AFPA Graduate of the Month: Sarah Salain, Holistic Nutritionist

Over the last 30 years, we’ve licensed over 130,000 well being, vitamin, and health professionals. We commonly distinguished graduates who’re utilizing what they’ve realized 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 vitamin and hormones. I assist empower ladies on their well being and wellness journeys by educating and training on the significance of vitamin to total 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 supply one of the best care, steerage, and assist to all of the purchasers I serve.

How did you initially grow to be eager about well being and wellness?

I’ve all the time been eager about well being, but it surely wasn’t till I grew to become 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. After I began implementing extra nutritionally dense meals, altering my life and habits, and changing into extra conscious, my total life modified, and a brand new ardour for wellness started. Though my occasions of illness had been extraordinarily disappointing and irritating, it fueled a brand new ardour to serve my purchasers as finest as I might 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 points of well being and wellness, associated to each a part of our thoughts, physique, and soul. After 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 the complete world wanted to find out about. I knew it could grow to be my mission to unfold consciousness about entire meals, holistic therapeutic, and simplifying weight loss program and way of life to assist change folks’s lives.

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Inform me about your online 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 pounds, heal their intestine, decrease their toxin load, and actually perceive their cycle phases whereas balancing their hormones.

What are your favourite components of operating your online business?

There may be completely no higher feeling than my purchasers sharing their wins with me. Each week I simply need 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 gymnasium, getting a optimistic being pregnant take a look at after combating infertility, or simply realizing 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 operating your online business, and what have you ever realized from it?

My purchasers actually grow to be mates to me, so I have fun their wins and really feel their losses. Well being journeys are usually not all the time 100% linear. Generally we get caught, hit a tough patch, or have a nasty week, so when my purchasers are combating 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 really change your way of life sooner or later at a time. Some days might be powerful 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?

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 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 grew to become so keen about spreading consciousness concerning the significance of vitamin. After I began dwelling 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 ladies do the identical. I used to be SO bored with operating into ladies that had been always dismissed for his or her signs, who had been informed 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 might have any consumer success tales you wish to share?

SOOOOO MANY. I’ve helped numerous ladies grow to be pregnant, have painless durations, heal their intestine, shed pounds with out remedy, 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 slightly than toss it to the facet, decrease ldl cholesterol, and make long-lasting without end 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 with changing into licensed by AFPA?

Do it!!! There have been loads 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 realized about holistic vitamin or useful medication. In case you have even a tiny spark of curiosity in a course, dive in! The content material is AMAZING, full of lifelong data. I additionally loved all of the research and analysis offered 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! Ensure that your coach is actually 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 might 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 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 are usually not closely educated on, and most girls stay their total grownup life not actually understanding what their physique goes by. Some might wrestle 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 staff to learn to assist the physique in every part whether or not it’s with recipes, vitamin, feelings, exercises, decreasing your poisonous load, even mindset work. We go into every part with a plan and intention so you’ll be able to 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 actually combating my well being so you will need to me to “give.” Even when you aren’t precisely in search of 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?

You could find me at www.simplysarahhealing.com or @simplysarahhealing on all social platforms. On my web site, you’ll find my weblog with a ton of free sources, my podcast, and details about the three packages I provide.

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