The road to healing while experiencing illness can be long and lonely. As a National Board Certified and Holistic Life & Wellness Coach, I walk alongside my clients and help them untangle the web of confusion, frustration, and overwhelm surrounding autoimmune and chronic health issues.
Please see THIS PAGE for information on working with me.
Read THIS if you are curious about what a coaching session is like.
Are we a good fit to work together? See THIS PAGE to learn about the type of people I love to work with.
I take my clients past the usual tangible goal-setting. You can set goals on your own, so why do you need me to help you write down things in your calendar?
In other words:
What is it about your current situation that is requiring the help of a coach? What is holding you back from moving forward on your own accord?
Usually, there are seemingly harmless thoughts or beliefs lurking beneath the surface of actionable, tangible goal setting. Perhaps there is a conflict of values – when what society and culture demand of us doesn’t align with what we hold dear to our hearts. Sometimes there are strong emotions holding us back – emotions that need to be fully processed before we can move forward.
These thoughts, beliefs, values, and emotions are just some of what we will uncover and address in our work together. My clients and I often also talk about the power of choice, language, how intuition and faith can impact our healing, and the concepts of awareness and acceptance
This type of transformational coaching helps you not just in one part of your life; all parts of your life will be improved as a result of our work together.
To hear more about how I work, I invite you to read the posts in the links above.
I look forward to meeting you!
Sandy Swanson
ACC, NBC-HWC, A-CFHC
“Sandy brings a higher level of compassion and empathy to her service because she’s suffered through the low points of poor health and understands the emotional and mental toll that autoimmune disease can take on a person. I would absolutely trust her sanguine advice with my physical and mental health.” – Tamra Westberry, Co-Founder Hashimoto’s 411
“Sandy has an amazing gift as a listener, healer, and coach. She provided me with tools and techniques that allowed me to get to the heart of what I truly needed to thrive. Working with her opened up a new and empowering avenue to how I viewed and approached my life and health.” – Luanne Sawatzky, homeschooling mom
“Sandy is not only a brilliant, compassionate, deeply engaging and skilled coach, but her knowledge and expertise of Hashimoto’s is also vastly comprehensive. She understands the mental, emotional, and lifestyle side of Hashimoto’s and how it can affect women’s overall health, wellness, and quality of life.” – Kelli Saginak, EdD, A-CFHC, NBC-HWC
I offer a free Assessment and Complimentary Session to all prospective clients. During this session, we’ll discuss what brings you to coaching and I’ll answer any questions you may have about me or the coaching process. We’ll also see how we “fit” together – we may not have good chemistry, which is important to establishing trust and an open client-coach relationship. I am always happy to refer out to a colleague who may be a better fit for your needs.
NOTE: While my coach training gave me an excellent education in terms of functional medicine, chronic illness, and autoimmune disease, I am not a doctor. I do not give medical advice. I simply speak the language, I do not teach it.
I am also not a nutritionist or dietician. I do not do meal plans. I invite you to seek the help of these professionals if this is the type of help you are looking for.
Please see this page for more on what coaching is – and isn’t.
“Sandy is not only insightful, thoughtful, and supportive but she also has a wonderful sense of humor. I would absolutely recommend Sandy to anyone who is struggling with Hashimoto’s and looking for a way forward where you feel heard and cared for.” – Will Welch, Board-Certified Health and Leadership Coach
“Coaching isn’t about finding someone who will tell you what to do. However, if you are looking for a compassionate, clear-headed, inspirational partner in your journey of self-discovery, whose talent lies in helping reflect your best self back to you as you find your path to freedom and self-acceptance, then you are absolutely in the right place!” – Kristina M., professional musician, Luxembourg
“As a highly sensitive being, Sandy brings compassion, love, and gentleness to her coaching sessions along with the strength to stand by the client. Sandy will listen to you with a depth of a musician and the heart of a lover. If you are looking to be understood, cared for, and transformed, Sandy is your coach.” – Tijen Genco, MCC, NBC-HWC
I coach via phone or video; Zoom is the platform I use for video calls. Just let me know what you prefer when you book and I’ll send along a link and password to my Zoom meeting room.
If you do not receive an email from Practice Better regarding this booking by the end of the day, please check your spam/junk folder. I will need you to confirm your session via the green button in that initial email; links to Zoom and my phone number will be sent the day before our session – these will also be sent through Practice Better. Check your spam folder!
If you have changed your mind about meeting me, I appreciate the courtesy of canceling 24 hours prior to your session if this is possible.
If you are more than 5 minutes late to this session I will consider this session forfeited; please reschedule if you are still interested in working together.
If booking below gives you trouble (scroll down to see all booking options), please visit my booking portal at Practice Better.
I look forward to working with you!
Got Hashimoto’s?
Join me for my 6 week LIVE online course, Reimagining Hashimoto’s. Read what former students are saying about this transformational course below!
Learn more HERE.
