THE COACHING PROGRAM

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Integrative coaching methods is the coaching compass and the program's primary mandate.

The person/clients’ full range of needs including their primary and secondary food are all part of the method used in the program.

It is the goal of the program that the individual’s tap into their inner guidance and with that find their way into the transformation of a sustainable lifestyle towards their own unique bio-individuality and diverse multi-dimensionality and the path to health and happiness is achievable.

Our Coaching Program is the framework built through a series of sessions to support and guide a client to explore and create a thriving lifestyle that expands the desired structure in the achievement and transformation of the ideal health and wellness goals of the individual. The role of the coach is to facilitate and hold space for each client’s transformation to their envisioned health and wellness lifestyle. 

Self Discovery and Self Exploration is a major key step into our Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching Program.  We recognize that each bio-individual and multi-dimensional perspective is unique for each person.  

"My clients may know it or not, their consciousness knew exactly what needed to

be said and addressed for the greatest transformation and changes to occur. As their coach, my job is provide a safe and open space for my clients to openly share whatever was on their mind.  I need not give them more information than is readily available on the public and the World Wide Web. All I had to do was be there, show up, my heart and mind ready to listen, and ask a few high-mileage questions, then as long as I created a safe and open space for my clients to openly share whatever was on their mind, all I had to do was to be there, show up, listen, and ask a few high-mileage questions,  then transformation would occur.  It is my belief that the individual has their inner guidance and with that find their way into the transformation of a sustainable lifestyle of their own choosing, towards their own unique bio-individuality and diverse multi-dimensionality and the path to health and happiness is achievable." 

My philosophy and guidance as I work with each individual is a personalized approach to health and tuning in to what the individual’s need. With this in mind and through exploration, we can find what works best and what is truly required to live a fulfilled life. I believe that there is no single path to health and happiness as we all have different bodies, minds, desires, sensibilities, experiences, and cultural background, which require an individual approach. The role of the coach is to facilitate and hold space for each clients’ transformation to their desired health and wellness lifestyle. 

The Client and The Coach are co-partners in this life's journey, chosen and agreed upon to create a life that is good for all concern. This is achievable through a series of coaching sessions and that create space for self-discovery and exploration to build a lifestyle that is sustainable in a workable framework.

A health questionnaire is completed to explore fully to explore the person/clients’ full range of needs including their primary and secondary food are all part of the method used in the program. Their team of physicians, advisors, and functional medicine doctor together are co-contributors in this journey to achieve that vision of an ideal life and lifestyle.

Catherine, Namaste

Your Integrative Nutrition Health Coach

Disclaimer:  

As a service to the readers, the information on this blog is intended to provide educational information compiled from public sources and websites accessible on the World Wide Web. No content on this site, regardless of date, should ever be used as a substitute for direct medical advice from your doctor or other qualified clinician. 

The program believes that food is medicine and at the very basis of a healthy mind, body, and gut is within the very abundant mitochondria in our cells and to restore them into the fully functioning intelligent systems we all have.

The adoption of a nutrition program and a complete detoxification program by removing toxins from food and our environment we are not aware of, stop the consumption of processed foods and processed oils, sugar and refined carbohydrates. Then restore  our biology to a balance of whole foods plant based, dense rich nutrients more fiber based carbohydrates that our gut loves to chomp on, proteins from organic, grass fed animal, proteins wild caught seafoods, including mackerels (small fishes) and food for the brain such as olive oil which is a must, avocados for brain food to begin this detoxification and restoration journey to a happy high energy full of vitality, dis-ease free human body. To receive a full guide of a detox plan to restore your mitochondria to a fully functioning intelligent system and support your desired healthy happy lifestyle, please email Catherine@foodismedicine.blog.

Our biology is unique to our bio-individuality. The very basis of our uniqueness is that our health is influence how we perceive our food, our experience, our mind, how it is affected by our environment, our lifestyle, our health history, so we work with your team of physicians, health advisors including and a must have in your team, a functional medical physician to work with your nutrition and the foods to include and exclude from your diet. You are the one and only one that can think perceive, feel, sense, of what is good, what is best for you. 

With that in mind you are a magnificent being, so magnify your senses. You get to choose, decide or decide not, your power is in your ability to change your mind. You hold the power to your living well and happy!

Your daily practice in the morning will set your intention to a good healthy energetic start. The early sun rays is good for your mitochondria, good to catch Vitamin D from nature, no matter how much supplement of Vitamin D you take its effectiveness comes from the Sun. Connect to your Source or the one you call your Higher Self. Raise your hands up to the sky, look up, bless yourself with Pure Source Energy and be on your way to a beautiful wonderful experience and expect nothing less.

Your exercise is to move your body, let the heart pump a bit more, get out of breath briefly, for a short minute or less, then take your time to walk for a minute or 2, then do it again and again start with a 10-15 minute interval and embrace yourself when you complete it for a gesture and kindness for yourself. Speak an affirmation of "I am grateful" I am thankful.  Dr Joe Dispenza says when you are grateful, it is the ultimate chemical composition of receivership that what you have asked is here now (and I am paraphrasing here). 

Think,, feel, speak this:

 "I love this body that I carry with me 24 hours a day and I even sleep with it." Unless you have another body in the closet, take care of this one, just because.

