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Improve Your Listening Skills and Become a Soulful Listener

January 23, 2020 · In: Motherhood, Soulful Hospitality

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I don’t know any other way to break it to you, but becoming a soulful listener is tough. Our digital age makes it difficult to give someone your undivided attention. There are practical ways that help you become more than a better listener; you can become a soulful one.

These days, listening takes practice and perseverance. Since technology changes the way we relate to one another, engaging in an undistracted conversation requires intentionality. Busyness and technology corrode intuitive conversation skills like eye contact and standing still.

The reality is that to cultivate soulful listening, you may have to retrain your brain to sustain attention and resist distraction.

But the flip side, deep listening contributes to health and wellness. It can relieve stress, build strong, harmonious relationships, and demonstrate compassion and empathy.

What does it take to be fully present in a conversation? How can you become a soulful listener?

Over the past few months, I’ve used a few techniques to help foster soulful listening skills.

1. Remove any distractions

Television and hand-held devices

A few years ago, while on a women’s retreat, after the teaching sessions ended, I headed straight to the movie room and plopped into a recliner. A British period movie on the big screen, a bowlful of popcorn, and no one else’s agenda but my own, could it get any better?

During a pivotal moment in the movie, a young mom sat next to me. She wanted to share her struggles in parenting special needs children. I made every human effort to focus on this dear woman’s words, facial expressions, and tone. No matter how hard I tried, her words competed with the dialogue of a Mr. Darcy-ish love triangle.

It took every ounce of self-control not to turn my attention to the big screen. I think the young mom sensed my struggle because she apologized for interrupting my movie.

I suggested that we move to another room so that we could continue our conversation, undistracted.

Media almost prevented me from loving my neighbor. My visually stimulated movie brain nearly seduced me into disregarding an opportunity to connect deeply with another person.

I almost did the exact opposite of what I am called to do as a Christian. For a fleeting moment, my distraction communicated that loving my neighbor was an interruption and an inconvenience.

I am glad that we moved to another room. Through undistracted listening, I learned so much about this woman and her circumstances.

How often do we detach from a conversation when we get a notification on our phone? Author Tony Reinke reports in his book 12 Ways Your Smart Phone is Changing You that we check our phones” about 81,500 times per year, or once every 4.3 minutes of our waking lives.”

 

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2. Look at the person

A person knows she has your attention when you look at her while she is talking. With the help of cell phones, most of us have become master multi-taskers.

It’s hard to maintain eye-to-eye contact when multi-tasking. Trust me, I struggle with this all of the time.

What I’ve learned recently is that during a conversation, looking at the person can propel compassion. Paul Miller writes, “By keeping the other person in front of us, we are opening the door to compassion.”

Too often, our (well, at least mine does) conversation posture looks something like this: our head remains hunched over our phone screen, bobbing up just long enough to check-in to the conversation.

This type of half-hearted conversation posture makes a person feel unimportant.

Jesus teaches us that looking is paramount to loving our neighbor. In the parable of the good Samaritan, the Samaritan looks at a man who has been mugged and beaten.

After looking at the battered man in the eye, empathy, and compassion unfold.

The importance of offering our undivided attention to someone could be the conduit to the healing of a parched soul.

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3. Don’t Worry About What You Will Say Next

When a friend shares her struggle, it’s tempting to mentally devise a solution to her problem while she is still mid-sentence. The process of trying to generate a response diminishes focus and attention.

Feeling obliged to offer a quick response puts the spotlight on the speaker, not the person who is sharing. If you feel the need to say something, Dr. Paul David Tripp reminds us:

“that one of the best responses is to let the person know that you not only will help her address the problems she is facing, but you care for her and are with her.”

4. Make Every Effort to Avoid Interrupting

Wait for a natural break in the conversation before you take your turn.

5. Summarize, Paraphrase, Mirror, Reiterate

I work from home. Often my kids come into my office and sit in the chair next to my desk. When they do this, it is an unspoken signal that they need to talk.

As my teen talks, the urge to multi-task tempts me like an afternoon Netflix binge on a workday. It would be so easy to do, but the consequences are damaging.

To avoid the temptation to multi-task, I learned a simple way to keep my mind engaged in the conversation. It’s called weaving words. When it’s my turn to talk, I weave the speaker’s last few words or phrases into the conversation.

I can’t weave words if I am only half-listening. Regrettably, I’ve tried, and it doesn’t work.

Another listening strategy I use lately, I pivot my chair so that I face the speaker so that my back is to my laptop.

Weaving words confirm my understanding and affirm that I am all in. I try to remember that even impromptu conversations with my kids create meaningful memories.

“Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” Dr. Seuss

6. Encourage, Explore, Inquire

Curiosity is an essential component of soulful listening. Most often, curiosity starts with a question. The sort of questions that elicit personal exploration and reflection, not just information gathering.