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If you have any questions about Hashimoto’s I cannot recommend this course enough! The road to health can be a long and complicated one but now I feel that I’m equipped with a good roadmap. Every aspect of the course was relevant and important. You will also find a highly supportive group of people that are on the same ride with you – the deep exchange in content, feelings, thoughts, and even recipes lets you know that you are not alone. If you are on the fence about this course, do it because you will be better for it! – Amy Palacios, Administrative Specialist at Public Health
Whether you are diagnosed with Hashimoto’s or not, anyone who’s ready and willing to make positive changes in their life and health should definitely take this course! Each Module left me with a lot of useful information to learn from and it helped me get a better understanding of my current condition as well as new tools to slowly start moving forward. The knowledge and perspective I gained has allowed me to create a more balanced approach in all areas of my life. – Mariana Osuna, Independent Filmmaker
The camaraderie among the Reimagining Hashimoto’s group was amazing! Sandy was a great leader who created a safe environment so we could all share and benefit from each others’ knowledge and experience. I highly recommend this course to anyone seeking information and encouragement as they navigate forward from their Hashimoto’s diagnosis, regardless of where they are in their journey! – Diane Corey, Realtor and Multi-Million Dollar Producer
I didn’t expect how beautifully and completely presented this course would be. Sandy is a consummate professional and everything she presented in this course was relatable, useful, fascinating, enriching, and deeper than I could ever have imagined. Her research was in-depth, and the links she added in the resources section was fantastic. I have gone on more “deep dives” into subjects I never anticipated were related. I HIGHLY recommend participation in this course, and working with Sandy in any capacity you are able to. She is wonderful. – KC Still, Professional Musician and Suzuki Instructor
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![In the coming days and weeks, I’ll be sharing some tips and tricks to help you get unstuck - no matter the circumstances of your stuck-ness.
This is the second in a series - if you missed the previous post, see my blog (link in bio).
Here’s the first tip:
Get in touch with your body.
Stop for a moment and check in. Where are you holding tension right now? Some common places we hold tension are:
the jaw
the neck
the gut
the shoulders
Or there might be pain somewhere, like a headache, backache, eyestrain/pain, etc.
I invite you to notice this pain or tension.
Be with it. Breathe into it. Relax into it.
Getting in touch with your body is a brilliant way of not only teaching yourself how to relax but also helps you to be present.
And becoming present creates S P A C E. And within that space there is an opportunity to see what is needed.
So: what is that physical symptom telling you that you need? Don’t overthink this!
SOMEthing usually comes up, like:
I need to rest
I need to let go of [XYZ]
I need to get outside
I need to exercise
I need a good cry (this happens often in real time during my coaching sessions!)
Once that need is met, some things might clear up. You might not get completely unstuck, but there is usually a shift that takes place or a relaxing that happens.
The pic of me is when I just woke up from a nap. I was working and feeling stuck.
I checked in and realized I was freaking exhausted. I needed rest, so closed my eyes for a few minutes before getting back to my computer.
You're not seeing the "before" photo, but trust me: what a difference a few minutes of rest make!
(and my hair always looks better after I sleep on it lol)
One thing to note:
Getting in touch with the physical body might be really REALLY hard for some people.
I invite you to be super gentle, and practice this technique with “nonjudgemental curiosity”, and let me know how it goes!
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![Something I experience in my coaching sessions every day is seeing people who feel “stuck”.
Stuck in a job they don’t like.
Stuck after graduating from college, working their dream job, not knowing what’s next.
Stuck not knowing what to do now that the kids have left home.
Stuck in a relationship that is no longer serving them.
Stuck in not knowing what to do regarding that big decision looming over them.
Many times these clients say “I just need more tools in my life to figure this out, then I’ll be good”. They want “tips, tools, or tricks” to help them get unstuck.
In other words, they want information.
The thing is, there’s a sh*t-ton of information out there. Any answers we desire are at our fingertips thanks to the interwebs.
So why are we always so stuck?!
Information doesn’t help one get unstuck. It can be a starting point, but information alone will not get one unstuck.
Doing the [sometimes hard] inner work is what gets you unstuck.
Understanding yourself, your beliefs, your emotions, your body, how you think and act the way you do - and *why* you are doing any of it - including being stuck - is imperative to get unstuck.
And this is what coaching is all about. To help you better understand yourself so you can make different choices moving forward.
Over the coming days and weeks, I’m going to share with you some things I discuss with my clients in the first or second session to help them better understand themselves and how they move through this world.
This awareness helps them become UNstuck.
Yeah, they might be called “tips and tricks and tools”, and you can absolutely self-coach yourself using them. It is sometimes easier with a facilitator (e.g. a coach, therapist, or spiritual advisor), but if you are willing to go deep on your own and be honest with yourself, I invite you to play around with these techniques.
So stay tuned!
In the meantime:
Are you feeling stuck?
What has helped YOU get unstuck?
Would love to hear from you.
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