Exciting Changes Ahead!

I am excited to let you in on a little secret I’ve been working on for a while.

We’ve been praying about it.

Researching it. Planning for it.

And now it’s happening.

I’ve enrolled at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition®.

In one year I will be a certified Holistic Health Coach.

And I can’t wait!

A little back story. . .

The week after Thanksgiving an old friend came to visit for the weekend.  She’s in the middle of getting her medical degree and we chatted about all kinds of things from health to family to faith over a glass of wine one evening.  She asked me where I saw myself once the little ones were in school. Something I’ve actually been thinking a lot about lately.

I told her that I didn’t really want to go back to what I used to do, working 40-50 hour weeks with lots of evening networking events to attend.  Not now, not with small children.

And, at the same time, I think I’d go crazy puttering around an empty house until school was over each afternoon. Yes, I could clean.  I could volunteer. But I wanted to do something more.

If I was going to go back to work, I said, and I had the luxury to choose, I really wanted to do something I was passionate about.  I told her my dream job, “you know, kind of like a life coach for people who want to get healthy and don’t know where to start.  But I don’t want to go back to school for years to become a dietician.  That, and I want to be able to manage my own time, allowing flexibility for family needs.”  I’m a mother first, after all.

And, I admitted, I don’t know if that job is even out there!

I thought it was just wishful thinking.

That next week, somehow, (God driven, I know) I clicked on a link somewhere (I don’t even know from where or how I got there) and found myself looking at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition’s website.  I didn’t search for it, I just found myself looking at it.  Then reading it.  Then reading some more.  Talk about God answering prayers!  Here was that exact “dream job” I had been yearning for, and here was how to go about getting it.

Thank you, Lord!

I waited for a few months.  Read every page on the site, visited their “success stories” websites.  Read a few of the books written by a few of their speakers.  Researched alternative coaching curriculum.  Googled it to make sure it wasn’t a scam. But I kept coming back to realizing it was the best place for me.

And then I got a scholarship that would allow our family to pay for it easily.  And I realized it was time.  I enrolled last week and classes start in a few weeks.  I can’t wait!

What will I be learning?

Everything!  What I really like about the Institute for Integrative Nutrition is that it teaches the concept of bio-individuality in that not one diet works for everyone.  I’ll be listening to and learning from speakers and proponents of a variety of diets, literally, over 100, from raw to vegan to WAPF and Ayurvedic, and that knowledge will allow me to better serve my clients and their individual needs in the future.  Some of my classmates are vegan, I’m pro-Paleo for my personal diet, but none of that matters, we all have the same goals in mind; to help people find health.  In addition to simply diet, I’ll also be focusing on other factors in our lives that affect one’s well-being and learning how to coach individuals to find their best self.

I am so excited to begin this journey!

I’ve so enjoyed being a health & wellness foodie blogger (and plan to continue to be, don’t worry!), but sometimes it seems a bit one-sided.  I’m here on my end of the computer writing posts, getting a few comments here and there, but not sure how or if my material is helping others. As a holistic health coach, I’m really looking forward to helping people on an individual basis.

 Want to know more? 

I’ll keep you updated on my progress and let you know when I’ll be able to begin seeing clients (about six months from now!  Want to be one of my first?) and share my new coaching website when it’s up, but if you’re curious about the program for yourself, click on the link below to get a free book, or shoot me an e-mail with questions (sarahsmusings at gmail dot com) and I’ll be happy to help!

Disclosure : I am an IIN™ Ambassador and would love to help you decide if IIN is the right place for you. Reading the book above and clicking around the site is a good first step! More questions?  E-mail me!