The summer when I was ten, my cousins and I spent the day at our aunt’s summer cottage. Probably tired of swimming in the river, we made our way to the local playground.

We spent the afternoon whirling and twirling the swing chains, then swinging in unison as a cousin trio.

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Before the dust settled from stopping my swing, a neighborhood ruffian girl, who was the same age as me, approached.

She clutched a pack of Marlboro Red cigarettes and blurted out expletives in place of hellos.

She sat on the swing next to me. I unabashedly stared in envy at her Calvin Klein jeans. Klein’s were the uniform for the cool kids of the ’70s.

I wasn’t allowed to wear Calvin Klein jeans until I turned 14.

She scoffed at my red and white polka dot print summer dress with a sailor collar.

In spite of our mutual age, she seemed too grown-up for the playground.

At that point in my life, I had the irritating habit of asking questions without thinking them through.

I asked the neighborhood tough girl, “Why do you smoke?”

I should have stopped there with the questioning. But I didn’t.

“Why do you cuss?”

With her hand on her pre-adolescent hip, neighborhood tough girl candidly replied, “Because it’s my hobby.”

I suppose immaturity, coupled with misguided curiosity, created a recipe for inquiry disaster. My innocent questions sounded more like an inquisition than natural curiosity.

Judgment fueled my question, and the neighborhood girl felt the sting.

That’s not the type of curiosity that builds friendships; it’s the kind that evokes defenses.

In a conversation, meaningful questions let people know that you want to know about their world. Authentic, non-judgmental curiosity in conversation can build relationships.

Cultivate Soulful Listening Skills

At the onset of a conversation, clear distractions from your mind and your desk. Once you’ve cleared space both mentally and physically, then focus on the proximity. Sit across from your friend or next to them so that eye-to-eye contact is effortless.

Then begin to listen so well that you can paraphrase chunks of the conversation.

With authentic curiosity, listening is taken to a deeper level. Often, it’s open-ended questions that invite people to reflect and share:

  • What does healthy living look like to you?
  • When you mention that you are stressed, how would you define “stress?”
  • What are your thoughts about making short-term goals?

Like any spiritual discipline, soulful listening requires practice. Doing that may require using simple listening techniques. While soulful listening is a useful skill, the ultimate goal with the posture of undistracted listening is to cultivate compassion and love for others.


 

By: Denise Sultenfuss · In: Motherhood, Soulful Hospitality

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  1. Shannon Burke says

    January 31, 2020 at 9:05 pm

    Great article Denise! How easy it is to allow distractions to ebb away our true connections! The skill of soulful listening is paramount for loving our neighbors in this age. Of course my favorite part is the memory of us on the swings. This is one of many instances of your blurting out unabashedly and with all innocence just what you were curious to know! It always took me by surprise. It makes me smile right now. Thanks for the good word.
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    • Denise Sultenfuss says

      February 2, 2020 at 5:04 pm

      Hey there! Thanks for the walk down memory lane! I am in constant need of a reminder to lean into the moment so that I can create a memory.
      Reply
  2. Jana says

    February 4, 2020 at 5:59 pm

    Great tips, Denise! The hardest one for me is not thinking about what I want to say next. My mind is over-active at the best of times, but in conversation with friends, I think up more questions to ask and ways I could possibly respond in encouragement. But in doing all that thinking, I know I'm not listening well. Thanks for the timely reminder as I sit here waiting to go for coffee with a friend!
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    • Denise Sultenfuss says

      February 5, 2020 at 3:17 pm

      Hey Jana, you know what, that is one my challenges too. Well, here's to lot's of practice!
      Reply
  3. Traci says

    February 5, 2020 at 11:43 am

    An excellent list! Good listening takes practice. It's worth it because I know how good it feels to be heard. Thanks for these reminders.
    Reply
    • Denise Sultenfuss says

      February 5, 2020 at 3:16 pm

      Thank you Traci for stopping by with your thoughts. Have a great Day! Here's to soulful listening!
      Reply
  4. Rebecca Jones says

    February 5, 2020 at 4:30 pm

    Great post. people never look from their phones do they. This reply is coming from my goold old desk top, I can get up and walk away. People do need to listen, God is all about words.
    Reply
  5. christa Sterken says

    February 5, 2020 at 5:40 pm

    Such a great post Denise. When I began intentionally listening many years ago, it was a hard practice to develop. But oh, such a worthwhile one for us all to cultivate! The powerful exchanges we have with people are so often because we just stop to truly listen.
    Reply
  6. Christa says

    February 6, 2020 at 7:32 am

    Listening well is such a gift to people around you. Feeling seen and heard can transform a person's view of themselves. Thanks for the tips!
    Reply
    • Denise Sultenfuss says

      February 6, 2020 at 11:41 am

      Sure Christa, it's always nice when my words resonate and help others.
      Reply

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Broccoli Rabe Drizzle
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The second battle lies within the healthcare system. 

