SHINE health & wellness

10/27/2025

Take a Digestive Walk 🚶‍♀️
A simple 10–15 minute walk after meals can boost digestion, balance blood sugar, and reduce bloating. It’s not about the pace… it’s about movement after nourishment.

✨ Try it after your next meal and feel the difference!
➡️ Visit shinehw.com to learn more about SHINE offerings.

10/25/2025

Stay inspired! Follow SPARC to learn more about adaptive fitness and upcoming events that empower and connect the disability community.

SPARC fitness & events provides adaptive personal training and community-based fitness through social participation in partnership with SHINE health & wellness.

Services align with Community Access Individual and Community Access Group goals to build mobility, stamina, balance, safe community navigation, and social engagement.

As an approved vendor, we invoice parents under CAI (1:1) for adaptive personal training and CAGfor small-group classes and events. SPARC will provide service notes for every session billed.

Get started with an evaluation by reaching out to Vicki Pope at mailto: vicki@abilityrisingcollective.com

10/17/2025

So excited HerScan is back! Get registered for Feb. it will be here before you know it!

09/08/2025

Talley says, “when Nicole is in charge, you SHINE!”

07/26/2025

This thoracic opener is a game changer! You can us a ball or a bench. Start on your knees and place your elbows shoulder width apart. Shift your hips back and allow your hands to go behind your head. You can do this actively and move in and out or you can hold statically!

06/30/2025

🌟 Did you know your CAI funds through the NOW/COMP waiver can be used for Personal Training at SHINE? 💪

If your young adult receives services through Georgia’s NOW or COMP waiver, you may be eligible to use Community Access Individual (CAI) dollars for 1-on-1 personal training at SHINE health & wellness!

CAI is designed to help individuals with developmental disabilities build skills, increase independence, and engage in meaningful community activities. At SHINE, we believe fitness is a powerful way to support all three!

Here’s how personal training through SHINE can qualify as CAI:

✅ Builds physical strength, balance, and coordination
✅ Supports social interaction and engagement in community life
✅ Increases independence and confidence
✅ Promotes health, wellness, and emotional well-being

How to Get Started:
1️⃣ Talk with your Support Coordinator and ask to add Personal Training at SHINE under your CAI services.
2️⃣ We’ll provide a letter and service outline to help with approval.
3️⃣ Once approved, your sessions can be fully funded through your waiver!

Our trainers specialize in working with young adults with special needs—and we make every session fun, safe, and empowering.

👉 If you’re interested or have questions, send us a message or give us a call at 678-787-9765.

Let’s help your young adult build strength and confidence—one workout at a time! ❤️🏋️‍♂️✨

06/30/2025

🌟 Special Friends. Special Strength. Special Joy. 🌟

These smiles say it all! ✨💪 At SHINE, our Special Friends Fitness program is all about moving our bodies, building confidence, and having FUN together! Whether it’s lifting weights, trying new exercises, or simply cheering each other on… every session is filled with joy, friendship, and unstoppable energy.

We’re so proud of these ladies and all of our friends who show up and SHINE every week! ❤️

If you know someone who would love a place like this… send them our way!
👉 Message us for info or visit www.shinehw.com

06/12/2025

As we find ourselves halfway through 2025, now is the perfect time to pause, reflect, and reconnect—with our goals, our wellness, and our why.

Back in January, we launched into the year with big intentions. Whether your goals were centered on strength, healing, clarity, or consistency, you began with purpose. But the truth is, no journey goes exactly as planned—and that’s okay.

This is your mid-year reset. Not to start over, but to realign.

💬 A Note From Nicole:
"If you’ve lost a little steam, you’re not alone. But here’s the good news: we don’t wait until a new year to begin again. We recalibrate in real time. And that’s what this moment is for."

At SHINE, we believe in sustainable momentum—not perfection. That’s why we’re checking in on:

🔁 Your current training rhythm (Are you showing up for yourself?)

🥗 Your nutrition support (Are you fueling to feel better?)

🧠 Your mindset (Is your self-talk strengthening you or stealing your joy?)

Whether you’re right on track or feeling like you’ve fallen behind, now is the time to recommit—not from guilt, but from grace.

