AFPA Graduate Highlight: Kayla Chandler, Holistic Nutritionist

Over the past 30+ years, we’ve licensed over 130,000 professionals. Meet one in all our featured graduates, Kayla Chandler, a Licensed Holistic Nutritionist with a well-liked meals weblog, YouTube channel, and on-line enterprise promoting digital downloads and extra.

Kayla modified the trajectory of her wellness via diet and way of life and now educates others on how they will do the identical.

Get pleasure from our interview with Kayla under the place she shares her story, why she selected to get licensed with AFPA, and what her profession seems to be like as a digital creator and nutritionist.

Inform us about your story and the way you bought into well being, diet, and wellness.

Rising up in southern Mississippi, I used to be raised on fried hen, biscuits and gravy, and pecan pie! My mother was just like the native Paula Dean, so we had been virtually consuming a stick of butter with each meal (not kidding). In my teenage years, I started specializing in getting more healthy; nonetheless, my model of getting wholesome again then was counting energy and figuring out excessively. I used to be nonetheless consuming eating regimen sodas, synthetic elements, gluten-filled meals, and another “eating regimen” meals you possibly can title. I name it the unhealthy “wholesome” eating regimen as a result of the considered truly specializing in diet by no means crossed my thoughts. I solely cared about my weight.

Quick ahead to my early twenties – 21 to be actual. I used to be working a extremely tense job, and the stress, sleep deprivation, and dangerous eating regimen ultimately caught as much as me. At 22, I ended up within the hospital with insufferable abdomen pains. I went to 4 totally different docs, racked up hospital payments, and nonetheless, none of them knew what was fallacious with me. After 3-4 days of excruciating abdomen pains, my gynecologist lastly saved me in a single day and gave me an anti-inflammatory steroid by way of IV till the irritation went down. Even then, she nonetheless didn’t know the basis trigger.

This traumatic expertise started my mission to determine why my well being was all of a sudden declining so rapidly. As luck would have it, I used to be watching the Dr. Oz present one random day, which was odd as a result of I not often watched it, and a health care provider was discussing Celiac Illness. Now, be mindful, 10+ years in the past, the entire meals allergy subject wasn’t mainstream but. So, most docs by no means addressed this difficulty or had been even conscious of it.

I made a visit again to the physician and informed her to check me for a gluten allergy. She ran the assessments, and positive sufficient, I used to be allergic to gluten. I instantly lower gluten out and felt higher immediately. However, I used to be nonetheless experiencing different destructive signs, which led to extra analysis.

Lengthy story brief, over the course of a number of years, I used to be on a mission to be taught as a lot about well being as potential to treatment myself. If the docs didn’t know how one can treatment me, I used to be decided to take issues into my very own palms. As I started this journey, I ultimately found that not solely did I’ve Celiac Illness, I additionally had hormonal imbalances, adrenal fatigue, heavy steel toxicity, and dietary deficiencies. I used to be a large number.

One after the other, I started to handle these points by way of pure and holistic strategies. And, now on the age of 33, I really feel higher than I ever have! 

Why did you select to pursue a certification in well being and diet?

After years of doing my very own analysis to heal myself naturally and struggling to search out others to offer me solutions, I gained a deep want to share my information with others. I knew that if I might flip my well being round by way of holistic strategies (and I used to be a whole mess), then there should be others on the market similar to me who wanted solutions!

I had by no means been so keen about another subject than that of diet. It was all the time on my mind, and I used to be continually sharing suggestions and recommendation to household and associates, which is why I ultimately made the choice to make it a profession.

Why did you select the Holistic Diet Certification?

I selected to get the Holistic Diet certification as a result of on the root of my private well being points was diet, and I wished to broaden my information on this space. I firmly imagine that most individuals these days eat a eating regimen void of vitamins, which ends up in dietary deficiencies and destructive well being signs. And, my want was and is to assist educate folks on this space of diet and information them towards altering their dietary way of life to 1 that’s wholesome and energizing.

I knew that buying a certification on this discipline would give me the additional information wanted to take my well being training to the following degree in order that I might assist extra folks.

Why did you select AFPA?

I selected AFPA due to its nice fame and high quality training. I had researched different organizations, however none of them in comparison with AFPA, in my view. So far as finishing this system, I completely loved your entire course of! The tutorial materials was precisely what I wanted to broaden my information.

What was your favourite half about this system?

My favourite half was the truth that I might take the course at my very own tempo. Along with working my essential job on the time, I used to be nonetheless capable of full this system in my spare time with out feeling too overwhelmed.

What’s your present profession?

Earlier than receiving my certification from AFPA, I had one other job in a wholly totally different trade. However, in my spare time, I began my well being weblog, sharing wholesome recipes and way of life recommendation. 

After receiving my certification in Holistic Diet in 2016, I not solely proceed to run my well being weblog, however I even have a YouTube channel and work with purchasers one-on-one, creating diet plans and meal plans. Having my certification in Holistic Diet has modified my life fully. I now get to show my ardour for serving to others right into a full-time profession, and I get up on daily basis feeling extraordinarily blessed and fulfilled, realizing that I’m doing what I really like! 

I’ve discovered that having this certification helps to ascertain extra credibility with purchasers and has definitely helped me to draw extra enterprise. Because of the information I’ve gained from my certification, my purchasers all the time obtain nice outcomes and really feel happy with their expertise of working with me.

What has your expertise been like with the AFPA customer support group?

My expertise has been phenomenal. My emails have all the time been answered in a well timed style. And, whereas taking the course, I all the time felt assured I might attain out to my training advisor if I ever had questions or wanted assist.

How did this certification affect your total life?

Having this certification has modified my life fully. Not solely did it give me the additional training, instruments, and confidence I wanted, nevertheless it helped me to ascertain credibility with new purchasers.

Due to this certification, I’ve been capable of construct a whole enterprise round serving to folks obtain optimum wellness!

Do you’ve gotten any recommendation to others who could also be fascinated by getting licensed?

If you happen to’re on the fence about getting a certification from AFPA, all I’ll say is, do it! Not solely is it an amazing studying expertise, however in the event you’re attempting to make a profession within the well being discipline, then it’s an effective way to ascertain credibility. 

If you want to maintain updated on Kayla’s latest adventures, take a look at her social media pages:

Weblog:  www.FeelinFabulousWithKayla.com

YouTube Channel:  http://www.youtube.com/kaylachandler2

Instagram:  http://www.instagram.com/kaylajchandler

Fb Web page:  http://www.fb.com/kaylajchandler

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