Integrative Health Articles
Science of Success: Using a Growth Mindset to Achieve Goals
When your clients struggle to maintain a growth mindset what can you do to help?As a health coach or health professional, helping your clients achieve their health goals is at the heart of what you do. One key factor in successfully achieving these goals is having a growth mindset, or the belief that abilities can be
7 Steps to Achieving a 7-Figure Practice: A Health Professional’s Guide to Successful Goal Setting
You’re sitting with your journal or vision board…On your list is “Bring in 1 million dollars (euros, pounds, etc.) of revenue in my practice this year.”Hitting 7-figures in your practice is an exciting and potentially motivating goal (though for you, seeing it on the page might immediately induce freeze or panic in your nervous system.)
How Mental Contrasting & Visualization Help Health Professionals and Coaches Support Clients to Reach Health Goals
Mental contrasting and visualization are powerful tools that can help health professionals and coaches support their clients in reaching their health goals. These techniques involve using the power of the mind to focus on specific goals and outcomes, and to visualize the steps needed to achieve them. What is mental contrasting?Mental contrasting is a technique developed by
Should a Health Coach Specialize?
If you’ve recently graduated as a health coach, you’ve got to focus on a clear niche market. When choosing a health coach specialization, it’s important to focus on what lights up your day. I found my niche sometime around the year 2000 when I was practicing as an orthopedic physical therapist in an outpatient clinic
A Health Coach’s Guide to Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
If your clients (or you) experience impostor syndrome, you are not alone. Coined in 1978, the term “impostor phenomenon” is used to designate an internal experience of intellectual phoniness that appears to be particularly prevalent and intense among a select sample of high achieving women.1 What kinds of people have imposter syndrome? Despite objective evidence
Ectopic Pregnancy: Symptoms, Causes, Treatment, & Recovery
All women’s health and wellness professionals who are working with women with pelvic pain must be knowledgeable about the risk of this common pregnancy complication. What is ectopic pregnancy?An ectopic pregnancy occurs when a fertilized egg implants outside of the uterus, 1.Ectopic pregnancy is common, accounting for 1-2% of all pregnancies. What are the associated risk factors?Women
How To Build a Healthy Breast Milk Supply
For moms and parents in your practice who decide to breastfeed, there is so much that you can do to encourage them to build a healthy breast milk supply. Supporting your clients to build a healthy breast milk supply is beneficial to the newborn babies as well as the mom or breastfeeding parent. There are
Why is Integrative Pelvic Healthcare Important?
The foundation of our mission at The Integrative Women’s Health Institute is to help provide higher-quality, integrative pelvic healthcare for ALL people. My name is Dr. Jessica Drummond, and I am the founder and CEO of The Integrative Women’s Health Institute, where our mission is to educate and empower practitioners in order to help improve
Best Probiotics for Endometriosis and Chronic Pelvic Pain
It can be hard to determine the best probiotics for endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. The “best probiotic” can be challenging to choose from among the many options. It’s even more difficult to determine which probiotics are best for endometriosis and chronic pelvic pain. As health and wellness professionals who support clients with endometriosis and
7 Strategies for Perimenopause Weight Loss
When it comes to my perimenopausal clients, I don’t like to focus on weight loss. However, for my clients it’s often a welcomed side effect of addressing hormone imbalances, calming the nervous system, and regulating the body’s processes. I believe there are far more important things to worry about than weight loss when it comes
How to Heal and Treat Vulvodynia
How to Heal and Treat Vulvodynia Vulvodynia affects over 14 million people in the US alone. This complex pain syndrome is a frustrating condition to treat. Vulvodynia is a condition that causes pain in the vulva (or specifically in the vulvar vestibule). The root cause of vulvodynia is not fully understood. Vulvodynia is most bothersome
Gluten and Endometriosis
Gluten and Endometriosis Is there a link between gluten and endometriosis? Should women avoid gluten to lower their risk of endometriosis or to help to resolve the symptoms of endometriosis? Let’s look at the research… First, it’s important to consider that endometriosis has many characteristics of an autoimmune disease (Eisenberg, et al., 2012). It is
Sleep, Melatonin, and Endometriosis
Sleep issues and endometriosis often go hand in hand. Patients with endometriosis frequently struggle with a variety of sleep issues, including insomnia, pain-insomnia, poor sleep, chronic fatigue, restless leg syndrome, and more. But…why is it so common for people with endometriosis to struggle with poor sleep and sleep issues? When cortisol goes up, melatonin goes
How to Find “Endo Belly” Relief
One of the most frustrating challenges that our clients with endometriosis face is how to relieve the chronic bloating known as “Endo Belly.” Over the years, my practice has seen thousands of women struggling with this, and we have developed an integrative protocol for relieving this common symptom of endometriosis, the bloat, for good. What
The Role of Rehabilitation Medicine in Chronic Pelvic Pain
It was my honor to interview Dr. Allyson Shrikhande, MD, founder of Pelvic Rehabilitation Medicine about the role of rehabilitation medicine in chronic pelvic pain. Rehabilitation medicine includes the tools of pain and nervous system modulation medications, specific injections to improve local pain in the pelvis, including pelvic nerve pain, and management and referrals for
It’s Anti-Cancer Soup Time!
