Reimagining Healthcare With Lifestyle Medicine Coaching
With the rising cost of healthcare coupled with the increase in chronic diseases, health and well-being have become even more important; yet, too many people believe that they don’t have the power to make the necessary changes.
Diet and lifestyle have the biggest impact on health outcomes and are both things you have control of and can change with a personalized plan to get you back into balance.
Why Lifestyle Medicine?
Lifestyle Medicine supports the whole person – mind, body and spirit.
As an evidence-based approach, lifestyle medicine prevents, treats and often reverses chronic disease by treating the root cause.
You can improve your health and wellbeing by focusing on the pillars of lifestyle medicine — a predominately whole food, plant based diet, regular exercise, restorative sleep, stress management, and other non-drug modalities.
The Benefits of Working With a Lifestyle Medicine Coach
✅ Evidence-based dietary approaches. Our approach focuses on using culinary medicine and food as medicine to address various health conditions and optimize well-being. Your food choices directly impact your mood, clarity, energy levels, and overall health. We can help you with meal planning, meal prep and cooking techniques.
✅ An integrated and holistic approach to health and wellness. Our approach is founded upon the 5 pillars of wellness: Physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual in conjunction with the pillars of lifestyle medicine. It’s important to ensure that we are caring for ourselves in all of these areas consistently to optimize well-being and stay in balance.
✅ Puts you in the driver’s seat so that you feel empowered to manage your health. You are the expert of you.
✅ Complementary Medicine Approaches. These approaches focus on stimulating the body’s ability to heal itself. These practices include energy healing, yoga and mindfulness.
We know making changes can be hard.
Our Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness Coaching Packages are comprehensive programs where we help you prioritize your personal goals. We work with you to create a plan so that you can feel better by nourishing and balancing the 5 pillars of wellness: physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual.
We are here to listen and guide you toward feeling better through proven methods and techniques.
We can suggest individualized techniques for stress management, diet & nutrition, sleep problems and other issues that could be greatly contributing to your symptoms. During this time, you’ll have our support in creating and sticking to a realistic plan. Our first priority is to help you take control of your health, and of your life.
Additional areas of focus may include the following:
- Grocery shopping and recipe exploration.
- Meditation, mindfulness, yoga and reiki.
- Self-care, self-love and compassion.
My Mission
As a Registered Nurse working in a hospital setting, I became painfully aware that the focus was on ‘sick care’ — band-aid solutions that masked symptoms — instead of providing patients with the education and tools to prevent their chronic diseases.
It was heartbreaking to see so many people being admitted (and re-admitted) to the hospital with chronic lifestyle diseases, like diabetes, heart disease, cancer and obesity.
Patients left the hospital with medications and with the admonishment to “eat better and exercise more.”
Physicians have little to no training in nutrition or exercise science, so patients were left with no clear steps and no support.
The “healthcare” system is failing, and that is why I became certified as a Lifestyle Medicine Coach.
My mission is to focus on shifting the paradigm from “sick-care” to one of fostering health by providing education, practical tools, support and accountability so that you can truly thrive in all areas of your life.