About Francie Healey
A native of the East coast, Francie completed her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Criminal Justice. A craving for a deeper personal experience and cultural diversity, led Francie to move to Las Vegas, New Mexico to pursue her Master’s degree in Counseling. Her experience in New Mexico brought Francie into her love of nature and service. It was clinical experiences in a psychiatric hospital, community mental health center and a methadone clinic, that initially awakened Francie to the connection between mental health and nutritional health.
After graduation, Francie spent time in the human services field working for the New Mexico Human Services Department. Eight years later, Francie pursued additional training in Health Counseling to bridge nutrition and mental health so that she could respond to an unmet need in people struggling to feel their best. A natural synthesizer of information, Francie found empowerment and passion in bringing these two fields together and expressing her unique voice to the world. Prioritizing empowerment and healthy relationships was the seed for Francie’s private practice as a counselor, and her impulse to become an author and public speaker. Francie continues to be an advocate for the connection between food and mood, and is a voice for this with clients and readers who are interested in finding and living their wellness. |
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Writing Eat To Beat Alzheimer's
I got the idea for Eat to Beat Alzheimer’s from my stepfather, John Q. Durkin back in June 2012. At that time, I had been looking for opportunities to write a cookbook. When I met with my stepfather he asked if there was any nutrition, or any diet that could prevent Alzheimer’s, or at least slows the progression of Alzheimer’s. He said people his age, (he was in his early 60s at the time), are very interested in prevention, and the rate of Alzheimer’s has been on the rise. I had never once thought about that, but I felt like it was inspired, as soon as he said it, I knew that I would write it, and I promised him I would write this book. John passed away January 6, 2013.
Services - Conscious Wellness
I am focused on educating clients in holistic nutrition, health and wellness, and the relationship between food and mood, specifically, shedding light on how environmental factors, nutritional deficiencies, and various food ingredients can negatively impact mood and behavior. Clients are able to identify the core values in their lives and understand how emotional eating can affect the realization of their personal goals. We collaborate in session on developing strategies around food that support their vision for wellness in a meaningful and sustainable way.
My business, Conscious Wellness, at its root, is a collaboration with individuals who are invested in discovering their own health wisdom through honest and loving self-reflection. Changes in diet and lifestyle are supported and sustainable when we attend to our relationship with self. Intrapersonal issues in self-worth, self-empathy, and self-care are investigated with firm gentleness in order to highlight underlying and misguided motivations. Our behavioral choices and the way we feel about ourselves on a daily basis is deeply informed by the beliefs we have created over a life time about who we think we are and what we believe we can expect from our reality. Through loving, compassionate dialogue we can uncover these limiting beliefs and reevaluate them so that going forward we are more aligned with qualities of self-worth, love, forgiveness, and trust. This deep shifting of fundamental beliefs, and habits of mind, is the foundation to achieving personal wellness goals. In addition to this reflective dialogue, we also emphasize nutritional education from a functional perspective, that is, the holistic view of the human body, mind, and experience as all connected and interwoven. Not one area is independent from the whole. While working to strengthen relationship with self through loving dialogue, we simultaneously educate on health from scientific and evidence-based sources on the cutting edge of wellness today. The foods we eat can be a gateway to a much deeper transformation into health, which naturally changes eating and lifestyle habits. Conscious Wellness is an integrative and holistic approach to wellness that honors and addresses the full human experience and invites forward, more depth, awareness and awakened living.
My business, Conscious Wellness, at its root, is a collaboration with individuals who are invested in discovering their own health wisdom through honest and loving self-reflection. Changes in diet and lifestyle are supported and sustainable when we attend to our relationship with self. Intrapersonal issues in self-worth, self-empathy, and self-care are investigated with firm gentleness in order to highlight underlying and misguided motivations. Our behavioral choices and the way we feel about ourselves on a daily basis is deeply informed by the beliefs we have created over a life time about who we think we are and what we believe we can expect from our reality. Through loving, compassionate dialogue we can uncover these limiting beliefs and reevaluate them so that going forward we are more aligned with qualities of self-worth, love, forgiveness, and trust. This deep shifting of fundamental beliefs, and habits of mind, is the foundation to achieving personal wellness goals. In addition to this reflective dialogue, we also emphasize nutritional education from a functional perspective, that is, the holistic view of the human body, mind, and experience as all connected and interwoven. Not one area is independent from the whole. While working to strengthen relationship with self through loving dialogue, we simultaneously educate on health from scientific and evidence-based sources on the cutting edge of wellness today. The foods we eat can be a gateway to a much deeper transformation into health, which naturally changes eating and lifestyle habits. Conscious Wellness is an integrative and holistic approach to wellness that honors and addresses the full human experience and invites forward, more depth, awareness and awakened living.