Lift Your Mood in 2023

Holistic Health Education, Coaching, and Nutrition Consulting

Dear Clients and Friends,

We have moved once again into a new year. You may be feeling optimistic and excited about this year, or you may be going through some hard times and feeling down and blue. In either case, most of us can probably use a boost to our mood at some point during these darker months.

Please see below for my Three Holistic Health Tips. All of them can help lift your mood and benefit your overall health. I hope you find one of them helpful.

You might want to consider joining one of my group classes to help you work on your health goals with confidence, optimism, support, and action. All classes will be conducted over Zoom, so you can join from anywhere!

Class offerings for Winter 2023 (see detailed descriptions below):

Group Health Coaching: 7 Weeks
Eating for Health, for Life: 2-hour Class

If you feel like you want more personal support, one-on-one coaching may be a better option for you. Click here to learn more about my personal wellness coaching.

If you have any questions, please reach out via email or phone. And please feel free to forward this to any friends that you think may be interested.

Wishing you and your loved ones all the best,

~Michelle

michellebuzbee.com * michelle@michellebuzbee.com * 510-910-6088

Three Holistic Health Tips

Stabilize your blood sugar: I attended a Metabolic Health Symposium a few months ago. When most people think of metabolic health, they may think of diabetes. Diabetes is one of the most downstream effects of metabolic dysregulation. But other, earlier symptoms include anxiety, depression, fatigue after eating, and weight gain, among many others. Making choices to keep your blood sugar stable can greatly affect your mood, energy, weight, and all aspects of your health. It is really the fundamental key to your body functioning optimally. In order to keep blood sugar stable, choose whole foods and avoid sugar, sugary beverages, processed foods, and refined carbohydrates, which spike your blood sugar and stress your insulin. A very worthwhile podcast regarding metabolic health and how our food culture is making us sick can be found here.

Eat a whole foods breakfast: One of the best first steps to help stabilize blood sugar (and mood) is to eat your first meal of the day with whole foods that include protein and fat. This means avoiding the temptation to eat a quick, sugary breakfast like cereal or instant oatmeal (or even granola, which generally contains quite a bit of sugar). Eggs are a great choice for breakfast, especially with some cooked vegetables in a scramble or omelette. Notice if your energy or mood feels more stable after this kind of breakfast.

Connect with someone: One of the key factors to happiness is our personal relationships. According to the findings from the Harvard Study of Adult Development, strong relationships are one of the most important predictors of a healthy and happy life. Taking time in the beginning of this new year to focus on your current relationships or pursue a new connection with someone could be one of the most powerful ways to boost your happiness in these colder, darker days of winter. This could be calling someone you haven’t spoken with in a while to re-connect, texting a friend to make plans to get together, finding a group to join that does an activity you enjoy, scheduling a date night with your partner, or even asking a stranger how their day is going.

Class Offerings for Winter 2023

Group Health Coaching

January-March 2023: 1 hour per week for 7 weeks

If individual coaching is not for you, try group coaching. Health coaching is a powerful way to start making changes in your life. Are you ready to make changes in your diet, exercise, or lifestyle but need some support and accountability? In this 1-hour per week group coaching, each of you will set weekly goals, receive health education and tips from me, and have the support and accountability from me and your fellow group members as you navigate the the next couple months.

The groups are limited to 4 participants in order to give each person some individual attention.

Group A: 7 Tuesdays, 12:00pm-1:00 pm: January 24 - March 14 (skipping 2/14)

Group B: 7 Tuesdays, 7:00pm-8:00pm: January 24 - March 14 (skipping 2/14)

Cost: $245

Registration closes Sunday, January 22.

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Eating for Health, for Life

January 2023- 2-hour Class

Have you followed various diets or eating fads in your life? Are you confused about what to eat, what is “healthy”? Do you want a more positive relationship with food? Then this workshop is for you! In this two-hour workshop, I will help you approach how you eat in a new way- an approach rooted in mindfulness, education, non-judgment, and support. We will focus on how to develop eating habits for the long-term, a relationship with food that will provide you both nourishment and pleasure, for life.

Thursday, January 26, 7:00-9:00 pm via Zoom

Cost: $50

Registration closes Sunday, January 22.

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