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Andrea Hop Health Coach

Message me to help balance your body & alleviate the side effects of hormone imbalance through individualized coaching!

The right choices in life: food, self-care, relationships, and exercise nourish both the body and soul. I guide clients in goal setting, accountability, and simple changes that lead to profound and lasting effects on each person's quality of life and health.

09/27/2023

Meal Inspo

I am a HUGE fan of the cook once and eat twice or more method of meal prep. I made tomato confit ( slow roasted tomatoes in olive oil) and used it two ways.

Meal 1:
- Baked Wild Alaskan Cod
- Precooked brown & wild rice
- Topped rice with tomato confit

Meal 2:
- Whole grain angel hair pasta
- Steamed broc and cauli
- Tomato confit turned into pasta sauce
- Grassfed hamburger (not pictured bc hamburger does not look very appealing in a pic)
- Parmesan cheese

Once the tomato confit was done, I had two easy meals with amazing flavor using our garden tomatoes in under 30 minutes! I still have a pint to use for something else.. maybe pizza sauce, salad dressing... what would you use it for?

09/16/2023

Little Josie is 6 months old today. I just had no idea what these 6 months would be like the eve of her birth. I was planning on the basic things like interrupted sleep, getting a rhythm to breastfeeding, naps, life with a baby and the big kids...

I never envisioned a diagnosis of Down Syndrome, congenital heart defects, NICU stay, cardiology appointments, Neurodevelopment appointments, OT, PT, home nursing, EKGs, Echos, X-rays, Pediatrician appointments, open heart surgery and recovery, medications, insurance plans changing, and well to be honest, I never envisioned any of the trauma all of that holds either.

But now, at 6 months, I can breathe a little easier. Josie is healing so well. Her last Echo showed her heart is beating as it should with the enlargement and fluid gone. She was able to drop one Rx med, and we'll see if she needs her other medications in 2 months. She's laughing, rolling over, eating so well, and gaining back her strength after her recovery period.

She makes it easy to blur out all the unexpected stresses and just focus on her smile and her future. Happy half a year, baby girl. I love you 🩷

08/29/2023

Meal Inspo: Salmon, Roots, & Couscous Bowls

This bowl is a fast and easy weeknight meal idea!
- cook wildcaught salmon filets
- roast diced beets and carrots
- prepare a grain or starch like couscous, rice, quinoa
- chop fresh parsley

The magic is in the sauce. Here's what takes the bowl to the next level:
- Melt a half stick of butter in a saucepan (or use 1/3 C olive oil)
- add 4 cloves minced garlic
- add 1/3 C chicken broth
- add 1/4 C capers
- add juice of half a lemon

Simmer all together for 10 minutes. Drizzle over the bowls and top with parsley. Seriously, so good and fast to prepare! Do you have capers in the fridge? They add such a punch of flavor to many different dishes

08/14/2023

This past year has been wild. Unexpected. Beautiful. Also, traumatic. It's time I have to admit to myself that I am experiencing trauma in my body again.

In 2018, I was diagnosed with PTSD. I had just gone through a series of stressful events in 10 months including my mom going through her second hurricane which flooded her house and she had so many of her things destroyed, my mom fell and fractured her shoulder, my grandpa was ill and diagnosed with cancer, and Tyler and I were in an accident in our off road vehicle and I was injured and needed 13 stitches plus I had a knee fracture. Then, my grandpa died. A few months later I had a miscarriage. All of those events lived as stress and trauma in my body and I needed help to heal, so I got to work with an EMDR therapist and released the trauma with regular sessions in a few months. At that time, I had no idea I was experiencing PTSD.

This past year has also had a stack up of stressful events as well - chronic interrupted sleep, an unexpected pregnancy, construction projects in our home leading to us living out of the home for 9 weeks, months of hidden black mold in the house, an unplanned & unmedicated VBAC, an at birth diagnosis of Down Syndrome for my daughter as well as her having two holes in her heart, and finally her open heart surgery. What a wild ride of stressors!

I'll share my symptoms later, but for now I'm sharing because PTSD and other conditions brought on by stressors don't just have to be from major singular traumas. They can come at you one after the other until your body has a hard time coping and it's time to bring in the healers. The me in 2017-2018 didn't know that. The me in 2022-2023 does, so now I can respond differently.

My body needs me now. Time to come up with my plan to help it release the trauma and stress of the last year. This time will be easier and possibly faster in some ways because I dealt with my trauma before. Ots so important to check in daily with your body and pay attention to what it's telling and showing you!

