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BALANCE your Digestion & MICROBIOME

so you can get your life back!

 
 
 

YOU DESERVE VIBRANT HEALTH

I'M COMMITTED TO HELPING YOU GET THERE

Let's fix your IBS, SIBO, brain fog and/or pain and the downstream consequences

of dysfunctional digestion. Together, we’ll use personalized nutrition, the latest in

lab testing & lifestyle to end your suffering.

Ready to learn more?

 
 

Are you ready to end your struggle with pain and feelings of hopelessness?

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Are you struggling with abdominal pain, heartburn, bloating, gas, constipation and/or diarrhea? Are chronic pain, low energy, weight gain, low libido, brain fog and/or auto immune diseases plaguing you?

Have conflicting medical and nutritional advice led to confusion, overwhelm, and further questions?   

Has conventional health care left you nowhere to turn? Have you been told your labs are “normal”, yet you still feel like crap?

While DR. GOOGLE is convenient, you’re a unique individual and you deserve customized attention.

Leverage my decade of nutritional expertise, blood chemistry analysis & streamlined innovative, practical information through a personalized, natural & sustainable approach.   

BENEFITS OF MY NATURAL, WHOLE PERSON APPROACH

You’ll:

  1. Be heard.  Your story and perspective on life are vital to our partnership.

  2. Learn your body’s innate design, function and need for balance.  (You mean pooping once every three days is NOT ok?)

  3. Understand what your body and biome are trying to tell you when you can’t sleep, think straight and have zero energy & endless pain.   

  4. Connect the dots between the foods you eat, the thoughts you ingest & how you look & feel (Does that gluten/dairy/sugar really make me a crazy person?).  

  5. Get the tools, strategies & support to enable your body to work for you.

You so deserve this opportunity to step up in life, in health!  Let’s begin an amazing collaboration and end your suffering!


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MEET CYNTHIA

functional lifestyle & Nutrition

 

The Gut Coach - Cynthia Farris

A NATURE BASED NUTRITION practioner

I’m a Seattle girl, born & raised.  Rain is in my blood; evergreen forests, in my soul.   

A lover of all dogs (a key component to my health strategy), microorganisms (think of the human body as a superorganism) & nature (consider the body as an ecosystem).  I look to each for inspiration & guidance on healing, harmony & vitality.  

Food as Medicine.  Food as Toxins.  

I grew up in the kitchen.  Food was family, love, joy.

It took me fifty years to realize the impact specific foods could have on the body if it’s out of balance.  (Tip: it doesn’t have to take you 50 years, connect with me now….)

I know what it’s like to struggle because I spent half a century fighting my body’s wisdom with the wrong foods, medications, lifestyle and disease management techniques that exacerbated my health.   

I had no clue that certain foods could be toxic in my body when it was out of balance & I undervalued foods healing potential.  

The Bright Side of Health

Finally, my body gave out.  

Desperately seeking answers, the study of functional nutrition & the pivotal role of our forgotten organ, the microbiome, gave me the path and knowledge I needed to heal myself.  

Understanding the body’s innate ability to heal & recognizing the signs my body was screaming to me (brain fog, recurrent infections, stomach pain, surgeries, auto-immunity, mood swings, debilitating pain), allowed me to unpack years of misunderstanding, dysfunction & unintentional neglect.

An appreciation for the digestive system – our most intimate connection to the outside world, was what saved me & enabled me to turn my life & health around.

Now, I help people like you accelerate their healing with less pain, frustration & wasted time, money & damage.

Our Challenges Are Our Greatest Gifts

  • Graduate level studies in the art & science of functional nutrition trained me to not only heal myself, but to share the gifts of my hard won wisdom with others unable to thrive.

  • Advanced training in transformational coaching methodologies allows me to support my clients in nurturing and leveraging the mind-body connection.  

  • A life-long commitment to self-mastery, I’m constantly studying, growing, and honing my skills as a human and as coach nutritionist.

BIO

Cynthia Farris is a board certified integrative health coach, functional nutrition & lifestyle practitioner, and biome hipster inspiring individuals to achieve their unique health goals.  As an integral member of her client’s health team, she provides functional expertise and support through coaching around self-awareness, food, lifestyle, genetics, and environment.  Her unique transformational coaching approach helps individuals identify what holds them back from achieving their desired goals.  

She is a popular speaker on the art of fermentation sharing the critical link between the gut microbiome and health, both human and canine.  

Cynthia is a Coach Consultant with Climate & Culture Connection, an education consulting firm providing personal leadership development and consulting services in the public school system to teachers and students.

Your Next Step

If you’re seeking greater abundance, a clearer mind, digestion, energy, through health (and it’s clear you are as you’ve made it his far), let’s end your struggle and take back your life.  I’m here for you.  Schedule a Health Strategy Session with me today. 

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MY APPROACH

A BLEND OF SCIENCE + SOUL

 

What is Functional Nutrition?   

Functional nutrition is about “backing things up”, looking upstream to determine the root cause of symptoms & resulting imbalances.  Your life story is an integral part of the “discovery phase” of this innovative approach.   We take this information & look at you as a whole system, an ecosystem, not independent parts or disconnected systems.  

Together, we’ll develop a roadmap to get you to a new level of health + vitality.   We’ll leverage food, physiology, lifestyle and movement to return you to a state of balance and joy.  

How My Approach Differs from the Conventional

  • IT'S FUNCTIONAL:  we address root cause of your symptoms

  • PERSONALIZED NUTRITION:  one size does not fit all; you are beautifully unique, I honor and address that

  • FOOD AS MEDICINE:  discover how foods work with your unique physiology

  • BIOME:  leverage the bright side of bacteria that comprises 90% of your cells and is pivotal to vitality

  • FAMILY OF ORIGIN AND EPIGENITICS: consider your heritage and take appropriate lifestyle actions given genetic and cultural traits

  • BEHAVIOR CHANGE:  analysis of your habit-making tendencies and personalized approaches to create lasting behavior-change in order to strengthen relationships with self, others and food

  • ACCOUNTABILITY: I support you as expert, problem solver, cheerleader, accountability partner

  • EMPOWERMENT:  giving you the tools + strategies to make choices in relations to your signs, symptoms, + health care

  • EMPATHY + COMMITMENT: As a patient myself, I can relate to the pain + loss, frustration and expense you’ve incurred; you have my personal commitment to your vital success 

My work is very personal. 

Each individual deserves a unique approach, one that supports their values, beliefs, lifestyle, and health status.   Where needed, I partner with practitioners to bring in functional testing to add additional data to the story.  

I too know what it’s like to struggle with my body, my health, and that’s why I’m the perfect practitioner to help you with this journey.