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I have always had a sense that "there's is a greater purpose for my struggles." Since I was a little girl, I have had the belief that everything happens to us for a reason. Also that each interaction with others, is either part of the lesson, part of the message or a combination of the both. I believe that lessons in our life are not meant to be malicious, they are meant to transformative. They are essential to growth and who we are to become. Similar to the butterfly's cocoon and what it must endure before it's transformation, yet they turn into something beautiful! Even though I wake up everyday with various aches and pains and limitations; rather than let it get me down and isolate me, I have found that connecting with others and helping them keeps me healthy and reinforces my belief that we all need one another. I get up everyday and choose to keep being positive despite those limits. I have chosen to face my limits and REDEFINE them! I have taken those sour lemons and squeezed out some sweetness! I know that being a Health/Life Coach is what I was destined to become. I know the disciplines that I have learned from the chaos of the things I have been through will help guide others through their challenges. I will help you get tough and reach your goals! I take a whole body, mind and spirit approach and look for any imbalances and teach you about how the negative impacts your overall health. I will teach you to focus on self care and lifestyle change, and how eating healthy and exercise can be fun! I am here to motivate, inspire, educate and serve you!
03/07/2026
There’s a lot of noise in the world right now: Fear. Anger. Chaos. Opinions flying in every direction.
It’s easy to start believing something is wrong with the world…
or something is wrong with you.
But let this be your reminder today:
You are still here.
Still breathing.
Still learning.
Still growing.
That means something.
No matter what you’ve walked through…
No matter how many times you’ve been knocked down…
Your kindness matters.
Your presence matters.
Your story matters.
The world doesn’t need a perfect version of you.
It needs the real one.
So if no one has told you lately…
You are amazing.
Strong.
Brave.
Kind.
Loved.
Worthy.
And there will never be another you.
Don’t let the chaos make you forget that.
✨ What’s one thing you appreciate about yourself today?
03/06/2026
Some days life feels easy.
Some days your body feels like it got hit by a truck.
Today is one of those days for me. 🤧 (healing mode activated)
But here’s something I’ve learned through healing my nervous system:
You don’t have to wait for everything to be perfect to experience joy.
Sometimes regulation looks like this…
swinging, singing, laughing, breathing,
and remembering you’re still alive in the middle of it all.
I don’t ignore what’s happening in the world.
I just choose not to feed my energy to chaos.
Because what we focus on… grows.
So today I’m choosing joy.
Even if it’s just for a few minutes on a swing.
It’s Forest Fri-YAY somewhere 🌲
Go outside.
Feel the air.
Enjoy the ride.
03/04/2026
The Heaviest Things We Carry Aren’t in Our Backpack
🪨😭🥺😱😵💫🫣
Sometimes the heaviest things we carry…
aren’t physical.
Walking along the rocks at Emerald Bay today, I was thinking about this.
So much of what exhausts us in life isn’t actually what we’re doing…
it’s what we’re carrying.
Blame.
Negativity.
The past.
Fear.
What will they say.
Other people’s expectations.
Problems that were never ours to solve.
None of that belongs in your backpack.
When you stop carrying what was never yours,
life gets lighter.
You have space again…
for balance, clarity, and connection.
Nature reminds us of that.
Leave what isn’t yours on the trail. 🌿
What’s one thing you’ve decided to stop carrying this year?
03/03/2026
Some days you wake up soft.
Some days you wake up spicy.
Both are valid.
Sometimes the “problem” isn’t you.
It’s your nervous system trying to protect you.
The goal isn’t to silence it.
It’s to lead it.
We are absolutely allowed to be a problem today.
The question is — chaotic problem or sovereign disruption?
03/01/2026
If you’re stuck in survival mode, hiking can help reset your nervous system and improve emotional resilience.
From OW to WOW.
The shift from fear to love begins with one small step in one grounded moment.
Hiking for mental health and nervous system regulation has become one of my favorite ways to move from fear to love. Nature therapy builds emotional resilience and helps shift out of survival mode.
Hiking helps me regulate, refill, and return to safety in real time.
If you’re stuck in survival mode, start small.
One breath. One step. One moment of wow.
Watch the full video to walk the entire Greenwood Creek / Gerle Loop trail with me and see how I manage my energy in nature.
💛 Love over fear isn’t a mindset — it’s a practice.
On this hike, I focused on the WOW instead of the OW.
If you’re navigating survival mode right now, what helps you return to safety?
Nature? Breath? Movement? Stillness?
And if you’re wanting support, my free guide “Seven Signs You’re Stuck in Survival Mode + Shift Codes to Break Free” is 🔗above.
02/27/2026
Feeling burnt out, overwhelmed by life, and needing a reset?
It’s Forest Fri-YAY — which means it’s FOR-REST therapy day.
Time to get your nature groove on.
