My April Health Coach Calendar

March 30, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

If you want to work with a LPN, with 32 years of experience, to help you meet your health goals, view the calendar below, and then use the contact form to email me for a free meet and greet. LPN’s are particularly great as Health Coaches because we are already trained to do so. We […]

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Welcome to another Healthy tip on Tuesday! Today, my healthy tip, especially if you are doing a food pantry challenge, is to do an inventory of your pantry. We seriously have way more food than I even thought we did. We did a complete inventory yesterday. I am almost embarrassed to say, but I have [...]

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So, if you read my post yesterday then you know I have two challenges for the whole year in 2022. The budget challenge is to save extra money, and you know what my phone died last night and I had to get a new one. So, isn’t that interesting! Anyway, I will try to post [...]

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A New Food Budget Challenge And Pantry Cooking With CKD January 10, 2022

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Kidney Class: Introduction January 5, 2022

Hello, and Happy Humpday. Below you will see an image which is the first slide in the AKF Kidney Class presentation. If I was doing this in person with you, this is the very first slide you would see. I will upload a new slide every Wednesday. Each slide will have an explanation, plus links [...]

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