Over the past 30 years, we’ve licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. We commonly distinguished graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve discovered to encourage others and make a distinction.
Meet certainly one 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 vitamin and hormones. I assist empower ladies on their well being and wellness journeys by educating and training on the significance of vitamin to general well being, in addition to balancing hormones. I completely love holistic well being, the seashore, and spending time with my husband and two pups. It’s actually my mission to offer the most effective care, steerage, and help to all of the purchasers I serve.
How did you initially change into eager about well being and wellness?
I’ve all the time been eager about well being, nevertheless it wasn’t till I turned unwell 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 turning into extra conscious, my complete 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 purchasers as finest as I may to lastly assist them get to the basis 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 just a few causes. As a Nurse, I used to be taught little or no about how vitamin helps the physique and the way it may be used as medication. I really feel vitamin is likely one of the most important facets of well being and wellness, associated to each a part of our thoughts, physique, and soul. Once 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 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 eating regimen and way of life to assist change folks’s lives.
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Inform me about your small business and the way you serve folks.
SimplySarahHealing is actually my entire coronary heart and soul. My mission is to empower ladies on their well being and wellness journeys by understanding their cycle, supporting their hormones with vitamin, therapeutic their intestine, and actually getting aligned with their physique. I’ve created three packages that assist ladies shed extra pounds, heal their intestine, decrease their toxin load, and actually perceive their cycle phases whereas balancing their hormones.
What are your favourite elements of operating your small business?
There may be completely no higher feeling than my purchasers sharing their wins with me. Each week I simply need to soar up and down once 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 fitness center, getting a optimistic being pregnant take a look at after battling infertility, or simply realizing and understanding their physique’s particular hormonal cues at sure phases of their cycle. It’s so necessary to me that each single certainly one 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 operating your small business, and what have you ever discovered from it?
My purchasers actually change into mates to me, so I have a good time their wins and really feel their losses. Well being journeys aren’t all the time 100% linear. Typically we get caught, hit a tough patch, or have a foul week, so when my purchasers are battling their well being and wellness journeys and even with a tough life second, I really 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 really change your way of life sooner or later at a time. Some days might be robust and defeating, however that’s why having a coach is so necessary!! I really feel assured that my purchasers and I can navigate their very own distinctive and private journey collectively!
How has turning 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 by myself private journey. As I learn, studied, and continued to study, 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 vitamin. 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 ladies do the identical. I used to be SO uninterested in operating into ladies that had been always dismissed for his or her signs, who had been instructed how they had been feeling was “simply being a girl,” 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 wish to share?
SOOOOO MANY. I’ve helped numerous ladies change into pregnant, have painless intervals, heal their intestine, shed extra pounds 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 slightly than toss it to the aspect, decrease ldl cholesterol, and make long-lasting perpetually way of life modifications. My purchasers 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 interested by turning into licensed by way of AFPA?
Do it!!! There have been a whole lot of issues that challenged my mindset about well being, health, vitamin, and way of life within the AFPA course. With out this problem, I’d have by no means discovered about holistic vitamin or useful medication. 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 sure that your coach is actually passionate and cares about your distinctive and particular journey. Discover somebody who could 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 largest cheerleader! I personally hold my packages tight-knit so I can dedicate all of my time, ardour, training, and goal 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 certainly one of my favourite packages of the three I supply. Hormones and cycles aren’t closely educated on, and most ladies stay their complete grownup life not actually understanding what their physique goes by way of. Some could battle with feelings, painful intervals, feeling out of tune, low vitality, fertility points; the listing goes on and on. The Merely Aligned program is particularly curated to YOUR distinctive cycle, the place we work as a crew to discover ways to help the physique in every part whether or not it’s with recipes, vitamin, feelings, exercises, reducing your poisonous load, even mindset work. We go into every part with a plan and intention so you possibly can lastly discover ways to stability your hormones and stay in full hormonal alignment!
I used to be as soon as in a spot the place I used to be actually battling my well being so it is very important me to “give.” Even in case you aren’t precisely on the lookout for a 1:1 coach, it’s my mission to offer as many free assets and training as I can, so observe 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 assets, my podcast, and details about the three packages I supply.