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.
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.
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
Why does aging seem to be so painful?
Ever wonder why somedays you feel very stiff and achy yet can’t recall having done anything physically to cause it? Then experience those days that all seems to feel pretty good. You may have more control over managing this than you think.
Let’s talk about inflammation.
When something enters the body, and it is not recognized as something it needs like an essential nutrient- your immune system kicks in and attacks. Your body will work to protect itself from foreign matter and will push it out or encompass, destroy and or try to eliminate. For example; when you get a sliver in your finger your body will respond and create inflammation (redness and swelling) around the spot. Inflammation is a healthy immune response, however when repeated over and over it becomes Chronic Inflammation... which then is no longer a healthy response but a full attack on one's body.
An unfortunate common systemic form of inflammation can arise from what you eat and drink. Today many items we consume are loaded with ingredients (additives and preservatives) that are not recognized by the body as a nutrient. Chances are if you look at a label and can’t pronounce or recognize an ingredient – your body won’t either! As a result, the body will attack it as foreign matter. This may causes a systemic (full body) inflammatory response which can be experienced through stiff achy joints and overall swelling and bloat.
Each of our bodies are like chemistry beakers. Everything we consume has an impact on our unique chemistry balance. The effect of what we consume can be positive or negative. When negative, your body is smarter than you and will attack the unrecognized matter (like a silver in your finger), causing an inflammatory response. Everyone’s body is unique in how this takes place. Most common areas it can be observed in rashes and irritations on skin, bloating and digestion discomfort, acid reflux, stiff achy joints, and respiratory/sinus issues like runny nose and congestion.
Working with Rebecca you’ll discuss your current pain; together you can determine how to approach managing a portion of that through your lifestyle choices. Rebecca is here to create a supportive environment while together you explore what really works for you.
Aging doesn’t have to be painful -
You may be experiencing inflammation as a response to something you consumed.
Re-Steady Your Balance
Being healthy is about Balance. Somedays are easier than others. Its about making small adjustments to "re-steady" our Balance. The more practiced you are at re-steadying yourself -the more habitual it will be.
Small adjustments help us re-steady and find balance.
Curious about working with me?
Working with me is different. I’m not an influencer. I’m not about a quick fix.
I work closely with my clients to empower them to take control of their health and wellness by
Making Healthy a Habit, One Choice at a Time.
As a Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach I do this by partnering with my clients to increase self-awareness of choices while guiding them through the process of change. My areas of focus include healthy aging, managing chronic pain, moving mindfully, self-care, nutritional balance and weight management.
Are you ready?
Hear what my clients are saying about working with me.
You are worth the investment. Wouldn't you agree?
You are correct; being healthy 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?
Choices for a Happy Healthy New Year
What do you want MORE of in 2024? Or is a better question what do you want less of ?
To make room for more of something you will need to let go of something. Release those choices and things that are not supporting your health and wellness.
How about less fatigue, less pain, less anxiety, less weight, less depression, less inflammation, less sick days, less headaches, less bloating, less putting out fires, less clutter or less waste just to name a few.
What do you want more of in 2024?
ACCEPT what you cannot change -your age, your genetics, all your choices prior to today, what others think, what others say, what happens around you, the attitudes, beliefs, choices and perceptions of others.
CHANGE what you can change - your future choices of how you move, how much you sleep, what you consume, how you treat yourself, your responses to others through your words and actions, where you focus your time, energy and attention, how you let others affect you, your gratitude and how you demonstrate it.
Body Be Well Solutions offers a variety of different approaches for Making Healthy a Habit, One Choice at a Time. Not a diet – that is short term. Not even really big changes; sometimes its the smallest that have the greatest impact. Choices that actually change your lifestyle and get you on the road to health and happiness for good. Creating the resilience to get back on track during those occasions of getting sidetracked.
Actions are more powerful than words - take a look…
Why choose a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach?
