Over the last 30 years, AFPA has licensed over 130,000 well being, diet, and health professionals. We recurrently characteristic distinguished graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve realized to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet one in every of our featured graduates, Claire Simmons, an AFPA Licensed Holistic Well being Coach.
Inform us about your self.
Hello! My identify is Claire Simmons and I’m an AFPA Licensed Holistic Well being Coach. I reside in North Carolina with my husband of eight years and our three boys, ages 6, 4 and a couple of.
I graduated from the College of Miami in 2004 and from there landed my first job as a tv reporter and producer. After spending a number of years within the trade, I accepted a job at one of many nation’s largest healthcare organizations, the place I labored as a senior communications director. I actually loved my time there because it was a beautiful mix of difficult and thrilling work, however finally, I wished to spend extra time with my youngsters.
In December of 2022 I made the choice to depart my company job and keep dwelling. Household is extraordinarily vital to me, and I didn’t wish to look again and surprise the place the time went. Moreover, my ardour for well being and wellness has at all times been entrance and heart in my life, so I wished to make sure that I used to be creating the very best life doable for my boys. I wished to be there for them, cook dinner them wholesome meals, play exterior with them, and provides them a childhood primarily based in wellness.
How did you initially develop into inquisitive about well being and wellness?
Ever since I used to be a baby, my mother and father inspired my brothers and I to be lively and play open air. My mother at all times cooked at dwelling and consuming out was a uncommon event. As soon as I left dwelling and went to varsity, I knew that I wished to take care of a wholesome way of life and never give in to the same old faculty temptations!
I began going to the gymnasium and fell in love with health. That led me to get licensed to show group health, which I did all through my faculty years. I keep in mind devoutly studying girls’s well being magazines the place I realized about diet and picked up a number of ideas and tips that actually got here in useful as a younger grownup, navigating life alone for the primary time.
From there, health and diet simply grew to become ingrained in my on a regular basis life. Finally, I began studying about intuitive and aware consuming, psychological energy, emotional maturity, and the entire different parts of well being that we don’t hear as a lot about as exercises and diets. That’s when it actually clicked for me…having that complete bundle in place is what made me really feel and carry out my greatest. I couldn’t cease studying about wellness and I wished everybody round me to really feel pretty much as good as I did!
I feel I at all times knew that there was a path for me within the wellness trade, however I used to be at all times busy with life and put my deal with my profession, having infants, and such. However as soon as I gave myself time to consider what route I wished to go in and the way I wished my life to look, I simply couldn’t ignore the decision that wellness was the place I wanted to be!
Which AFPA certifications have you ever earned, and why did you select these certification applications?
I’ve earned the Holistic Well being Coach Certification, which is comprised of the Well being and Wellness Teaching Course in addition to the Holistic Diet Course. I cherished the choice of mixing these two as a result of true wellness is greater than what you eat. True wellness should mix harmoniously with one’s tradition, society, household, work, and household life. The Holistic Well being Coach Certification teaches you the nuts and bolts of diet which is so vital and consists of methods on learn how to navigate actual life, even when your eating regimen can’t be “excellent.”
How are you utilizing your certification/planning on utilizing your certification?
At the beginning, my major objective is to make use of the information gained by my certifications to create the healthiest and happiest dwelling surroundings for my household. My household is my precedence and if we aren’t wholesome, I do know that it’s laborious to reside life to the fullest! Plus, I need my youngsters to study diet and health now when they’re younger to allow them to lean on these instruments all through their whole life. I feel it may very well be the very best current I may give them! My husband is an entrepreneur and has a really annoying and difficult job, so I need him to know that when he’s dwelling he’ll at all times get the very best from me within the type of scrumptious, wholesome meals, an area to relaxation, a clear and orderly surroundings, and, after all, plenty of consideration from the children and me. 😊
Exterior of my household, I’ve so many concepts to assist others! I wish to create a wellness committee at my sons’ college and assist construct up programming to train college students about diet, health, and wellness. I’d like to construct a backyard at college and residential to develop contemporary herbs, fruits, and greens. I wish to assist mothers who additionally need the very best for his or her households however who’re battling how to do this. I wish to assist those that are working the company grind and present them that it’s doable to include well being into that busy way of life. I additionally wish to create and share extra content material about diet and wholesome residing and publish that on social media, a weblog, and for different web sites which have like-minded content material.
How has turning into licensed with AFPA impacted your life?
I’m so grateful I made the choice to get licensed by AFPA! It gave me the arrogance to pursue my ardour and cement my credibility within the wellness house as not simply somebody who loves well being and wellness, however somebody who’s succesful and ready to assist others. AFPA gave me credible and stable info on so many matters and dove deep into the science, analysis and present panorama of the place we’re as a nation with our well being. I additionally really feel as if I’ve a whole neighborhood working in direction of an identical objective and a bunch of people who find themselves at all times obtainable to assist me.
What was one factor you realized in your research that has left an influence on you?
It’s putting to me simply how a lot our nation NEEDS well being coaches. (Whereas earlier than, I although having a coach was a complete luxurious!) So many people don’t understand that we reside in a system that places revenue over well being. It’s as much as the person to do the analysis and resolve what’s greatest for them. It’s a tragic fact but when one actually desires to thrive and reside their greatest life, it’s important to go towards the grain. What’s fashionable is normally not wholesome and what’s straightforward isn’t wholesome both. I hope that I might be an advocate for many who crave well being however don’t have the time or power to search out their path.
How can we discover you on-line?
My Instagram is @Clairehossimmons.
I like to put up ideas and tips there, in addition to my life as a busy boy mother!
Anything we must always know?
I simply need folks to know that in the event that they make the choice to include diet, health, and wellness of their life in a manner that works for them, they may really feel so good! There’s a exercise on the market which you can love, identical to there’s a manner of consuming that may make you appear and feel your greatest. Wellness is a superpower, and our world can be such a greater place if all of us determined to go the wholesome route. Well being coaches can mix the hole between healthcare and actual life, so don’t be shy to achieve out and ask for assist! We’re right here for you.