They typically prescribe rather than heal. 

They satisfy a craving rather than nourish your body.

It’s really how they’ve been educated so to blame them is futile.

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You may have the best intentions to get healthier, but your efforts continue to stall then fail.

What we have to reconcile is that our lifestyle habits and choices eventually impact the people we love and cherish.❤️

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To manage your chronic disease and make sustainable healthy lifestyle changes, you realize that you need help.

Here are core elements to lifestyle change that will restore your health:

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Achieve change that lasts! 

What is getting in your way and preventing you from making essential lifestyle changes?

#healthylifestyle #habitchange #habitchangecoach #healthcoach #healthyeating #healthandwellness #healthjourney #christianhealthcoach #chronicdiseases #chronicillnessawareness #chronicfatiguesyndrome #lyme #lymewarrior #lymetreatment
You are not alone in your suffering. My story is y You are not alone in your suffering. My story is your story too.

Different disease, differ health crisis but the same story:

I combat a ____________ that confounds the medical community so there exists very few resources to restore my health or change my habits.

That was me in 2008 with chronic Lyme disease and co-infections.

I needed to make essential changes in my health-wellness so that I could restore my health.

Your answer isn’t in diets, food fads, shakes, health gurus, or health apps.

Your answer is in lifestyle change. 

Health-wellness coaching offers ways to make lifestyle change.

Enroll in HWC to begin your new journey.

#healthcoaching #healthcoach #healthylifestyle #healthyfood #healthyrecipes #habitchange #habits #habitchange #chronicillness #chronicfatigue #chronicillnessawareness #lymedisease #lymediseaseawareness
A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader c A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader can make.

There’s no need to shell out a hefty some for store-bought granola when you can make it at home.

Most industrially made granola contains unnecessary amounts of refined sugar.

Here’s a tiny reminder that eating plans high in refined carbs and sugar contribute to chronic conditions.

Fancy up your granola with nuts, seeds and unsulfured, minimally sweetened dried fruit.

Store in a glass jar with a lid.

Using sprouted oats adds a layer of health to the grain. It also boosts gut health. 

For full recipe:

https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/easy-healthy-granola-recipe-in-20-minutes-or-less/

#healthyrecipes #healthylifestyle #healthyrecipes #healthcoaching #healthcoach #chronicdisease #chronicillness #granola #granolagirl #granolabowl 
#lymedisease #nosugarrecipes
I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier then making a lifestyle change.

In the end though, lifestyle change is the wisest, sustainable choice.

Healthcare providers have 15 minutes to diagnose and offer a solution, which too often includes a pill.

I am certain they would love to have the time to work 1:1 with patients in crafting a health-wellness blueprint for lifestyle change.

That’s not the reality of our current healthcare system.

Most of the time my clients with chronic disease have to make essential changes with their eating life. 

Soon though, they begin to see the value of making that change.

What was broken in the body begins to fix itself.

Your first step in restoring your health is to manage your eating life.

I can help you reform problematic eating habits with techniques that are sustainable.

Enroll in my coaching program to address chronic disease by making lifestyle changes.

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Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms, and goals: 

✔️ write goals, habits, and rhythms in the form of a SMART goal

✔️ Find accountability (coach/friend/spouse)

✔️ Circumvent potential obstacles that could or try to get in your way

✔️ Use a habit tracker, journal, app, to help you manage your progress

Create goals, habits, and rhythms in any of these areas of health-wellness:

1. Nutrition
2. Sleep/rest
3. Stress
4. Exercise
5. Family
6. Physical environment/organization
7. Social/friends/support
8. Faith
9. Personal development
10. Finances

What goals, rhythms, and habits do you want to achieve this month?

#goals #newgoals💪 #habits #newhabits #healthcoach #healthcoaching #healthcoachtips #christianhealthcoach #rhythms #chronicdiseaseprevention #stressmanagement #sleephealth #exercise
Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads t Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads to restoring your health.

Without the result of behavior change, you are wasting your time and money.

Lifestyle changes can reverse chronic disease. But, first, you need to be ready for change.

Lifestyle change will prevent disease, combat disease, restore, and promote your health.

Put away the gimmicks for quick fixes. 

Instead focus on change that lasts.

Sign up for one of my health coaching programs now and be ready to start in January. Limited enrollment available. 

1. Heath-Wellnss Coaching

2. Quit Sugar Coaching Program

#healthcoaching
#habitchange
#sustainablechange
#chronicdisease
#chronicillness
#newhabits
#healthhabits
#behavior change
#weightloss
#foodheals
#2023habits
#restoreyourhealth
#healthcoachforwomen
#healthylifestyle
In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new year.

Before 2023 arrives, take some time to reflect about your relationship with food.

All of my clients, at some point in coaching, evaluate their relationship with food. 

It's a fundamental starting point in building a healthy lifestyle.

We evaluate with honesty, self-kindness, empathy,  and non-judgment.

