To make a very long story short, many moons ago in the 1970s, while in nursing school & working in hospitals, I (Maura) realized there was a huge divide between natural
healing (which at that time I was just beginning to learn about) & the Western medical model I was studying as a profession.

 

Most of my awakening came about while working as a labor & delivery room nurse & childbirth educator. For me, the solution to bridging the divide between those two distinct
approaches to health was to arm the parents I taught with the knowledge & confidence they needed to have some control and power over their intention to have a natural and
positive birth experience while navigating the rules & regulations of the hospital (pharmaceutically dominated) system.

 

When my first child’s birth (assisted by midwives) was riddled with serious challenges & he was whisked away to Columbia Presbyterian’s NICU for life-saving treatment, I began
to realize that I was being asked to extract the best from both ends of the healing spectrum. The Western medical interventions saved my son’s life, for certain. At the same time, the many holistic modalities I learned about & implemented to optimize his health & recovery were also a major reason why he went on to live an incredibly healthy
life. This experience became the bedrock of my philosophy and the reason I spent the next five decades teaching, presenting, and organizing children’s health conferences.
This passion to educate parents on the best ways to raise healthy kids in a toxic world led me to organize large-scale conferences featuring world-renowned authors & holistic
physicians. 

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From DAN to MAM to CHSS

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After organizing a few local events focused on natural ways to raise healthy kids, I became the National Coordinator of the Defeat Autism Now! Conferences, which I did for
10 years. During those years, I interacted with and learned from some of the most knowledgeable parents of kids with autism, as well as dozens of physicians who were
trying to help these children optimize their health, behavior, and development. Discovering the root causes of this disorder, as well as finding effective treatments for improving the health and behavior of these kids, evolved into a powerful mission and movement.

 

After a decade of digging deep into the roles nutritional deficiencies, specific diets, gut health, toxic overload, and vaccines were playing in this condition, I left DAN to focus on
letting the world know that if these issues were addressed prior to conceiving, during pregnancy, and while raising children, it might be possible to avoid having a child with a
chronic health condition, including autism.

 

For this purpose, I co-founded SOKHOP.com (Saving Our Kids, Healing Our Planet), where we focused on all the preventive measures (organic food, minimizing toxins, appropriate
supplements, healthy lifestyle, etc.) in hopes that parents could minimize risks and optimize the health of their children.

 

After taking a several-year hiatus, during which time my offspring & step-kids produced 12 grandchildren, I was given divine guidance to gather up the leaders in the then-
splintered health freedom movement (many of whom were speakers at the conferences I had organized). The inspiration I received was to help build collaboration in this
movement so that “together” we could find solutions to reversing the ever-escalating chronic health conditions affecting our kids.

 

From this Children’s Health Solutions Summit in Asheville, NC, in May of 2019, MAM —Millions Against Medical Mandates — was formed. Soon after this summit, COVID struck the world, at which time MAM went into high gear, focusing all of its attention and resources on providing truthful information to as many folks in the “movable middle” as we could reach via articles, toolkits, videos defending the “Disinformation Dozen,” flyers explaining why not to wear masks, why social distancing was not a concept grounded in research, and how and why to avoid the COVID vaccines at all costs. MAM was so effective in delivering this messaging that we were named (along with Children’s Health Defense, Mercola.com, ICAN, and NVIC) one of the top “disinformation” organizations. This great honor bestowed upon us by the CCDH created awareness that MAM had actually been quite successful in helping to spread the truth.

 

Now that the insanity of COVID has diminished a bit, MAM is pivoting back to its original focus of creating and sharing solutions for our children’s health crisis.

 

Thanks to the tremendous interest, support, and generosity of Leila Centner and the Centner Foundation, we are now able to interview the top holistic pediatricians on the
planet and, from those interviews, create engaging, entertaining, and educational video series.

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The Children’s Health Solutions Series is unique because we take one particular condition at a time and do a deep dive into the causes and treatment solutions. We take
the information provided by these top physicians and healers and break it down into natural, practical, and affordable strategies for helping children with these conditions.

 

I’m grateful for Leila Centner’s support and guidance, and to Taryn McCracken — MAM’s Creative Director — who is responsible for making these videos such spectacularly
inspiring learning tools. From my current “elder” vantage point, I also appreciate all the parents, healers, and experiences I’ve encountered along my journey. They have all
contributed to my current understanding that it is time to do better by our kids. The good news is we have the solutions, and it is time to learn them, share them, and
apply them so our kids can once again HEAL and THRIVE!

 

Please watch and share the episodes in our Children’s Health Solutions Series so together we can change the trajectory of children’s health in this country and throughout
the world!

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