Who Am I?

Penny Phillips Certified INHC and Mind Body Soul Health Coach and Life Coach

I received my training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where I studied and know every dietary theory and practical lifestyle/life coaching methods. I am also a member of the IAHC and IAOLC. Credentials mean nothing if you don't get results!  You and I will get those results together. I want to help you be the best version of YOU as you can be.

With my knowledge, we co-create completely personalized actions based on your goals to move you toward your ideal vision of health within your unique body, lifestyle, preferences, and resources. In my own life I have had/still have my own health issues. In 2003 I was diagnosed with Relapsing and Remitting Multiple Sclerosis, and by the time they discovered this, I was already in the advanced stages. This lead me to look into more holistic ways of living with this instead of the conventional disease modifying drugs, which are toxic. To this very day I have never taken the disease modifying drugs or the IV Steroids they give when one has a flare up. I have my good days and I have my bad days with it.  It only gets worse from stress, being over-heated, sickness, gluten, and basically all processed foods.

I have also been diagnosed with several other auto-immune diseases, and all the weird symptoms and health issues that come from that. Auto-immune diseases feed off each other, your body is literally attacking itself. Which came first the MS or the Epstein Barr? It's like the chicken and the egg saying, which one came first, the chicken or the egg? I am not sure, but I treat it all the same...holistically.

My own health issues led me to become a health coach and help others like myself. I help you get to the root of it all, working with your doctor of course. I would never tell you to stop taking your medications, because what works for me may not work for you and vice versa. Western medicine has it's place and is beneficial, but it is also overused. I am not just a health coach but I am also a patient. I get it, I understand. I know all the emotions one feels with chronic illnesses.

On the brighter side of all of this, is, if I had never been diagnosed I would have never become a health coach. I am also a classically trained Soprano. I play the piano and write music as well. I taught voice and piano for over sixteen years. I know the healing power of music and how there are certain tones and beats that literally heal. I want my music to inspire and touch others, shinning the light on their darkness and find healing through my music.

  I of course love music, reading, yoga, pilates, writing and journal. I am a bit of a geek, and of course all things spiritual. I meditate daily, and consider myself more spiritual and a Jesus-follower. I am also an Intuitive and a studying energy healer ,and  When clients come to me or just anyone in general, they know they will always find a safe place. You are accepted and loved as you are, no matter what race/religion/sex/etc. What a boring world this would be if we were all alike. If you have read all this you deserve a cookie...a gluten free, dairy free, refined sugar free cookie!

 

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Music 4 Mind Body Soul

I am a Certified Integrative Nutrition Healthl Coach and IAHC Member and a Reiki Master . I am also a classically trained soprano pianist and songwriter. and vocal and piano coach.

I have woken up several times this week with neck and shoulder pain, but yesterday I woke up to a nasty MS hug or Girdle, whatever you wish to call it. It hurts like a mother!!! I was washing dishes earlier and all of a sudden the pain and tightness wrapped around me like a boa constrictor and I could not breathe. I thought I was going to have to go to the ER. As I write this it is still tight and scary even. I took more supplements and another Mg capsule and it has eased a tiny bit. I won’t lie though, this is scaring me. Yes even holistic healers like myself, get flares.

So I ask myself this: 1. Where is the pain? 2. What is it trying to tell me? 3. What is it teaching me? The pain is in back to my stomach, wraps all around, and it is a tightening constricting painful feeling. I hear my intuition telling me that it is my Solar Plexus Chakra, and there is some blocked energy there. I hear it telling me that this has been gradually building. Pain in the Solar Plexus is from anxiety, fear, and worry. God knows I have been worrying a lot in the last few months with health, worried about the flu, family issues, etc. I need to give myself a lot of self care, rest, massages, and relax. I’m having digestive issues, reflux, GERD, IBS, and my gallbladder, all part of this Solar Plexus Chakra. Well, I also started my period for the month too.

My stomach is literally all tied in knots, and thus I think I found the root of my pain…I need to stop worrying and the anxiety and relax more. Perhaps once I clear this chakra the back and the MS Hug pain will stop.

 

Not THAT Kind of Hug I have woken up several times this week with neck and shoulder pain, but yesterday I woke up to a nasty MS hug or Girdle, whatever you wish to call it.
Posted 440 weeks ago

Can you believe we are just 17 days left till May?? I will be 40 in just 4 weeks!!  Let me tell you, I may not look it, but sometimes I sure do feel it. The last couple of months have found us snowed in and I have been sick quite a bit this winter, but as always, it does not last long and I bounce back somewhat quickly. With MS and EBV, etc. I have my good and bad days with it of course, but the difference is, now I am not alone. I have found a man that does not just “deal” with the flares and sicknesses, a man that will be there through all the good and bad times, my sidekick, my partner, and the one I want for life. We both have our triggers, and there have been some rough moments, but we get through it, together. Neither of us go to bed angry. We won’t go to sleep until we have kissed and said goodnight. There is always a good morning with a good morning coffee.  I have never had this, not even in the last two marriages, was it ever even half of what I am blessed to have now. This is what makes unconditional love work…It is an equal partnership and we both give it 150%. 

Spring is a season of new beginnings, and underneath all that winter, flowers and life start to bloom. It is about releasing the old and what no longer serves you, and making space for the new, decluttering the mind body soul and spirit, even our homes get a Spring cleaning. We just got me some new bookshelves for all my books, since the old shelves fell apart after I moved in due to water damage…Energetically, I feel it was all a metaphor of my marriage with my ex, that just like the damaged shelves feel apart, so did those four long painful and stressful years. 

Prince said it best…”Sometimes it snows in April” because we are still seeing a bit of snow here or there in WV, but the last few days have been simply gorgeous and sunny. I hope we are in for warmer weather, and all this cold and winter says goodbye till next year. 

 

Welcome Spring! Can you believe we are just 17 days left till May?? I will be 40 in just 4 weeks!! 
Posted 442 weeks ago

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Let me first say Happy New Year to my Readers and Followers!
Life has been truly an adventure since the divorce this past May. I ended up finding/meeting the love of my life, and been in blissful union since. In the past I admit even as a CINHC I wasn’t perfect. I made a lot of bad decisions when it came to my own lifestyle. I now have someone in my life that keeps me in line, motivates,…

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