This new year while on your path to improve the quality of your health and well-being; consider working with a Health Coach who has demonstrated the dedication and skills to truly support you and is recognized by the Centers for Disease Control as well as many health insurance providers.
Diabetes -Weight Management -Smoking Cessation -Moving More -Nutrition -Food Labels -Grocery Shopping -Mindfulness -Stress Management -Healthy Aging -Alternative Pain Approaches -Time Management
The National Board for Health & Wellness Coaching was established in 2012 with the mission to champion the advancement of health and wellness coaching through evidence-informed standards of education, training, credentialing and research. In 2017, NBHWC, in collaboration with the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), launched the first-ever board certification exam for health & wellness coaches.
There is a limited number of National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coaches proudly holding the esteemed NBC-HWC credential, practicing across various healthcare settings, employee wellness programs, and in the private and public sectors addressing many challenges.
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?
Health is a relationship you have with yourself
Self-Care
Healthy-Self
Heal -Thy -Self
The approach you take when caring for others should be the same approach when caring for yourself. When we are taking care of others- generally it is a result of a relationship we have with them as a friend, a spouse, a parent or a child.
Are you being as supportive of your health’s needs as you could be? Are you protecting your health from harm? Are you nourishing your health? Are you showing your health love and kindness? Are you listening to your health? Are you treating your health with respect?
Does your Health deserve better?
Do you take care of others?
-when it is convenient?
-or when they need it?
Is the same true - for when you take care of you?
Study on Obesity rates with Children
WNY Health Coaches making strides with family’s to create Healthy Habits for life by starting with one Healthy Choice at a time.
Life Does Not Have A Remote
Do you KNOW you need to make some changes to be healthier?
Do you WANT to make some healthy changes?
Are you READY to make some changes to be healthier?
Simply KNOWING and WANTING to make change is unfortunately not enough. More importantly -You must be READY!
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.
Life does not have a remote.
Are you READY to get up and make a change and choose a healthy path yourself?
Do you need to "Adjust" the volume?
As a Health Coach, Mindfulness Yoga Teacher and Massage Therapist; I coach my clients to be aware and “Tune In” as our bodies “Talk’ to us our entire lives… through pain, stomach discomfort/digestive issues, skin irritations/rashes, muscle restriction, joint stiffness, chronic sinus issues, sleeplessness etc.
This may require small or large changes in how you care for your personal health and wellness.
The body is designed through functional movement and chemistry to work synergistically. When there is an imbalance -anywhere is the system… your body will let you know. Sometimes its necessary to take a Pause … Tune in… Listen… Adjust.
Pace yourself
When we move too quickly or jump from one step to the next, we risk stumbling, falling and becoming stuck. We then have the natural tendency to become frustrated, overwhelmed and may stop moving forward all together.
In the same manner if we move too quickly through making healthy choices, there is little opportunity for those choices to become healthy habits.
A series of small steps will take you where you want to go; each of them provide the balance and support to take the next step.
Healthy Self - Heal Thy Self
When you start taking care of yourself, you start getting healthier, you start feeling better, you start seeing yourself better, you start attracting better.
What are you drawn to?
Consider why you stopped...
You’ve had success in the past. Things were going well. You were feeling good had more energy and less brain fog. You were sleeping through the night and waking ready for the day. You lost a few inches and pounds. You were more active and simply healthier than today.
What happened? What healthy choices did you stop making?
Did you start saying YES to everyone and everything - and NO to yourself?
Did you stop planning your meals before going for groceries?
Did you start skipping meals?
Did you start snacking more on convenience foods?
Did you change the amount of water you were drinking?
Did you stop taking supplements that were filling the gaps in your nutrition?
Did you get caught up in social media and begin spending less time moving?
Did you let your self-care routine slip away?
Being healthy is about having a kind, supportive, caring and nurturing relationship with yourself.
You made your relationship with yourself a priority in the past. You can do it again. You may not need to be searching for something new… return to the routine and choices that worked before.
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