“Whole foods heal. Why do whole foods heal? When you eat whole, organic foods it’s like breast feeding from mama earth herself. It reprograms the cells in your body and then your body knows what to do with that. Making people become the people that they always were. The body is self renewing. Every cell is replaced every 7 years. Organic foods grown on health soil = healthy cell replacement. It’s really that simple.” - Dr. Christiane Northrup
“The presence of a doula decreases the C-section rate by 50% and speeds up the labor to an average of six hours.” - Dr. Christiane Northrup
“We pay the doctor to make us better when we really should be paying the farmer to keep us healthy.” - Janice Evert HHC
“Whatever crisis we face, there is this voice of embodiment that speaks beneath our pain ever so quickly, and if we can hear it and believe it, it will show us a way to be reborn. The courage to hear and embody opens us to a startling secret, that the best chance to be whole is to love whatever gets in the way, until it ceases to be an obstacle.” - Mark Nepo
“The thing that we think is the interrupter, is the thing that is longing for our gaze. Our children are our spiritual practice. We are Maha Yogini’s, the highest and most sought after accomplishment… being a mother.” - Katie Silcox
“Women deplete themselves in service of who they think they need to be. We live in a masculine energy world where action is celebrated versus the feminine mentality where rest and feeling and inner reflection is not.” -Brodie Welch
“20 minutes outside boosts feelings of well being. Being in nature lowers cortisol levels which is the main marker of stress. It lowers depression levels. It boosts natural killer cells that fight off infections and cancer. Aromatic medicine that comes from the plants and trees and leaves has been shown to lower inflammation and bring about brain protection measures. Being in nature makes you better.” - Janice Evert HHC
“The ancients saw that the more we could enliven in our own robust nature through Ayurvedic lifestyle practices, the more we could become the embodiment of illuminating natural beauty. This beauty says “I am healthy and connected to life. A women holds an unmistakable radiance when she is connected to the seasons, nature, the moon and her inner soul. This radiance, when combined with an authenticity of spirit, is true and real beauty.” - Katie Silcox
“One of the biggest crises of identity faced by women who’ve had flourishing careers before starting our families, is that when we have kids, we suddenly feel like we have nothing to show for our days. Theoretically, raising the next generation is the most important job in the world. So why do so many of us feel like the work we do with our families doesn’t mean as much as the work we do that earns money? Here is the deal: Our society values the traditional qualities of the masculine over the traditional qualities of the feminine. The world we live in is set up to support the masculine (who cycle on a 24 hour rotation), vs the feminine (who cycle on a 28 day rotation).” - Kate Northrup
More on Health Coaching
Health coaching was born nearly two decades ago. At the time there was one main program - The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. These days, prestigious institutions like Duke University certify health coaches, and well-known physicians such as Dr. Mehmet Oz and Dr. Andrew Weil support our growing discipline. Holistic health coaches guide people to make diet and lifestyle changes in a sustainable way; in a way that will still work for them decades down the road. We look at what people have been eating and doing that has likely been the root cause which created their symptoms, and then work with them to develop a plan to resolve those problems. Our goal, as health coaches, is to guide clients to the place where they can see the results of their own healing power. I simply show them how to think about their daily habits differently so they can heal themselves.
Today, the emerging heal-coach trend emanates that of how chiropractors and acupuncturists were considered fringe thirty years ago, and now the benefits of engaging these methods is so well documented that most health insurance companies cover visits to such practitioners. Similarly, in the past ten years, we’ve started to see health coaches incorporated into corporate wellness programs and available for consultations at many doctors’ offices, and these processionals are certified not only through accredited institutions but also through the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.
Each person on this planet is a bio-individual, meaning their bodies like and dislike different foods, environment, seasons, and earth elements. At Embodied Women’s Health, we look at each individual client specific to their own personal wellness blueprint and tailor our coaching to it. We identify the underlying cause of your imbalance and go right to the root and grow your branches and leaves from there.
Health Coaches are the angels, the future, the professionals that will give you their undivided time and attention for as long as it takes, to get you well.
We will thrive together.
More on Ayurveda
What is Ayurveda?
