My Functional Health Coach Story

Hi, I'm Valerie and I'm a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner. I focus on coaching parents on how to help their children gain physical, emotional & mental health naturally. 

When my kids were little, I thought we ate reasonably well. We ate plenty of vegetables and not too much junk, or so I thought. It wasn't until my training, years later in functional nutrition that I realized how little actually knew about healthy eating.

I had fallen into the traps that most everyone falls into. Food labels and advertising claiming foods were "healthy" or organic".  So much of the food sold is not healthy for our bodies and over time can be incredibly detrimental to health and likely added to my kids later developing health problems such as acne, allergies, eczema, and anxiety. My children are grown now, and I wish I had learned earlier the truth about how food, sleep, movement, and stress can affect physical and mental health. Then, I could have influenced their lifelong habits while they were young and at home.

Current science has shown that many symptoms of allergies, acne, eczema, rashes, digestion, cognition, behavior, mood, and more can be caused by and reversed by improving diet, exercise, sleep, stress management, and other environmental factors.
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And many parents know they want to make changes but are overwhelmed with all the information and misinformation that is out there. So to consider making huge changes to diet and lifestyle can feel way out of the realm of possibilities. But it can be done! I've seen the difference that even small improvements in nutrition and lifestyle can make and am grateful that I get to work with families to support parents on their quest to improve their child's physical, emotional and mental health naturally.

​I hope you'll invite me to support you on your journey toward whole family wellness.

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