By the way, your heart is not just a pump, it has 40,000 specialized neurites that looks like the neurons in your brain and communicates with your brain. It has a mind, it remembers and recalls and can make decision without asking your brain. 

You are special. Now dim the light when its time to rest, close your eyes, rest, sleep, dream, use your image machine, create, imagine, turn off your technology, count furry sheeps jumping over the fence or count backwards start at 100 counting down to 1..

Rest, Sleep Live Long and Prosper.

Have a good night, my darling.

Yoga, Meditation, Mindfulness will reduce stress and inflammation. Our coaching session begins with grounding and tapping into your innate peace within each one of us. It is easy and familiar. It allows you to quiet down and become familiar of who you truly are.

Mindfulness begin settling down your mind, ask your body to settle down. Sit comfortably on the floor or chair, or yoga mat. Drape your arms and wrist over your thighs, palms up or down.

You may also touch your thumbs below the tip of your first finger and hold it there, you may place your palms nested thumbs touching. Observe the coming and going of your breath that happens naturally.  Observe and feel your pulse, the beating of your heart. Place your fingers at the center of your chest, your brain will focus on the body part you are touching, where your attention goes, energy flows there, breathe in through your nose, for a slow count of 4, mouth close to clean the air, disinfect the air, humidify the air, then breathe out slower for 4 count and repeat for 2-4 minutes.  If you fall asleep, you need to rest. Stay with the rest. Be present, feel and sense the length of your spine, feel the weight of your hips against the Earth, be present, you hands may fall away, when it does, let it be. Focus on the spaces around you, the blackness behind your eyes, breathe, you are accessing the deepest quiet peaceful space in your body, You are energy, a point of light, you are wave/energy and matter/solid all at the same time, If you only knew how exquisite your body is and the power of your innate system of molecules, chemicals, enzymes, hormones, cells are you would love every minute of your breathe.  Breathe therefore, and say I love, I live, I love, I live because I am Love and I Love my Life.

Affirm this: I am whole perfect, strong and powerful, loving and beloved, abundant and prosperous, I am in perfect health, full of vitality, I am harmonious, at peace and so very very happy.!

We believe that everyone should have access to a community that supports a sense of belonging to a common goal and intention to help each other that covers a social aspect or a cause to build a sense of purpose for the highest benefit of all concern. The community is in a social and a safe environment and to welcome and respect without judgment each and every member of the community in the spirit of cooperation rather than competition. 

Narrative of the Blue Zones, My commentary and summary.

The Blue Zones study led by Dan Buettner, a National Geographic explorer, and his team discovered 5 regions of the world where people live the longest which they named Blue Zones. The purpose of the study was to discover commonalities that might explain why they are living longer healthier active lives reaching the age past 100 years, Centenarians.

The study revealed 9 principles common within these 5 regions. The hallmark or the common unique characteristics found in the Blue Zones areas where they are reaching a long life span dis-ease free and without any impediments of loss of cognition or movement, void of taking any form of medication are believed to be the hallmark of living a health span of 100 years. I will highlight the characteristics I thought are important today in our current health crisis in the West. 

I want to strongly highlight that these Centenarians have a sense of purpose, a set of principles unique to their culture, though the diet is based on what is available in their region so each region do not follow the same foods they eat daily. Their food vary slightly but all eat mostly plant-based diet and what they eat is not purchased in the grocery stores because these regions are remote and travel to the city is not easily accessible for them. They are not rich in terms of income and the food is grown locally in which the food do experience some adversity, in the recent research Dr. David Sinclair said that the plants will experience some drought, less sunshine or less wind. These plants have to work harder, grow roots deeper into the soil to find water and nourishment, which makes the plant have more polyphenols and other nutrients because they have to work harder to survive. So the local people benefit and gain their strength from them. They are active people. Moving is a natural part of the day. They walk everywhere and some have no chairs to speak of like we do in America. They contribute to their own economy. After a days’ work, they go home but they do not sit and microwave their food and to sit again and watch TV or tend to their iPhones or Android phones to get caught up with their news, email, text, Facebook and other social media venues, all whilst eating dinner. They walk, tend to their garden, squat, work, sew clothes, visit friends, socialize, sing and dance and visit the elderly, eat and cook together and celebrate together. The elderly are not tucked away in a nursing home and detached from normal living and the lives of their children. Sleep and rest is important to them. A spiritual or religious practice is common to all the regions.

They partipate in gardening and planting food, sewing, harvesting of honey, tending to their own vineyard, some tend to their animals to sell, and feed their community with their meat, milk, and dairy products. Drinking of alcohol is not common to all regions but if they do they drink in moderation. One thing is for sure, each region carry with them their sense of contribution and know their purpose in life. They belong to a group, their community and are actively volunteering as their contribution and purpose to live. I also want to mention which I thought was so intriguing that the higher the altitude of the region, the longer they are living because they come down from the mountains from where their houses are to the town and climb back up to their homes and then climb up more steps to their 3-4 level homes. 

The 5 regions are:

• Okinawa, Japan 
• Sardinia, Italy 
• Loma Linda, California 
• Ikaria, Greece 
• Nicoya, Costa Rica 
• Dan Buettner’s work expanded to replicating the Blue      Zones hallmark characteristics into several cities in the U.S.