Being a mom and a professional often comes with the natural skill of juggling your priorities. You’re constantly trying to find the delicate balance of work-life-family and still maintaining your sanity. If this sounds familiar, you may need some self-care. Self-care can come in many forms, but it’s often the last thing on the minds of working moms. Health, Life and Transformation coach Kristy Kilcup understands this better than anyone.
As a single parent and a former corporate executive, she knows what it’s like to be pulled in a million different directions, prioritizing everyone else’s needs (and deadlines) above her own. But, after leaving the corporate world and pursuing her passion for health and wellness, Kristy found her calling in helping other women like her achieve balance.
In her own words, “I know what it’s like to struggle with body transitions. I’ve gone through the weight gain/weight loss roller coaster, the self-loathing, PTSD, binging and purging, separation, divorce, single parenting, and the hustle of trying to make enough to live comfortably. I know what it’s like to be a people-pleaser at the expense of your health and to be a perfectionist, never wanting to disappoint someone.”
As a Certified Hypnotherapist, Health, Life and Mastery Level Transformation Coach, Personalized Health and Nutrition Coach, Certified Personal Trainer, Master Educator and International Presenter, Kristy provides women with the tools they need to make lasting change. She helps them identify and set realistic goals and provides the support and accountability they need to make those goals a reality.
Kristy’s ultimate goal is to help women overcome their struggles with food, body image, and self-confidence by assisting them in taking back control of their health and mental wellbeing.
But here’s something more interesting about her weight loss coaching approaches! Her coaching is not a regular plan where you find yourself tangled in a turmoil of strict diet plans and forced ‘NOs’ to your favourite desserts. Instead, Kristy takes the approach of filling the gap left by the weight loss industry by helping her clients work through the psychological behaviours and mindset that drove them to their current health status. As well as address her clients’ unique hormone blueprint so that each client has a personalized program for their biological and behavioural needs! The program itself is a 16-week online program that offers a Personalized Health and Wellness APP catering specifically to each of her clients’ hormones. In addition, she provides an eight-week curriculum dedicated to self-sabotage, weekly laser-focused group Q&A sessions, exercise prescription that considers her clients’ predispositions to injury AND that can be done from the comfort of home, recipes, and so much more.
She is best known as the “deal with it head-on” coach. She works intuitively with her clients to identify the root cause of their issues and to help them discover solutions that fit their unique circumstances.
She says, “During my journey, I realized that it was never about weight loss. Instead, it’s about the distorted beliefs about ourselves, our unique hormone blueprint, our environment, stress level and how we respond and react when we get emotional – all issues that most other programs do not treat. In addition, I sell a supplement that works to address inflammation, gut health, hormone imbalances, autoimmune conditions and more.”
Kristy’s focus on mindset and epigenetics sets her apart from other coaches and makes her programs so successful. She helps women shift their thinking around food, exercise and their overall relationship with their bodies. She helps them release themselves of the shame, guilt, resentment, and insecurity they have towards their bodies as a result of better understanding just how unique they are and how they don’t fit into generalized templates provided by the weight loss industry.
She firmly believes that there is no one-size-fits-all approach and that each person’s journey towards permanent weight loss is an individual experience. Her versatile range of techniques, including cognitive-behavioural therapy, hypnotherapy, and neuro-linguistic programming combined with the biotechnology in identifying an individual’s unique hormone blueprint provides the most powerful execution in achieving permanent weight loss results because she addresses weight loss from all directions.
Contradicting the popular and faulty promotional statements offered by the weight loss industry, Kristy often says, “weight loss is more than just calories in and calories out.” As she continues to revolutionalize the conventions of health and body transformation, her ceaseless aim of instilling confidence in moms remains her top priority.
For her, success means taking charge of your journey. She explains, “while the journey may be difficult, you are always worth the effort. It takes change-makers, women who are willing to step up and start modelling how they want to be treated. Demonstrating that they deserve better and then treating themselves in that same high regard that they would their best friend, partner or child. Gone are the days when we willingly give away ‘all of ourselves.’ Instead, we should aim to give the ‘best of ourselves.’ And that only comes when we learn to make ourselves a priority.”
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