Where do you need help with making better food choices?

#foodchoices
#healthyliving
#eatinglife
#healthyeating
#foodtriggers
#chronicillness 
#food
#healthcoach
#emotional eating
#balancedeating
#New Year's
#healthgoals
Negative health habits slow your recovery from chr Negative health habits slow your recovery from chronic disease or a health crisis.

Have you contemplated about changing that problematic health habit once and for all?

🚬 smoking

🥞🍛 overeating/emotional eating

🍬🍭🥤 sugar

😩 stress

📆 Over scheduling 

📂🗃 Adult ADHD/Organization

If you struggle with a problematic health habit I didn't mention, DM me with your specific concerns. 

If you continue to ignore the negative habit, it will only deepen. 

Decide to change the problematic habit with the help of health-wellness coaching, then you can really begin to make strides in your health.

 Enroll now for January 2023 coaching. 

#januaryhealthkick
#goals 
#januarygoals 
#chronicillness 
#lymeliterate 
#healthhabits 
#lifestylechange 
#habitchangecoach 
#healthcoaches 
#healthwellnesscoach 
#christianhealthcoach 
#addiction 
#overeating 
#healthylifestyle 
#healthyeating
3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy. 3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy.

Fight chronic disease or injury with herbal remedies, teas, tinctures, raw herbs, or salves because they:

🌿 offer anti-inflammatory properties

🌿 contain anti-oxidants

🌿 provide anti-microbial support

🌿 boost immune system

Parsley, bergamot, and oregano offer amazing benefits. 

When I combated Lyme, I needed to find effective abd economical ways to restore my health. 

 On my journey I discovered that an herbal approach provides an arsenal of weaponry to battle chronic disease, restore, and maintain health.

Find an evidence-based herbal protocol that addresses your chronic disease. Remember,  the goal is to HEAL your body not just eradicate the symptoms. 

Ideally your protocol will accomplish both in adjunct with your spiritual life, eating life, stress management,  sleep hygiene, exercise, detoxification and community support.

If you battle chronic disease, enroll in health-wellness coaching in January. Make 2023 the year you regain your health and live life from a place if wholeness.

#wholeness 
#chronicdisease
#chronicdiseasemanagment
#herbalprotocol
#herbs
#herbaltreatment
#healthcoach
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Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what my favorite part of the protocol is?

INTENTIONAL REST AND SLEEP

5 days before Christmas and I am combating fever, body & headaches, and crushing fatigue. 

Early Wednesday morning, I felt the aches descend and dominate my body. The fever showed up with a vengeance. It's the crushing fatigue that weighs my body down that forces me to acquiesce and SLEEP.

We had to postpone a party with dear friends, cancel  Christmas dinner, and just let go of the minute details that typically keep me buzzing around.

I am being kind to my body and letting it heal on its own terms. Not mine.

This is a new practice for me. Ever since Lyme ravaged my body, I learned to be kinder to my body and not hurry healing.

Here's my protocol that helps restore my body back to wellness:

🥱 Rest and sleep

🌿 Homeopathic flu remedy, Genexa ibuprofen ( I take only if necessary. I rarely take ibuprofen but if the headache teeters on migraine level...I am slowing two of these gf, dye-free, titanium dioxide-free, paraben-free and more)

🥤Dairy-free/sugar-free anti-inflammatory smoothie with frozen pineapple for added bromelain.

Smoothie Recipe Book:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/healthy-smoothie-recipe-book

🍵 Herbal tea (select one that addresses symptoms or builds immunity)

🍲 Bone Broth (high quality if store bought)

Recipe on my blog:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/savory-chicken-bone-broth/

💧🥥 Coconut water

It's been rainy and cozy these past few days. As I convalesce,  I love listening to the conversations of my family. 

Was this possible the most inconvenient time of year to land in bed or on the couch for 5 days? Indeed!

But it's been a time of slowing down.

#flu
#healing
#Lyme
#healthcoach
#fluprotocol
#holisticprotocol
#integrativemedicine
#selfcompassion
#christianhealthcoach
#dairyfree
#smoothies
#healthysmoothies
#bonebroth
#Antiinflammatoryeating
Real change takes time. So how much time? It depe Real change takes time. So how much time?

It depends on your readiness for change and the changes you want/need to make.

The amount of time it takes to see results looks differently for everyone. I took me 1 year to restore my health from Lyme yet it may take others a lot longer or even less time.

Always the essential first step is to examine your relationship with food. 

Are you an emotional/ stress eater? Are stuck in negative food habits?

Getting those habits under control will propel you in forward momentum toward a healthier YOU.

Our bodies are inextricably connected: mind/body/spiritual, as God intended. If one area weakens it has an effect on the other two.

And you are you. And that's something to celebrate not compare.

