Over the last 30 years, we’ve licensed over 130,000 well being, diet, and health professionals. We often distinguished graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve discovered to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet one in every of our featured graduates, Sarah Salain, an AFPA Licensed Holistic Nutritionist.
Inform us about your self.
Hello there! My title 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 offer the very best care, steerage, and assist to all of the purchasers I serve.
How did you initially change into fascinated with well being and wellness?
I’ve all the time been fascinated with well being, but it surely wasn’t till I turned ailing myself that I really 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. Once I began implementing extra nutritionally dense meals, altering my existence and habits, and changing into extra conscious, my complete life modified, and a brand new ardour for wellness started. Though my occasions of illness have been extraordinarily disappointing and irritating, it fueled a brand new ardour to serve my purchasers as finest as I may to lastly assist them get to the foundation explanation for 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 just a few 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 drugs. I really feel diet is likely one of the most crucial points of well being and wellness, associated to each a part of our thoughts, physique, and soul. Once I began studying and implementing the knowledge 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 your entire world wanted to find out about. I knew it will change into my mission to unfold consciousness about entire meals, holistic therapeutic, and simplifying weight-reduction plan and way of life to assist change folks’s lives.
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Inform me about your corporation 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 drop a few pounds, heal their intestine, decrease their toxin load, and really perceive their cycle phases whereas balancing their hormones.
What are your favourite components of working your corporation?
There may be completely no higher feeling than my purchasers sharing their wins with me. Each week I simply need to bounce up and down after I get messages about their achievements. Whether or not it’s hitting their objective weight, feeling extra assured of their garments, feeling stronger within the gymnasium, getting a optimistic being pregnant take a look at after fighting infertility, or simply understanding and understanding their physique’s particular hormonal cues at sure phases of their cycle. It’s so essential to me that each single one in every of my purchasers leaves me with empowerment, confidence, and a lot extra information than they got here to me with.
What has been the toughest a part of working your corporation, and what have you ever discovered from it?
My purchasers really change into buddies to me, so I have fun their wins and really feel their losses. Well being journeys aren’t all the time 100% linear. Generally we get caught, hit a tough patch, or have a nasty week, so when my purchasers are fighting their well being and wellness journeys and even with a tough life second, I really really feel it with them. I, too, am nonetheless alone private well being and wellness journey, so I can empathize with how onerous it truly is to actually change your way of life at some point at a time. Some days might be robust and defeating, however that’s why having a coach is so essential!! I really feel assured that my purchasers and I can navigate their very own distinctive and private journey collectively!
How has changing into licensed with AFPA impacted your life?
Once 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 alone private journey. As I learn, studied, and continued to be taught, I felt like I used to be relearning a whole totally different system of well being and therapeutic. I turned so obsessed with spreading consciousness relating to the significance of diet. After I began residing by the knowledge 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 bored with working into girls that have been continually dismissed for his or her signs, who have been instructed how they have been feeling was “simply being a girl,” who have been damaged down, defeated, helpless, and have 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 will have any consumer success tales you wish to share?
SOOOOO MANY. I’ve helped numerous girls change into pregnant, have painless durations, heal their intestine, drop a few pounds with out medicine, discover sustainable routines and habits, decrease A1C, navigate PCOS, be taught to go non-toxic and cycle-sync, empower them to lean into their hormones and cycles relatively than toss it to the facet, decrease ldl cholesterol, and make long-lasting perpetually way of life adjustments. My purchasers are the true 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 AFPA?
Do it!!! There have been plenty of issues that challenged my mindset about well being, health, diet, and way of life within the AFPA course. With out this problem, I might have by no means discovered about holistic diet or practical drugs. You probably have 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 certain 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 will likely be your greatest cheerleader! I personally maintain my packages tight-knit so I can dedicate all of my time, ardour, schooling, and function to my 1:1 purchasers.
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 in every of my favourite packages of the three I provide. Hormones and cycles aren’t closely educated on, and most girls stay their complete grownup life not really understanding what their physique goes by. Some might battle with feelings, painful durations, feeling out of tune, low power, 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 group to learn to assist the physique in every section whether or not it’s with recipes, diet, feelings, exercises, decreasing your poisonous load, even mindset work. We go into every section with a plan and intention so you possibly can lastly learn to steadiness your hormones and stay 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 in the event you aren’t precisely on the lookout for a 1:1 coach, it’s my mission to offer as many free sources and schooling as I can, so comply with alongside for all of it!
How can folks discover you on-line or work with you?
You’ll find me at www.simplysarahhealing.com or @simplysarahhealing on all social platforms. On my web site, yow will discover my weblog with a ton of free sources, my podcast, and details about the three packages I provide.
