ABOUT ME
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My holistic approach focuses on identifying and correcting the underlying causes of your health concerns and restoring your physical, emotional, and sexual energies (spiritual).
Very often, modern medicine only treats the external symptoms. If you have a headache, take aspirin; if you are constipated, take a laxative. Shockingly, even when people experience these same symptoms every day for months or years on end, doctors still don’t think there’s any underlying problem. They may say something like, “You just have finicky digestion,” or “You’re prone to headaches.” It is extremely rare that anyone’s body does not function properly at its core balanced state. When you work with me, we get right to the heart of your nutrition, bringing balance to your body and allowing it to function as it wishes to. In the process, we will work on resolving long-standing health and emotional issues like digestive problems, thyroid problems, stress, fatigue, anxiety, mood swings, sleep issues, blood sugar problems, problems putting on or keeping off weight, inflammatory and immune dysfunction, and even addictions. I am passionate about this work because I was once in your shoes. I spent a lifetime doing everything I could for my own health, only to be stuck with a handful of serious symptoms that would not go away, and doctors who seemed to think that being slightly sick all the time was simply my lot in life. (Read more about my own journey below.) Since becoming educated in holistic nutrition and applying its principles, I have been healthy and happy for the first time in over 50 years. I wish it hadn’t taken me so long to feel this good. And I don’t want anyone else to go through a lifetime of discomfort, pain, or illness when the remedy is not only possible, but really quite simple. Nutritional balancing has changed my life and the lives of my clients, and I believe it can truly help you. |
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Josephine - Your Certified Nutritionist Consultant
In addition in earning a Certificate in Holistic Nutrition from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition and a Certification in Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, I was also trained under the mentorship of Dr. Lawrence Wilson in Hair Mineral Analysis and Nutritional Balancing Science and I am one of his instructors, teaching other approved practitioners of Dr. Wilson to administer his program to clients.
I hold a degree in Culinary Arts from the Dubrelle French Culinary School, and I studied raw nutrition with the late Dr. Bernard Jensen, Ann Wigmore, the Queen of Wheat Grass and read many books on Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Ah Oui! En plus je parle le français ~
I hold a degree in Culinary Arts from the Dubrelle French Culinary School, and I studied raw nutrition with the late Dr. Bernard Jensen, Ann Wigmore, the Queen of Wheat Grass and read many books on Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Ah Oui! En plus je parle le français ~
MY STORY
From childhood, it never occurred to me to look to my diet for the source of my health problems.
After all, we were an Italian family eating a Mediterranean diet; my mother made pasta and soups and salads from scratch, using ingredients my family and relatives grew in their own garden or that we bought from other families in the sausage-making or grocery business. In the 60’s and 70's, ours was undoubtedly one of the healthiest diets in our entire city of Montreal. Many of my schoolmates were eating canned and packaged foods out of boxes while my mother was up to her elbows in cooking fresh food from scratch.
But while healthier than the packaged foods, my diet was no better than what some of my schoolmates were eating - my diet was not good for me. I was hospitalized at 2 years old with severe food poisoning, and given an intravenous drip for dehydration. Through my childhood I had terrible digestive issues, unable to move my bowels, and the only suggestion doctors could offer was to drink more prune juice. When I moved to Southern California, I reveled in year-round fresh vegetables and amazing wines, but I still had to take laxatives to counteract my poor digestion.
I went through an impossibly long string of diets: Fasting diets, Cleansing diets, Raw Diets, The Zone, Adkins, Yaruvenada Diet, the Sally Fallon and Weston Price Diet, GAPS Diet, and a dozen more. Nothing worked – not until I met a woman who practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine. That woman gave me an herb she thought would help. Unwittingly, she changed my life.
Within one year, I was miraculously “healed.” I went right back to my old diet, thinking the problem was solved. It wasn’t. I had only brought my body back into balance briefly – and then swung it right back out of whack.