#healthylife
#chronicdisease
#lymedisease
#healthyhabits
#habitchange 
#foodheals
#healthcoach
#integrativehealthcoach
#holisticliving
#chronicillness 
#addiction
#christianhealthcoach
#goals
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Why we are afraid of that first step… The fear Why we are afraid of that first step…

The fear of falling or failing.

Social media makes it easy well paralyzed us from making changes.

If you just hang out in the social media periphery as a perpetual follower of health-wellness accounts just watching and never changing your lifestyle, then you are scrolling.

Anytime we take a bold step or make an inaugural voyage fear looms large.

We watch our babies take their first step, knowing that they will tumble.

With a mixture of joy and trepidation, we witness our teens and young adults taking maiden voyages or etching out a journey.

It’s taking that first step and moving past the “what if I fall , fail, or relapse?”

So we continue perpetuating our problematic health habits until we face a health crisis.

Everyone falls, fails, and relapses. It is part of figuring it out. It’s okay. No one gets it down right away. Mastery takes time and requires change.

Rather than avoid change, invest in change. 

We willingly take risks and invest in our financial life and so many other areas of our lives, but we tend to skip over our health.

What holds you back from taking your first step?❤️
Don’t declare a cheat day, Especially if you ar Don’t declare a cheat day,

Especially if you are combating a health crisis!

Instead decide to exchange the celebratory foods that, in truth, don’t support your health or your health goals for foods that nourish your body and are festive as well.

If you declared a cheat day for every holiday, you could cheat multiple times per month per year.

Think about it. The word “cheating” implies something forbidden or sinister.

Why is it okay for us to “cheat” with food yet in other areas of our lives cheating would be prohibited?

The foods you eat should never be considered part of a sinister or underhanded behavior or choice.

After all, a generous God created perfect foods that nurture and nourish your body.

So why the need to “cheat?”

Especially if your health depends on maintaining and managing a specific eating life.

Download my free Valentine’s Day Recipe Collection and never worry about “cheating” on Valentine’s Day.

#healthcoach #healthcoaching #christianhealthcoach #healthcrisis #chronicdisease #chronicallyill #holisticliving #holisticlifestyle #healthylifestyle #healthchouces #healthyhabits #healthandwellness #valentinesday #healthyrecipes #healthyvalentinesday #foodheals
You can keep using these reasons NOT to change you You can keep using these reasons NOT to change your negative health habits, but

your God-designed body deserves better.  If you continue with making excuses for not taking care of your body then chronic disease will continue to challenge and deteriorate your health {tough ❤️}.

Your body will continue to break down unless you do something to change.

So it’s up to you to change your lifestyle, which you are totally capable of doing even if it takes some coaching.

Finding out why you are reluctant or afraid to change will help you with your next step.

These questions will help you look inward:

What will happen if you don’t make changes?

Who will your poor health affect?

Do you have the confidence to change your lifestyle?

Does your health prevent you from engaging in activities?

What is holding you back from changing?

Share you reflections in the comments😌

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3 ways to become the expert of your body and manag 3 ways to become the expert of your body and manage your health!

You can’t rely on your doctor/PA/NP or practitioner to manage your health.

The first step is to maintain a log of every supplement/vitamin or pharmaceutical you take. Record dosage, conditions (with or without food) and suggested time you take them. 

The second step, keep a symptom log. Write down any physical or emotional symptom that you experience, how often it occurs (acute or chronic), and pain/ discomfort level (0-10 scale).

Finally, as often as possible, keep a health journal to record moods, sleep, food, stress, goals, exercise, etc. 

Doing this helps you do the detective work by determining whether maybe mood is affected by hormones, lack of sleep, or weather, headaches are because of dehydration or sleep deprivation, etc.

To get these resources, you can enroll in 1:1 coaching  and we can work together to make the changes you need in your health and wellness.
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If you have a chronic disease you can’t eliminat If you have a chronic disease you can’t eliminate your participation and responsibility in making  lifestyle changes.

No one volunteers for chronic disease or a health crisis 🙋‍♀️🙋

I didn’t excitedly wait in line to be bit by a tick and contract a horrific disease.🤒😷

When I received my diagnosis of chronic Lyme, I had two choices:
1. Make significant lifestyle changes that would restore my health
2. Watch my health drastically decline

So I changed my eating life (like crazy), rested, followed a carefully crafted supplement protocol, and detoxed (something I never did prior to my diagnosis).

Facing a health crisis means that you will need to ask lots of questions, advocate for yourself, and do research.

If you have been diagnosed with high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, anxiety, Hashimoto’s, or any other chronic disease, chances are that lifestyle changes are inevitable.

Do you need to alter or consider your :
➡️ eating life
➡️stress
➡️ sleep routine
➡️ protocol
➡️ body therapies (massage, chiropractic, acupuncture)

Or other areas of your health and wellness?

