Attaining Sustainable Change

Staying healthy and maintaining your weight is remarkably similar to the changing seasons, as both require careful and regular adjustments to adapt to new conditions.

An effective way to create lasting and meaningful change is to focus on the good habits you already possess and gradually build upon them. Changes driven by emotions such as fear, guilt, or a strong desire to fix perceived flaws can often lead to a persistent cycle of negativity. In this cycle, frequent attempts can ultimately result in failure and constant reminders of what isn't working, diminishing motivation and confidence over time.

Focus and build on the positives, leave the negatives behind.

Fountain of Youthfulness - Your Choices

How we age is a choice; with gratitude or misery.

  • Have Gratitude! Express empathy, embrace humility and laugh frequently -they’re all contagious and fountains of youth!

  • Chose to Move! A body in motion, stays in motion -take a walk, try yoga, simply move - a gym is not needed!

  • Nourish Yourself! You are what you eat -eat your veggies, drink your water!

  • Stay Connected! Get out there… you’ve got good stuff to share!

A Yoga-Inspired Movement Program

This approach gently creates mobility where stiff achiness generally resides and may support rehabilitation as one recovers from an injury. The focus addresses working to regain movement function typically lost with aging and chronic pain conditions.

Mindfulness is experienced as participants are verbally and visually provided guidance for breath, balance, movement and personal awareness of surroundings.

Yoga classes have been shown to relieve chronic low back pain...

In a recent article published through NPR - Yoga classes relieved chronic low back pain and slashed the need for pain-relief medications, a new study shows.

Back pain sufferers who took 12 weeks of virtual live-streamed yoga classes also slept better and moved more easily than participants on a wait list for the classes, the study published in early November in JAMA Network Open reported.

Read more ... through NPR

Are You Open to Another Perspective - Beyond Your Own?

After years of trying various approaches. Observing all the social influencers swear that theirs is the only approach for you. Where are you? Any further along on your journey to wellness and healthy sustained weight-loss? Or are you exactly where you started… or maybe a little heavier or a bit unhealthier?

There is a reason - quick fixes are simply that a quick fix. Behavioral change is where your behaviors change, and different choices are made.

Health Coaching is becoming increasingly valuable as people begin to realize they haven’t been able to achieve something on their own, and recognize that the perspective of someone who can see beyond the situation they continue to find themselves in.

Poor quick fix lifestyle choices are responsible for continued weight gain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and overall illness.   Health Coaching is a collaborative partnership; with YOU the client being able to tap into YOUR inner strength and external resources to achieve health and wellness you deserve.   

Have you been able to achieve the results you want on your own?

Pain Management

Pain is experienced differently for everyone, therefore, managing it is personal. Offerings such as massage therapy, yoga, mindfulness, and healthy lifestyle programs can help you manage and relieve pain, recover from injury, recondition impaired muscle function, and regain your overall quality of health.

Pain is experienced differently by everyone-

Therefor managing it is personal.

Can't find a "DIEt" that works for you?

HEALth -

  • Food as Fuel

  • Nourishment & Satisfaction

  • Mindful Self-care

  • Sustainable

  • Wellness from Within

  • Being the Best Version of Yourself

Your Choices - Your Habits - Your Wellness

DIEt -

  • Food as Enemy

  • Deprivation

  • Quick Fix

  • Short-term

  • Numbers and a Scale

  • One Size Fits All

Ready to focus on Your Health and HEAL?

Choose to thrive in 2025- You are worth the investment!!

You are correct; being healthy is not free.  Dealing with daily stiffness and pain is not free. Being overweight, sedentary with a weakened immune system is not free either.

There is an investment in being healthy or cost for illness - either way it will involve time and money.

Your CHOICE where you spend it.

Ask yourself-

How many of the social media diet supplements, meal replacements or programs have you bought that did not work long-term or work at all?

How much are the co-pays for the doctor visits, lab work, physical therapy sessions and medication’s to manage a chronic illness, fatigue, pain, etc.?  Did you include the costs of the all the over the counter products for sinus congestion, runny noses, sleep problems, digestive issues, etc.?

 What is the potential future cost of all these reactive approaches?

 What is the emotional and the psychological toll on yourself and your love ones when you cannot join them in an activity due to just not feeling well or illness? 

How much are you missing out on?

Use this link to RESERVE YOUR SPOT and START YOUR JOURNETY TO THRIVE!

Mindful Movement Holiday Schedule 2024

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Mindful Movement Zoom (30 minutes)

Monday 12/23 @ 7pm-730pm

Tuesday 12/24 @ 630am-7am

Thursday 12/26 @ 630am-7am

Monday 12/30 @ 7pm-730pm

Tuesday 12/31 @ 630am-7am

Thursday 01/02 @ 630am-7am

Mindful Movement /Center Yoga (60 minutes)

Saturday 12/21 @ 1030am-1130am

Thursday 12/26 @ 930am-1030am

Saturday 12/28 @ 1030am-1130am

Thursday 01/02 @ 930am-1030am

What have you chosen to believe about yourself?

Beliefs are stronger than willpower. Take a moment and consider what you believe about yourself.

Do you believe in a growth or fixed mindset? The implications may explain a lot- especially when looking to change a habit. Learning is necessary to change a habit.

Growth Mindset = Possibility!

-Believes in Development Over Time

-Readily Embraces Challenges

-Has a High Regard for Practice

-Views Obstacles as Only Temporary

-Is Inspired by Others

-Willingly Accepts Feedback

Fixed Mindset = Stuck!

