I coach clients how to become physically fit and follow a healthy lifestyle and hold them accountable to their goals so they can have the energy and motivation to spend more time with their family, help more people, and have a side business or increase their income at their current job. It's my passion and how I went from being a teacher to a mother and now a Certified Health Coach. The first time
I learned how diet can affect a person's health, I was 12 years old. My mom was diagnosed with MS, and her doctor told her to avoid dairy and red meat. She maintained a simple diet of fish and white chicken, nuts and seeds, whole grains, and fruits and vegetables. As I started having my own family, I thought I was doing a pretty good job of feeding them… that is until they started experiencing a variety of symptoms as teenagers. After visiting a naturopath with my special-needs daughter Sara, I found out she was allergic to dairy (and I was allergic to eggs)! Within the same few years, my other daughter contracted mono, and my youngest son caught meningitis. Although there were other contributing factors, such as stress and exposure, without a good diet to support a strong immune system, my children had very little chance of preventing these diseases. I had just begun my journey with whole food nutrition and decided traditional medicine would only help my family in the short term. I took a daunting look at nutritional guidance and saw the recommended servings of fruits and vegetables was 7-13 serving per day. And it was even higher for teenage boys! “There is no way,” I thought, to get that kind of nutrients into my children daily!” I felt discouraged, but right around that time, I was introduced to JuicePlus. JuicePlus, a simple product consisting of encapsulated whole fruits and vegetables, was the answer to our problems. It was portable and manageable and became affordable because I chose to become a sales rep for the company. It was too valuable to only keep this knowledge to myself, and I knew by sharing it with others, I would fulfill my passion as a person of service and help my family at the same time. The science-backed, blind-tested studies of JuicePlus were what made me believe this was the right choice for my family's nutrition. Shortly after we all started taking it daily, my son's performance on the football field began to exceed his other teammates by far. My youngest daughter healed more quickly from injuries from Rugby than her fellow players, and my daughter, Sara, with her various ailments, was losing weight and eating a very balanced diet in ways we had not experienced before. My son was awarded a full football scholarship to the University of Miami and is now on a full scholarship at the University of Colorado, earning his MBA. His personal drive and passion for the game brought him to this moment, and his strong immune system supported the enormous effort it took to become strong enough to play at such a high level. He is consistently recovering faster than other players and has greater stamina during practices and games. I like to talk about my son a lot because he is a great case study for many other families looking to pay for school with a scholarship, but there are other ways families can save money. By eating healthier, people avoid going to the doctor, paying for medications, and missing days of work. Junk food messes with the gut, and that inflammation contributes to illness. It’s a perpetual cycle of poor eating and medicating. My role as a health coach is to give my clients the tools to make better decisions for their family's health. It is possible to lead a busy lifestyle and maintain a good diet, yet still enjoy eating great food! It's not a sacrifice to make better choices, and the payoff for switching to healthier eating is more time doing the things you love and spending less money on the things you don't. Save money and feel better all at once. This is the promise I make to the people I help. With the right tools leading to the right choices, life becomes better for everyone.