Take the time evaluate your health to decide on your next step.
#healthcoach #healthylifestyle #habits #chronicillness #chronicdiseases #chronicdisease #lyme #lymecoinfections #lymediseaseawareness #stressmanagement #sleephealth #exercise #bodytherapy
You have a responsibility to manage your chronic d You have a responsibility to manage your chronic disease or health with lifestyle changes.

Western medicine  enables you by handing out prescriptions rather than insisting on lifestyle changes.

Regardless of which chronic disease you manifest, you are responsible for making essential behavioral changes:

➡️ The food you eat/food habits/food choices

➡️ The exercise you do or not do

➡️ How you manage stress or ignore stress 

➡️ How much sleep you get or not get

➡️ Who you get to support you

➡️ The time you devote to your spiritual life

➡️ How you manage your supplement protocol or believe that supplements erase and compensate for poor food choices.

➡️ How you manage gut health 

Your daily choices, habits, and practices affect your physical, mental, and spiritual outcome.

Just like any other disease, you can readily participate in your recovery or demise,

To get help. DM me for a free 1:1 consultation.

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Don’t make the mistake of ignoring stress. It h Don’t make the mistake of ignoring stress.

It has a way of sneaking in and creating a staycation in our bodies.

Then we begin to grow accustomed to its presence.

And treat it like it’s a normal part of our life.

In time, stress silently erodes your health.

If you are combating chronic, stress management is an essential part of your healing protocol.

Stress affects sleep, causes chronic pain, increases blood pressure, causes gastrointestinal difficulties, evokes depression, other body systems.

Learn to cultivate stress management practices and chalk the chaos.
##stressmanagement #stressrelief ##chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicfatigue #chronicfatiguesyndrome #lymedisease #lyme #lymewarrior #lymediseaseawareness #lymewarrior #babesia #rmsp #stressreliever #healthcoach #healthcoaching #healthcoaches
You are going to want to make this! Avoid salad m You are going to want to make this!

Avoid salad monotony by adding various veggies to your bowl. Broccoli Rabe offers a spicy flavor and unique texture to your salad, plus nutrients.

Salad greens with roasted broccoli rabe with tahini dressing:

Broccoli Rabe Drizzle
3 Tablespoons of olive oil
1 pound of rabe
1 garlic clove 
Sea salt to taste
1/2 of a lemon

Prep Rabe:
Trim ends and discard 1 inch of stalk
Wash and dry rabe
Cut leaves and florets from the top keeping tops whole and separate them from stems
Transfer to parchment lined baking sheet
Brush or drizzle olive oil mixture on rabe
Broil on low til tender (5 minutes but keep check leaves every few minutes. You don’t want them charred)
Remove from over. Let cool.
————————————————————————————
Tahini Dressing

2 minced garlic cloves
Sea salt to taste
1/2 cup tahini
4 teaspoons of coconut amino 
2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar
1 tsp honey
1/3 cup of room temp water
2 tablespoons of chopped fresh parsley

Combine all ingredients in a food processor and pulse until thoroughly combined.

Assemble salad:
4 cups of mixed greens
Add rabe onto greens
Drizzle dressing

Optional add-ins:
Roasted butternut squash
Pomegranate seeds

Enhance your salad life with in-season fruits and veggies.
##healthyrecipes #healthyfood #healthydinner #saladrecipe #salad #antiinflammatorydiet #guthealth #guthealing #guthealthmatters #foodheals #broccolirabe #tahinidressing #nourishingfood #healthcoach #healthcoaching #lymewarrior #lymedisease #chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicillnesslife
You are fighting two battles. The first battle i You are fighting two battles.
 
The first battle is with yourself.

And how to conquer the problematic health habit demons that haunt you.

The second battle lies within the healthcare system. 

They typically prescribe rather than heal. 

They satisfy a craving rather than nourish your body.

It’s really how they’ve been educated so to blame them is futile.

Instead of blaming, let’s deconstruct and then rebuild.

Start rebuilding with real food and natural ways to heal the body (avoiding copious amounts of prescribed medications etc.)

Instead, try lifestyle changes which no lie…are much, much, much more difficult than swallowing a 💊 for the next four decades (plus the side effects from long-term pharmaceuticals).

But the benefits of lifestyle changes are mind blowing!

Lifestyle changes are far reaching. They benefit your mind/body/spirit ✝️

Here are 3 simple ways to take your first step toward lifestyle change:

🛒 start with your eating life (download my FREE anti-inflammatory eating plan)

👩‍⚕️work with a health coach to create a health-wellness plan that meets your needs (schedule a FREE consultation)

👯‍♀️ find friends or a community that encourages and supports your lifestyle change (sign up for my community newsletter)

Pick one and start today!

All the best,
Denise

#healthylifestyle #health #healthyeating #healthcoaches #healthyeating #chronicillness #chronicpain #chronicillnesswarrior #chroniclyme #lymedisease #lymelife #holistichealth #holistichealing #holisticlifestyle #holisticnutrition #healthyeatinghabits #habit
Lifestyle change isn’t easy. Chronic diseases ar Lifestyle change isn’t easy. Chronic diseases are responsible for 7 out of 10 deaths in the United States each year.

