Elyse Wagner

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.

🎓 Training the Health Coaches Changing Healthcare
💚 Founder, ANBA® & A Nourished Life®
📚 NBHWC CE Provider | 5,500+ Coaches Trained
🌍 On a Mission: 1 Billion Lives Changed Through Health Coaching
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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

She spent 6 nights sleeping in an ICU recliner. 😳 Her business didn’t fall apart.A year ago she was wondering whether sh...
06/03/2026

She spent 6 nights sleeping in an ICU recliner. 😳 Her business didn’t fall apart.

A year ago she was wondering whether she should keep going at all.

Today she’s speaking on panels, building collaborations with healthcare providers, and walking into a conversation with her husband’s neurologist armed with one question from The Gap Medicine Couldn’t Close, a bonus session inside the Health Coach Leadership Summit, that made him pause and shift directions

Same woman. Completely different foundation.

Swipe through to see exactly what changed, and there’s an exercise on slide 6 you can do right now that might explain more than you expect it to.

If something landed and you want to go deeper, the Health Coach Leadership Summit replays are available now for a limited time.

Comment SUMMIT and I’ll send you the link.

And if you’re ready to build the health coaching practice you actually trained for, comment CCCP below and I’ll personally send you everything.

Early bird closes Friday, June 5th at 5pm CST and saves you 40% on tuition. Don’t sit on this one. 💗

🎉🎂 HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY to our sweet, horse-loving, puppy-snuggling, smoothie-drinking, marshmallow-eating, whole-foods-lo...
06/02/2026

🎉🎂 HAPPY 9TH BIRTHDAY to our sweet, horse-loving, puppy-snuggling, smoothie-drinking, marshmallow-eating, whole-foods-loving, ballet-dancing, Barbie-playing, EDM-dancing, country-music-singing, ice-cream-truck-chasing GIRL! 🐴🐶🥤🍦💖🎶✨🩰

You are a beautiful Generator full of joy, laughter, energy, love, curiosity, and BIG dreams. 🌈💫

You bring so much happiness, kindness, adventure, silliness, and magic into our lives every single day. Watching you grow into the incredible young lady you are becoming is one of the greatest gifts of all. 💗

Never stop laughing, loving animals, dancing in the kitchen, galloping around the kitchen.
Never stop being YOU. 🦄✨

Happy Birthday, Shay! We 🎂💗you!

💔 “I don’t want to give up. But I’m losing hope.”This is the message I received the other day. It sent me into tears. Sh...
06/01/2026

💔 “I don’t want to give up. But I’m losing hope.”

This is the message I received the other day. It sent me into tears.

She’d been at this for seven years.

Seven years of certifications, of showing up, of genuinely believing she had something worth offering the world.

And she was one bad month away from walking away from all of it.

I couldn’t stop thinking about that message.

Because she’s not an anomaly. She’s the norm.

I hear some version of that story every single week from health coaches who are brilliant at what they do and absolutely exhausted from trying to build something sustainable from it alone.

So, if you’re feeling that way too, I think you’ll find some hope and inspiration from this story.

And to be real? If you’ve ever sent a message like that, even just in your head, swipe through. I think you’ll recognize yourself in here somewhere.

If something landed and you want to go deeper, the Health Coach Leadership Summit replays + bonuses are available now for a limited time.

📽️Comment SUMMIT below and I’ll send you the invite.

And if you’re ready to build the practice you actually trained for, early bird saves you over 40% on tuition, that offer closes June 5th at 5pm CST.

👉Comment CCCP below and I’ll personally send you everything. 💗

Picture this… last night my Uber dropped me off at home at 2am. Still in conference mode. Too wired to sleep. So I made ...
05/31/2026

Picture this… last night my Uber dropped me off at home at 2am. Still in conference mode. Too wired to sleep. So I made tea and started writing. 😄🫖

This week I hosted the Health Coach Leadership Summit AND attended IFM’s Annual International Conference in San Diego. On Friday I ran my own roundtable with PhDs, scientists, and healthcare leaders about incorporating health coaches into their practices.