The word Ayurveda comes from the combination of ayur, meaning life, and veda, meaning knowledge. Therefor it translates to “the knowledge of life.” It’s most commonly recognized as a sister-science to yoga yet they are very much one in the same. It stems from India 5,000 years ago within the Vedas or classical wisdom texts. Ayurveda supports the human experience through body and mind to help us get in touch with our inner Self. It is a back to basics, natural approach to living, a complex mix of oral and written instruction, philosophy, mythology, spirituality, and scientific knowledge. Through working with the elements of Ether, Air, Fire, Water, and Earth, Ayurveda offers diet and lifestyle guidance for optimal living. We can all agree we are made of all the elements. Ayurveda helps us in keeping the elements balanced while working with nature and taking into consideration phase of life, season, and dominate elements that are currently working within an individual. The two laws to Ayurveda are like increases like, and opposites create balance. When we apply this basic knowledge to the qualities, we can see (for example) that eating cold food in a cold climate as a usually cold person can lead to more qualities that come with cold like roughness, dryness, and lightness. Ayurveda is a philosophy and an approach to wellness that holds self-awareness as the essence and foundation of good health. It helps us learn to dive deep inside the mini-universe of ourselves through self-observation and self-love. This type of inner looking is vital because the more we understand the dark corners of our heart, the more our body and mind will naturally begin to align with the purity that is our true nature. With greater understanding comes awareness.
What are the Doshas?
There are 3 constitutions in Ayurveda: vata dosha, pitta dosha and kapha dosha. These 3 doshas are comprised of the elements: ether, air, fire, water & earth. Everything that is alive has the 5 elements within it and all 3 doshas. However, every living being has its own unique blend of the elements and thus the doshas. For example, a person may have more fire within them if they are a natural born leader compared to another person that has more of the water element and prefers to act as loving support for those around them. The amount of each dosha present within you offers the framework for your life experience.
Doshas may be in or out of balance based on many factors. The time of day, the current season, your stage of life, the daily lifestyle choices that you make, are all constantly affecting the doshas. Ayurveda provides us with helpful self-care practices which allow us to create a harmonious external world that will facilitate healing not only physically but also deep within our beings.
Ayurvedic Constitution
Once the foundations of Ayurveda are understood, it is quite simple to begin looking at what life throws at us through an Ayurvedic lens. ‘Why am I reacting this way?’ ‘Why does my skin feel drier in the winter versus the spring?’ ‘Why am I having trouble sleeping?’ ‘Why is my skin more sensitive than others?’ All of these questions can be answered through understanding your Ayurvedic constitution.
The term Ayurvedic constitution refers to the unique blend of doshas that comprise your body, mind and emotions. Some may have one predominant dosha that rules their constitution or some may be considered duel doshic or even tri-doshic. The beauty about Ayurveda is that it does not believe in a “one size fits all” prescription for health & wellness. Instead, it looks at each person as an individual with a unique expression of the elements. It sees each tendency, symptom or disease as an indicator of the person moving away from their natural balance or prakruti.
Prakruti
Prakruti is the Ayurvedic constitution, or the doshic state of balance, that you are born with. You came into this life with specific characteristics and tendencies that define you and stay constant throughout your lifetime. This is your prakruti. When you are truly in balance, healthy without any symptoms or disease, you are in the state of prakruti. A common misconception is that when we attempt to bring ourselves back into alignment, we are trying to equalize vata, pitta and kapha in our mind & body. Yet, this is not the goal. Balance means that vata, pitta & kapha are restored to your unique prakruti, or natural state of being.
Vikruti
Vikruti is when you are experiencing an imbalance in your body, mind or emotions. Any imbalance signifies that one or more of your doshas are out of alignment and you are in a current state of vikruti. This state happens when you are experiencing a tiny blemish to a much greater imbalance like chronic cystic acne. Doshic imbalances notify you to make changes in your current state of being in order for your doshas to return home to their ideal state of balance, your prakruti. Ayurveda provides us with a multitude of daily practices, food guidelines, herbal remedies and body therapies to help create a harmonious external and internal world that will facilitate healing not only physically and mentally, but also deep within our beings. These are the things that we dive into, specifically for you, in our Ayurvedic HHC sessions.