You may have the best intentions to get healthier, but your efforts continue to stall then fail.

What we have to reconcile is that our lifestyle habits and choices eventually impact the people we love and cherish.❤️

The reality: it’s not about eating and living the way that pleases YOU.

To manage your chronic disease and make sustainable healthy lifestyle changes, you realize that you need help.

Here are core elements to lifestyle change that will restore your health:

1. Realistic Health-Wellness Goals
2. Understand what triggers your behavior, habits, and choices
3. Determine your options and build a protocol
4. Create an action plan
5. Determine how you will maintain your healthy lifestyle

Achieve change that lasts! 

What is getting in your way and preventing you from making essential lifestyle changes?

#healthylifestyle #habitchange #habitchangecoach #healthcoach #healthyeating #healthandwellness #healthjourney #christianhealthcoach #chronicdiseases #chronicillnessawareness #chronicfatiguesyndrome #lyme #lymewarrior #lymetreatment
You are not alone in your suffering. My story is y You are not alone in your suffering. My story is your story too.

Different disease, differ health crisis but the same story:

I combat a ____________ that confounds the medical community so there exists very few resources to restore my health or change my habits.

That was me in 2008 with chronic Lyme disease and co-infections.

I needed to make essential changes in my health-wellness so that I could restore my health.

Your answer isn’t in diets, food fads, shakes, health gurus, or health apps.

Your answer is in lifestyle change. 

Health-wellness coaching offers ways to make lifestyle change.

Enroll in HWC to begin your new journey.

#healthcoaching #healthcoach #healthylifestyle #healthyfood #healthyrecipes #habitchange #habits #habitchange #chronicillness #chronicfatigue #chronicillnessawareness #lymedisease #lymediseaseawareness
A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader c A simple, clean granola recipe that a 3rd grader can make.

There’s no need to shell out a hefty some for store-bought granola when you can make it at home.

Most industrially made granola contains unnecessary amounts of refined sugar.

Here’s a tiny reminder that eating plans high in refined carbs and sugar contribute to chronic conditions.

Fancy up your granola with nuts, seeds and unsulfured, minimally sweetened dried fruit.

Store in a glass jar with a lid.

Using sprouted oats adds a layer of health to the grain. It also boosts gut health. 

For full recipe:

https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/easy-healthy-granola-recipe-in-20-minutes-or-less/

#healthyrecipes #healthylifestyle #healthyrecipes #healthcoaching #healthcoach #chronicdisease #chronicillness #granola #granolagirl #granolabowl 
#lymedisease #nosugarrecipes
I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier I get it. On the outset, a quick fix seems easier then making a lifestyle change.

In the end though, lifestyle change is the wisest, sustainable choice.

Healthcare providers have 15 minutes to diagnose and offer a solution, which too often includes a pill.

I am certain they would love to have the time to work 1:1 with patients in crafting a health-wellness blueprint for lifestyle change.

That’s not the reality of our current healthcare system.

Most of the time my clients with chronic disease have to make essential changes with their eating life. 

Soon though, they begin to see the value of making that change.

What was broken in the body begins to fix itself.

Your first step in restoring your health is to manage your eating life.

I can help you reform problematic eating habits with techniques that are sustainable.

Enroll in my coaching program to address chronic disease by making lifestyle changes.

#healthcoach #healthylifestyle #healthyliving #chronicillness #chronicillnessawareness #womenshealth #lymedisease #lymeawareness #lymelife #eatingdisorderawareness #eatinghealthy #eatingclean #habits #newhabitsnewresults #healthylifestyle
Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms Here’s how to effectively create habits, rhythms, and goals: 

✔️ write goals, habits, and rhythms in the form of a SMART goal

✔️ Find accountability (coach/friend/spouse)

✔️ Circumvent potential obstacles that could or try to get in your way

✔️ Use a habit tracker, journal, app, to help you manage your progress

Create goals, habits, and rhythms in any of these areas of health-wellness:

1. Nutrition
2. Sleep/rest
3. Stress
4. Exercise
5. Family
6. Physical environment/organization
7. Social/friends/support
8. Faith
9. Personal development
10. Finances

What goals, rhythms, and habits do you want to achieve this month?

#goals #newgoals💪 #habits #newhabits #healthcoach #healthcoaching #healthcoachtips #christianhealthcoach #rhythms #chronicdiseaseprevention #stressmanagement #sleephealth #exercise
Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads t Invest in sustainable behavior change that leads to restoring your health.

Without the result of behavior change, you are wasting your time and money.

Lifestyle changes can reverse chronic disease. But, first, you need to be ready for change.

Lifestyle change will prevent disease, combat disease, restore, and promote your health.