What they said surprised even me. 😲

They weren’t asking “what is health coaching?” They know. They’re asking the implementation questions, the ones most health coaches don’t even know are being asked yet.

I’m pulling back the curtain on all of it THIS Wednesday in a free one-hour bonus training called The Roundtable Debrief. June 3, 11am-12pm Central. Recorded if you can’t make it live.

💬 Comment SUMMIT and I’ll send you the link. 👇

One more thing.

Something happened inside the Summit this week that I wasn’t expecting.

I shared a new pathway I’ve been building. Something I’ve never offered before. And before I even finished explaining it, health coaches were already jumping in.

I’ve never seen a program tackle what this one tackles. And the health coaches who heard about it first didn’t wait around to think about it.

Full details tomorrow. But if you want to get ahead of the crowd, jump into the Summit replays now. It’s in there.

👀 Pay attention to your inbox and socials tomorrow.

What a week. 💗🙌⚡️From the Health Coach Leadership Summit to IFM’s AIC in San Diego, I’ve spent the last several days sur...
05/29/2026

What a week. 💗🙌⚡️

From the Health Coach Leadership Summit to IFM’s AIC in San Diego, I’ve spent the last several days surrounded by people who genuinely care about changing lives.👏

The conversations have been rich. The connections have been real. The possibilities feel bigger than ever.

I’ve been reminded that when mission-driven people come together, momentum happens. Ideas expand. Partnerships form. New possibilities emerge.

So much gratitude for every conversation, every hug, every coffee, every panel, every roundtable, and every person who shared a piece of their vision and heart this week.💕

The future is collaborative. And we’re just getting started. 🤝🧬💗

“Your calling is not a career yet.”😮‍💨 Whew.That line hit HARD inside today’s Health Coach Leadership Summit.Health coac...
05/26/2026

“Your calling is not a career yet.”

😮‍💨 Whew.

That line hit HARD inside today’s Health Coach Leadership Summit.

Health coaches started sharing the things they usually only admit privately AFTER certification. 👇👇

🥴“I still haven’t figured out how to clearly communicate what I do.”

😬“I struggle to post online because it feels vulnerable.”

😵‍💫“I feel like I’m working on a million things and not really getting anywhere.”

And to be 💯 transparent?

You could FEEL the room collectively exhale when people realized 😮‍💨:

“Ohhhh… it’s not just me.”

Because THIS is the part almost nobody talks about enough in health coaching.

Not HOW to coach.

How to:
→ position yourself
→ build collaborative relationships
→ confidently communicate your value
→ create structure that can actually hold your business + your life
→ become trusted, referred to, and integrated into real-world healthcare

THAT is the conversation we’re finally starting to have.

And it’s exactly why I’m so excited seeing coaches already step into the CCCP (Certified Collaborative Care Practitioner) pathway. 👏👏

This is the bridge 🌈between being certified… and becoming deeply integrated, collaborative, visible, trusted, and sustainable in your work.

Health coaches are no longer standing outside the room trying to explain why this work matters.

They’re learning how to confidently step INTO the room.

And tomorrow? 👀🔥

We’re diving into collaboration with voices from:


io

PLUS real health coaches and sharing how they’re creating real collaborations in conventional and non-conventional ways right now. 💁🏻‍♀️

It will blow your mind and honestly- take some of the mystery out of it 😶‍🌫️ —> 😊 while opening your imagination to so many ways you can work as a health coach!

If you’re a health coach who knows you’re meant for more than quietly sitting on the sidelines of your own calling…

It’s time to stand UP, show UP and get in this room!

Comment SUMMIT and I’ll send you the invite. 💌

“Your calling is not a career yet.”😮‍💨 Whew.That line hit HARD inside today’s Health Coach Leadership Summit.Health coac...
05/26/2026

“Your calling is not a career yet.”