To understand what was happening to my body’s biochemistry, I studied to earn my certification as a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, and at the same time was tested for a hair mineral analysis by Trace Elements Inc (TEI). Upon receiving my hair test, it dawned on me that in the mid-nineties, I had my hair tested by Dr. Paul C. Eck, a mineral researcher who spent his life developing the practical application of this science and my Hair Mineral Analysis. The hair test by Analytical Research Labs, Inc. showed back then, as it did with TEI, the true cause of my problems: I had adrenal burnout, was deficient in several important minerals, and had excessive toxic metals in my body, mainly copper.
I am following a nutritional balancing protocol and (and sticking with it!) I am healthier and happier than I have ever been in my life but it did not come without trials and errors.
My story may not be quite the same as yours, but I am willing to bet that it is similar. The symptoms that won’t go away, that are dismissed as unimportant by doctor and family. The constant diet changes, hoping to find a solution. The pain and the uncertainty.
I want to use my hard-won 35 years of wisdom to bring your health – physical, mental, and sexual – back into alignment. Seek the truth, and you will be set free for the first time in your life.
With today's technology it doesn't matter where you live. Myself and my staff work with clients all over the world via Skype by email or by phone! You can contact me by email for any questions, and I will get back to you, as soon as humanly possible.
Your faithful servant,
Josephine
Copyright © 2014-2017 Josephine, Certified Holistic Nutrition, CHN, FDN
After all, we were an Italian family eating a Mediterranean diet; my mother made pasta and soups and salads from scratch, using ingredients my family and relatives grew in their own garden or that we bought from other families in the sausage-making or grocery business. In the 60’s and 70's, ours was undoubtedly one of the healthiest diets in our entire city of Montreal. Many of my schoolmates were eating canned and packaged foods out of boxes while my mother was up to her elbows in cooking fresh food from scratch.
But while healthier than the packaged foods, my diet was no better than what some of my schoolmates were eating - my diet was not good for me. I was hospitalized at 2 years old with severe food poisoning, and given an intravenous drip for dehydration. Through my childhood I had terrible digestive issues, unable to move my bowels, and the only suggestion doctors could offer was to drink more prune juice. When I moved to Southern California, I reveled in year-round fresh vegetables and amazing wines, but I still had to take laxatives to counteract my poor digestion.
I went through an impossibly long string of diets: Fasting diets, Cleansing diets, Raw Diets, The Zone, Adkins, Yaruvenada Diet, the Sally Fallon and Weston Price Diet, GAPS Diet, and a dozen more. Nothing worked – not until I met a woman who practiced Traditional Chinese Medicine. That woman gave me an herb she thought would help. Unwittingly, she changed my life.
Within one year, I was miraculously “healed.” I went right back to my old diet, thinking the problem was solved. It wasn’t. I had only brought my body back into balance briefly – and then swung it right back out of whack.
To understand what was happening to my body’s biochemistry, I studied to earn my certification as a Functional Diagnostic Nutritionist, and at the same time was tested for a hair mineral analysis by Trace Elements Inc (TEI). Upon receiving my hair test, it dawned on me that in the mid-nineties, I had my hair tested by Dr. Paul C. Eck, a mineral researcher who spent his life developing the practical application of this science and my Hair Mineral Analysis. The hair test by Analytical Research Labs, Inc. showed back then, as it did with TEI, the true cause of my problems: I had adrenal burnout, was deficient in several important minerals, and had excessive toxic metals in my body, mainly copper.
I am following a nutritional balancing protocol and (and sticking with it!) I am healthier and happier than I have ever been in my life but it did not come without trials and errors.
My story may not be quite the same as yours, but I am willing to bet that it is similar. The symptoms that won’t go away, that are dismissed as unimportant by doctor and family. The constant diet changes, hoping to find a solution. The pain and the uncertainty.
I want to use my hard-won 35 years of wisdom to bring your health – physical, mental, and sexual – back into alignment. Seek the truth, and you will be set free for the first time in your life.
With today's technology it doesn't matter where you live. Myself and my staff work with clients all over the world via Skype by email or by phone! You can contact me by email for any questions, and I will get back to you, as soon as humanly possible.
Your faithful servant,
Josephine
Copyright © 2014-2017 Josephine, Certified Holistic Nutrition, CHN, FDN
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