  | Consuming fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and sufficient amounts of protein is vital for clarity of mind and general well-being.
-Ann Christa McCormick | |
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Whole Foods Coaching: A fun, step-by-step coaching program designed to vitalize and empower your life with delicious and super nutritious whole foods
Services:
- Group Coaching: Lively community sessions that combine a unique coaching model with cooking classes, a local health food store tour, nutritional workshops, and comprehensive educational materials
- Individual Coaching: Confidential, one-on-one sessions that combine a unique coaching model with cooking classes, a local health food store tour, nutritional workshops, and comprehensive educational materials
- Special Activities and Events: Exploring and celebrating holistic living with dynamic community events such as seasonal cooking classes and seminars on diverse health and well-being practices
Are you feeling disheartened by:
- The debilitating effects of depression, anxiety, mood swings, or stress?
- A sense of being disempowered when it comes to creating positive changes in your life?
- Your struggle to maintain good eating habits and a healthy weight?
- Feelings of guilt or shame about food?
- Foggy thinking, memory problems, or the inability to concentrate?
- Fatigue, lethargy, or low energy that prevent you from fully engaging in life?
- Failed attempts to find balance in your eating habits, career, relationships, physical activity and emotional life?
If so, Ann can help facilitate your search for greater well-being:
A health counselor with artistic flair, Ann once suffered from anxiety and depression despite a lively career as a musical theatre performer, choreographer and dance instructor. After discovering a nutritional program to resolve her own personal health concerns, she embarked on a path of supporting others in their healing process. You will find her to be intuitive, positive and, most of all, patient - she understands that deep and lasting shifts will happen on your own unique timeline.
Ann begins your healing journey with a complimentary consultation to discuss your important health concerns in depth. Eager to begin her unique coaching program - a fun and flexible 18 week course of counseling sessions combined with a tour of your local health food store, cooking classes, nutritional workshops and supportive educational materials - you soon find yourself exploring a plethora of delicious and highly nutritious foods that are both readily available and easy to prepare. Empowered with the knowledge you need to make small, comfortable steps in your everyday life, you meet with Ann twice a month to review your progress and shape strategies and solutions as necessary. From time to time, you might choose to participate in special community events - and join like-minded individuals in further learning about and enjoying whole foods cuisine. With Ann's steady guidance, you find yourself transcending to the new and more balanced levels of physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being that allow you to soar.
The knowledge and tools Ann provides will help you:
- Diminish or eliminate your depression, stress, and related emotional concerns.
- Create the full life you've always envisioned yourself leading.
- Reach and maintain a weight that supports both your health and self-esteem.
- Build a more comfortable and enjoyable relationship with food.
- Reclaim your brain power.
- Access the high level of calm, focused energy that fuels your new achievements.
- Welcome balance into every facet your life, at your own speed.
What Whole Foods are and why they are important:
"Natural" and "whole foods" are buzz words these days, but what do they actually mean? What are whole foods and why are they important? Whole foods are foods in their most natural, unaltered forms. They are foods the way that, as some say, nature intended. Whole foods were custom designed to keep our bodies in good working order; these are the foods that have sustained humans and animals for millennia. In other words, they are foods such as fresh fruits and vegetables, brown rice, whole wheat, nuts and beans, foods unprocessed and free of chemicals. Eating these types of foods is beneficial to people in two important ways, as well as to the planet that we inhabit. The first benefit is optimal health. When we eat a diet of primarily unprocessed whole foods, we naturally lower our consumption of high-fat, high-cholesterol foods, animal foods and packaged foods, and we increase our consumption of fiber, complex carbohydrates, essential fatty acids, vitamins and minerals. In doing this, we lower our risks of coronary heart disease, hypertension, lung, colorectal and breast cancer and diabetes. The second personal benefit of the natural/whole foods diet is the internal process that occurs when one begins to make conscious choices about their food. As a person's diet changes, they will feel its benefits in a variety of ways: increased energy, better digestion, clearer sinuses, less general discomfort and an indescribable, yet palpable, sense of balance and well being. These benefits are the hardest to measure; yet they are the life-altering and satisfying elements that make such choices worthwhile. (Courtesy of Jenny Breen, http://www.thegreenguide.org/article/food/natural)
Testimonials
"Ann's caring and wonderful treatment has resolved ongoing problems of fatigue, mood and weight management. I am now able to approach life not from a place of fear, but a place of strength and clarity. I have personally witnessed Ann's own transformation as a result of her dedication to this work. Her enormous ability to empathize, heal and operate from a place of non-judgment is unsurpassed in my experience with various other types of Life Counselors."
Stephanie, Seattle, WA
"This Program isn't about resolving problems immediately, but about giving you the tools to continue to improve your life at your own speed. Before this program I thought I ate well and couldn't understand why I never lost weight and felt lethargic (without even knowing it). But now a whole new world of food has opened up to me. Food is no longer a bad or shameful activity but something to fuel my body that I have the right to choose and eat. Ann didn't approach this program as a teacher ,but rather as a student herself. Her belief in it is empowering and encouraging."
Sann, Seattle, WA
"We all know what "not" to eat. This program has opened my eyes to the plethora of good, nourishing and delicious food readily available and easy to prepare. I have made a direct correlation between the quality of my food and the quality of my life. I now feel like I am in command of my future and have the power to change my health and happiness. The program is far more comprehensive than just food. It is nourishment for the whole person, for the soul."
Crystal, Seattle, WA
Education, Training, and Credentials:
- Certified Holistic Health Counselor, Institute for Integrative Nutrition; Member of The American Association of Drugless Practitioners
- In practice since 2003
Articles:
"True Balance: Healing Yourself on All Levels", by Ann Christa McCormick
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