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Ashley Poelhuis is an online health coach helping clients all over the world GET STRONG and achieve t

26/04/2024

My biggest transformation ever, almost four years in the making.
I found out that it’s national infertility awareness week this week in the US. I wasn’t aware of it and so find it particularly serendipitous that I found my way back to this space in this week given that the greatest transformation I have ever undertaken is wrapped around this very topic.
Years of infertility is what prompted me to step away in the first place. I needed to re-prioritize things in my life to minimize stress as much as possible in order to raise our chances of having a baby.
I scaled back my coaching work, took a less stressful job to alleviate financial pressures, reduced my own personal training, took a break from social media.
All with the intended effort of reducing stress and giving my body its best chance to conceive.
Doctor’s appointments were made, tests were done, treatments prescribed. They were helpful but not successful.
Then one day there were two lines on the test and no explanation other than God’s grace.
Praise God from whom all blessings flow, our sweet son came earth side in January and our life will never be the same.
I’ll talk more about my experience but for now I want those struggling with fertility to know you are not alone, your desires and hopes are noble and cherished and seen. You are loved and seen.

24/04/2024

Back. It’s been a while. Not sure I even remember how this whole Instagram thing works but here we are starting a fresh.
I’m in a new season of life.
It’s been a lot of change and change is still happening.
So showing up here will look different than it has in the past.
But I am happy to be able to share pieces of it with you again. 😊

28/09/2022

I stepped on my mother’s scale this morning for the first time since a big travel day.
The number staring back at me was a number I NEVER thought I would see let alone be okay with.
Being in my childhood home has brought back so many memories of little Ashley and her quest to always be the smallest version of herself.
I can remember the “ideal weight” I was constantly striving for, the weight I thought would finally make me happy with my body.
Oh how I wish I could go back and tell her that her focus was in the wrong place, that achieving her “ideal body” would look VERY different than the “ideal weight” she had made up.
Because it was all made up! I had decided on a “perfect weight” with no real idea of how it related to the body I wanted.
And it caused me to have a really negative relationship with my body.
It wasn’t until I began to understand how my body worked and what it really took to achieve my ideal physique that I was able to let go of the control the scale had on my perception of myself.
I was able to finally engage in the habits that actually allowed my body to change and develop into one I can honestly say I love and an SO proud of.
It may not be the body every women would want for themselves. Thats okay.
Thats also not the point. The pont is that in order to achieve the body YOU want, you may need to let go of the number on the scale and focus on the basic habits of good health.
Feed your body well.
Move your body often.
Recover intentionally.
Be gracious with yourself.
Don’t let a number decide how you feel about yourself.
Because in the end, your ideal body is probably not your ideal weight.

13/09/2022

The easiest trick to start tracking your biofeedback and getting to know your body.
Do a body scan!
It can take 3 minutes, it can take 30 minimum- whatever you have time for.
The important thing is that you take the time, ( distraction free ) to assess how your body is feeling in that moment.
Do body scans when you wake up, in the office, on a plane, in a car.
The possibilities are endless as are the benefits.
If you want to track biofeedback and get in tune with yo’self, then this is the quickest and easiest way to start.

12/09/2022

Stalled weight loss may just be one of the most frustrating parts of our fitness or wellness journeys.
Learn how tracking biofeedback just may be the solution to stubborn weight loss as you learn HOW your body is working and how to make it work in your favor.

07/09/2022

Fitness is not just time in the gym.
How strong you are.
How much weight you can push.
Fitness is the sum of our whole health.
Our mental health.
Our emotional health.
Our physical health.
Our relationship health.
Our environment health.
Our mobility health.
Our nutritional health.
It is an intentional effort, every day, not in the big shifts, but in the small steps.
Every day, 1% better than the day before.

06/09/2022

Real talk: How you talk about YOUR body in front of your kids will have a greater lasting impact then how you talk to them about their own bodies.
Why?
Because kids learn through observation.
They see how you talk about yourself, your body, and they normalize what they see. They internalize the patterns of behavior they watch around them.
It doesn’t matter that you talk to them about their body in a positive way, that you encourage them to love their bodies and focus on what their body can DO, not just what it looks like.
It doesn’t matter if in the next moment you talk about how you hate your own body or how overweight you are or how much you want to be thinner, more toned, stronger.
If you are not practicing what you preach and modeling a positive relationship with your body, your food, your movement- then you are passing along your own cycles of insecurity to the next generation.
And not only do they deserve better, but YOU deserve better.
Let’s do better, let’s be the change we want to see for the sake of ourselves and the sake of our littles.
Share to all the parents, aunts, uncles, and friends who need to hear this ♥️

29/08/2022

If know you need to make changes to your nutrition habits but don’t know where to start then here is your starting point.
You don’t have to make huge dramatic changes to your nutrition to see huge dramatic changes to your health.
The most impactful habits are often the smallest- done with intention and consistency.
These four nutrition habits can have a HUGE positive impact on your health and are the starting point for all of my clients.
No matter what your health and fitness goals are, they will benefit from these four steps.
And if you find these helpful then please hit the ❤️. It helps so much for small businesses like me to have your support!

16/08/2022

Motivation comes and goes, but my reason WHY is always there.
It comes in the form of three tiny scares on my shoulder that I see every day.
I never want to feel as weak and vulnerable as I did post TWO shoulder surgeries.
I never want to feel the ache of chronic pain that came after 14 dislocations in two years.
I value my fitness because I know what it feels like to lose it.
And I never want to feel that way again.

11/08/2022

When it comes to our nutrition , it can be easy to feel overwhelmed.
But our nutrition doesn’t have to be complicated.
And most often it is the small, daily shifts to our nutrition habits that have the greatest impact.
If you are feeling overwhelmed by nutrition information, then take a step back to the basics:
1. Hydration
2. Whole Foods
3. Protein Intake
Focus your efforts in improving these three areas as it relates to your goals and see how your health improves.

08/08/2022

Yes…we had a council meeting….
We decided to start .
It’s a movement.

08/08/2022

If there was one thing about health and fitness that I could go back in time and tell my younger self, it would be this.
You were not put on this earth to pursue the smallest version of yourself.
You are capable of more,
You are worthy to pursue more.
You are defined by more…than just your waist measurements or the number on a scale.
And ironically, it truly wasn’t until I began to train for performance, and FUEL my body accordingly that I started the see the physique I had wanted the whole time.
But by then it was just a happy by-product, because the CONFIDENCE, the PRIDE, and SENSE OF SELF that I had developed was way more important.
So this is my encouragement: don’t waste the time I did.
Show up for yourself.
TAKE UP SPACE.
And let’s redefine what feminine beauty standards are. Standards that put character, discipline, and strength above the scale.
Let’s work.

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