Healthyhippie.net

Burlington, VT 05401
ph: 917-756-0309
taraleigh@healthyhippie.net

Work With The Healthy Hippie

Have you been yearning to…

Improve your eating habits
Learn about new and fabulous foods
Feel confident in preparing delicious food for yourself, family, and friends
Not be sick and tired anymore
Control your ADD
Learn how to be creative and do everything with passion
Stop your cravings and binges without willpower
Feel better in your body and achieve your ideal weight
Love yourself
Live the life you love!

As a Holistic Health Counselor, I am your personal cheerleader for living an energized, creative, and passionate life. Whatever your concerns are, my job is to help you find which foods and lifestyle choices work best for the life you love. I work with sugar addicts, people looking to unleash their creative side, people wanting to learn about fitness and nutrition, children and adults wanting to beat their ADD, people wanting to lose some weight after trying everything or nothing, and people who just want to be healthy!

A true holistic approach to life incorporates things that nourish you other than food, including things like honest and open relationships, a spiritual practice you feel connected to, a career that inspires you, and physical activity that makes you want to move and feed your soul and your hunger for living. I call these things Primary Food and as a Holistic Health Counselor I work with you to make a nourishment menu and to help find balance in all of these areas.

Could one conversation change your life?

I invite you to a free initial consultation to discuss your health history, your concerns and goals, and what you have always imagined for your life. This free, one-hour session is a great way for you to get a feel for how I work with clients and to see if we are a good match. There is no obligation, but I welcome you to consider that this conversation may be a turning point in your life.
Contact me today and let's see if I can help you live the life you love!

Your Personalized Program

The goals of your personalized health counseling program are to radically improve your life, resolve concerns specific to you and your body and to provide you with tools for a lifetime of balance. We will work together on finding the right foods for your body and on balancing primary food the other areas of your life that feed you on the deepest levels. This unique approach provides meaningful, lasting results to live the life you love!

Your Program covers…

Setting goals to live the life you love
Dealing with cravings
Taking consistent action
Food counseling
Making simple lifestyle changes
Being healthy on the road and on the go
Improving personal relationships & communication
Integrating new, delicious food into your diet
Making better food choices at work that work for you
Getting support from others
Creating lasting balance
Learning how to prepare meals quickly and easily
Awareness when eating and in life
Menu planning
Creative activities to learn about who you are
Having fun while getting healthy!

Like most of us, you have probably tried a variety of diets, and may even have managed to do well on some for a few weeks or even months. However, the emphasis such diets place on willpower, deprivation and denial is both unnecessary and counter-productive. The reality is that, unless you have a plan that is practical, works with your lifestyle and takes your individuality into account, it will not last. I will help you to create such a plan.

Your Program includes…

My program is 6 months. Ask me about customized packages and gift certificates!

The Comfort of Your Home or Office Program $200/month

Two, 50 minute phone sessions a month, including detailed recommendations
Unlimited e-mail support between sessions
Handouts e-mailed to you prior to each session
Free subscription to The Healthy Hippie Magazine
Healthy Hippie Weekly Newsletter
$20 discount off group cleanse

Group Rates (Groups have 5-15 people per group) Sessions are over the phone

If you form a group of your own of 5 or more people, your fee will be waived.

4 week program. Meets 2x a month for one hour. $149
6 week program. Meets 2x a month for one hour. $199
6 month program. Meets 2x a month for one hour. $99/month

Conventional dietary theories present you with food restrictions and limitations that are difficult to sustain over time. Such quick fixes do nothing to help you achieve life-long health and happiness nor do they bring out the body’s natural inclination toward balance. Together, we will introduce new and healthful foods and activities, gently and slowly. As you start to feel better, these habits have a natural tendency to take hold and ease out the less healthful ones.

As you become more physically fit, other areas of your life such as relationships, career and creativity start to improve. You will naturally begin to crave those foods and activities that make you feel better, and to make time in your life for those things that are truly important to you.

In our free initial consultation we will discuss your unique situation in depth and determine how I can help you reach your personal goals. We will be able to see if we are a good match and if this approach will work for you. Even this first session will demonstrate how a holistic, individualized approach can make a major difference in your life.

Contact me today to schedule your free consultation.

About Me

I am a graduate of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition which is affiliated with Columbia University and associatied with the American Association of Drugless Practitioners.

My Story...

I was a sugar addicted, ritilin taking, wild-n-crazy, confused, creative, scattered, unorganized, all over the place, head in the clouds, loving, dancing, professional cheerleading, fabulous woman. I had a hard time focusing on what I wanted out of life and I didn't make the connection between food and living the life I love! I was digging alot of small holes instead of concentrating on digging one fabulous, beautiful, big hole.

I learned tips from my own Holistic Health Counselor, Holly. She made me realize that I was on the sugar, salt rollarcoaster. I was eating cookies and drinking alcohol and then the next day I was eating chinese food and wondering why I can't concentrate. MMMMMMM. Holly worked with me one step at a time to control my sugar cravings and all of a sudden I wasn't craving sugar anymore.

Not eating refined sugar changed more that just my diet. I found that my head was clearer. I noticed that I didn't need ritilin at all! I could focus on my career, my life, and I could channel my creativity into something positive.

Today I am a writer, workshop presenter, clothing designer, Healthy Hippie, and Holistic Health Counselor.

I learned the tools I needed to live the life I love and I love teaching my clients to do the same.

Me and my sissy as children. Even though I didn't eat colored cereal, I ate alot of Captain Crunch!

Me as a cheerleader for the NJ Nets. I'm far left. I managed to have a tie dyed arm warmer. Go hippie cheerleader go!

Me as the Healthy Hippie! I'm hoopin at a festival. This is me in my glory!!

How Did I Become the Healthy Hippie?

I love live music, festivals, and camping! I know how hard it is to be healthy during festival season and following a band around the country (I was a Phish Head). I started compiling tips called "The Healthy Hippie Tips of the Day" and I started to gain my own following. Now I feel that it is my duty as the Healthy Hippie to give my fellow travelers daily tips so they can live the lives they love and keep true to their hearts as I have. Jam on!

Dance on the Beach from Vibes