-Believes in Innate Intelligence / Talent

-Resists Challenges

-Disregards the Need For Practice

-Views Obstacles as Permanent

-Views Others Success as a Threat

-Struggles to Accept Feedback

As you age, what will be most important to you?

Bring healthy mobility and less pain into your life. The smallest of adjustments NOT MAJOR CHANGES yield the greatest results. Although it seems so difficult to take the time and have the discipline to do it on our own and sometimes seems so painful to even consider.

Is the ability to move around, free of chronic pain and movement restrictions important to you?

I focus on supporting my clients to move mindfully and create mobility where stiff achiness generally resides. This can be addressed through any or all my offerings. I am happy to discuss which approach may be BEST for YOU.

Mindful Movement is available in person or remotely 5 times a week -offering you an opportunity to be guided through a serious of movements which will enhance your mobility and minimized the impact of most arthritis associated with aging and stiffness associate with minimal activity.

Healthy Habits is a 6 week program allowing you an opportunity to explore how your current choices (food, beverage, movement, self-care) affect your health including weight and inflammation = which is typically experience PAIN and stiffness.

Tailored to You is personal health coaching; schedule your introductory complimentary 20 Minute session today.

Massage Therapy is available by appointment.

Approach to Sustainable Change

Being healthy and managing your weight can be like the seasons we experience each year, requiring us to regularly make changes to adapt.

A productive approach to sustainable change…consider the positive habits you already have concerning a healthy lifestyle and amplify those behaviors.

Change that is motivated by fear, guilt, regret or a desire to fix a perceived weakness often leads to negative a self-defeating cycle in which we try and fail and keep being reminded of what is not working.

Focus and build on the positives, leave the negatives behind.

Healthy Self - Heal Thy Self

When you start taking care of yourself, you feel better, you see yourself better, you become healthier.

Choose to LIVE better, Not to simply EXIST.

As we age, the more personal responsibility we are able to take; the greater the results. Truly making the retirement years GOLDEN.

Do you know why you make the choices you do? How READY are you to change? Could the key to sustainable change start with you spending time observing and learning about yourself and your preferences? Taking time to really gain an understanding of how you got to where you are today, then moving toward a clearer picture of where you’d like to be.

What are you drawn to?

Nothing is Static, the Only Constant is Change

Shifting our balance is necessary constantly. Nothing is static. Not our health. Not our posture. Not our daily routines. Not our relationships. Not us. As we age our bodies require different care. This could be a need to change our food, our activity, our relationships, our beliefs, our views and our expectations. Turning inward and listening maybe the first step... Shifting Balance is normal and healthy.

Everyone needs support at some point

Why have I evolved my practice beyond massage therapy?

JUST LIKE YOU-

I am getting older.

I have been a Massage Therapist supporting my clients in managing healthy aging and chronic stiff achiness and pain for 20 years. In that time, I too have been getting older.

On my journey I have discovered a few changes in my daily choices that currently have me feeling more mobile, energetic, less stressed and over all happier and healthier today -Without Feeling Deprived.

As a Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach I want you to feel your best - Now and at any age. I want to share these approaches with you.

The foundation of this is available through -

Tailored to You 1:1 Health Coaching or Healthy Habits 6week Weight-loss (Last offering before September starts this Monday 4/15)

Both include the opportunity to experience Healthy Choices Educational Grocery Tour and Mindful Movement.

What is Mindfulness to You?

Understanding 3 Aspects of Mindfulness

  • Intention – what you want to get from practicing mindfulness.

  • Attention – focus on your internal and external world.

  • Attitude – curious, reflective and accepting.

Quiet gentle approach to coaching the mind to reset and focus…

It’s natural for the mind to be constantly working; organizing, solving and restructuring information about people, places and things.

Without some “self-parenting” the mind and its thoughts can spin and spin until it hits a wall… and is forced to stop.

Being mindful - is a quiet gentle approach to coach the mind to settle into the here and now moment.  

Why do we continue to OVEREAT?

If you consider the body needs essential nutrients; and you are consuming lots of empty calories… your body is still starving for those nutrients.

There is also the opportunity for leptin resistance. If your finger touches a hot stove, you want your fingertip and brain to recognize that it is hot, immediately causing you to pull your finger away.  With Leptin Resistance, it is like your fingertip is stuck on that stove and burning the skin off; you just keep overeating because your body is resistant to Leptin, the hormone that tells you to stop eating because you are full.

Gherlin is the hormone released to tell our bodies we are hungry and need fuel/nutrients.  When you start to eat, your fat cells release Leptin, which then tells your brain our nutrient levels have been met; and we should stop eating.  

What is leptin resistance?

One Choice at a Time

Do I really need to take vitamins?

You may be healthy, active and regularly making all the right food choices yet still fall short. Vitamins can bridge the gap.

The reason one vitamin can promote so much benefit in the body, is because the deficiency of one vitamin can negatively effect so many bodily functions.

Vitamins and minerals are considered essential nutrients—because acting in concert, they perform hundreds of roles in the body. They help strengthen and rebuild our bones, support the bodies recovery from injury, and are a critical component of our immune system. They also play a strategic role in converting our food into energy.

Understanding the Benefits of taking vitamins is based on 3 factors

  • Quality of Product

  • Consistency of Use

  • Your Body's Ability to Absorb