About Me
Hi, I’m Elisia, Functional Nutrition Counselor. I partner with people to help them feel their best by guiding them to understand what their bodies are telling them and offering root cause resolutions. I like to work together with my clients for the purpose of identifying the cause of their symptoms and helping to create a doable roadmap to achieve better health.
I grew up as the youngest of four kids, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, right in the middle of Canada. We get four seasons here, or as I like to call it “four fresh starts a year”. I recognized early on in my life that my approach to things wasn’t of the garden variety. I spent a lot of time snooping in the cupboards and closets of my childhood home. I guess you could say I was curious! If my Mom couldn’t find something, I was the first person that she’d ask, and I could usually help her out.
In elementary school, I sat and listened while my teacher patiently explained to my Mother that most children think in a straight line from point A to point B. Her description of my mindset was more of a longer path involving a lot of attention to detail with a much more investigative approach. (see? Curious.)
These qualities have always served me well in my life and have certainly come in handy since my passions took me down the road of food and how it relates to our health.
My husband Dan and I have three children, and I would have to say that this curious passion of mine has been going on since the arrival of them, roughly 36 years ago. I noted and learned a lot about what did and didn’t work for me in my diet, thinking back to my childhood and in our own household had the freedom to explore a different way of cooking and eating. Which brought me to…
How can everything we put in our mouths NOT affect “what’s going on in there”?
Hmmmm….
You know how when you are watching T. V. you see the commercials for pharmaceuticals that usually involve a long list of side effects at the end?
Well, the food that we eat has side effects as well. Some of them are positive, and some of them, not so much so. The really interesting thing is that those are different for everyone, and the hand that we are dealt genetically doesn’t have to define our quality of life moving forward.
Enter “epigenetics”, which teaches us that yes, we all have genes, good or bad, but our lifestyle choices and what we choose to eat, can change how those genes express themselves.
Visualize a big dimmer switch, and being able to dial it up really high, or really low.
Food is medicine, this was first recognized by Hippocrates, a really long time ago. It is a part of our everyday lives, it isn’t patented, and it ours to explore and benefit from.
If you’d like to adjust your dimmer switch to help you feel better, let’s talk.
You only get one body, so let’s work together to tune in to yours for better health.
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