Finding Your Voice as an Advocate for Your Health Through our Birth Stories

Show Notes

In Today’s Episode

In this episode, we got to chat with Elise Wagner, co-founder and chief well-being officer for the functional medicine coaching academy.

In this episode we:

• discuss how Elise discovered functional medicine at age 13
• elaborate on how an autoimmune disease diagnosis sparked Elise to want to help others improve their health through functional medicine and health coaching
• pinpoint why health coaching is such a vital component of any health journey
• chat about how Elise nourished her body and mind during pregnancy and prepared for delivery 
• share birth stories and what we would have done differently looking back
• discuss the importance of being your own advocate and asking questions even when it’s uncomfortable 
• talk about what you can do to prepare for labor so that your birth plan can be carried out successfully even if you can’t speak up for yourself 

Functional Medicine Coaching Academy: https://functionalmedicinecoaching.org/