07/10/2023

How is it possible that a heart can keep expanding, that love can keep expanding? When I found out I was pregnant with Josie, I cried for two days. I didn't want any more babies. Our family was perfect with our three littles. God had healed my heart after 5 1/2 years of infertility before they came. Everything was finally all in place as it should be... and then came another baby.

We didn't know Josie would be born struggling to breathe, carrying an extra chromosome, and having two holes in her heart. It was a shock to say the least within minutes of her being born. But honestly, I didn't cry over her Down Syndrome diagnosis. I guess I had gotten my tears out over the shock of getting pregnant with her at the very start I was so worried about the holes in her heart, our NICU stay, what it meant for her future, our kids future, our future.

So many mothers of precious littles with Down Symdrome stepped forward and told us that this first part is the hardest and there will be trials on the path forward, but it will be an incredible journey filled with SO MUCH LOVE.

Well, I believe it's true. My heart has changed already just having her here these first two months. It's a different kind of love than I felt with my other three children. Equal, but bigger if that's even possible. It's a love that is greater for all of them. For all people. For our hurting world. Only God can amplify love like this, and I hope to show more of it here on Earth. We need this greater love now more than ever.

03/16/2022

Wow, these days of mothering little people are long, but so full of life and love. Right now, my body is tired. Running after toddlers, nursing a giant 8 month old sweet baby boy, feeding everyone three square meals a day plus snacks (not to mention keeping up on housework, laundry, my business, self care, etc, etc) all is harder when I'm tired.

Since I still am up with a baby every night, I can't control one of the 4 foundations of good health - SLEEP - as I would like.

So now I focus on the other three I can do more about - NUTRTION, HYDRATION, MOVEMENT.

We can never have perfection in all 4 areas at the same time if we're keeping life real and balanced, so let's focus on those small habits we can shift in those categories we can control.

I'm committed to getting out with the kids to play and walk as much as we can each week, starting my day with orange infused water, and eating something green each day. What's one shift you will make starting this week to support your health and well-being?

02/09/2022

5 Minute Meal Plate & Ingredient Meal Prep

For busy weeks when I don't make actual meals ahead, I always do my best to prep ingredients. Since we are traveling, I prepped ingredients and grabbed a few easy items to make meals go faster.

*Chopped onion
* Sliced mini peppers
* Chopped red cabbage
* Washed apples
* Put ripe avocados in fridge
* Frozen steak and pork chops for easy thawing from last week
* Bought lemons, oranges, bananas
* Bought salad kit, organic instant mashed potatoes, pesto made at the local health food store, and tortillas
* Baked extra potatoes
* Cut cucumber

This helps me put together easy lunches and have veg and fruit ready for meals. I made the avocado plate in the pic into pork tacos and served the kids something of each color for exposure. All that took me less than 30 minutes on Sunday to save some time for the week!

01/17/2022

Well, hello again friends! I'm back from a long hiatus from social media. In the fall of 2020, we were preparing to get pregnant, and I am fiercely protective of my emotional and mental bandwidth after experiencing burnout with adrenal and mental health issues prior to having kids. I wanted my focus to be solely on spending time with my twin girls and getting ready for another baby. In July '21, we welcomed our third and final baby, Jayce James, to our family after a health but long pregnancy (baby boy arrived at 41+ 2 weeks)! The rest of 2021 I spent soaking up all the love and fun with my three littles and trying my hardest to get sleep and take my supplements. Ha ha! Now, I'm ready to venture back to this community to share life and health with you all. It's good to be back! Stay tuned for more and thanks for being here! 🥰

06/06/2020

Each one of us - our physical flesh and bone - comes from the Earth. No matter our color or identify or religion, we all share the very same essence. Our bodies are from the depths of the Earth and our souls are knit together by God in ultimate love.⁣
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I spoke with some sisters this week, white and black, and the emotions that kept coming up were⁣:
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Powerlessness⁣
Anxiety⁣
Depression⁣
Anger⁣
Sadness⁣
Tiredness⁣
Stress
Fear
Disgust
Distrust
Apathy
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These emotions are low vibration and need to be healed. We must remember that the Earth is here to help us ground and center and prayer and meditation are the tools to connect with Divine Love.⁣
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As we have tough conversations with each other moving forward and look towards creating change, keep yourself grounded and your heart connected to Love before judging, reacting, speaking, or acting. That is the way we move forward in power to bring the healing this world desperately needs. Each one of us can be a change maker and healer and that starts in our hearts 💜

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