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NWHC is a health coaching biz all about making real food eating a reality for even the busiest people while healing the gut and incorporating healthy habits that last (and are actually fun!).

01/05/2025

Hi NHWC community!

It’s been a minute since I’ve shared health content over here! Or 10 months?

It’s about time I hop on and give you a little update, incase you were wondering what’s going on at Northwest Health Coaching.

Last I shared, we had adopted our son Benny in June 2024 and that I planned to return in January of 2025.

Well it’s May... and I still haven’t returned.

I’ve made the decision to stop health coaching for the foreseeable future. While I truly miss working with clients and helping them heal, I just can’t seem to pull myself away from my little guy full time, which is what running a business takes. I plan to take the next couple of years and lap up all the baby/toddler time I can and see where life takes us.

I won’t be working with clients 1:1 and I don’t anticipate doing group coaching, though that might change in a year or so. I’m leaving myself open to the possibility, but I don’t want anyone in this community waiting around for me.

For now, I won’t be emailing my subscribers regularly with gut/health information or recipes and I won’t be consistently sharing content on social media unless something really inspires me to do so personally.
However, my website and socials will stay up, so feel free to continue to use those platforms for health information and recipes! The nice thing about sharing tried & true health info is the protocols don’t change, they’ll always be beneficial!

My courses are still available and those of you that have bought them in the past, you still have access to them. Please continue to support your body with those resources!

I’m leaving myself open to the possibility of returning to NWHC in the future, but I know for the next year or two, I’m not planning on building this space.
Thank you for being a part of my health coaching community. You have all touched and inspired me, and have helped me grow something I could have only dreamed of. I’ve loved connecting with you and being a small part of your lives. I hope to continue to connect here and watch you flourish in your health journey.

Thank you for supporting my desire to shift into this new era as a mom and encouraging me to follow my heart.
💗
Kelsey

27/03/2024

Heart bursting

08/03/2024

I wouldn’t have made it through what I’ve made it through without the help of a number of women owned/led businesses.
Without the women in the health + wellness space that have paved the way and led me to heal.
Without the women that have stood by my side, being a shoulder to cry on, and then then pushing me to keep going.

I’ve been sharing about my fertility journey and my health struggles and have now started to share practices I’ve focused on to help me heal.

I figured International Women’s Day is the perfect day to share with you the women behind my healing.

Here are some incredible women that I truly don’t know where I’d be had they not supported me.

✨They are miracle workers.✨

- The dietitian that helped me discover sooo much through testing and looking at my food intake, and then supported me with making changes.minipom - My acupuncturist that has helped me through it all and given me so many ideas to try.
- Vickie has been doing abdominal massages with me for a while, giving me relief but also helping me connect with the part of my body that has experienced a lot of trauma.
- My therapist that has kept me grounded and guided me through the hardest time of my life.
- Dr. Torvie and Dr. Melville have been working with me for seven years, and I’ve felt so confident in their hands.
- Dr. Ashley has helped not only with my alignment, but also getting my body into parasympathetic response when all other methods have failed.
- Her podcast and herbs are just life changing.
- The best way to chill out and reduce inflammation.
- Speaking of inflammation, my Higher Dose blanket has been one of my favorite tools to minimize it, and helps me chill out at the end of the day. It’s a company founded by two women and has made a difference in my body and health.
Happy International Women’s Day to each and every one of you. Love you all! 💗

01/03/2024

🩵Second Focus of My Healing Process- Healing Adrenal Fatigue🩵

I’ve had signs of high cortisol and chronic stress for a while- ✔️hair loss
✔️daily exhaustion even when I let myself rest
✔️sadness
✔️brain fog
✔️cravings, etc.
And I have given myself every excuse in the book for why it was ok (I mean, read my story…😝).

I did things here and there to help manage it, but it didn’t really set in how much it was impacting me until I did a DUTCH test.
My test showed that my body wasn’t metabolizing cortisol well, an indicator that I’ve been too stressed for too long and my body is spent.