People with pelvic pain conditions, including endometriosis, are at an increased risk of some types of cancer. Other common cancer risk factors: Inflammation Having a history of some viral infections, including HPV History of smoking Family history of cancer Chronic stress Drinking alcohol While cancer risk factors are common, let’s focus on the good news.
Xenoestrogens and Breast Cancer
Xenoestrogen Exposure is a Clear Risk Factor for Breast Cancer and Others For our clients and patients with exposure to xenoestrogens, the first step is to reduce the exposures, lowering their overall toxic load, and in turn reducing the risk for breast cancer. Everyone is exposed to some level of xenoestrogens; it’s impossible to completely
Hormone Balancing Spring Salads
Hormone imbalance is a frustrating issue to deal with for many people, which is why I love to recommend hormone-balancing recipes, like this one! For women with endometriosis, interstitial cystitis or painful bladder syndrome, bloating, and other hormone issues, salad can be tricky. On the one hand… “Salad is healthy, right?” On the other hand…”Salad
My Long Covid Recovery: Perspectives from a Nutritionist and Physical Therapist
My Long Covid Recovery: Perspectives from a Nutritionist and Physical Therapist As an introduction to this article, I would like to share a few details about how I decided to write this post about long-covid recovery: Normally when sharing something like this with my colleagues of clinical relevance, I would cite as much literature as
Life With Endometriosis: Interview with Margaret Kalms
Enjoy this interview with Margaret Kalms, author of Life With Endometriosis Margaret Kalms created her art and a book of her art to raise awareness of the daily impact of endometriosis through her imagery and conversations with women with endometriosis. Tune in to hear the story of the creation of her Margaret’s new book,
Alumni Spotlight: Michelle Weber Brings Women’s Health Coaching and Fitness to Women with Prolapse and More
How Can I Market My Services as a Health Coach AND a (fitness professional, massage therapist, physical therapist, nutritionist, physician, and more…)? We’re often asked by our Women’s Health Coach students and potential students… “I love health coaching, but how can I combine it with (fitness, yoga, nutrition, physical therapy, medicine, and more…)?” Michelle Weber
Healthy Travel Guide for Healthcare Practice Owners
When you’re building a successful niche coaching practice, you’ll often have to travel to learn, network, and share your wisdom on stages. This kind of travel is different from vacation. You need to be on, brain focused, and energized. How do I stay sharp while traveling for business? One of our most popular IWHI Live
Celery Juice – Does It Live Up to The Hype?
Celery juice, the hottest new instagram trend for solving all of your health problems, is probably ridiculous, right? That’s what I thought, until I looked at the published literature on the specific health benefits of celery. Let’s consider why some people are actually experiencing symptom reduction when starting their day with celery juice… Benefits of
Dark Chocolate Benefits
The beautiful thing about dark chocolate is that it is delicious, and let me share some of the best dark chocolate benefits with you… Dark Chocolate Benefits Certainly some women are highly sensitive to caffeine. For those women, dark chocolate is not a good choice. Some women don’t like dark chocolate. But, often if they
Virus Blaster Smoothie Recipe
Enjoy this nourishing smoothie anytime you feel like you have a cold or flu coming on, or you’re recovering from a viral infection like Epstein Barr (EBV.) It’s full of anti-viral and immune boosting foods like garlic, ginger, and cruciferous vegetables. Plus, it’s nutrient dense, hydrating, and delicious! (And, kids like the purple color!) Learn
What to Do When You Have The Flu?
According to the CDC between 5% and 20% of the U.S. population comes down with the flu each year. If you’re one of them, let me share with you the strategies that I recommend to my family and friends to strengthen your immune function and minimize the effects of the flu virus. Home remedies for
TODAY is #WearRed for Heart Health Day!
1 in 3 women will DIE of cardiovascular disease. That’s a third of our mothers, sisters and friends. Get the book for someone you love: Heart Solution for Women: A Proven Program to Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease: http://www.HeartSolutionsForWomen.com What if you could of customize whole-body medicine and deliver it with precision accuracy to
Solutions for Vulvovaginal Atrophy
Vulvovaginal Atrophy is Common Vaginal dryness and vulvovaginal atrophy is a common problem for women. In the United States alone, 32 million women suffer from vulvovaginal atrophy in perimenopause and post-menopause. The symptoms associated with vulvovaginal atrophy include dyspareunia (pain during sexual intercourse), vaginal dryness, itching, irritation, burning, and painful urination. In perimenopause and
5 Powerful Strategies to Lift The Brain Fog
One of the most frustrating symptoms, second only to intense pain, that my patients struggle with is brain fog. I don’t have time in my life for brain fog (and neither do you!) Let me share 3 of my most powerful tools for clearing the (brain) fog! I do a lot of writing, researching, teaching
What Causes Acne? Get Glowing and Clean Skin From The Root
Conventional creams and pills don’t address what causes acne. Acne is a common problem for teens. Eighty-five percent of 12-24 year olds experience acne. It’s a growing problem for adult women as well. Fifteen percent of us also struggle with acne. For most women with acne, whether it’s in their teens or beyond, the conventional
5 Steps to Improving Your Patient Compliance
Patient compliance is one of the most difficult areas of your practice to improve. “My patients seem to want to get better, so why aren’t they doing their home exercises, taking their supplements, eating gluten-free, giving up sugar, or going to bed by 10 pm?” I was working as a women’s health specialist physical therapist,