We’re bringing you a special edition of our graduate Q&A this week, as we take a look into the life of not one, but two Health Coaches! Jeff and Cindy Berkowitz have been married for 26 years, and both are 2011 graduates of the Health Coach Training Program. They live in Pittsburgh, PA, with their three children.

Cindy was working in a high-pay, high-stress position as a family law paralegal when she took a fall that injured her back and ruined her knee. She underwent total knee replacement surgery, which left her unable to live a normal life, let alone go back to work. That’s when she enrolled at Integrative Nutrition, the start of a major life transformation.

With a background in physics and food chemistry, Jeff was a chef for 25 years before he began suffering from a variety of inflammatory diseases. At age 48, he was on 15 different medications, plus narcotics to treat the pain. He enrolled at Integrative Nutrition hoping to gain a sense of control over his own life. One year later, he is off all medication and 40 pounds lighter! 

Cindy and Jeff graduated together this year and now find themselves leading a completely different, significantly healthier lifestyle. They’ve discovered a new career as Health Coaches in their practice, Intuitive Holistic Health. The couple specializes in autoimmune diseases, inflammatory diseases and endocrine problems, working to help clients take control of their health. In addition to their practice, Cindy and Jeff teach cooking classes, hold corporate workshops and wellness programs, develop healthy recipes for commercial production, and write a food blog. Read more about this dynamic duo below!

Sarah Wilson is an Integrative Nutrition graduate who has been dazzling Australian audiences as former editor of Australian Cosmo, host of Australia’s MasterChef (Season 1) and as face of Lifestyle You. She is a dynamic individual, successfully blending her life as a celebrity, journalist and health coach!

She certainly fits well in the spotlight, and many may be surprised to find out that she grew up on a subsistence-living farm, is passionate about holistic nutrition and cured herself of an auto-immune disorder through food.

Lucky for us, Sarah is taking some time out of her busy schedule to talk with the Integrative Nutrition community in an exclusive webinar this week: Thursday, January 20th at 6pm EST (Friday, January 21st at 10am, Australia EDT). Make sure you register here.

On this exciting webinar, we will be having a heart-to-heart with Sarah all about her passion for healthy living and food. We will be touching on topics such as:

• Sarah's experience growing up on a subsistence-living farm
• How a passion for food has led her on an extraordinary path in health and wellness
• How Integrative Nutrition's program helped her cure herself of an auto-immune disease and how it's
  enabled her to help people all over world with similar ailments
• How Sarah and other Integrative Nutrition graduates are striving to make a difference all over the globe

 A little bit from Sarah… 

 Hi, I’m an Australian journalist and blogger and a very recent Integrative Nutrition graduate. I’ve been asked to share with you why I chose the Integrative Nutrition Health Coach Training Program. The short answer is that I had an illness—an autoimmune disease—that I wanted to understand better. I thought by immersing myself in the program I’d be able to steer myself on a path to wellness and then help others feeling as isolated and lost as I was. Twelve months later and I can tell you that my immersion was very successful!

Along the way I noticed that a lot of Integrative Nutrition students were suffering from an autoimmune disease and were after a platform to share information. I also noticed that many of my readers with the illness wanted to learn more about holistic ways of eating and healing.

To this end, I thought I’d share with you some of my thoughts on autoimmune disease. A lot of my reflective thoughts were inspired by, or are aligned with the principles taught in the Integrative Nutrition program – bioindividuality, crowding out, etc. Please join the discussion at my blog if you want to learn more. Or join my webinar with Integrative Nutrition here.

Be Well,

    Sarah Wilson

…Find out more and read Sarah’s full blog post here. 

Register for this webinar with Sarah Wilson early before spots fill up! It’s bound to be a great.