🔥 Mid-Year Reminders:
Your progress is still progress, even if it’s not linear.

Your body keeps the score—and it’s always worth listening to.

Your purpose hasn’t changed, even if your pace has.

💥 Let’s Finish Stronger Than We Started
We’re here to support you through the second half of 2025 with:

Strength training programs tailored to your goals

Hormone-smart nutrition coaching

Special friends fitness and inclusive wellness

Detox, recovery, and massage therapy to help you restore what life has drained

Whether you need a reset, a recharge, or a coach in your corner—you’re not alone.

Let’s step into the second half of this year with fresh energy and focused intention.

A few ideas to get you going:
👉 Get Started: https://bit.ly/SHINEhwDiscovery
👉 Start detoxing with a foot bath: https://bit.ly/SHINEfootbathpkg
👉 check out www.nicoledeward.com for a QNT check

✨ The year isn’t over. Your story is still unfolding. And the best chapters may still be ahead.

We believe in you. Let’s keep going—together.

– The SHINE Team

05/14/2025

When the Storms Keep Coming by Nicole DeWard

They say April showers bring May flowers…
But what if May feels like more rain than bloom?

Lately, it’s been thunder, lightning, downpours—and not just outside. I’m hearing it from clients too: unexpected stress, setbacks, and that feeling like momentum keeps slipping away just when we thought we had a rhythm.

And yet... this is exactly where growth begins.

At SHINE, we believe in strengthening the body, but we also believe in strengthening our mindset. Because the truth is—life doesn’t follow our plan. It’s not always sunshine. Sometimes it pours.

But rain grows deep roots.

This season—whether you're in a storm, a drizzle, or a drought—is an opportunity to build endurance, to stay the course, and to grow in the face of what you can’t control. And I want to give you three simple ways to shift your mindset and build healthy momentum, rain or shine.

1. Bookend Your Day with Intention

Start your morning with five minutes of movement—stretch, walk, dance it out. End your day with five minutes of stillness—breathe, journal, or simply lie in silence. These bookends create powerful emotional anchors that stabilize your day.

Storms feel smaller when you start and finish strong.

2. Control the Controllables

You may not control the weather, your schedule, or how your body feels today. But you can control your water intake, your protein goal, your bedtime. Focus on the small wins. They stack up.

Progress comes from consistency, not perfection.

3. Keep Showing Up

Even if it’s messy. Even if it’s late. Even if you didn’t do it yesterday. Just show up today. Walk into the gym, log your food, come to small group training, or text a friend from SHINE. When in doubt, move your body and ask for support.

Showing up is 80% of staying in the game.

Remember, flowers don’t bloom because the sun always shines—they bloom because they’ve endured the rain.

You’re doing better than you think.

And you don’t have to do it alone. Whether it’s massage, detox, training, or just a listening ear—SHINE is here for you.

Let’s grow through what we go through. Together. Which one of these three ways can you try out this week? Let us know in the comments!

05/11/2025

Feeling overwhelmed with your health journey? Text Nicole to set up a consultation to get to the root of your symptoms! In honor of Mother's Day, for the rest of May, consultations are half off for mommas!

Stop Chasing. Start Listening.

We live in a world where symptoms quickly get labeled—POTS, ADHD, arthritis, psoriasis, chronic UTIs—and we’re told that’s the answer. But what if the real answer lies deeper?

At Lighthouse Nutrition, we believe your body is always talking. Instead of chasing diagnosis after diagnosis, we shine a light on the root cause of your symptoms so you can heal with clarity, not confusion.

If you're tired of feeling like no one really sees the why behind your symptoms, this is for you.

Let’s stop chasing and start truly healing—together.

04/17/2025

This was made several years ago but still true to this day!

When you hear SHINE Health & Wellness owner Nicole DeWard talk about her business, her passion is contagious.

04/16/2025

Pick Your Pain

Would you rather:

Stay uncomfortable in your body… or sweat for 45 mins a day? 👇

A. Bring on the sweat

B. Ugh… I need help

Text FREEWEEK to 678-787-9765 to try a week of SHINE small group training – on us!