Elyse Wagner

My journey to peace around food and my body started when I was 13 years old. Being called "Obese Elyse" sent me on a mission to change my food first.

🌿 Helping Health Coaches Lead, Heal & Thrive
🌟 The Nourished Path: Soul-Led Strategy + Sustainable Success
🗝️ Founder of ANBA®, A Nourished Life® + NOURISH Live™
🎓 NBHWC CE Provider | On a Mission to Impact 1 Billion
www.elysewagner.com What I realized is that it is SO much more than food and dieting and weighing yourself. I don't follow or endorse ANY specific diet plan, I'm a normal gal that had her own weight issue growing up and towards the journey to finding peace with "Obese Elyse" gained a dual masters in holsitic nutrition and clinical health psychology. It's been my journey and I want to share what I've learned with you. I searched for these key ingredients throughout my undergrad years getting my BS in Nutritional Science and then my graduate years getting a dual masters in holistic nutrition and health psychology. It wasn't until I created peace with my body and with food (and it wasn't that long ago) that I truly started flourishing. My mission in life is to help women just like myself, who make food or their bodies the enemy. I want to help you learn what I know and have been through in an accelerated way so you don't have to suffer and struggle any longer. I use my experience paired with my knowledge to create a safe space where women can expand in peace, love, awareness and success with their health around their food, attitude and body! I created a six-step Permission to Feel Fabulous program so that women could start to listen to their own internal guidance, find joy out of their body no matter what size jeans they are and send body shame and food guilt to the garbage! I dubbed the website and brand, My Kitchen Shrink, because I truly believe that every single person can be their own Kitchen Shrink, you have all the key ingredients to create a delicious recipe of health success. You have that secret sauce. All you need is a guide, I'll show you how! My goal is that once you are done with Permission To Feel Fabulous, you are your own 'Kitchen Shrink' and can begin to listen to your body and give it what it needs. Want even more tasty resources, recipes and tips? Get your sweet buns on over to www.mykitchenshrink.com and sign up for juicy food & attitude tips that I only serve in my weekly e-mail updates! www.mykitchenshrink.com

04/13/2026

If you’re reading this, you are a bad a🍑🍑!!
Especially if you’re going for your goals, hopes, and dreams. 🤸‍♀️🌈Even if you’re just thinking about it… sitting in contemplation, preparing, or taking messy, imperfect action, it ALL counts. Every moment matters. That is the work. And here’s the truth most people won’t say out loud: you don’t become a bad a🍑🍑 when you arrive… you are one the moment you decide to show up for your life differently. 👏

In You Are a Badass, says it so clearly, we’re always attracting energy to ourselves, whether we realize it or not. So when we’re living in low-frequency energy (pessimism, neediness, jealousy, shame, “I’m not enough”) but expecting high-frequency results… of course we feel confused, disappointed, stuck. It’s not failure, it’s misalignment.

And here’s the wild part… you are allowed to feel everything. Every emotion is valid. The full spectrum exists for a reason. But you’re also powerful enough to shift your state ⚡️⚡️to raise your frequency and meet the life you say you want. Through presence. Through intention. Through something as simple (and profound) as coming back to yourself. So let’s raise our vibration together this week and be bad a🍑🍑’s. Drop a 🍑if you plan to intentionally elevate your energy.👇

04/09/2026

It’s time to stop repeating systems that rely on pressure, tracking, and burnout. You with me?

Share + Save this. 💗

04/07/2026

There. I said it. 👆Tap Tap if you feel this too! 💕
I know this and believe it from a soul level.

Most health coaching isn’t changing lives.
Because it’s focused on habits or goal setting, but that’s NOT where change happens…it happens at the level of consciousness.

habits don’t stick without awareness + presence.

After my conversations with real health coaches for working with Will clients in their communities, I ask them. What did your clients leave with… And they don’t say a protocol, a plan, goals. They say awareness every time. 👁️

If you’re here to do deeper work, drop a heart, I see you.

That why I want to invite you to Office Hours with like-minded, heart-centered health coaches. This isn’t surface level.

We:
→ dismantle the beliefs keeping you (and your clients) stuck
→ sharpen your ability to actually create change personally (lead yourself)
→ give you clear, aligned next steps

And every single person leaves feeling better. Period.

Comment 💗 and I’ll send you the details.

04/06/2026

☕️ mushroom coffee + a few quiet moments with Dare to Lead by

…and a powerful reminder about something we don’t emphasize enough in health coaching: Emotional literacy and vulnerability.

