My life's journey has led me to a place where I live a balanced and healthy lifestyle. I’m passionate about health and wellness, and am dedicated to helping improve the lives of others who are ready and willing to embark on their own wellness journey.
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Shelley Bates, Certified Integrative Health & Wellness Coach
Hello my name is Shelley!
I am truly blessed to have discovered my life’s purpose. My commitment to health and teaching others how to live their healthiest life is what I am meant to do.
Many people in my life have suffered from life crippling diseases and many of these were preventable. My earliest health influences came from family – watching my mother, who was an addict, and who was also a very powerful woman but totally powerless over over food and other substances. She used food not to nourish but rather, to numb. And it took me a long time to understand that you can, in fact, do both – be a powerful woman and have power over life choices too. I realized that I needed to do my best to live a life that my mother could never live. Her untimely death served as a lesson and as inspiration for me to educate myself about how to live a healthy life and fuel myself to keep going on as long as I can and be as healthy as I can be.
After struggling for over 25 years with an eating disorder, today, I am proud to say that my journey has led me to a balanced and healthy lifestyle. And I’m dedicated to helping improve the lives of others who are ready and willing to embark on their own wellness journey.
As I continue to study and explore, health and the human body I ultimately I want to use this business and myself as a platform for change. To change beliefs about what is “good health”, aging naturally and beautifully, successfully. I want balance in my life – time to work hard, time to play hard, time to spend with friends, time to exercise and have the energy to sustain it all. And I want the same for you.