Victorious Essentials

09/29/2024

09/29/2024

Hello everyone! Welcome to my little area of the Insta world. My name is Victoria and my mission is to inspire victory in every area of life! 10 years ago, finding dōTERRA and learning the importance of gut health changed my life gave me victory over recurrent miscarriage. Since then, I’ve helped hundreds of people heal from the inside out and gain victory over physical, mental, emotional and spiritual challenges. Whether you’re struggling with a physical challenge, battling a mental block or need to unlock your unique gift for the world through discovering your strengths, I’d love to help! Let’s take this journey to victory together!

11/17/2023

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05/25/2023

Again, for those interested…

Episode 2: Retained Primitive Reflexes: what in the world are they?

If you’ve had a baby, you likely have had a doctor ask you if your baby was holding his head up, sitting up, crawling at the proper time and (this is important!) for the proper amount of time before walking. But, what you likely didn’t hear is WHY those developmental milestones are foundational for the rest of your child’s development. We are all born with a set of primitive reflexes that help us in the womb, in the birth process and for the first few months of life. Over the course of the first months of life outside the womb, those reflexes should integrate and set the stage for further brain and body development. But if any of the reflexes fail to integrate then a whole host of issues can follow. I’m posting the list from my first post again below. Failure to integrate reflexes can happen for a number of reasons.
✅Trauma inside or outside the womb - for example, mom getting really sick or mom having an emotionally traumatic event happen while baby is inside. ✅Trauma during birth - oxygen deprivation, difficult birthing situations, separation from mom - so many things can happen at birth.
✅Lack of physical integration - baby doesn’t crawl properly or long enough, baby doesn’t have enough tummy time, baby falls and has head trauma - again, so many things happen in early childhood.
Regardless of how it happens - if your kid is struggling with anything on the list below there’s a chance some reflexes did not properly integrate and therefore no amount of extra hard work or motivation will help. Those reflexes must be integrated and then the brain can go back and fill holes in and develop properly. Everything from diagnoses like ADHD, Autism, Anxiety, Depression, all manner of learning disabilities, emotional regulation of all kinds can be improved or completely fixed by addressing issues with brain balance - but first, the reflexes must be integrated.

Estimates show that 70% of children (and therefore eventually adults) have reflexes that have not fully integrated!

Stay tuned…

05/25/2023

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05/25/2023

For those interested…

Episode 1: Light Therapy
Preface: As I share our story I’ll try not to share my frustration with our current “health” system but I can’t promise you won’t hear it. The fact of the matter is that I took my son in at 3 to have his hearing and eyes checked. I expressed my concern with his speech being delayed. I talked to “expert” after “expert” and no one told me to check into the things I’ve learned in the last 5 months. It took a friend going to a doctor who is always collecting great wholistic health information to start us both on the journey to healing our kids. There are fantastic doctors out there - curiosity and lifelong learning make them! And, this is one of the reasons I continue in wellness education - we are complex creations and healthcare is only as good as our ability to keep discovering, keep learning and do better with that knowledge!

So back to light therapy. After entering 2nd grade, B was still having trouble reading. Word recognition and retention were rough. He lost his place a lot. My friend, Janessa, had just heard about a functional eye doctor so we both scheduled appointments with Dr. Wylie in Spokane. I learned more in that one 3 hour appointment than I’ve ever learned in another doctor’s office. B‘s peripheral vision was the size of a silver dollar. His saccades (tracking) were wonky. There were clearly issues. In that appointment I heard the term “primitive reflexes” for the first time as Dr. Wylie and his team identified a couple of reflexes that clearly had not integrated in B. I had so many questions, he patiently answered them all. We started light therapy that day which consists of a pair of glasses with a specific light frequency that he wears for 10 minutes in natural light each day. We’ve been through three different colors. You can see the huge difference over 4 months in the photo below. And his reading and physical acumen are improving! Stay tuned for more information on retained reflexes and how we are working on integration.

05/22/2023

We’ve been on a journey since January. I will be saying more in small pieces because I’m passionate about empowering parents, teachers and anyone who works with kids! We started noticing something with my son at 3 but it’s taken 5 more years to identify the root causes and no one should have to try to figure this out for themselves. If your child has any of the symptoms below, there’s a possibility there’s a retained reflex that needs addressing. Stay tuned for episodes about our journey and the steps we are taking to help our son!