Put away the gimmicks for quick fixes. 

Instead focus on change that lasts.

Sign up for one of my health coaching programs now and be ready to start in January. Limited enrollment available. 

1. Heath-Wellnss Coaching

2. Quit Sugar Coaching Program

#healthcoaching
#habitchange
#sustainablechange
#chronicdisease
#chronicillness
#newhabits
#healthhabits
#behavior change
#weightloss
#foodheals
#2023habits
#restoreyourhealth
#healthcoachforwomen
#healthylifestyle
In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new In a few days, the ball will drop announcing a new year.

Before 2023 arrives, take some time to reflect about your relationship with food.

All of my clients, at some point in coaching, evaluate their relationship with food. 

It's a fundamental starting point in building a healthy lifestyle.

We evaluate with honesty, self-kindness, empathy,  and non-judgment.

Where do you need help with making better food choices?

#foodchoices
#healthyliving
#eatinglife
#healthyeating
#foodtriggers
#chronicillness 
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Negative health habits slow your recovery from chr Negative health habits slow your recovery from chronic disease or a health crisis.

Have you contemplated about changing that problematic health habit once and for all?

🚬 smoking

🥞🍛 overeating/emotional eating

🍬🍭🥤 sugar

😩 stress

📆 Over scheduling 

📂🗃 Adult ADHD/Organization

If you struggle with a problematic health habit I didn't mention, DM me with your specific concerns. 

If you continue to ignore the negative habit, it will only deepen. 

Decide to change the problematic habit with the help of health-wellness coaching, then you can really begin to make strides in your health.

 Enroll now for January 2023 coaching. 

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3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy. 3 Herbs 🌿 that help you get and stay healthy.

Fight chronic disease or injury with herbal remedies, teas, tinctures, raw herbs, or salves because they:

🌿 offer anti-inflammatory properties

🌿 contain anti-oxidants

🌿 provide anti-microbial support

🌿 boost immune system

Parsley, bergamot, and oregano offer amazing benefits. 

When I combated Lyme, I needed to find effective abd economical ways to restore my health. 

 On my journey I discovered that an herbal approach provides an arsenal of weaponry to battle chronic disease, restore, and maintain health.

Find an evidence-based herbal protocol that addresses your chronic disease. Remember,  the goal is to HEAL your body not just eradicate the symptoms. 

Ideally your protocol will accomplish both in adjunct with your spiritual life, eating life, stress management,  sleep hygiene, exercise, detoxification and community support.

If you battle chronic disease, enroll in health-wellness coaching in January. Make 2023 the year you regain your health and live life from a place if wholeness.

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Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what Here's my go-to flu-virus protocol. You know what my favorite part of the protocol is?

INTENTIONAL REST AND SLEEP

5 days before Christmas and I am combating fever, body & headaches, and crushing fatigue. 

Early Wednesday morning, I felt the aches descend and dominate my body. The fever showed up with a vengeance. It's the crushing fatigue that weighs my body down that forces me to acquiesce and SLEEP.

We had to postpone a party with dear friends, cancel  Christmas dinner, and just let go of the minute details that typically keep me buzzing around.

I am being kind to my body and letting it heal on its own terms. Not mine.

This is a new practice for me. Ever since Lyme ravaged my body, I learned to be kinder to my body and not hurry healing.

Here's my protocol that helps restore my body back to wellness:

🥱 Rest and sleep

🌿 Homeopathic flu remedy, Genexa ibuprofen ( I take only if necessary. I rarely take ibuprofen but if the headache teeters on migraine level...I am slowing two of these gf, dye-free, titanium dioxide-free, paraben-free and more)

🥤Dairy-free/sugar-free anti-inflammatory smoothie with frozen pineapple for added bromelain.

Smoothie Recipe Book:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/healthy-smoothie-recipe-book

🍵 Herbal tea (select one that addresses symptoms or builds immunity)

🍲 Bone Broth (high quality if store bought)

Recipe on my blog:
https://www.denisesultenfuss.com/recipes/savory-chicken-bone-broth/

💧🥥 Coconut water

It's been rainy and cozy these past few days. As I convalesce,  I love listening to the conversations of my family. 

Was this possible the most inconvenient time of year to land in bed or on the couch for 5 days? Indeed!

But it's been a time of slowing down.

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Real change takes time. So how much time? It depe Real change takes time. So how much time?

It depends on your readiness for change and the changes you want/need to make.

The amount of time it takes to see results looks differently for everyone. I took me 1 year to restore my health from Lyme yet it may take others a lot longer or even less time.

Always the essential first step is to examine your relationship with food. 

Are you an emotional/ stress eater? Are stuck in negative food habits?

Getting those habits under control will propel you in forward momentum toward a healthier YOU.

Our bodies are inextricably connected: mind/body/spiritual, as God intended. If one area weakens it has an effect on the other two.

And you are you. And that's something to celebrate not compare.

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