One of the patterns I consistently see with health coaches, EVEN the most capable, compassionate, and well-trained, is a disconnection from their own emotional experience as well as their clients.

Not because they don’t care. Or they’re not skilled. But because many were never taught how to safely feel. And I’m not talking just about from their health coach training - I’m talking about growing up in an environment that wasn’t set up to support this.

As Brené writes: “If I’m honest about how I feel, will I be misunderstood, judged, or seen as weak?”

This belief doesn’t just impact the coach. It impacts the client experience.

Because when we’re disconnected from our own emotions, we unconsciously avoid or minimize them in others.

And yet…Emotions are not a liability in this work. They are data. Direction.

They are often the GATEWAY & SUPERPOWER to sustainable behavior change.

There’s also a common misconception in our field:

“That emotions belong to therapists, not health coaches.”

And while scope absolutely matters (and ethical, collaborative care is essential)

Let’s be clear about what IS within scope:

• Creating space for emotional awareness

• Naming what is present

• Practicing empathy

• Supporting clients in connecting thoughts, behaviors, and feelings

Beneath many stalled outcomes… is shame.

And shame, left unaddressed, blocks change.

Empathy, however, dissolves it.

This is one of the most underutilized and powerful leadership skills in health coaching today.

Not more protocols. Not more information. But deeper presence.

Greater emotional capacity. Stronger relational intelligence.

This is where the field is going. And it’s a shift I’m deeply committed to leading. Let me know if you’re HERE to lead it! Drop a 💚 below.

More to come.

xx,
E

04/03/2026

ATTN: Health Coaches 👀

Most health coaches are still trying to find their place around healthcare…

While the real conversations are happening inside rooms like this. 👆👆

I’ll be attending the Annual International Conference (AIC) hosted by the The Institute for Functional Medicine📍 San Diego | May 27–30

The warm ocean air… 🌊 rooms filled with cutting-edge research…and some of the most brilliant minds from around the globe…

This is where the shift is happening. And I would L-O-V-E to meet YOU there.

Here’s what I know after 12+ years in this space:

The future of healthcare is not more information.

It’s behavior change. Collaboration. Integration.

And health coaches? You’re not an “add-on” to that model.

You’re central to it.

I’m also organizing a health coach dinner / meetup on May 27 for anyone who wants to connect in person. 🍽️

Nothing formal. Just real conversation + community.

So, if you’re attending AIC, or even thinking about it or you’re local to San Diego,

Let me know...

🙋‍♀️ Are you planning to attend AIC?

💖 Want to join the dinner / meetup?

👀 Curious about both?

Drop below or DM me:

→ “AIC”
→ “MEETUP”
→ “BOTH”

And I’ll send you the details.

Let’s get more health coaches in these rooms. This is how the shift happens.

xx,

Elyse

04/02/2026

Our feelings and emotions → especially anger, resentment, FEAR and jealousy…

They don’t just disappear. They express and if not transformed turned into dis-ease in the body.

No matter how much we try to suppress, ignore, or “out-strategy” them…
they will find a way to move through.

So the work isn’t to avoid them.

It’s to alchemize them. ✨

To transmute that energy into something that actually serves you.

And if you’re a health coach… a leader in behavior change…AND you don’t know this skill yet…👇

This is where your work deepens.

Because it’s not just about food, sleep, movement, stress or lifestyle habits.

It’s about what’s happening underneath it all.

→ the mental patterns
→ the emotional charge
→ the spiritual disconnection

That’s where real change lives.

That’s where sustainable transformation happens.

If you want to start working at that level…
The Nourished Health Coach is your next step 🌱👈

03/31/2026

👉 health coaches inside my programs: getting referred, recommended by providers, and talked about in rooms they’re not even in—aren’t leading with “I don’t diagnose, treat, or prescribe.” 💁🏻‍♀️

👏 They’re saying something very different while of course staying in scope.

And it’s why they’re getting hired…while others are still being overlooked. 👀

Want in on what’s actually shifting the conversation? I’m creating something for YOU and your health coaching career. 👏

Drop a 💯 and I’ll make sure you’re the first to know 😎

03/30/2026

Are you the UGG boot 🧦or the Adrenalin ju**ie when it comes to your CZ aka your comfort zone? 🎢

Okay, so I was reading You Got This by Caroline Foran…And she talks about this idea of the comfort zone in a way I actually loved.

There’s a spectrum. You’ve got the daredevils, the adrenaline ju**ies…

And then most of us are just living pretty peacefully in our comfort zone.