Being in the health and wellness field, I know how detrimental this can be on longer term health. I also know that this will only continue to impact my hormones, estrogen, and inflammation, so seriously working on it has been one of my biggest focuses.

Here are a handful of changes I’ve made to really help my body manage stress and improve my cortisol situation:

➕Changed from HIIT to yoga, walks, and weight training➕ .

This was tough to change, but I know it was right. I was exerting a lot of energy each day in my exercises, (my heart rate often between 180-200 bpms for 10-20 minutes of my exercise) spiking my cortisol unnecessarily.
I’m already doing that too much, so switching up my movement was important. I focus on keeping my heart rate between 100-150 max and focus on long, low impact movement that helps with my blood sugar.
➕Stopped daily cold showers➕
I had started implementing cold showers to support healthy mitochondria function. They are so popular right now, but what I learned not long ago is that all of the research done on them has been on men.
As a woman that has not been through menopause, my body needs different things then a man, and having this daily cortisol spike was having more of a negative impact on my body than the uptick on mitochondria function. Those were easy to move on from.
*Changes cont. in comments…

28/02/2024

🩵First Focus of My Healing Process- Blood Sugar Balance🩵

*Over the next week, I’m sharing a handful of processes I’ve used to help me heal from fibroids, infertility, hormone issues, grief, and other tough sh!%. This is not an exhaustive list and I’m not suggesting it’s exactly what you need, but these tools have been helpful for me. Though some of these issues haven’t been “solved” these tools have helped…*

When I started my first rounds of IVF, I was doing all that I thought was best for my body-
~Vegetarian (ish)
~HIIT exercises
~Fasting
~Cold showers daily

I would skip breakfast, do a HIIT workout on an empty stomach in the morning, and eventually start my eating around 11:00 am with a big bowl of rolled oats, berries, and nut butter.

I truly was doing what I thought and was told was best for a healthy person in their early 30’s.

Over the years, as I’ve worked with a variety of health professionals, I can see why my blood sugar eventually struggled, landing me on the cusp of prediabetes, even when I looked like a healthy person.

What I didn’t realize then was that if your blood sugar levels are off, and you become insulin resistant/prediabetic, your hormones and fertility can be deeply impacted.

Fortunately, it’s something many of us can reverse.

One of the first things we focused on when I started working with a dietitian to support healthy hormones (well after my IVF rounds, unfortunately) was to make sure my blood sugar was healthy.

A few things I’ve incorporated to support my blood sugar:
*Continued in comments 👇🏻

27/02/2024

Now that I’m almost 6 months past our failed placement, and it’s been 6 years since my first miscarriage, I’m finally starting to catch my breath.
*Read previous posts for full story
I so wish I had some really exciting news that can wrap my story up in a beautifully packaged box with an exaggeratedly large bow. 🎀
But that’s not real life. Not yet.

We are still working on becoming parents. We are hopeful that the right child will find us in the way it’s supposed to. And we are still learning how to be the best parents to whatever child ends up filling our arms and our lives.

But we are still waiting.

In the meantime, my health is my top priority.

After all that has happened, after years of trying to force my body to do what I desperately wanted it to do, I’m now focused on listening to it.

Each day I’m checking in with my physical body and my mental space to see what it needs. And after working with many professionals (acupuncturist, dietitian, herbalist, naturopaths, massage therapist, IVF doctors, and therapist) I’ve got an incredible arsenal of tools and routines I’m implementing to help myself heal from all angles.

So, though I’m caught up to present day, and sadly I’m not ending my story with a big, Oscar worthy happy ending, I have learned a lot and am in a better headspace.

I know our journey isn’t over and I could once again have my heart crushed, but I’ve made it through dark times I wasn’t sure I would make it through, and am doing my best to learn from them.

And while we wait for our little one, and focus on healing, there are five routines that have made the biggest impact on my mental and physical health.

Five things that I think anyone could benefit from, but especially someone that has struggled with hormonal issues, infertility, and/or trauma.

This week I’ll be sharing one of those focuses each day (ish), diving a little deeper into why they are important and how they’ve helped.

Stay tuned 🩵

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