What are you Tired of being Tired of? Have you lost sight of that drive?
Functional Health and Lifestyle Coaching
Are you stuck? Do you feel alone with a health concern?
A "bit" About me
Some years ago, in Nursing school, I believed in treating persons as a whole body, mind and soul, before even knowing this practice had a name, Functional Medicine Health model, determining the cause of the symptoms or illness and understanding how lifestyle drives the illness as well as the treatment .
I certainly did not set out to become a Dual Certified Nurse Practitioner, Functional Health Coach, Certified Life Coach, dedicated Health Advocate, grateful recovering self-sabotager, truly blessed and encouraged by life's challenges,
But, this is where I am.
I came to realize my passion to teach, share and encourage people to live better an feel good!
Coaching is the way to create the difference in health outcomes of my patients and clients as well as their families.
Being raised in a nutrition based home, I rebelled as a teen! My Mom, being the pioneer against processed foods and products that cause the harms we face now from food processing was the wind beneath my wings, she laid the foundation for me to build on. Learning through Moms persistence, I understood the importance of caring for self with proper nutrition and NOT conforming to unhealthy marketing trends. I was the kid with the raw peanut butter on hard whole grain bread, embarrassed that I did not have bologna and American on white with no crust.
Apparently survived that humiliation and now am forever grateful for the embarrassments and a better understanding of true health.
Pursuing my Masters for Nurse Practitioner with the dream of running my own clinic in a small mountain town was "the dream" then, geographical life changed.
I ultimately settled into city life working for local doctors and hospitals.
Working for years and not seeing patients getting better started to wear on my whole being. It was my job to help my patients get better by prescribing meds and handing out home instructions, never to ask what they wanted or discuss goals and possibilities with them. Seeing patient after patient get sicker not well, and unable to accomplish the goals set forth by the system,
I realized this was not the way I want to practice health care.
There was no Health involved in it and no one seemed to care!
I began to see and feel the disconnect between patients and their health system. What they were told to do and what was happening were not aligned. Patients were sad, scared, ashamed and felt they made the doctor upset with them therefore leading to poor follow-up and a deeper cycle of patient- self defeat.
This presented an unhealthy, non-therapeutic relationship resulting in patients afraid to speak up and take action.
The solution lies in the strategy, discover the behaviors and habits leading to the health issue and you have a chance at fighting and reversing disease and illness.
This is what makes the difference in peoples lives.
Taking the time to coach my client to voice their health goals allows us to discover what the obstacles are, enables moving forward and seeing healing take place.
Achieving awareness of body, mind and health is the first step, how you got where you are and how to get where you want to be requires understanding your body differently than before.
We all have our unique experiences, beliefs about life, our truths and personal stories affecting our habits and changeability.
With guidance and support, we set out a plan, believing that we both have the highest version in mind for their best wellbeing.
Understanding sensible nutrition, lifestyle, history and future goals and dreams is our guide to success.
I offer the perspective and the experience to my client to make the changes they know they need to make and move along with them as they discover easy tools that fit their lifestyle without much disruption, this facilitates lasting changes and better health overall.
A coach and client must be focused on the same goal, which many times will change as we grow and learn new and different options.
Move That Mountain is a symbolic term for me, this saying kept me pushing through to my better life,
I believe it starts with just a push.
Who I am and what I do comes down to why, what I do is different from others.
Its because it works NOT for a short time, It lasts a lifetime.
I know, I am living proof!
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