She calls it like this big Ugg boot 😂

When you’re in your comfort zone, you feel in control. You’re in control of your emotions, your stress response, your body…You’re not self-conscious.

It’s just steady.

If you pictured it like a graph, it would just be this nice, even rhythm. No big peaks. No big dips.

And here’s the part that really got me

Just because something is familiar…
doesn’t mean it’s positive.

We can be SO comfortable in patterns that aren’t actually good for us.

And she talks about how real growt, intellectual, personal, all of it, doesn’t happen without a little disequilibrium.

Without a little disruption to how you normally think or feel.

In other words…you don’t get to create something great, whatever that means to you by staying under the covers. As cozy as it is.

A little discomfort? That’s actually the point.

That’s what creates change. Growth!

So if you’ve been feeling a little stretched lately…this is a GREAT thing!

I encourage you to do ONE thing that brings you out of your CZ today or this week. Drop a 💪 if you’re goin to commit!

😉😉

03/29/2026

I needed this reminder today. Maybe you do too. 💕👆A great question for yourself and your clients.

03/26/2026

Lemme know if you feel me on this one…One of the biggest problems in health coaching right now?

We have brilliant, heart-centered coaches…
and yet most people…including providers of all sorts have no idea what you do.

Not a talent problem. Not a “you’re not good enough” problem.

👉 It’s an awareness + proximity problem.

Which means part of your role is this:

Be seen.
Be known.
Be understood.

Not just online…

But where real conversations are already happening 🤝

Because if you’re only playing the online game, posting, waiting, building slowly…

You might be missing your most powerful lever:

👉 your community

And here’s what I’m seeing inside A Nourished Life-Coach+ A Nourished Business Academy…

Coaches getting their 🍑 into real-life spaces and things are shifting:

→ Talking at their local salon 💇‍♀️
→ Turning casual convos into “wait… tell me more” 💁‍♀️✨
→ Collaborating with all kinds of practitioners 🤝
→ Hosting events in yoga studios + community spaces 🧘‍♀️
→ Becoming THE health coach at their favorite local spots 💇‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧶

No waiting.
No hiding.

They’re showing up… and becoming known.

And from that?

✨ Clients
✨ Referrals
✨ Opportunities

Because people don’t just hire from content.

They hire from connection. Trust. Relationship.

So if things feel slow… or like you’re on the struggle bus…🫠🚌

Don’t just ask:
“What should I post?”

Ask:

👇 Where can I show up in my community right now?

Because health coaching doesn’t just belong online.

It belongs in communities. 💗

Tag a health coach you know. 🙌💕

03/25/2026

Health coaches…this is why your offers aren’t selling. 👇

💾 Save this before you create your next one.

Here’s the real meal deal. You were taught, sell health coaching. But, no one is buying “health coaching.” 🫠

(Deep breath… stay with me 😌)

Not because it’s not valuable, because that’s not what people are searching for.

No one is laying in bed at night thinking:

“I hope I can find a 6-month 1:1 health coaching package tomorrow.” 😉

They’re thinking:

“I’m exhausted.”
“I feel like crap in my body.”
“Why can’t I stay consistent?”
“I just want to feel like myself again.”

👉 THAT is where you take the coach approach and MEET them where they’re at and ready to buy.

People are buying relief, results, and feeling like themselves again… they’re buying from an EMOTIONAL space not intellectual. Not facts + figures.

Here’s where most health coaches get it wrong:

They build offers based on:
• what they learned
• what they think people need
• what other coaches are doing

Instead of…

👉 what YOUR people are actually willing to pay to solve.

Sooooo, if want people to say YES, you need 3 things:

😩1. The PAIN (specific, lived, emotional)

Not: “gut health support”

→ “You wake up bloated every morning and don’t trust your body anymore”

👉2. The PROMISE (clear, tangible result)

Not: “feel better”

→ “Wake up with a flat stomach, steady energy, and zero food anxiety”

🙌3. The PATH (your process)

Not: “we’ll work together weekly”

→ “My 3-step method to rebuild digestion, regulate your nervous system, and create consistency without restriction”

That’s how you create an offer people actually say YES to.

Not by selling coaching. But by selling transformation. 💫

And here’s the part most people miss…

Your offer should feel nourishing for YOU too. 🌷☺️

Not forced. Copied. “what you think you should do.”

But aligned, authentic, clear, and powerful ✨

If you want help creating an offer that actually converts and feels good to deliver…

Drop a 🔥 below and I’ll send you the
6-Figure Health Coach training. (5 NBHWC CE).

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http://www.elysewagner.com/

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