Whole Health With Holly

Jumping on this Instagram trend 🤗

✨Cheers, friend! Glad you’re here.✨

I’ve worked with women in individual therapy for over 10 years now…coming up on 15! 🤯 During this same time I was also going through my own health issues (autoimmune disorder, thyroid disorders, infertility) which led to lots of anxiousness.

I started using a mind-body-spirit approach to my own health and finally experienced what true well-being felt like.

I was already licensed in Mental Health but I got certified in nutrition, yoga, and functional medicine as fast as I could (and as fast as the testing would allow 😉) so I could finally share the truth to health with my clients.

I combined these approaches into an all in one Whole Health Method so YOU can finally be treated as the whole person that you are.

Thanks for being here✨

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk ✨

The first steps to take to start peeling back the layers of living off stress hormones + riding high on anxiety is exactly what I’ll be teaching in my upcoming masterclass ✨

Table Rock! It’s cliche but iykyk! It’s where I spent my childhood summers, caught my first bass, jumped off my first cliff + rope swing, drove my first boat (and last…I have no business being behind the wheel of a boat), and it’s the only place I would consider to get married ♥️

Now I’m forcing the love of Table
Rock onto my children 😂

My dad retired last year and has officially moved here full time. So any chance we get this summer, you know where to find us!

If you know her you love her. And, even though my childhood was a little rough since she raised me as a Cubs fan (you can imagine), she is the very best ♥️

While YOU are sleeping, your body is:

😴metabolizing
😴detoxing
😴digesting
😴performing cellular turnover
😴rejuvenating + repairing
😴and of course, resting

It’s pure medicine.

Sleep is so good for the mind+body we should ideally be doing it for a third of our lifetime.

Happy 7th birthday, Maverick Wade. You make the world a better place 🤍

✔️keep from emotionally spiraling, lashing out, being over reactive to children
✔️fits in to busy lifestyles
✔️foster anxiety correctly rather than mask it
✔️being intentional about addressing the things getting in the way of life goals
✔️believing they do NOT have to live with anxiety
✔️learning skills to prevent anxiety from taking over
✔️not feeling judged or stressed out about health
✔️wanting to shout this info form the rooftops

Creating Calm Course students are absolute rockstars ✨

A lotttttt of clinicians get mad/annoyed/laugh at clients who try to diagnose themselves off of Dr. Google or some random social media account.

I’ve always loved these clients.

They’re trying. They’re searching. They’re asking. They’re wondering. They are self initiating their own healing process.

And in that I see: a willingness to learn, a thirst for knowledge, healthy curiosity, being a self starter, a willingness for change…

👆game changers in therapy

Plus, we have the entire internet at our fingertips anyway. It’s gonna happen.

We just need to have professional guidelines to go along with it.

So, I made the Anxiety Self Assessment to walk you through the process. To give you the professional guidelines. And for YOU to decide for yourself if anxiety is present or not.

✨Link in bio.

XO,
Holly

Think about the time you went through your biggest trial, trauma, hardship, difficult season…whatever you wanna call it.

Then think about who you were then, and who you are now.

There is no way to go through difficult times, see it through to the other side and NOT be more:

*knowledgeable
*wiser
*empathetic
*relatable
*real
*insightful
*aware

It hurts to get there. Growing pains are real. Keep going.

XO,
Holly

When people feel a lack of motivation…it’s a problem. It’s frustrating, it’s exhausting, it obviously makes life difficult…

✔️It’s also a major marker in anxiety and depression.

For 1️⃣, you’re not completing the things that need done, or being the person you’re wanting to be. (And, that simply doesn’t feel good.)

This is one of the most common conversations I have with clients.

2️⃣ it plagues you with self doubt. This “uh oh” feeling of “where’s my drive for things in life like I used to have?”

3️⃣ it’s a disconnect of the self between our thoughts and feelings + actions.

The thoughts may be there (example: I want to get this project done) but the feelings and actions are missing (but I don’t feel like it, I don’t have the energy, I’ll do it tomorrow).

▶️ But, did you know this could all just simply be from inflammation? An inflammatory lifestyle looks like:

*chronic stress exposure
*using stress as your fuel source
*inflammatory foods/liquids
*sedentary lifestyle
*lack of quality sleep
*lack of sunlight + grounding
*excess EMF/blue light exposure
*not dealing with past trauma

✨Now for the good news!!! Inflammation from these things is fully reversible. And, that fact is 🤯

It was a HAPPY home-by-10:30 NEW YEAR 🥳

Much love to you all! Happy New Year ♥️ (here ya go .watercolors 😘😘)

1️⃣Anxiety is inflammation so first things first - restore physiological balance by creating space.

Get rid of the systemic inflammation. It’s the foundation.

2️⃣Then rewire.

🧠Cognitively the right frontal lobe and the amygdala have hijacked your experiences. Setting off the HPA Axis for the secretion of stress hormones cortisol + adrenaline.

Nothing is wrong with this process - it’s a built in safety mechanism and helps keep us alive.

But in the place of anxiety, it’s short circuited so to speak, and over active.

Through neuroplasticity - your brain’s ability to change (🙌) - we want to start practicing left frontal lobe dominance and taming down the amygdala (the fear center of the brain) which is the initial siren 🚨 setting off the process for those stress hormones to get released.

Through Vagal Toning - meaning how strong your vagus nerve is - you’ll be able to get to or maintain a parasympathetic state much quicker in the face of anxiety.

3️⃣Then, maintenance + self growth. The icing on top. You get to choose what this looks like - your relationships, your self identity, your coping skills, living out your purposeful life…

My entire course, Creating Calm, is built around these phases of healing ✨

✨It’s finally here!✨ Creating Calm is open for enrollment! And, the first 10 students to enroll will receive a FREE hard copy of the workbook mailed to you 🎉 just as a thank you for joining this community!

This course will teach you the steps to heal from feeling like:

- your mood is holding you back from your authentic self and life
- you don’t recognize yourself anymore (a common quote I hear clients saying is “I didn’t used to be this way.”)
- you’re just managing your symptoms to get through versus actually growing and thriving in life
- you’ve tried all the things for yourself (the new diet, the new workout, the new self help book, traditional therapy even) and still feel stuck.

To enroll in course: http://whole-health-with-holly.teachable.com/p/creatingcalm

And just in case you’re not quite ready to invest into yourself - cause we’re not all there yet - I made a FREE webinar for you.

Free webinar: https://mailchi.mp/fa266d96484c/access-to-webinar

I hope you find this helpful! ♥️

Hold up. We have a launch date!! One week from today - Monday, December 26th - the doors to Creating Calm enrollment will be OPEN!

The launch team is helping with final edits, we’re making sure the back office is running smoothly, and I’m working on a *surprise* to share along with the launch - so stay tuned for that.

This course is for you if you’re feeling overwhelmed, stressed or anxious in life. If you feel like you’re just managing symptoms. If you feel like you can’t quite grasp how to live the healthy lifestyle that your mind+body is actually craving. If you feel like you’ve tried “all the health trends” that just didn’t work. If you feel like you just don’t recognize yourself anymore and aren’t living your life to its fullest purpose.

Creating Calm teaches you how to live a calm get energized life, with a stable and balanced mood. It teaches you how to discover the root cause to your health ailments. It teaches you how to make a healthy lifestyle your normal way of living. It teaches you how to become an expert on your own anxiety, your own mood, in order to live the life of purpose that you were created for.

When you remove excess anxiety from the cells of the body, from the nervous system, and from the frontal lobes of your brain - incredible, incredible things start to happen for you ✨

P.S. like my festive Holly mug? 😉

I can’t wait to finally share this✨