Meet Your Food Therapist & Wellness Guide
Vicki's mission as a Certified Nutrition Therapist is to encourage and promote balanced and nourishing lifestyles through nutrition and lifestyle support consultation and education. She emphasizes whole, nourishing foods appropriate for individual body types, physical movement, especially in the outdoors and quiet downtime spent in a calm safe place, be it nature, a community space or your kitchen table. Vicki understands that changing habits can be difficult , which is why it is she emphasizes experiential, hands-on programs.
...Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat forever....tell people what they "should" eat and they may listen to you for a week; teach people how to shop, how to cook, how to eat, how to harvest and they'll experience the joys of eating, being and living forever!
Vicki became certified as a Nutrition
Therapist through the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Denver, Colorado, a comprehensive graduate level two-year holistic nutrition certification
program covers all aspects of clinical nutrition and disease
management. She was also certified as a Personal Trainer and
Corrective Exercise Specialist through the National Academy of Sports
Medicine. Vicki is Board Certified in Holistic Nutrition and is a
Professional member of the National Association of Nutrition Professionals.
Vicki’s foundation in functional nutrition therapy and her understanding of the role that nutrition and fitness play on the physiological and psychological systems has evolved into thorough and comprehensive prevention and therapeutic protocols and programs. Vicki has focused her work in a variety of areas, including chronic stress syndromes as they relate to endocrine health, weight management, dysfunctional eating patterns, and neurological health (depression, anxiety, ADD, and Alzheimer’s).
My Wellness Adventure
Vicki has always had a strong connection to natural health and wellness and to the strength and security that one can feel amongst the elements...therefore, she wanted to protect and care for those natural rhythms. She has a Masters Degree in Geography and Environmental Planning, emphasizing sustainable land use development. She understands the impact that people's everyday decisions can have on the land - especially in correlation to our food choices and land use practices - which ultimately affect the health and ecological balance of the Earth.
After examining local, national and global land-use practices, and studying the growing rates of preventable diseases and obesity; it became clear that the impacts that many of the changes that are occurring as a result of societal development are not only impacting the health of our ecological systems, but are also having an incredible impact on our own health and well-being...body and mind!
Vicki discovered the joys and freedom of becoming friends with her health and body after many years of struggling with her own food and fitness explorations and challenges: vegetarian eating, broken bones, fears, weight management issues...perfectionism and the stress and anxiety that comes with it all! After going through her own adventures and transformations, Vicki knew that helping others achieve their own level of health and wellness was her passion. Vicki wants others to feel food freedom and good life living, too! Vicki knows that how she eats, how she thinks and how (and where) she does and does not move affects her whole being.
Find out more about Vicki's dirty and messy adventures through her Diary of a Dirty Girl blog.
The Way to the Earth and Water Wellness Institute
Vicki's interests in supporting others in their health challenges and wellness goals transformed into the development of the Earth and Water Wellness Institute; an educational and membership-based community promoting sustainable nutrition and lifestyle support programs and experiences that provide nourishment for the body, mind and life.
In order to achieve wellness - sustainable health and happiness - you need a balanced mind, body and lifestyle. Vicki has learned along the way the incredible impact that proper nutrition, movement and stress management have on the healing process and the health of mind and body. The body has the ability to heal itself and will do so, as long as it gets some assistance from you by providing it with the proper nourishment. Be more conscious. Experience greater nourishment. Live naturally.
Wellness does not occur overnight. It is a process, a daily practice. Are you ready to embark on your own adventure - exploring and discovering the right blend of essential ingredients to create your nourishing and delightful life that you deserve. The sooner you get started, the sooner you will start supporting your body's ability to balance and maintain itself for optimal wellness!
My Commitment to your Health & Happiness…
As a Nutrition Therapist and your Wellness Guide, my primary role is to be your holistic health educator, helping you to understand how your daily habits and life stresses influence the quality of your health. I set you up for success by translating that insight into a program that’s personalized, doable and maintainable. I will help you to untangle the web of confusion about food, diet, and health; guiding you in a direction towards a healthy and happy you!
Exploring your wellness potential involves exploring the whole picture:
what you eat, what you think, how you move and how you live.
Nutrition and food therapy is for anyone seeking balance and support in areas of health, nutrition, and lifestyle...anyone who is yearning to learn the art and science of sustainable health and happiness!
The Earth and Water Wellness Institute is based on the premise of not only changing one's body, but one's life. This is the time for transformation - into a healthier and happier you!
I look forward to sharing with you the knowledge and skills that will guide you in your pursuit of consciously living life to your fullest potential! Get ready to enjoy a long term vacation from your wellness worries and food frustrations! I am committed to being your Nutrition Guide, but you need to be your own wellness advocate!
The mission of Earth and Water Wellness is to educate and guide individuals on their wellness adventures. Earth and Water Wellness was created out of a desire to help people realize their full potential through a healthy body and mind; supporting individuals with the use of foods, fitness and forests.
It is not enough to eat organic foods; we must eat according to our individual bodies’ needs, we must move and we must spend time in nature, resting and rejuvenating the mind and body. The vision at Earth and Water Wellness is to incorporate the practices of wellness into daily lives. This is not a punishment and it is not temporary – it is a decision to achieve optimal wellness as a lifestyle. It is learning the science of eating green and the art of living well!
The Earth and Water Wellness Institute supports sustainable community development, a supportive community of practitioners and members facilitating the adventures into wellness through comprehensive and integrative therapeutic programs for emotional and physical well-being and the pursuit of natural balance...a school for sustainable health and happiness
Professional member of the National
Association of Nutrition Professionals
and the American Association of Nutrition Consultants.
Healthy People for a Healthy Planet!
Explore. Discover. Believe
Go Confidently in the Direction of Your Dreams!
Live the Life You’ve Imagined.
As you Simplify Your Life, the Universe will be Simpler.
~ Henry David Thoreau
» Talk to a stranger at a cafe or in line at the grocery store...
better yet, how about in the vegetable isle, exchange recipe ideas!
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Hi Vicki - I just want to "Thank You" for spending so much time with us yesterday. I could tell that Katie was happier than I've seen her in a long time - "a light at the end of the tunnel" so to speak.