Mother Nature nurtures, soothes, and gently helps regulate your nervous system.
Your well-being needs happy, smiling, and hiking — not more doom-scrolling, peer pressure, pushing, or perfection.
Sometimes healing isn’t complicated.
Sometimes it’s as simple as walking toward the water…
feeling the sunlight on snow…
and letting time keep on comin’ without forcing yourself to keep up.
Nature invites you back to the current calm and quiet curiosity that exists underneath the chaos and confusion.
This reset is free.
It’s simple.
And it’s always waiting for you.
If survival mode has been loud lately,
consider this your invitation to pause, breathe, and let nature help you feel safe enough to soften again.
🌲 Regulate.
🌲 Reset.
🌲 Rise.
Where could you spend a few quiet minutes with nature today?
From Chaos to Calm 🌲 Forest Fri-YAY Nature Reset for Burnout, Overwhelm & Nervous System Healing
02/25/2026
Healing doesn’t always feel graceful.
Sometimes it feels like walking on unstable ground —
every step bringing emotions to the surface you thought were long buried.
If you grew up in chaos, unpredictability, or emotional neglect,
your nervous system learned to brace instead of soften.
So when you begin healing,
even gentle steps can feel unfamiliar…
like you don’t quite trust the ground beneath you yet.
But healing isn’t about never wobbling.
It’s about continuing to move anyway.
Leaving. Returning.
Learning that you are safe to come back to yourself.
If this season feels messy, slow, or uncertain —
you’re not broken.
You’re unwinding survival.
And that takes courage most people will never see.
🦋
If you’re learning to feel safe in your own body again, you’re not walking alone.
What part of healing has felt the most like “unstable ground” for you — emotions, relationships, identity, or learning to trust yourself?
02/24/2026
I love the ocean to regulate and get grounded!
POV: you realize the ocean regulates your nervous system better than overthinking ever did.
Bare feet in the sand.
Salt air.
Breathing deeper without trying.
No breakthrough.
No fixing.
Just safety.
Sometimes healing is this simple.
Go find your water.
Overthinking isn’t growth — it’s a nervous system stuck in survival.
When you go to the ocean -nature aids in helping regulate your nervous system instead of overthinking
Bare feet. Salt air.
Breathing deeper without trying.
Trauma recovery is rhythm, not rumination.
Let your body settle.
02/23/2026
Mother Earth is the best teacher. Nature has taught me so much and helped me heal, integrate and expand!
02/22/2026
You’re not lazy.
You’re protecting yourself.
For a long time I thought procrastination meant something was wrong with me.
But what I was actually experiencing was overwhelm, nervous system dysregulation, and a deep need for safety.
This episode is a raw chapter from my journey —
learning how to move forward without abandoning myself.
Not forcing productivity.
Not bypassing emotion.
But rebuilding safety through small moments of movement, nature, and self-compassion.
If you’ve ever felt stuck, invisible, or exhausted from trying to “push through,”
this one is for you.
You are not behind.
You are healing.
🎥 Full episode Procrastination Isn’t Laziness — It’s Protection ⏩ Learning to Move Forward Safely Anyway
now live — link in comments / bio
02/21/2026
I finally got answers… and still had to grieve.
I left a medical appointment that day with confirmation of a serious chronic illness.
It wasn’t new.
My body had been whispering for years.
I had been learning my body.
Listening.
Researching.
Trying to connect the dots between my nervous system, digestion, hypermobility, chronic pain, and exhaustion.
I lived in a body asking for help —
and the hardest part wasn’t the symptoms.
It was trying to be heard.
For years I felt like I had to explain, defend, and justify my own lived experience.
Knowing something was wrong while struggling to find care that saw the bigger picture was exhausting.
Until that day.
For the first time, I didn’t have to argue for my reality.
Someone saw the connections too.
And hearing it out loud did something.
There was validation.
And grief.
Relief.
And a flood of emotions all at once.
Because being seen doesn’t erase the years you felt unseen.
Instead of spiraling, I drove to Land’s End.
Wind.
Ocean.
Trees.
Breath.
Space to process the energy of acceptance, awareness, and release moving through my body all at once.
My leg — the one I broke.
The one that tore.
The one that rebuilt.
It still gives out sometimes.
Our experiences live in the body.
So does resilience.
For years I lived in survival mode — pushing through pain, overriding signals, living in force instead of listening.
Now I’m learning something different.
To wobble.
To soften.
To rise without forcing.
Healing isn’t about never falling.
It’s about learning how to stand again.
Again and again.
Not from denial.
But from awareness, compassion, and the quiet strength built each time you get back up.
You may wobble.
But still — you rise.
Have you ever left an appointment feeling validated… and heartbroken at the same time?
how to live inside a sensitive body without abandoning yourself
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Medical Assistant, Motivational Coach/Speaker
Transformational Life and Health Coach
on path towards Functional Medicine Health Coach Certification.
