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If you haven't already noticed by now, my name is Sara and I am a registered dietitian. I consider myself a holistic dietitian because I take the most natural approaches to the way my clients eat and live! With my practice, I help women in their 20's, 30's and 40's treat the root cause to gut issues, hormone imbalances, and metabolic (thyroid) disorders so they can walk through life with more energy zeal, motivation, and confidence I do this by offering a multitude of services where clients can learn to implement approaches that actually work because they are aligned with our human physiology - or better named: our biological design. 

Over the past few years in my business, I have been able to help countless women regain their self-esteem and joy for life by walking with them step by step through the journey

 
 

MY PHILOSOPHY

live by your BIOLOGICAL design

Holistic REGISTERED DIETITIAN. bio-hacking junkie. recovering HYPOCHONDRIAC

 

A little bit of my background here. I have been a registered dietitian for over five years now. Before that, I worked as a personal fitness trainer while earning my degree and also trained on the side -- which is actually what started Sara Childers Nutrition! With my background in fitness and my first job being in a clinical hospital and outpatient setting, I knew that I wanted to eventually break out of traditional medicine and get into functional health so that I could recommend solutions that I felt good about and also tie in my love for fitness and lifestyle. While I no longer consider myself a fitness trainer, many of my consultations and programs have bits and pieces of fitness advice sprinkled throughout. 

 

As mentioned before, my first career was being a dietitian at a small hospital where I covered inpatient care of all kinds as well as outpatient bariatric surgery counseling, oncology, cardiac rehab recovery, and pulmonary rehabilitation. If you have been in the medical field at any point, you know that is a lot. That time was extremely valuable to me because it taught me so many things about the traditional medical system and states of disease. But I wanted more!

Between this time and building my business, I spent some amount of time working with Mississippi State University's office of Nutrition Education designing child and family health programs in impoverished areas of the state. This really revealed to me my love for teaching, especially teaching things that are tangible and applicable. Which is hope is reflected in my programs with my practice! Scroll down to read more about my personal health story of being a recovering hypochondriac. 

TRUST ME

I'VE BEEN IN
your shoes

If you would ask my friends, they would say -- "recovering? recovering hypochondriac?! Girl, please!" They may be right. I am always looking into health, obsessing over it, and learning new things about the body that I can not only add to my practice, but also add to my own life. 

If I am being honest, my story is not like most. I have always been obsessed with health but what has gotten me off track with my own body is that I was equally fixated on being in a "GO, GO, GO" mindset for so long. Not sure what I mean? Let's see if you relate-- I have always been a chronic dieter and workout enthusiast. In college, I would overtrain and under-eat (sorry if this is triggering for those with an eating disorder, I've been there). I had to be in every club, go to every bible study, travel on the weekends back home to see family, and also study -- things never slowed down. Once I got into the work force, I quickly became bored with the day to day because I was addicted to cortisol and the high of riding on stress and "working under pressure" -- so I started training people on the side of my already extremely hectic work schedule (the hospital I worked at was so understaffed -- I was the only dietitian there when there were previously 5 dietitians before me). I was busy, busy -- then I met my wonderful husband, who is wired the same way that I am. We were both working demanding job, training for triathlons and half-marathons together, traveling a lot to see family on the weekends since we then lived far away. 

 

AND THEN
THINGS changed

Living fast paced, we decided to kick it up another notch -- quit our jobs on a whim, move back home, and both start businesses of our own (we needed to do this before we had babies, right?) 

The stress was real. We were hustling, scraping by, and also highly stressed. My hair started to fall out, the scale started to creep up, I suddenly had no time for workouts, my hormones were haywire, my gut was inflamed. The stress, the schedule, and the hustle culture really did me in. Does this sound like you? Maybe you have kiddos and a busy job. Maybe you are a single parent. Or maybe you are trying to grow your career and keep up with everyone around you who all seem to have it so together (they don't, by the way).

Lucky for me, I knew where to start. I started focusing on my core pillars that I teach all of my clients (which are listed below) and that is when everything changed for me. 

NUTRITIENT DENSITY: minerals

 

Minerals can truly transform your health. Most of us are chronically depleted. Each essential mineral is small but plays a mighty role in our bodies. They regulate our nervous system, help hormones to be made and used by the body, maintain our metabolism by helping the thyroid to function, and even work to protect immunity and fertility as a woman. 

GUT health

 

The gut is the gatekeeper of the body. It houses 75% or more of the body's immune system and the gut is where most diseases start. Focusing on gut health should be the starting pillar for every practitioner if you want to see root cause transformation. Every. Single. Organ. Is influenced heavily by your digestive tract. It is also our detoxification pathway. And to treat and prevent disease. It is essential to support your bodies able to get rid of toxins.

HORMONE balance

 

Hormone balance is never what my clients think it is. Having true hormone balance is all about utilizing your nutrient rich diet and good gut health in addition to living a more non-toxic lifestyle, supporting the liver's ability to detox excessive amounts of estrogen, making sure that stress (cortisol) is actively being lowered on your healing journey, and having knowledge about your menstrual cycle. 

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