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
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.
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…
Autumn is known as the season of change - What does that mean to you?
One the most beautiful things about this time of year is the magnificent colors of the leaves on the various trees. The resulting falling of those leaves is just as beautiful.
Did you know that leaves falling is not about loss- it is about growth. When a tree sheds its leaves, the nutrients of the tree are withdrawing into the branches, the trunk and the roots. All in preparation for sustaining the Winter months and producing new growth in the Spring.
Does that provide you a different perspective on change?
Don’t fear change; change is growth -fear not changing.
What is your opinon of change?
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?
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?
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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What direction should you go?
Mediterranean? Keto? Vegan? Vegetarian? Intermittent fasting? Low-Glycemic?
These are just a few and there are so many more “diet approaches” to choose from! How do you know which to try or is right for you? Before going down one path or another; consider these questions honestly. Changing eating habits is hard enough -Don’t set yourself up for self sabotage and failure by not planning and making a solid decision on which path to take.
What is you goal or objective? Losing weight? Getting healthy?
Does it fit into your current lifestyle? Meals made at home? Food ordered in? Dinning out?
Is it flexible? Or is it ridged and based on extreme restrictions?
Is it sustainable? Is it for a lifetime of habits? Or a quick fix?
What is the financial cost involved? Is that sustainable?
Do you have regular access to the food?
How much time is necessary for preparation? Are there time saving options?
What is your motivation for choosing one over another?
Is it based on counting, measuring or recording consumption?
Your success will be based on the results of an honest assessment of these questions. No matter which approach you decided these items should definitely be part of your path:
Sustainable
Balanced food groups
Flexible - because life happens!
Based on non-processed food choices
Mostly real food choices -not made in a Factory
Proper hydration
Cost Effective
Well supplemented to cover the gaps in nutrients
An approach that is coupled with physical activity and restorative sleep.
Who’s path are you on?
What are your food triggers?
Some are harmless. Some are mild annoyances. Some are a bit overwhelming. Many are habitual. Some are food based. Some are based on certain places or people. Some are rooted in certain activities or situations. Some can be addressed by changing a current choice for a healthier one.
We all have them. Can you identify yours?
Wine with Pasta
Pizza with Wings
Dessert with Coffee
Beer with Pretzels
Chips with Dip
Approach to Sustainable Change
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.
Mindful Movement -Anxiety and Mild Depression
Anxiety and mild depression tend to interrupt the ability to focus…
The delivery of Mindful Movement provides an opportunity to gently realign the thought process and promote awareness of quieting the mind, simply listening, and moving.
Mindful Movement facilitated by Rebecca Albert, LMT INHC RYT200 of Body Be Well Solutions is a yoga-inspired program designed for those interested in a physical experience to maximize movement and increase body awareness. We work through various movements and focus on mindful breath to improve balance, focus, strength, and mobility.
Does aging always equate to having pain? Your Choices & Mindfulness
Why is it that we ignore the small discomforts in our bodies and don't respond until we're in full blown pain or have lost the function or ability to do something?
As we age, many shrug off small messages coming from our bodies as simply aging. However, what if we started paying attention to those subtleties?
A mindful part of aging would be to respond and be in the moment with curiosity about the discomfort that we're experiencing.
Consider an example if we are experiencing chronic shoulder pain and it turns out that pain is our dominant hand that we all hold our cell phone or our mobile device with. That particular position is chronically causing repetitive strain on those muscles.
Potential solution -put the mobile device in another hand when the discomfort or the tiredness in the arm is experienced; take a stretch or even put the device down for awhile to allow for rest.
Respond instead of delaying and waiting for full blown pain and loss of function and the need to react!
