The Parent Perspective: Amy Taft
August 2, 2022
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Today is our second episode of The Parent Perspective, a segment of the My Child Will Thrive Podcast where I’ll be interviewing parents just like you to find out more about their stories with their children. In this interview, I talked with Amy Taft, a mom of three and holistic practitioner. Amy takes us through her experience from pregnancy to now with her child, Benjamin. I hope hearing Amy’s journey will help spark ideas and inspiration for you and your family.
If you’re a parent or caretaker and you’re interested in sharing your experience with us on the podcast, please fill out our form here and we read them all and you will always hear back from us. We look forward to sharing your story too!
I hope you enjoy this interview with Amy!
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- Amy’s story from pregnancy to early childhood with her son, Benjamin
- The different therapies and avenues she went through with him
- A helpful turning point in Benjamin’s story
- Her thoughts and what she wishes she would’ve done differently throughout the process
- How she helps other moms and children now
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Show Notes
- The early stages with Amy’s son, Benjamin, when she knew something was going on. (3:27)
- How Benjamin is doing now. (13:18)
- The steps Amy decided to make with her son. (17:27)
- The parts of feeding therapy that Amy incorporated. (20:14)
- The turning point in Benjamin’s story. (24:30)
- What Amy wishes she knew from the beginning that she knows now. (28:15)
- What Amy and her family are doing now. (32:00)
Resources and Links
Amy’s website: Good Life Architect
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More About Amy Taft
Amy Taft is a homeschooling mom of three active kids, a former elementary school teacher, retired high school field hockey coach, and now committed holistic practitioner and dedicated advocate for children’s health. She enjoys asking, and being asked, hard questions, learning new skills, nourishing family and friends with nutritious and delicious home-cooked meals, and taking long reflective walks alone in the woods. A recent addition to her passions is homesteading and pursuing a more intentional and self-sufficient lifestyle.
Amy began pursuing this path of holistic wellness when conventional medicine and all the “experts” couldn’t provide the answers she needed to help heal her second child, who was born with a number of puzzling health challenges. Making many important discoveries along this journey, she feels compelled to implement what she learns to help others heal their bodies and minds, including her own. For almost a decade, she has been educating herself in the area of ancestral health, functional medicine, and whole food nutrition – reading books, attending seminars, seeking additional training and certifications from reputable cutting-edge programs, and learning from the personal experiences and professional expertise of others. She is passionate about the healing power of real food and the benefits of living in alignment with our God-given human biology. Her heart is helping families, and especially moms, discover their untapped potential for health and vitality, so they can then nurture and help heal their children, who are our future.
Amy has a Master’s Degree in Teaching and a Bachelors in Psychology from the University of Virginia and is certified as a Primal Health Coach, Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Functional Hormone Specialist, and Functional Blood Chemistry Specialist. Always on the lookout for the next opportunity to acquire and apply new understanding, she is a life-long learner who is continuously amazed at the divine complexity and innate wisdom of the human body.
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[00:01:59] Tara Hunkin: Hi, everyone. Welcome back to the My Child Will Thrive podcast. I want to welcome you to another episode of the parent perspective and I have with me today,
[00:02:17] Amy Taft. Amy is a homeschooling mom of three active kids, a former elementary school teacher, retired high school field hockey coach, and now a committed holistic practitioner dedicated for advocating for children's health. She enjoys asking and being asked the hard questions learning new skills and nourishing family and friends with nutritious and delicious home cooked meals and taking long reflective walks alone in the woods. a recent addition to her passions is homesteading and pursuing a more intentional and self sufficient lifestyle. and think have many things in common. So I'm really excited to be able to talk to you today, Amy, and get you to bring your story of your journey with your children or your one child in particular to the audience, because I think they can learn a lot from what you and your family have been through.
[00:03:11] Amy Taft: Thank you, Tara. Happy to be here and happy to share my story.
[00:03:15] Tara Hunkin: let's get right into it. So why don't you start by sharing with us a little bit more about why you came to the work that you do today the journey you went through with your son in particular?
[00:03:27] Amy Taft: Sure. I think I've always been interested in health and nutrition.
[00:03:32] I just didn't really understand what that truly was until a few years ago, but it was really with the birth of my second child. I have a daughter who's now 12 and my son is 10. And when I was pregnant with him, I was advanced maternal age. I was 37 when I got pregnant with him and so that of course sends you down this track with medical professionals as to what they require.
[00:03:53] And so part of that was meeting with a high risk doctor who runs lots of tests and they're basically looking for something to be wrong with your pregnancy and something to be wrong with your child. So I was used to that. I had gone through that with my first child. And so it didn't really concern me too much except that