my mission

• Journeying, inspiring, supporting, empowering and collaborating with people in a real, compassionate, non judgmental and intentional way while getting REAL about food, health, wellness, life and nutrition;

• Healthy, goal based & client focused coaching, support & inspiration;

• Creating healthy mindsets, feasible eating patterns & lifestyle changes
  that empowers people to reach their specific body composition, nutritional, health, wellness and fitness goals while changing their mindset about food, nutrition, their bodies, themselves, their health, wellness and their lives;

• Transforming thinking in order to transform behaviour in order to transform lives;

• Helping people create a lifestyle they don’t need escaping from due to feeling deprived;

• Empowering people to incorporate and navigate their health and wellness goals into their real everyday life with its real every day challenges while developing a mindset they can also carry into every area of their lives.

my technique

• Motivational interviewing (MI) 
• → An empathetic, goal orientated counseling style that aims to help you get unstuck from ambivalence (having mixed feelings about change) while increasing personal motivation to change.  
• →Collaborating with you to define your current and ideal self and form a plan that pursues movement from the current self towards the ideal self.
• →Help you discover your own reasons for change by providing acceptance and listening.  →Keeps your specific needs, barriers to overcome, lifestyle, routines and challenges in mind.

• Reframing your thinking about nutrition, your body, yourself and your life → In order to change debilitating habits and behaviour in order to get different behaviour in order to get different outcomes and therefore a different life!

• Reframing the way you look at food → No need to feel deprived again or feel that you are on a diet, because you will be able to incorporate your nutrition in such a way that it will become a sustainable lifestyle in which you will be fueling your body optimally.

• Collaborating with you → You become the architect of your own change plan with the power to make informed choices for yourself.

• Allows for autonomous decisions and support→ Allowing you to make your own informed choices, while being non-judgmental, taking your own possible barriers and concerns into account while helping you to become the architect of your own change plan.

• Unconditional positive regard → Support you regardless of what you say or do believing and assuming that you really do want to change and that you are doing your best to do so.

• Not a one size fits all approached → The approach taken will cater for you specifically.  Collaborating with you to figure things out for YOU and what works for YOU and YOUR unique needs, and for your very unique body, lifestyle, likes and dislikes, personality, values, goals and possible barriers or challenges you might face along the way!

• I journey with you through the good, the bad and the ugly while also being very real about all of it → You will not be feeling that you are tackling the messiness of the journey all by yourself but that you have someone rooting for you,  cheering you and celebrating the small victories along the way with you.

• I will challenge and hold you accountable in a non-confrontational, yet non-sugarcoated, way → This is worth more than someone who lets you stay the same and  lets you settle for less than you can be or you want.  People with an accountability partner are 85%-95% more likely to accomplish their goals and allows you to take responsibility and ownership of your story. 

• I will empower you → You will be able to incorporate all the changes you make into your real life in a sustainable way in order for it to become a lifestyle with you knowing how to navigate real life with all its challenges for example dining out, grocery shopping, social events, holidays and traveling, busy lifestyle, knowing how to easily make healthy choices that helps you move towards your goals.  

• Help you discover both the why of what you are doing as well as the how to do it
• → Knowing the why will contribute to making the how easier and will carry you through when things get challenging.→ Empowering you with information in order for you to know how to do things to get to the ideal self you have in mind. 

• Working on any of your body composition goals while keeping your optimized health in mind 1st → It is about health first and not just about the aesthetics and looking good and feeling good in your clothes… but that IS an absolute bonus!

• Help you do the necessary mindset work to make lasting changes → Any lasting change starts with our thinking and our thinking determines our behaviour and our behaviour out outcome, so in order to change the outcome we need to have the right kind of thinking that leads to lasting change.  

• Assist you in discovering limiting beliefs, thinking, emotions and habits, that are keeping you away from progressing towards your ideal self, and exchanging them for the type of thinking, habits and behaviour that leads to growth, positive change and transformation → How we feel and think on the inside is often reflected on how we look, feel and act on the outside and in turn how we look, feel and act on the outside often effects how we feel and think on the inside.

• Assist you in making small, consistent lasting changes one at a time → Making small, intentional and consistent changes leads to a big and lasting outcome.

• Help you build a support system and environment around you that supports your goals → In order for you to feel supported on they journey and know how to ask for and get what you need along they way as this has shown to lead to a higher levels of well-being, better coping skills, less anxiety and stress, improved self esteem, a sense of belonging and a longer healthier life.  You will get to know how to set your environment and yourself up for success.