Hi, I’m sabra douris.
Certified Integrative Health Coach
After spending 15 years working for one of the nation’s largest health care organizations, I learned some very important things:
While traditional medical professionals play specific and important roles in contributing to an individual’s overall health, the current healthcare model fails to bring about lasting, healthy lifestyle changes. Why?
TIME. They simply do not have the time to address other factors that prevent people from carrying out their well-intentioned recommendations. The current model is not designed to focus on, let alone support, with the “how” for whole body wellness.
Integrative Health Coaches fill that void.
As a healthcare professional who worked in both clinics and conference rooms, I also watched the most talented, intelligent, successful people lose themselves to the stressful demands and pressures of high demand careers and “everything else” in their day-to-day lives. And this goes far beyond healthcare, it is EVERYWHERE. High achieving professionals striving to be the best but struggling with overwhelm of work and life pressures. People so used to carrying the world on their shoulders that they do not seek the support they are desperately needing.
I wanted to fill that void.
As your Integrative Health Coach, I am your personal advocate for living an energized and passionate life. My integrative approach looks at the whole you - mental, physical, spiritual, emotional, and environmental. I work with people to help them create balanced, healthy lives in a way that is flexible and enjoyable, but most importantly PRACTICAL. Through working together, you will make small and gradual changes that actually fit into your real life, which will enable you to reach your current and future goals. And trust me, as a high achieving individual, it feels really good to have someone in YOUR corner for once.
If you have been wanting to:
improve and enjoy your eating habits
understand your mind and body better
find movement you love that brings you energy
create new habits and behaviors to overcome limiting beliefs
feel confident in choosing and preparing better food for you and your loved ones
experience an increase in overall happiness and satisfaction in your life
understand how to make yourself a priority in a way that is nourishing and makes those around you better (both work and home!)
learn practical strategies that will be successful in your real world, day-to-day life
Schedule a FREE consultation and let’s do this together!
My Approach
It all begins with you. Bio-individuality is the idea that everyone has different needs. Just as we are all unique in mind, body, and spirit – we are also unique in the things that support our individual health and happiness. When it comes to nourishment, lifestyle, and what makes you happy, what works for you won’t necessarily work for your family members, friends, or coworkers. In other words, no one diet or lifestyle works for two people. Health is complex and multidimensional. There are so many variables that it’s impossible for all our needs to be the same. It’s not as simple as maintaining a healthy diet or exercise regimen; it’s understanding that there’s a lot more to it than just making the “right choices.” It’s experimenting to find what the right decisions are for you – the right environment, diet, or workout that helps you thrive right now at this point in your life.
primary food
Primary food refers to what nourishes us off the plate. We call it primary food because wellness goes beyond the food we eat. We know that we all need food to survive, but primary food emphasizes that we’re multidimensional beings. We need more than just food to thrive.
Primary food is powerful because it helps bring awareness to the full picture of health. It reminds us to take a step back when we are feeling imbalanced and look at our health from a big-picture perspective.
We’ve known for a long time that diet, physical activity, and interpersonal relationships have a direct correlation with overall wellness. We’re also starting to recognize the impact that lifestyle factors have on physical, emotional, and mental health.
secondary food
Secondary food is the food that we eat every day – it’s the food on our plate. Secondary food refers to the nourishment we derive from the food we eat and explores the intersection of nutrition and health. Our secondary food choices are driven by many components – some of which may not seem connected to diet at all. This is why if we’re only looking at diet, we’re only seeing a piece of the puzzle. There are many factors that lead us to choose certain foods, including:
• Health
• Lifestyle
• Environment
• Physiology and psychology
• Society, culture, and economy
• Personal belief system, food relationship, and knowledge of food
Nourishment happens on different levels, so when you’re thinking about secondary food, it’s important to go back to your primary food.