and self-discovery your kids are nudging you about, and some basic translation of your children’s behaviors so you can better understand them.
I’m a witchy hippie who loves astrology, crystals, tarot, angels, magic, and the healing power of plants. I’ve lived through developmental, relational, and religious trauma, which put me on this quest to learn what children need to thrive and how to make sure they get it.
I’m one of those people who’s been sick my whole life and didn’t fully realize it until I began healing with MM and symptoms I didn’t know were symptoms began to disappear. Over the past 7+ years, I’ve healed more than 100 symptoms including issues with digestion, skin, nervous system, menstruation, mental health, liver, and adrenals caused by strep, EBV, shingles, and toxic heavy metals. It’s only now that I’m finally starting to learn what it’s like to feel good.
I still remember vividly how it felt to be a kid, to struggle, to feel miserable physically and emotionally, and to not realize that life wasn’t supposed to feel like that. I want things to be different for this generation. I want these babies to feel good in their bodies, to be unstoppable.
Medical Medium® information turned my life and my health around when nothing else was working. My own healing journey has given me an embodied knowledge of MM info and life with chronic illness. I used MM tools for years as a nanny, with remarkable success, to help the children in my care thrive.
My point of view
I have a very holistic approach utilizing my decades of experience working with kids and families, my own personal growth using multiple modalities as trauma recovery, and my 7+ years healing with MM. I look at symptoms and conditions in the whole family, how these are influencing family dynamics, and how to address them using MM tools. I also focus a lot on the energy we grown-ups bring to the table, how that energy lives in our bodies and influences how we show up, and how to shift it to an energy that helps the whole family thrive. My passion is addressing the unpleasant behavior we see in kids that is a result of a combination of physiological issues in the child and unhealed trauma in the grown-up.
Children’s bodies have very specific needs and when they aren’t being met, or when there’s a pathogen or toxin interfering with their body’s normal healthy growth, development, and expression, it will show in physical symptoms and/or unpleasant behavior.
I love using Medical Medium® tools to address symptoms in children whether they are physical, emotional, or behavioral. In the end, it’s typically all physiological at the root.
I also love diving into the whole picture of raising kids, how taxing it can be on the grown-ups, triggers and stored trauma that can influence how we grown-ups show up, and raising kids while healing yourself.