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Damirez Rodriguez
"I am infinitely grateful to Anna for encouraging me to follow my goals! She was very respectful and a great support to me.
She helped me focus and find solutions when I stumbled, in order to move forward. I feel healthier and closer to my goals thanks to her."
Megan
"Anna is the sweetest coach! Incredibly supportive and never negative. I always felt so much better about myself and the progress I made on my goals after our sessions.
She really helped me focus on achievable steps to meet my goals and make positive changes in my life."
Susan S.
"I had the pleasure of working with Anna last year after trying traditional therapy where I found myself leaving sessions feeling exhausted, and overwhelmed, recounting bad experiences.
Working with Anna was completely different; she creates a calm and safe space to express concerns and stress. I left sessions with her feeling validated and having a plan of action for the upcoming week.
She was able to help me find positive words to my stress and doubts, identify realistic and achievable goals, and make a plan of action that did not feel like obligatory "homework."
Through this, I saw small changes and improvements each week. I was spending more quality time with my family, using better communication with people around me, and maybe most importantly, being kinder to myself.
With patience and grace, Anna was able to guide me to let me find my answers on my own terms, in my own time."
Amy Smith
"Anna is amazing! She’s helped me to realize that my dreams and my happiness are completely within MY control.
Her knowledge of health combined with her coaching skills AND the ability to really listen have changed my whole perspective!
She’s really taught me the value of goal setting and coached me through so many things.
Not only has my health improved, but also my confidence, my relationships with others, and my ability to take action in my life.
This is not just health coaching, it’s so much more!
You will walk away a better, healthier version of yourself! I can’t say enough about Anna and the coaching she does! Thanks Anna!"
"This picture taken 6 months after starting my journey with Anna, represents pure peace in myself and about myself."
Rebecca
"When I started working with Anna, I was 203 lbs., having worked many months at losing weight from 215 lbs.
More importantly than numbers on a scale, I was broken in how I thought about myself and what I felt about how I looked. I had sent her a document with goals I had, and thoughts I refused to say to myself anymore. After reading it, she listed my many values and strengths.
She gently pointed out that much of my language in my document was still very negative towards myself. This was a different approach than I had tried before!
I had tried so many eating plans and diets that all ended up failing, making it so I put on even more weight in the long run. She worked with me, in setting realistic long term and short term goals.
I was amazed at how powerful the tool of utilizing my strengths and values, while exercising self compassion in setting these goals, helped me to start shedding pounds without drastic eating measures.
The pounds started to drop; 3 pounds one week, and sometimes 2 or 4. Some weeks I lost just 1 pound, and other weeks, none.
Seven months later, I had shed a total of 40 pounds!!
Now, two years later from when I started working with Anna, I have maintained my weight loss!
More importantly, my mindset in how I think about myself, and how I approach myself, is with kindness and compassion.
If there are tiny fluctuations in my weight, I have the skill set to evaluate what may be contributing to fluctuations, and to set attainable, realistic goals, in a wholistic approach.
This addresses my needs physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually- all through giving myself grace.
I have not returned to the rabbit hole of negativity in how I look. If I catch myself in negative self talk...I can quickly correct that.
Anna's gifts and values of caring, compassion, kindness, and so much more, helped me along my journey with all my ups and downs in so many ways.
Had I not worked with her in recognizing my values and strengths, and learning to set attainable goals, I would more than likely still be stuck on the hamster wheel of rigid, non-sustainable eating plans, which would have continued to fail, because I would not have addressed correctly my negative self talk."
Melanie Frederick
"Anna was extremely helpful during my health journey. She really helped me look at things in a different light. She helped me set goals and celebrated my small victories along the way.
Working with Anna was very eye-opening and helped change my mentality to seeing positives everywhere instead of dwelling on the negatives."
Linda Williams
"I must say, Anna's soft voice and positive words were the first things that helped me relax my guarded nature.
During one session, she had me focus on deep breathing exercises which were rather foreign to me at first. She helped me then use my breathing to go deeper and look inside to try to see the inner colors.
As I did so, I was able to identify the dark colors and feelings that had been inside for many years. I had a habit of negative self talk.
She was able to help me see that those feelings and colors were not all of me, nor a true representation of who I really was.
She helped me identify the things in my life that I knew spoke truths, to help me recognize what was true about myself.
As she guided me through positive words, even having me repeat those positives five times, I had a light-bulb moment.
I realized both animals and children have a sense of who is kind and are drawn to those people. It helped me believe and know that I am also kind, since animals and children are drawn to me.
I was amazed at how my attitude made a complete change. I am now able to have happy thoughts much more, and positive self analyses.
I am happy to say that although it still feels foreign, I am staying on my new path of working every day with positive self talk.
Anna has a special way of helping me feel relaxed and safe during our coaching sessions.
I can now look at myself in a mirror and feel like I'm loved, lovable, and loving. That's something I could not do before.
I greatly recommend anyone who wants to better their self talk, to work with Anna. She has left me feeling truly better.
I felt safe, not judged, and loved by her. To me, she is my saving angel!"
Katie Kunz, RN, HRCM Coach, CHWC Health Center Manager, Key Health & Wellness Center
"Working with Anna has been an eye-opening experience. Her positivity and mindfulness have truly helped inspire me to continue to focus on my lifestyle and make positive changes within it.
Throughout our sessions, I have developed trust in her to be able to share things openly, to further help myself address areas of my life that I haven’t been open about to others. This has also provided multiple “aha” moments that bring clarity and a sense of accomplishment as well.
This has not only helped me personally improve myself and self-care, but it has positively impacted my family in multiple ways.
Not only have I been able to stay on top of my everyday tasks and “mom duties,” but it has also helped with finding time to focus on my relationship with my husband and children.
It has helped with implementing changes in my work life to become a true role model for my patients as well.
Our well-coaching visits have truly brought a sense of peace in my life and Anna has been a huge part of that."
Nikki
"Anna has a wonderful ability to invite hope and infuse confidence.
Her focus on strengths enables you to step into what you intuitively know you need for wellness.
What I intended when I started and where I arrived in the process were different than I expected, but wonderfully self-affirming. I loved Anna’s focus on goals in an empowering way.
I absolutely recommend Anna for anyone seeking support toward personal wellness."
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