About Us
Who we are
Committed to Empowering Children to Be Their Best Selves
The NeuroFiT Connections program is a holistic child wellness program designed to help children with learning, behavioral, processing disorders, and other challenges. It corrects the root cause of the disorder, strengthens and improves the brain’s functioning, and removes or reduces the symptoms, ultimately enhancing their overall quality of life.
At NeuroFiT Connections, our goal is to resolve the issues, rather than just managing them. We focus on stimulating specific areas of the brain responsible for processing, learning, behavioral, and developmental disorders, particularly in children. Most importantly, the NeuroFiT Connections program is backed by the latest science and research, supported by some of the most prominent neurological institutes in the world such as Harvard University, McLean Hospital, University of Cambridge, and more.
Our center is the only Melillo Method™ center in Eastern North Carolina, utilizing Dr. Robert Melillo’s cutting-edge holistic approach to treating kids with a broad spectrum of brain related disorders or concerns.
OUR MISSION
Our mission at NeuroFiT Connections is to create a bright future for parents and their children who struggle with social, emotional, behavioral, and academic issues by resolving those issues and changing the trajectory of the child’s life.
We believe that every child has the potential to do great things, to be magnificent, and to shine. We see our role as clearing the path on their road to success. We do that by correcting the root cause of their disorder so they can become the people they were meant to be.
Our Why
For many businesses, WHAT they do is far more important than WHY they do it. For us, our WHY is the reason we get up in the morning.
Built into our DNA and the DNA of every person we work with is the desire to help others, to see them succeed. For people with neurological conditions, success may seem out of the realm of possibility, especially for the more severe cases. All too often, because of their disorders, what holds them back is out of their control. Depending on the severity of their disorder, they may or may not be aware there is a problem. Bottom line, people with neurological issues can’t correct the social, emotional, behavioral, and academic issues they face.
We can. And when we do, we get to see the results in real time:
- Reading where it was impossible before
- Speaking where the brain and body just weren’t communicating
- Being aware of others where that wasn’t even a thought
- Eating properly where eating too much or too little was the norm
- Using the restroom instead of a diaper
- Controlling emotions where that was an impossibility
- and so much more
Given the epidemic of people with neurological issues and the global increase in the neurodiverse population, we recognize that we won’t be able to help everyone. And yet, if we can make a dent in the population, if we can correct the social, emotional, behavioral, and academic issues in a small number of people permanently, we have done something wonderful … not only for the people we help, but for their children, grandchildren, and many future generations.
That is WHY we do what we do.
Our Story
Coach Jackie, Co-Founder and inspiration for NeuroFiT Connections, started her journey to where she is today many years ago when she took leadership training with Mary Morrisey. Those leadership and coaching skills became the foundation for the next chapters in her life.
Fast forward a few years and she became interested in holistic medicine to promote health and healing. Her certifications in some of those healing arts led to her creation of Healing Combinations, a company dedicated to providing natural remedies to those in need.
While building Healing Combinations, Jackie also took a greater interest in her health. In addition to her regular running schedule, she started attending CrossFit, which later led to adult and kids coaching certifications.
While at a CrossFit competition, Jackie was asked to create a healthy protein bar. With that success Tribal Treats was founded to provide healthy protein-based treats to athletes and others with a desire to live their best lives.
More than eight years ago, Jackie started another chapter and began working with kids with neurological issues such as ASD, ADHD, Dyslexia, etc. It wasn’t long before she began following and learning from experts in the field such as Dr. Robert Melillo, Gary Leisman, Dr. Peter Scire and others.
It was through her work with these experts that Jackie decided to create NeuroFiT Connections, combining Neurology and Fitness, and developed the program we use today based primarily on the work of Dr. Robert Melillo. It combines the best holistic tools in the world backed by science and research with the latest fitness techniques to solve the root cause of neurological conditions, sync up the hemispheres of the brain, and eliminate or reduce the symptoms.
Now NeuroFiT Connections combines all of her knowledge and skill to create a program that solves today’s most challenging health issues such as Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and more. To date, we have 100% success in meeting the reasonable goals set forth for our students.
Spend just a few minutes with Coach Jackie and you can see the passion for helping the kids who come through program, you can hear the knowledge, skill, and experience, you can feel her dedication. It’s her passion and her desire to create the best solutions for her students that has her spending many of her non-working hours studying the brain, the body and the connection to developmental issues. It’s what sends her to New York every month to learn the latest in tools and techniques from world’s best experts.
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