Heal your gut. Heal your life.
I originally published this post, “7 Ways to Spring Detox” in 2012. It needed a big boost of refreshing because it’s important. It’s mostly important this year, our first year back in Minnesota when spring truly means something.
A comment/request that kept coming up when I reviewed your survey results was around how to start an online health coaching business.
I think this is because health coaching is rising, and you can read all about its explosive growth HERE.
I was motivated to write and finish this post yesterday after listening to Dr. Mark Hyman speak on Chris Kresser’s podcast. On the podcast, Dr. Mark Hyman and Chris Kresser spoke about the future of medicine. Dr. Mark Hyman stated,
I think we’re going to see future healthcare without walls. We’re going to see folks like you and me only dealing with tertiary care, really very severe problems that require a different level of expertise, that most problems will be able to be dealt with by people by themselves at home without healthcare providers or maybe health coaches or maybe online groups or whatever the Facebook of healthcare is. That’s where I think we’re going that’s going to change the face of medicine, and I think functional medicine is the operating system that can drive that so that people get the most powerful change in their biology.
I couldn’t agree more with all of this, but what I found so fascinating was the part where he added in “health coaches.”
The reasons are endless, truly, but here are 7 reasons you might consider it.
Click HERE to save these for later.
If you see yourself in any or all of the above, then it’s time to put a plan into place.
Wishing for something and working towards something are two very different things. This will require you to commit to the latter.
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It is not as simple as it might seem to start an online health coaching business, but the way I did it worked. It did not, however, work overnight. It’s not a get-rich-quick scheme, but you might feel fulfilled almost immediately. (I did.)
(Click HERE to grab 7 Ways to Make Money as an Online Health Coach.)
When I started this blog in 2009, I had zero idea that it would become all that it is today. I didn’t intend on it becoming a business, but you can be intentional. I have never, ever, ever regretted starting my blog, sharing my journey, graduating from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition or helping thousands along the way.
I have felt excited and passionate…..the online world, my love for this blog and the business that developed are main reasons why I am able to eagerly jump out of bed around 4am each day. Just ask my husband. He thinks I’m insane, but yet he totally gets it….
I hope for nothing less than this same wild passion for you.
Together we can help people worldwide live happier, healthier more integrative and functional lives.
As always, CONTACT ME for any questions, an introduction to my contact at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition or to work with me for building your own online health coaching business.
Xox,
SKH
On a daily basis I am contacted for one service or another, so instead of haphazardly telling people how they can work with me via text, emails and private messaging, I finally put together a list of current health coaching and wellness services offered.
If this is your first time here, welcome! If not, some of these you might not even know I do.
My name is Sarah Kay Hoffman, and I am wildly mildly obsessed and super passionate about women and the gut, IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) and IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) in particular. I have been for years, and if you’ve been with me for any length of time you know that this website used to be strictly called, A Gutsy Girl.
I am the original Gutsy Girl.
People all over the world work with me time-and-time again because I not only provide the inspiration and motivation they might need but also results since I have an education from The Institute for Integrative Nutrition combined with practical, real-life (empathetic) experience.
You don’t have to take my word for it –> check out all these TESTIMONIALS.
You can peruse my website for anything and everything you might want to know. Alternatively, you can always CONTACT ME for more information.
Today is Sunday, and I am offline with my family (because I finally live what I preach – LESS – and what I’ll help you to achieve as well), but I have finally released the list of current health coaching and wellness services I offer.
Click on any of the below for more information.
I look forward to hearing from you, and working with you, soon!
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Xox,
SKH
I mentioned my Paleo Portobello Mushroom Pizza awhile back, so I’m excited to share it on a Friday, just in time for weekend eats.
{This post is part of my 101 Days of Blogging series, inspired by Experience Life magazine’s 101 Revolutionary Ways to Be Healthy, authored by Pilar Gerasimo.}
Don’t let yourself get run down, depressed, negative or reactive. That’s when immunity drops, inflammation rages, and unhealthy tendencies strike. Revolutionary Act #9, powered by Experience Life
But let’s chat about the “juju.”
Have you ever noticed that when you get run down, depressed or negative, your gut issues flare and unhealthy tendencies knock at your door? Or how about when you allow those same people into your life, day-after-day-after-day?
I have been there, on far too many occasions, but I have broken free from most of it and I have fired the “Debbie Downers” from my life.
In my story, I talk about what happened when I first moved to Los Angeles, right after college:
At this point, my tonsils and adenoids were gone, but I was a mess. I was stressed 24/7. I was broke. I missed home. I hated LA. I ate. And then I didn’t eat. I worked out. And then I didn’t work out. I was miserable in my corporate suit and nylon hose each day. My stomach pain was horrendous. Sometimes the bathroom wasn’t close enough; others, I could only wish a bathroom break would hit. All along, my mouth was on fire; talking was a chore.
Inflammation had taken over my whole body, but it was made worse because I was run down, depressed, negative and reactive.
These are the pieces to healing the gut and healing the body that no one talks about. Everyone wants the quick fix with drugs and medication (and even with food), but lifestyle? Lifestyle is by far the hardest to deal with, overcome and steer to the healthiest and most positive path.
And this I promise you, you will never go into remission and/or 90+% heal (if you have digestive disease, you won’t 100% heal – there is no cure) if you don’t put forth the effort into lifestyle.
Creativity, finances, career, education, health, physical activity, home cooking, home environment, relationships, social life, joy and spirituality – all of these are things that I then studied and became obsessed with as a means to healing (part of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition Curriculum).
And I began to heal, heal and then heal more.
Safeguard your juju.
And enjoy my Paleo Portobello Mushroom Pizza!
{Click HERE for full recipe.}
Xox,
SKH
To get involved in the #MyRevAct campaign, follow @ExperienceLifeMag on Instagram and post your own revolutionary ways to be healthy using #myrevact. In the meantime, read the best in healthy living at ExperienceLife.com.
A few weeks back I did an interview with Marissa Vicario on, “How your overall health and immunity are tied to your gut.” Today I am sharing the full interview with you.
[Read more…] about Gut Health Interview with Marissa Vicario
Beware the labels, and of “natural flavoring.”
