Over the last 30 years, we’ve licensed over 130,000 well being, diet, and health professionals. We recurrently distinguished graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve discovered to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet one among our featured graduates, Sarah Salain, an AFPA Licensed Holistic Nutritionist.
Inform us about your self.
Hello there! My identify is Sarah. I’m a Registered Nurse & Holistic Well being Coach specializing in holistic diet and hormones. I assist empower girls on their well being and wellness journeys by educating and training on the significance of diet to general well being, in addition to balancing hormones. I completely love holistic well being, the seaside, and spending time with my husband and two pups. It’s really my mission to supply the perfect care, steering, and help to all of the shoppers I serve.
How did you initially develop into curious about well being and wellness?
I’ve all the time been curious about well being, however it wasn’t till I turned sick myself that I actually took a deep dive into what holistic well being and wellness meant. After finishing AFPA’s Holistic Nutritionist course, I began delving deeper into holistic well being, and my physique started therapeutic and feeling higher. After I began implementing extra nutritionally dense meals, altering my life and habits, and changing into extra conscious, my whole life modified, and a brand new ardour for wellness started. Though my instances of illness had been extraordinarily disappointing and irritating, it fueled a brand new ardour to serve my shoppers as greatest as I might to lastly assist them get to the foundation reason behind their well being struggles.
Which AFPA certifications have you ever earned, and why did you select these certification packages?
I personally selected the Holistic Nutritionist course and certification for a couple of causes. As a Nurse, I used to be taught little or no about how diet helps the physique and the way it may be used as medication. I really feel diet is among the most crucial points of well being and wellness, associated to each a part of our thoughts, physique, and soul. After I began studying and implementing the data I used to be being taught within the AFPA course, I used to be floored. I felt as if I had stumbled upon a brand new model of well being and wellness that the whole world wanted to find out about. I knew it might develop into my mission to unfold consciousness about entire meals, holistic therapeutic, and simplifying weight-reduction plan and life-style to assist change folks’s lives.
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Inform me about your online business and the way you serve folks.
SimplySarahHealing is really my entire coronary heart and soul. My mission is to empower girls on their well being and wellness journeys by understanding their cycle, supporting their hormones with diet, therapeutic their intestine, and really getting aligned with their physique. I’ve created three packages that assist girls shed weight, heal their intestine, decrease their toxin load, and really perceive their cycle phases whereas balancing their hormones.
What are your favourite components of operating your online business?
There’s completely no higher feeling than my shoppers sharing their wins with me. Each week I simply wish to leap up and down after I get messages about their achievements. Whether or not it’s hitting their purpose weight, feeling extra assured of their garments, feeling stronger within the fitness center, getting a constructive being pregnant check after fighting infertility, or simply figuring out and understanding their physique’s particular hormonal cues at sure phases of their cycle. It’s so necessary to me that each single one among my shoppers leaves me with empowerment, confidence, and a lot extra data than they got here to me with.
What has been the toughest a part of operating your online business, and what have you ever discovered from it?
My shoppers really develop into mates to me, so I rejoice their wins and really feel their losses. Well being journeys usually are not all the time 100% linear. Generally we get caught, hit a tough patch, or have a nasty week, so when my shoppers are fighting their well being and wellness journeys and even with a tough life second, I actually really feel it with them. I, too, am nonetheless by myself private well being and wellness journey, so I can empathize with how arduous it truly is to actually change your life-style at some point at a time. Some days will be robust and defeating, however that’s why having a coach is so necessary!! I really feel assured that my shoppers and I can navigate their very own distinctive and private journey collectively!
How has changing into licensed with AFPA impacted your life?
After I signed up for the AFPA Holistic Nutritionist course, I had no intention of ever being a well being coach. I used to be merely determined for an answer to assist me by myself private journey. As I learn, studied, and continued to study, I felt like I used to be relearning a whole completely different system of well being and therapeutic. I turned so captivated with spreading consciousness concerning the significance of diet. After I began residing by the data I used to be studying and began feeling higher in my very own well being, I simply knew it was my mission to assist different girls do the identical. I used to be SO uninterested in operating into girls that had been always dismissed for his or her signs, who had been instructed how they had been feeling was “simply being a lady,” who had been damaged down, defeated, helpless, and had been preventing their physique. I wished to heal that, assist them discover the sunshine, and assist empower them to reclaim their well being again.
Do you have got any shopper success tales you want to share?
SOOOOO MANY. I’ve helped numerous girls develop into pregnant, have painless intervals, heal their intestine, shed weight with out remedy, discover sustainable routines and habits, decrease A1C, navigate PCOS, study to go non-toxic and cycle-sync, empower them to lean into their hormones and cycles somewhat than toss it to the aspect, decrease ldl cholesterol, and make long-lasting perpetually life-style adjustments. My shoppers are the actual deal!!! They really encourage me each.single.day. I really feel so honored to be part of their well being and wellness journeys.
What recommendation would you give others fascinated about changing into licensed by means of AFPA?
Do it!!! There have been quite a lot of issues that challenged my mindset about well being, health, diet, and life-style within the AFPA course. With out this problem, I’d have by no means discovered about holistic diet or useful medication. When you’ve got even a tiny spark of curiosity in a course, dive in! The content material is AMAZING, stuffed with lifelong info. I additionally loved all of the research and analysis supplied all through the programs.
Why ought to folks work with you?
As somebody who has had a well being coach earlier than, I encourage you to do your analysis and “interview” your potential coach! Be sure that your coach is really passionate and cares about your distinctive and particular journey. Discover somebody who might not have all of the solutions however will work with you to determine them out, somebody who has an open thoughts and can be your largest cheerleader! I personally hold my packages tight-knit so I can dedicate all of my time, ardour, training, and function to my 1:1 shoppers.
Of all of the packages I’ve stumbled upon, I haven’t been capable of finding one like mine. My Merely Aligned program is one among my favourite packages of the three I supply. Hormones and cycles usually are not closely educated on, and most ladies reside their whole grownup life not really understanding what their physique goes by means of. Some might wrestle with feelings, painful intervals, feeling out of tune, low vitality, fertility points; the checklist goes on and on. The Merely Aligned program is particularly curated to YOUR distinctive cycle, the place we work as a staff to learn to help the physique in every part whether or not it’s with recipes, diet, feelings, exercises, decreasing your poisonous load, even mindset work. We go into every part with a plan and intention so you may lastly learn to steadiness your hormones and reside in full hormonal alignment!
I used to be as soon as in a spot the place I used to be really fighting my well being so it is very important me to “give.” Even for those who aren’t precisely searching for a 1:1 coach, it’s my mission to supply as many free sources and training as I can, so comply with alongside for all of it!
How can folks discover you on-line or work with you?
Yow will discover me at www.simplysarahhealing.com or @simplysarahhealing on all social platforms. On my web site, you could find my weblog with a ton of free sources, my podcast, and details about the three packages I supply.