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

01/29/2026

📌 Health coaches — feel free to repost.

Behavior change happens faster with YOUR support. It isn’t about MORE information.
It’s about integration. And that’s where certified health coaches come in.

People don’t struggle with their health because they don’t know what to do. They struggle because information doesn’t implement itself.

Research shows health coaching improves adherence, follow-through, and sustained behavior change by helping people apply recommendations in real life.

Health coaches don’t replace providers.
They complete the cycle of care.

👉 Comment “STUDY” and I’ll share the research.

Support accelerates healing and sustainable health doesn’t happen in a silo.

01/29/2026

📌 Health coaches — feel free to repost.

Behavior change happens faster with your support.

People don’t struggle with their health because they don’t know what to do. They struggle because information alone doesn’t implement itself. 👌

Research shows health coaching improves adherence, follow-through, and sustained behavior change by helping people apply recommendations in real life — not just hear them.

Health coaches don’t replace providers. They complete the cycle of care.

STUDY → A systematic review in the National Library of Medicine found health coaching interventions consistently improve health behaviors, adherence, and self-management outcomes:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3833550/

Support accelerates healing. Sustainable health doesn’t happen alone.

01/28/2026

How fast have you seen real habits change, in yourself or your clients? 👇

This isn’t a knock on health coaching or your training. It’s a call to mature our understanding of how humans actually change.

We’ve been taught that change takes a “fixed”amount of time.

66 days.
90 days.
6 months.

It sounds scientific.

But it doesn’t match what I’m seeing in real humans, real conversations, and real life.

Lately, the health coaches I mentor are witnessing meaningful, lasting change happen fast, sometimes in a single conversation, sometimes within a week.

And it sticks.

Not because of willpower.
Not because of “perfect habits.”
Not because someone tried harder.

But because something deeper shifted:
• safety
• alignment
• understanding
• identity

This is where The Vital Values Method comes in.

When behavior is anchored in what truly matters to someone, their values, not external rules, change accelerates.

This isn’t about forcing or white knuckling your way through. Or because someone else said “you should.”

Behavior change isn’t about waiting a certain number of days.

It’s about creating the right internal conditions and those conditions start at the roots: your core values.

If you want to lead yourself (and your clients) in a values-led way…

Comment or DM me “VALUES” and I’ll show you how to create fast, sustainable change from the inside out.

P.S. Save this if you’re done oversimplifying how humans actually change.

01/26/2026

I want to start this week with a truth that doesn’t get said often enough. 👆

Most people never discover their soul’s purpose. Maybe you’re struggling with this right now...

Not because you can’t.

Maybe because you were never taught how to listen for it.

Or because you learned to ignore it to please family… or society.

And honestly? That should be illegal.

Every single human on this planet — all 8+ billion of us — came here with a purpose.

Save this. Share this. Sit with it if you needed this reminder today.

01/25/2026

💕✌️ A much needed reminder. What we focus on expands.

01/23/2026

A stranger said THIS to me in the sauna. It’ll take 2 min and it matters. 💭👇🔥

Yesterday, I was sitting in the sauna after my workout minding my own 🐝…

When a woman — mid-60s, maybe early 70s — sat across from me. We’ve never spoken before. Not once, never even met her.

She looked at me, smiled this big, warm smile and said,“You just look so happy.” 😃

I smiled — like a coast-to-coast smile — put my hand over my chest, right over the little gold “E” I wear, and said,“Thank you. You have no idea how much that means to me.” ☺️🙏

Then she asked why.

(Because when something shifts on the inside, it doesn’t stay there. People feel it.)

And this isn’t something special or reserved. It’s available to you, too.

Here’s the part I haven’t really said out loud until now…

Very quietly. Very intentionally. Every single morning… and evening… and honestly, throughout the day…

I stopped postponing joy.

Not later. Not “when” something works out.
Not after the next milestone, launch, number, body change, or relationship shift.

Now.

Sitting there, it reminded me, you don’t become happy after you get the thing, lose the weight, achieve, climb, achieve some more…

You get the thing because you learned how to *feel* it first.

We’re taught subtly, constantly:
“I’ll be happy when I lose the last 5 lbs.”
“I’ll feel confident when I make six figures.”
“I’ll love my life when it finally looks different.”

But good ol UNI aka universe doesn’t work that way. And neither does your nervous system or subconscious mind. 🪐🧠

My body didn’t care whether the joy was “earned.” It just felt it and radiated it like some hot coals!

So here’s my gentle invitation, friend to friend:
What are you waiting to feel?
And what would happen if you let yourself feel it now — even once more today?

Not trying to trick or bypass, but as a conscious, deliberate choice.

Because you are the creator of your life.

In the smallest moments.
Even in a sauna. Even making dinner. Even reading this right now!

If this landed for you, tell me — what are you choosing to feel today? 💖

With love,
Elyse

01/21/2026

Where are you sitting?! 👀👇

01/20/2026

I’ve been wanting to say this for a long time and I know it may ruffle a few feathers. 🪶🪶🪶

Feelings and emotions have always been part of healing, it’s part of the whole person.

And they don’t only show up at a therapist’s office at 4pm on a Thursday.

They show up:
At the doctor.
At the dentist.
With a personal trainer.
With a nutritionist.
In health coaching sessions.
Daily life, walking the dog, cutting veggies, talking to a friend.

Every place where change and growth are happening. Which by the way is all the time. We’re always growing and changing.

When emotions are present, they aren’t a problem.

They’re part of our internal guidance system.

And they deserve to be honored in the moment, not shoved down.

And yet…

We’ve decided that only therapists, psychologists, social workers, or licensed counselors are “allowed” to stay with feelings and emotions.

That’s always felt deeply siloed and incomplete to me.

As a licensed therapist who chose to step away from licensure and someone trained in nutrition and whole-person care, I’ve seen this firsthand.

I’ve watched someone cry while chopping onions.
Not because of the onions…
But because they were proud of themselves.
Because they were learning how to nourish themselves in a new way.

In that moment, referring out or “switching hats” would’ve cut the experience in half.

It would’ve interrupted something meaningful that was already integrating.

Feelings and emotions exist on a spectrum. 🌈

They’re meant to be felt, processed, and supported in real time.
Not stuffed down until an appointment next week.

And this goes beyond providers.

Every human has feelings and emotions.
Most of us were just never taught how to hold them, in ourselves or others.

This isn’t about replacing therapists.

It’s about expanding emotional literacy across all care models including health coaching.

Presence isn’t out of scope.
Capacity isn’t dangerous.
Avoidance is.

I’m genuinely curious, where do you think the line should be, and why?

01/19/2026

I have a dream too! 🌤️💕
People empowered to own their health & well-being. ✌️

01/19/2026

I have a dream, too! People empowered to won their health & well-being.

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