I have always had a sense that "there's is a greater purpose for my struggles."
Since I was a little girl, I have had the belief that everything happens to us for a reason. Also that each interaction with others, is either part of the lesson, part of the message or a combination of the both.
Simply put, we need one another! Evolution requires it!
I believe that lessons in our life are not meant to be malicious, they are meant to transformative. They are essential to growth and who we are to become. Similar to the butterfly's cocoon and what it must endure before it's transformation, yet they turn into something beautiful!
My illnesses started early and seem to never stop. I have battled mysterious illnesses since I was walking. I have multiple autoimmune illnesses that I manage daily and the mental, emotional and physical limitations brought on by them. It all started to get really bad a few years ago after an 8 year very unhealthy and abusive relationship. I thought I was just dealing with stomach issues from the stress of that. First diagnosis, little did I know it was part of a illness that many fight silently and for some never find out that is the culprit of their ill health. Celiac disease (sprue) that was only found AFTER I demanded a second opinion after the first doctor told me that they did not know why I was having joint pain, swelling, etc. The 2nd doctor ran tests for it that came back positive. But not knowing all that I do now, I had no idea what being gluten free meant, nor the implications of not adhering to that restriction. Fast forward a few years to 2013-I was good about avoiding gluten most of the time, but still gave in as it is REALLY DAMN DIFFICULT to give up gluten! Change is hard!! But I was also still having a lot of dairy and did know that it was causing cross reactions just like as if I had been eating gluten. All of this I learned via trial and error as I began to tune into my body and listened to the clues it was giving me every second of every day. This was the quiet before the storm though. The real culprit of my weight, sleep, mood, brain and even my bowel problems...Hashimotos Thyroid Autoimmune Disease.
It is a thyroid disease that in the beginning stages will not show on tests but the damage is being done. As my own body attacked my thyroid, my weight, appetite, moods, temperature regulation, monthly cycles and cognitive functions were all taking a hit! Hashimotos was sinking my battleship!! Eventually this disease will burn out my thyroid function to nothing and render it useless. (But not if I have anything to do with it-BIGGEST reason that I eat clean-to avoid it worsening!). By the time it was discovered in December of 2013, the damage was done and several other autoimmune’s reared prepared their torpedo attack as well! First was palindromic rheumatism that I had been battling since 2008 advanced to seronegative rheumatoid arthritis. Then the lupus diagnosis with brain lesions after discovery of them and tests to rule out multiple sclerosis.
Then came the hardest thing I have endured and far more painful than the 3 babies I brought in to this world. A heart attack at age 43. Just a month before I turned 44, the telltale chest pain/pressure and not feeling well, (and dizziness that led to me falling out of the shower earlier that day), all led to me calling 911 as I had a sort of sixth sense that something was wrong. Again, being in tune helped save my life. I had already been exercising and eating clean diet before the heart attack, so luckily when they did the cardiac catherization to look for blockages there was nothing significantly blocked but I did find out that I have a congenital heart defect called myocardial bridging. This is a condition that I have had since birth that has gradually gotten worse and without knowledge of it I have pushed my heart harder than I should have. This condition caused one of my main arteries in the heart (Left Coronary Artery) to grow under the heart muscle-or tunnel/bridge under heart muscle. When my heart contracts, it squeezes that artery and decreases the oxygen to the rest of my heart, brain and body. This causes coronary artery spasms and those hurt and trigger heart attacks. Scary stuff. But I am on top of the doctors and looking to get a procedure called “bridge unroofing”. That will bring that artery back to the surface where it will be free as it was meant to be!
I noticed that switching my focus from illness to wellness was the pivotal point in my journey that helped create Wellness With Candice. I have found significant improvement with the fibr0myalgia that I have been dealing with since 2008 is under control as long as I eat well, maintain movement and keep stress levels reduced and sleep my first priority. (That meant a schedule and setting limits and abiding by them.)
I want others to know that no matter what life is throwing at you, that you can still be healthy and fight back against obesity, autoimmune illness and other chronic illnesses and invisible illnesses.
Even though I wake up everyday with various aches and pains and limitations; rather than let it get me down and isolate me, I have found that connecting with others and helping them keeps me healthy and reinforces my belief that we all need one another.
I get up everyday and choose to keep being positive despite those limits.
I have chosen to face my limits and REDEFINE them!
I have taken those sour lemons and squeezed out some sweetness!
I know that being a Health/Life Coach is what I was destined to become.
I know the disciplines that I have learned from the chaos of the things I have been through will help guide others through their challenges.
I will help you get tough and reach your goals!
I take a whole body, mind and spirit approach and look for any imbalances and teach you about how the negative impacts your overall health.
I will teach you to focus on self care and lifestyle change, and how eating healthy and exercise can be fun!
I am here to motivate, inspire, educate and serve you!
