Elyse Wagner

My journey to peace around food and my body started when I was 13 years old. Being called "Obese Elyse" sent me on a mission to change my food first.

🌿 Helping Health Coaches Lead, Heal & Thrive
🌟 The Nourished Path: Soul-Led Strategy + Sustainable Success
🗝️ Founder of ANBA®, A Nourished Life® + NOURISH Live™
🎓 NBHWC CE Provider | On a Mission to Impact 1 Billion
www.elysewagner.com What I realized is that it is SO much more than food and dieting and weighing yourself. I don't follow or endorse ANY specific diet plan, I'm a normal gal that had her own weight issue growing up and towards the journey to finding peace with "Obese Elyse" gained a dual masters in holsitic nutrition and clinical health psychology. It's been my journey and I want to share what I've learned with you. I searched for these key ingredients throughout my undergrad years getting my BS in Nutritional Science and then my graduate years getting a dual masters in holistic nutrition and health psychology. It wasn't until I created peace with my body and with food (and it wasn't that long ago) that I truly started flourishing. My mission in life is to help women just like myself, who make food or their bodies the enemy. I want to help you learn what I know and have been through in an accelerated way so you don't have to suffer and struggle any longer. I use my experience paired with my knowledge to create a safe space where women can expand in peace, love, awareness and success with their health around their food, attitude and body! I created a six-step Permission to Feel Fabulous program so that women could start to listen to their own internal guidance, find joy out of their body no matter what size jeans they are and send body shame and food guilt to the garbage! I dubbed the website and brand, My Kitchen Shrink, because I truly believe that every single person can be their own Kitchen Shrink, you have all the key ingredients to create a delicious recipe of health success. You have that secret sauce. All you need is a guide, I'll show you how! My goal is that once you are done with Permission To Feel Fabulous, you are your own 'Kitchen Shrink' and can begin to listen to your body and give it what it needs. Want even more tasty resources, recipes and tips? Get your sweet buns on over to www.mykitchenshrink.com and sign up for juicy food & attitude tips that I only serve in my weekly e-mail updates! www.mykitchenshrink.com

03/30/2026

Are you the UGG boot 🧦or the Adrenalin ju**ie when it comes to your CZ aka your comfort zone? 🎢

Okay, so I was reading You Got This by Caroline Foran…And she talks about this idea of the comfort zone in a way I actually loved.

There’s a spectrum. You’ve got the daredevils, the adrenaline ju**ies…

And then most of us are just living pretty peacefully in our comfort zone.

She calls it like this big Ugg boot 😂

When you’re in your comfort zone, you feel in control. You’re in control of your emotions, your stress response, your body…You’re not self-conscious.

It’s just steady.

If you pictured it like a graph, it would just be this nice, even rhythm. No big peaks. No big dips.

And here’s the part that really got me

Just because something is familiar…
doesn’t mean it’s positive.

We can be SO comfortable in patterns that aren’t actually good for us.

And she talks about how real growt, intellectual, personal, all of it, doesn’t happen without a little disequilibrium.

Without a little disruption to how you normally think or feel.

In other words…you don’t get to create something great, whatever that means to you by staying under the covers. As cozy as it is.

A little discomfort? That’s actually the point.

That’s what creates change. Growth!

So if you’ve been feeling a little stretched lately…this is a GREAT thing!

I encourage you to do ONE thing that brings you out of your CZ today or this week. Drop a 💪 if you’re goin to commit!

😉😉

03/29/2026

I needed this reminder today. Maybe you do too. 💕👆A great question for yourself and your clients.

03/26/2026

Lemme know if you feel me on this one…One of the biggest problems in health coaching right now?

We have brilliant, heart-centered coaches…
and yet most people…including providers of all sorts have no idea what you do.

Not a talent problem. Not a “you’re not good enough” problem.

👉 It’s an awareness + proximity problem.

Which means part of your role is this:

Be seen.
Be known.
Be understood.

Not just online…

But where real conversations are already happening 🤝

Because if you’re only playing the online game, posting, waiting, building slowly…

You might be missing your most powerful lever:

👉 your community

And here’s what I’m seeing inside A Nourished Life-Coach+ A Nourished Business Academy…

Coaches getting their 🍑 into real-life spaces and things are shifting:

→ Talking at their local salon 💇‍♀️
→ Turning casual convos into “wait… tell me more” 💁‍♀️✨
→ Collaborating with all kinds of practitioners 🤝
→ Hosting events in yoga studios + community spaces 🧘‍♀️
→ Becoming THE health coach at their favorite local spots 💇‍♀️🧘‍♀️🧶

No waiting.
No hiding.

They’re showing up… and becoming known.

And from that?

✨ Clients
✨ Referrals
✨ Opportunities

Because people don’t just hire from content.

They hire from connection. Trust. Relationship.

So if things feel slow… or like you’re on the struggle bus…🫠🚌

Don’t just ask:
“What should I post?”

Ask:

👇 Where can I show up in my community right now?

Because health coaching doesn’t just belong online.

It belongs in communities. 💗

Tag a health coach you know. 🙌💕

03/25/2026

Health coaches…this is why your offers aren’t selling. 👇

💾 Save this before you create your next one.

