Our Bodies Were Designed To Use Food In A Way That Restores & Repairs
The Body Has An Amazing Ability To Heal. Our bodies were designed to heal themselves. If we get a cut in our skin, new skin cells will grow. If we break a bone, the bone will repair itself. Everyday old cells die off and new cells regenerate. We were designed to heal, regenerate and grow, sometimes things in the environment interfere with that healing process. By changing the environment, we can enhance and allow for the innate healing process to flourish. It is an amazing, hopeful and empowering process. I'll work with you to explore how foods, sleep, energy practices and movement tap into the healing powers within. If there are things blocking this process, we'll address them and focus on your unique needs. Curious to learn more? Keep reading to learn more. In addition to Food & Mood Sessions and Brain Health Sessions, I offer general health coaching sessions designed to meet your own individual needs and goals.
Seasonal Cleanse Special
The change of season is a great time to do a food and energy cleanse to help you adjust to the seasonal changes especially if you’ve been spending time in chlorinated pools, drinking chlorinated tap water, and eating barbecued foods. It is also good to do if you’ve been feeling sluggish, bloated, brain foggy, inflamed or trying to lose weight as toxins can get trapped in our fat cells causing inflammation, pain, and weight gain.
In this special, you’ll receive a packet of healthy, delicious, change of season recipes and two health coaching sessions. In the first session, we’ll go over how to carry out the cleanse including brainstorming any barriers that might get in the way and working around any food sensitivities and preferences. We’ll also get into ways to minimize your toxic load in the future. Then we’ll meet again halfway through to keep you going and inspired. In the end, you’ll discover how good you feel when you take care of yourself. Cost $180
In this special, you’ll receive a packet of healthy, delicious, change of season recipes and two health coaching sessions. In the first session, we’ll go over how to carry out the cleanse including brainstorming any barriers that might get in the way and working around any food sensitivities and preferences. We’ll also get into ways to minimize your toxic load in the future. Then we’ll meet again halfway through to keep you going and inspired. In the end, you’ll discover how good you feel when you take care of yourself. Cost $180
Certified Brain Health Professional
The brain is an amazing organ. It is the master of our nervous system. It influences our moods, is in charge of our thinking, learning, memory and movement. In 2021, I completed Dr. Daniel Amen's Certified Brain Health Professional's Course. Dr. Amen is a cutting edge leader in the field of psychiatry and brain health. I've combined what I've learned from his course along with my mental health counseling background and biodynamic craniosacral therapy work to provide what I call Boost Your Brain Power Sessions. These sessions are designed to get an idea of what areas of your brain need a little extra love and nurturance. I'll gather a thorough history and you'll receive a written summary of guidance, brain boosting strategies, food recommendations, recipes and activities to nourish and nurture your brain.
Who Can Benefit:
Anyone who is feeling moody, cranky, irritable, fatigued or stuck.
Anyone who has been experiencing brain fog, headaches, worry, anxiety, trouble thinking, trouble remembering, trouble sleeping.
Anyone who has had a concussion, trauma or family history of neurodegenerative disease like dementia or Alzheimer's.
Who Can Benefit:
Anyone who is feeling moody, cranky, irritable, fatigued or stuck.
Anyone who has been experiencing brain fog, headaches, worry, anxiety, trouble thinking, trouble remembering, trouble sleeping.
Anyone who has had a concussion, trauma or family history of neurodegenerative disease like dementia or Alzheimer's.
What will it cost? The cost of an initial 90 minute session is $150. During that session, I'll gather some history, and get a sense of what you are hoping to achieve. Then I'll send you off with some suggestions, strategies and recipes, so that you'll leave with a sense of direction and a sense hope and empowerment. If you choose to work with me beyond the initial session, there are options for 40 or 60 minute sessions on a weekly or biweekly basis, and you can continue your services for as long as you'd like, and end them when you feel the time is right for you. If you found me through React19, contact me for special rates.
What people are saying:
“I heartily recommend Joan Bender as a health coach. Since working with her, I have developed nutritional strategies for maintaining health while dealing with a thyroid condition and arthritis. She taught me about inflammatory foods and I am changing my diet! Joan’s coaching style is clear and informative. She shared information with me and listened carefully to my self-assessment before offering advice! Her coaching comes from a place of personal experience and professional balance. By working with Joan as a health coach, I was able to have insights into my own behavior and changes seem possible, preferable and enjoyable! Joan also coached me to set wellness goals which have energized me to take better care of myself. I have learned personalized stress reduction techniques and that has helped me to function more calmly in my deadline driven line of work.” - L.W., Foraging Free-Lance Writer
"Working with Joan as an integrated health coach has been such an eye opening experience! She has allowed me to see for myself, through her guidance and very tailored information, how my career goals and personal goals mimic each other. After six months with Joan, I have much better clarity for how to use the knowledge that I already had and how to integrate that with the very relevant concepts that she has made me aware of. In an unexpected, and therefore non-predictable and never boring way, I have found myself better able to take steps I want toward living with more health, clarity and love than ever before." -M.T., Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Loving Mom and Wife
“I heartily recommend Joan Bender as a health coach. Since working with her, I have developed nutritional strategies for maintaining health while dealing with a thyroid condition and arthritis. She taught me about inflammatory foods and I am changing my diet! Joan’s coaching style is clear and informative. She shared information with me and listened carefully to my self-assessment before offering advice! Her coaching comes from a place of personal experience and professional balance. By working with Joan as a health coach, I was able to have insights into my own behavior and changes seem possible, preferable and enjoyable! Joan also coached me to set wellness goals which have energized me to take better care of myself. I have learned personalized stress reduction techniques and that has helped me to function more calmly in my deadline driven line of work.” - L.W., Foraging Free-Lance Writer
"Working with Joan as an integrated health coach has been such an eye opening experience! She has allowed me to see for myself, through her guidance and very tailored information, how my career goals and personal goals mimic each other. After six months with Joan, I have much better clarity for how to use the knowledge that I already had and how to integrate that with the very relevant concepts that she has made me aware of. In an unexpected, and therefore non-predictable and never boring way, I have found myself better able to take steps I want toward living with more health, clarity and love than ever before." -M.T., Entrepreneur, Business Owner, Loving Mom and Wife
