For Parents Raising Children With Special Needs
They told me to
wait and see.
I decided to
look deeper.
I'm Shadia — a holistic health practitioner and mom to Taylor, my non-verbal teenage daughter living with Mowat-Wilson Syndrome and autism. When the appointments, therapies, and "let's monitor it" answers weren't enough, I turned to root-cause testing — for her, and for myself. Now I help families like ours stop guessing and start understanding what their child's body is actually asking for.
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HTMA
Root-Cause Testing
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1:1
Family-Centered Coaching
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100%
For Special Needs Families
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You Are Not Alone
Does this sound painfully familiar?
You leave every appointment with more questions than answers — told to wait, monitor, and come back in six months.
Your child struggles with sleep, meltdowns, picky eating, gut issues, or focus — and no one has ever looked underneath the diagnosis.
You've spent countless 2am hours researching, trying supplements and diets that worked for someone else's child — with no roadmap for yours.
You're the case manager, advocate, therapist-scheduler, and safe person. Your child's whole world runs through you.
And your own body is quietly falling apart while you hold it all together — exhaustion, brain fog, anxiety, hormone chaos you've stopped even mentioning.
You don't want another opinion. You want data. Answers. A plan built on what's actually happening inside your child's body — and yours.
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I'd been told for years that my son's sleep issues were 'just part of it.' His HTMA results were the first time anyone showed me what was happening inside his body — and gave us somewhere to start.
HTMA
Root Cause Testing
1:1
Personalized Coaching
100%
For Autism Moms
Everything included in your coaching experience
A fully holistic approach designed around the real demands of raising a child with special needs — because your family doesn't live in a textbook.
Child HTMA Test + Full Report Review
Your child's hair mineral analysis kit, lab processing, and a full results session where we decode their unique mineral and stress patterns together. No needles. No waiting rooms. No meltdowns.
Mom HTMA Test + Burnout Blueprint
Because you can't pour from an empty vessel. Your own mineral analysis reveals what years of caregiving stress have cost your body — and exactly where to begin restoring it.
1:1 Coaching Calls
Private sessions built around your actual life — therapy schedules, IEP season, sleepless nights. Practical, efficient, and paced for a family that has no margin to waste.
Custom Mineral & Nutrition Protocols
Targeted food and supplement guidance based on real results — picky-eater friendly for your child, realistic for you. Updated as your family progresses.
Unlimited Messaging Support
You're not alone between calls. Reach me with questions, wins, and hard days. I'm in your corner — and I actually understand what a hard day means.
Private Resource Library
Guides, meal ideas, supplement education, and recordings you can access anytime — including 2am, because I know that's when you do your research.
Meet Shadia & Taylor
The mom behind
Raising Taylor Strong.
I'm Shadia — a wellness and holistic health practitioner, and Taylor's mom. Taylor is my non-verbal teenage daughter, living with Mowat-Wilson Syndrome and autism. She is the reason this work exists.
For years, I did what every special needs mom does: the appointments, the therapies, the specialists, the waiting. I was grateful for every one of them — and still left with the same quiet question no one seemed able to answer: what is going on inside my daughter's body?
Root-cause testing was the first thing that gave me real information instead of another "wait and see." And when I finally tested myself, I discovered what years of caregiving had cost me — I was deeply depleted in the very minerals a nervous system needs to cope, recover, and function.
Raising Taylor Strong is what I built from those answers.
- Holistic Health & Wellness Practitioner
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HTMA Practitioner
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Amare Global Brand Partner
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Taylor's mom — living every word of this work.
What is HTMA Testing and why does it matter for you?
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis (HTMA) is a non-invasive test that reveals your child's unique mineral patterns — information that can help us understand sleep struggles, mood, digestion, and stress at a cellular level. And it starts with nothing more than a small snip of hair.
Collect at Home
A small hair sample from the nape of the neck — painless, done at home in minutes, on your child's schedule and terms. No needles, no labs, no waiting rooms. Sensory-friendly by design.
Lab Analysis
The sample is analyzed by a certified laboratory for 20+ minerals and heavy metals — magnesium, zinc, copper, sodium-potassium stress patterns, and more.
Your Results Session
We review the report together. I translate the data into plain language and connect the dots between your child's minerals and the symptoms you see every day.
Your Family's Protocol
You receive a custom nutrition, supplement, and lifestyle plan designed for your child's needs and your family's reality — picky eaters and packed schedules included.
Important — Why HTMA Matters for Children With Special Needs
To be clear: HTMA does not diagnose or treat autism or any condition — and anyone who tells you otherwise should be avoided. What it does is show us how your child's body is coping: mineral status and stress patterns that can influence sleep, digestion, mood, and regulation. That means we can support their body with precision instead of guesswork — alongside, never instead of, their medical team.
Get Your Child's HTMA TestReal families. Real answers.
"I thought I just had to survive perimenopause on top of everything else. Shadia showed me I didn't have to just survive — I could actually heal. My energy is coming back. I feel like myself again."
Rachel M.
Mom of an autistic 9-year-old, age 46
"The HTMA test was a revelation. Nobody had ever connected my copper toxicity to my anxiety, hair loss, and the constant overwhelm I felt. Three months in and I am sleeping through the night for the first time in years."
Single autism mom, age 43
"Shadia gets it on a level no other practitioner has. She's not just a coach — she's someone who's lived it. I felt genuinely held and understood from the very first call."
Mom of two, one with autism, age 48
Got Questions?
Frequently Asked Questions
Can HTMA help with my child's autism?
My child is sensory-sensitive. Is the test hard for them?
Is HTMA testing accurate and scientifically valid?
We already have a medical team. Does this fit alongside it?
What ages do you work with?
What about me? I'm running on empty too.
Tier 1 — Start Here
Rooted & Rising
$27
One-time · Instant access
- ✔ Self-paced digital starter course — instant download
- ✔ Map your child's symptoms to possible root causes
- ✔ Minerals 101 for growing bodies
- ✔ Picky-eater-friendly food foundations
- ✔ How to prepare for the root-cause testing that changes everything
Tier 2 — Root Cause
Child HTMA Test + Report Review
$397
Includes kit + lab + results session
- ✔ At-home hair test kit + certified lab processing
- ✔ Full results session — your child's mineral & stress patterns, decoded
- ✔ Custom, realistic protocol for your child
- ✔ The clearest picture you've ever had of what their body needs
Tier 3 — Family Package
Mom & Me HTMA Package
$597
Two tests · Combined session
- ✔ Two HTMA tests — your child's and yours
- ✔ Combined results session + family protocol
- ✔ Burnout and mineral-depletion blueprint for you, Mama
- ✔ Because the whole household heals together
Go Deeper — Additional Programs
Your family deserves answers —
not another waiting list.
Book a free 30-minute discovery call. No pressure. No pitch. Just a real conversation, mom to mom, about your child, your family, and what becomes possible when we finally look at the root cause.
Book Your Free Discovery CallI keep my client list small on purpose — Taylor comes first, always. Limited spaces open each month.
