Inner Homestead Coaching

Coaching for the woman who already does it all.

You grow the food. You raise the meat. So why won't the scale budge?

You've got the garden. The laying hens. Maybe a milk cow or a couple of goats, a freezer full of grass-fed beef, and shelves of jars from canning season. You've done more for your health than most people will ever attempt.

And still, the weight isn't coming off. Or your A1c keeps creeping up. Or you're exhausted at the end of every day and can't figure out why.

If that's you, I want you to hear this: you aren't failing at food. You're missing a piece nobody told you about.

What's the missing piece?

It's what happens in your head before the food ever reaches your mouth.

It's the fresh sourdough at 9 pm, after the kids are in bed and the animals are fed and you finally sit down. It’s lo. It's finishing everyone's plate because you raised that chicken and you're not wasting it. It's "tasting" your way through a whole afternoon of canning. It's telling yourself it's fine because it's homemade, from scratch, real food.

Real food matters. I believe that! But homegrown butter still counts. And the reasons we eat when we aren't hungry (stress, tiredness, reward, boredom, overwhelm) follow us right out to the barn.

In short, I loved coaching.

And anything that I LOVE, I tend to pass on to my patients. Soon I had numerous folks coming in every single month, for a whole hour at a time, just for coaching. But that’s not what my clinic was set up for. This wasn’t sustainable. I needed time to treat coughs and colds, too!

Something had to change.

That’s when I created this separate coaching program. I’ll still use lots of coaching tools and motivational interviewing techniques for my regular Direct Primary Care patients, but for those that want extra attention of an intensive program, there’s Inner Homestead Coaching.

Watch videos of my coaching here

Why "Inner Homestead"?

You already know how to tend a homestead. You pull weeds before they take over. You build good soil over years, not days. You plan for the seasons, the busy ones and the slow ones.

Your thoughts need the same care. The "I deserve this," the "I already blew it today," the "I'll start after harvest" thoughts are weeds. Left alone, they'll choke out everything else you're working so hard on. Inner Homestead is where we learn to tend that ground.

What is coaching?

Google says it's a collaborative process where a trained professional helps individuals identify and achieve goals. To me, it's delving into Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, one of the best studied and most successful tools of mental health, to a degree I've never seen done before. It's a lot of asking rhetorical questions but expecting answers. It's a lot of waiting for sticky situations to come up in life, and bringing them to your coach for help in dealing with them better. You can listen in on my Zoom talk about how I coach by clicking here.

What do I get in this program?

Fully trained family physician as your guide in dietary modifications and setting weight plans
A slot in a limited capacity program to guarantee access and attention
2 half hour or 1 full hour in-person (or virtual) one-on-one coaching sessions per month
Access to our anonymous virtual community to discuss daily struggles and successes, learning from others, as well as texting-style written coaching throughout the month
Monthly and weekly check ins to encourage SMART goals that you actually accomplish
Daily prompts to guide your own thought work
Help navigating the cravings and food chatter in your mind that are holding you back
A real solution to permanent weight loss by working on your MIND instead of just your body
Science based solutions to keeping the weight off with healthier hormones based in daily habits
Recommendations for future success in books and podcasts
What is NOT in this program?
Asking you to give up the real food you've worked so hard to raise
Counting calories or points or taking photos of every meal or making your food obsession WORSE
A meal plan that everyone has to stick to or else it won’t work
Excessive exercise routines that you don’t have the energy, willpower, or time for
The same old calories in/calories out mentality that hasn’t worked for decades