Ten years ago, I owned a successful jewelry business. I was working 24/7 and doing everything to be successful except practice self-care.
One day, I woke up in horrible pain. Every joint and muscle in my body hurt. After multiple visits to my conventional MD and comprehensive testing, my MD announced there was nothing wrong with me. She suggested I seek mental therapy.
I was not going to live a life of pain and pills. I knew I hurt, and that something was wrong with my body. I started researching. I tripped into summits being run by the Functional Medical community and watched 19 of them. I discovered that I probably had an autoimmune disease and “leaky gut” and that “toxic load” was at the core of my pain. There were things I could do for myself to change this.
So, I dug in. I was appalled to discover that toxins were everywhere.
Flash forward 5 years. I eliminated hundreds of toxins in my life. I found stress exercises I now do daily. I found a Functional MD, who confirmed that I had fibromyalgia, an autoimmune disease. She dug in to find the root cause of my disease and she helped me lower my inflammation and eliminate the last of my pain.
I have reversed my Type II diabetes, eliminated my fatty liver, and lost 65 pounds without dieting. I no longer have physical pain.
I kept meeting other women who were frightened, sick, in pain, and frustrated like I had been, and I wanted to help them.
At 67, I returned to school at the renowned Institute for Integrative Nutrition (IIN) to become a health coach so that I could encourage others to use the tools I had discovered.
After graduation, I wrote my first book, It Feels Good to Feel Good, Learn to Eliminate Toxins, Reduce Inflammation, and Feel Great Again. That book has now won 17 awards. I discuss the importance of lowering our toxic load. It’s a layman’s guide to what is causing our chronic illness epidemic in the United States.
In the last three years, I have done over 200 podcasts as a guest, and 20 summits about toxins and the dangers of the SAD (standard American diet).
I published my second book at the request of my Functional MD. Feeling Good, Living Low Toxin in Community and Everyday Living explains how my new habits became sustainable without giving up my crucial social relationships- how I eat out at restaurants when I don’t eat the Standard American Diet of processed foods and fast foods, how to be a guest in other’s homes, and how I travel. I discuss the importance of eating the organic rainbow of whole foods and the significance of controlling what we eat by cooking. I give tips on how to buy healthy food on a budget and on how I convert any recipe to a healthier version using my “Use This Not That” exchange list. I share tips on controlling stress, how to get 7 hours of continuous sleep, practicing gratitude, and utilizing nature for self-care.
Finally, since over 50% of the children in the United States have a chronic illness, I included a section on raising healthy children in the 21st Century, and a section on how to create a low toxin environment for our pets so that they too can grow old and thrive.
This book has won 7 awards, including the prestigious Mom’s Choice Gold Award.
To reach a broader audience, I created my podcast “It Feels Good to Feel Good, Learn to Eliminate Toxins, Reduce Inflammation, and Futureproof your Health. The podcast has two parts-deep dives into health topics, and interviews with others who also got a chronic illness, owned their own body and health, and returned to wellness by making lifestyle changes. These podcasts are available on video on YouTube and in audio on Apple and Google.
I will always have Fibromyalgia, but I no longer have pain. I am now 74 and feel better than I did in my 50’s.
Because of this illness, everything in my life has changed.
I found my mission to help others with chronic illnesses.
Since I first got sick, I ended a toxic relationship. I met my soul mate and married him. I sold my jewelry business and became a health coach. I became an award-winning author and an international podcaster. I have written several courses to help others find the skills I have learned to return to balance. I am as happy as I have ever been in my life.
It does “feel good to feel good.”
I am publishing a digital magazine about health at the end of May 2023. The digital version of the magazine will be free. And I have published two cookbooks, one to break the addiction to sugar and processed food and the other for sustainable healthy cooking.
What makes me different from other health coaches?
To start, I have walked in my client’s shoes. People never truly understand something until it happens to them. I got sick, I owned my own health, and I figured out how to return to wellness.
I specifically work with clients with chronic illness giving them hope and helping them find solutions. People come to me because they are hurt and frustrated and don’t think anyone understands. I carefully listen to the client about their health issues. I also work with clients whose parents have a chronic illness and they want to focus on their future health today.
I am a compassionate coach because I was once in their position. I believe that everyone can significantly improve their health if they are willing to change. My superpower is finding people’s missing puzzle pieces for health. And I hold clients accountable to their own goals. People who hire a coach want to win, and I help them do that with their health. I help clients write their own stories so that they can create their own ending. They take back their power over their health.
It Feels Good to Feel Good. Join me on the road to health and discover the magic.
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I mentor others to return to wellness through:
My award-winning books https://lnkd.in/gFewCDH My books have won 24 awards.
My courses bit.ly/CMHMCOURSES
My cookbooks: https://lnkd.in/gN9ypjtz
My podcasts:
https://lnkd.in/gK7WCBs8
bit.ly/tellmeyourstory1
Private mentoring- My super-power is finding holistic solutions for missing puzzle pieces and coaching clients to success for their health using lifestyle habit changes.