Here’s the real meal deal. You were taught, sell health coaching. But, no one is buying “health coaching.” 🫠

(Deep breath… stay with me 😌)

Not because it’s not valuable, because that’s not what people are searching for.

No one is laying in bed at night thinking:

“I hope I can find a 6-month 1:1 health coaching package tomorrow.” 😉

They’re thinking:

“I’m exhausted.”
“I feel like crap in my body.”
“Why can’t I stay consistent?”
“I just want to feel like myself again.”

👉 THAT is where you take the coach approach and MEET them where they’re at and ready to buy.

People are buying relief, results, and feeling like themselves again… they’re buying from an EMOTIONAL space not intellectual. Not facts + figures.

Here’s where most health coaches get it wrong:

They build offers based on:
• what they learned
• what they think people need
• what other coaches are doing

Instead of…

👉 what YOUR people are actually willing to pay to solve.

Sooooo, if want people to say YES, you need 3 things:

😩1. The PAIN (specific, lived, emotional)

Not: “gut health support”

→ “You wake up bloated every morning and don’t trust your body anymore”

👉2. The PROMISE (clear, tangible result)

Not: “feel better”

→ “Wake up with a flat stomach, steady energy, and zero food anxiety”

🙌3. The PATH (your process)

Not: “we’ll work together weekly”

→ “My 3-step method to rebuild digestion, regulate your nervous system, and create consistency without restriction”

That’s how you create an offer people actually say YES to.

Not by selling coaching. But by selling transformation. 💫

And here’s the part most people miss…

Your offer should feel nourishing for YOU too. 🌷☺️

Not forced. Copied. “what you think you should do.”

But aligned, authentic, clear, and powerful ✨

If you want help creating an offer that actually converts and feels good to deliver…

Drop a 🔥 below and I’ll send you the
6-Figure Health Coach training. (5 NBHWC CE).

03/23/2026

Lead your day like your life depends on it. (Because it does.) ⚡️😉Today’s wisdom comes from Emmett Fox, a great metaphysical teacher, and he talks about how to fail in a cheeky way. Here’s a few things he says: No matter what you hear of depreciate it and predict the worst. Mind everyone else’s business. This will ensure you’re neglecting your own. Never perform today what you can possibly postpone until tomorrow leave the important things to someone else instead of seeing to them personally. Sit down and wait for something to turn up. Basically, if you want to fail…
procrastinate, blame, complain, and wait. But, if you want to thrive, Take radical ownership of your day. 💫

03/22/2026

This 👆💕

03/18/2026

Thoughts? 🤔👇 What if your next prescription…was a person?

Someone who helps you actually live the changes you’ve been told to make.

03/17/2026

Jusssst a lil reminder 💕

03/16/2026

Let’s talk about the big F-word this morning.
Fear. It’s not as scary as it seems.

Not the kind that keeps you from touching a hot stove.

The kind that keeps you from sharing your brilliance with the world.

The kind that says
Don’t post that.
Don’t say that.
Who do you think you are?

But here’s the thing I come back to again and again.

At some level, fear is a choice.

Every moment we get to choose…

Stay in fear.
Or move toward expansion.

Stay in fear.
Or choose love.

Stay in fear.
Or step into possibility.

None of that means fear disappears.

It just means courage gets a seat at the table.

I love coming back to this book because it reframes things in such an empowering way. It reminds me that we actually have more agency than we think we do.

And honestly, in a world that runs on fear right now, that reminder matters.

Which is also why I’m really intentional about what I let into my mind.

For example, I don’t watch the news or TV.

Not because I’m ignoring the world…
but because I’m protecting the state I choose to live from.

So here’s a little Monday reflection for you:

What would you do today if fear wasn’t the one making the decisions?

Your brilliance deserves airtime too.
Xx,
E

03/13/2026

Should health coaches make house calls… yes or no? Throw down a 👍 or 👎 or 🤔

I think so.

In fact, I used to make them ALL 👏 THE 👏 TIME 👏

But first… let me tell you how this came up.

On Office Hours this week we had health coaches joining from all over the globe. 🌍

At one point a coach shared something that stopped the whole conversation.

Her husband is a retired physician.
One of his colleagues — an old-school doctor in his 80s — recently passed away.

At the memorial they talked about something that used to be completely normal in medicine:

House calls. 🩺🏡

Doctors walking into people’s homes.
Seeing how people actually lived.
Understanding the context of someone’s health.

And it got the whole room thinking.

Because health coaching is a little different than traditional medicine.

We don’t just talk about change.

We talk about how change actually fits into someone’s real life.

Which means coaching can happen in places like:

🥕 the grocery store
🚶‍♀️ a forest preserve walk
🏋️‍♀️ the gym
🍳 someone’s kitchen
☕ coffee in community

Because let’s be honest…

That’s where life is actually happening.

And when you see people in their real environment?

You often understand their habits ten times faster.

Honestly, that proximity to everyday life is part of what makes health coaching so powerful.

So now I’m curious.

From both a holistic and even ethical perspective…

👇 Should health coaches be making house calls?

Or does coaching belong primarily inside an office or Zoom room?

Health coaches especially — I’d love to hear your thoughts or experiences coaching in community.

And I’m really curious about this too:

Where have YOU coached someone outside of an office?

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