😮‍💨 Whew.

That line hit HARD inside today’s Health Coach Leadership Summit.

Health coaches started sharing the things they usually only admit privately AFTER certification. 👇👇

🥴“I still haven’t figured out how to clearly communicate what I do.”

😬“I struggle to post online because it feels vulnerable.”

😵‍💫“I feel like I’m working on a million things and not really getting anywhere.”

And to be 💯 transparent?

You could FEEL the room collectively exhale when people realized 😮‍💨:

“Ohhhh… it’s not just me.”

Because THIS is the part almost nobody talks about enough in health coaching.

Not HOW to coach.

How to:
→ position yourself
→ build collaborative relationships
→ confidently communicate your value
→ create structure that can actually hold your business + your life
→ become trusted, referred to, and integrated into real-world healthcare

THAT is the conversation we’re finally starting to have.

And it’s exactly why I’m so excited seeing coaches already step into the CCCP (Certified Collaborative Care Practitioner) pathway. 👏👏

This is the bridge 🌈between being certified… and becoming deeply integrated, collaborative, visible, trusted, and sustainable in your work.

Health coaches are no longer standing outside the room trying to explain why this work matters.

They’re learning how to confidently step INTO the room.

And tomorrow? 👀🔥

We’re diving into collaboration with voices from:


io

PLUS real health coaches and sharing how they’re creating real collaborations in conventional and non-conventional ways right now. It will blow your mind and honestly- take some of the mystery out of it. 😶‍🌫️ —> 😊

If you’re a health coach who knows you’re meant for more than quietly sitting on the sidelines of your own calling…

Comment SUMMIT and I’ll send you the invite.

Holy guacamole! 🥑 🙌I’m SO excited to share that I’ll be leading a roundtable discussion at the 2026 AIC Conference with ...
05/24/2026

Holy guacamole! 🥑 🙌I’m SO excited to share that I’ll be leading a roundtable discussion at the 2026 AIC Conference with The Institute for Functional Medicine

👉 Discussion Topic: Incorporating Health Coaching into Your Practice

Basically… the conversations I could talk about for 72 hours straight. 😅

YES. 👏

Conversations around collaborative care, behavior change, and the role of health coaches inside healthcare are finally happening in bigger rooms.

Health coaches are no longer standing outside the conversation trying to explain why this work matters.

People are starting to SEE it.

So if you’re attending AIC, I would genuinely LOVE to meet you and connect at this roundtable.

🗓 Friday, May 29, 2026

⏰ 2:30–3:45 PM PT

(75 minutes, immediately following the Friday lunch break)

📍 AIC 2026 — San Diego Harbor Ballrooms G-I

(There will be IFM staff there Friday to help guide you!)

And if you’re a practitioner, clinic owner, or provider looking for incredible health coaches to support your patients, clients, and practice… Please come find me and say hi.

Health coaches, same goes for you. 🤍

One of my favorite things in the world is helping bridge these relationships and helping people realize what’s actually possible through collaborative care.

xx,
Elyse

P.S. If you can’t make it to the conference, but you’ve been wanting more functional medicine tools, education, and resources for your toolbox as a HEALTH COACH… I’ve got something really special for you. 🎁

IFM has graciously contributed:

✨ 10 functional medicine educational resources

✨ Exclusive bonuses and discounts

✨ Practitioner-level tools that can seriously deepen your confidence and knowledge as a coach

DM me “SUMMIT” and I’ll send you the details before the vault closes on 5/28.

If you think you’re broken… or something is wrong with you… think again. It could just be that you’re hitting a CAPACITY...
05/21/2026

If you think you’re broken… or something is wrong with you… think again. It could just be that you’re hitting a CAPACITY edge. And once you can name which one, everything shifts. 💗

That was the breakthrough inside Day 3 of the Health Coach Leadership Summit today. And the room got quiet in the best possible way when it landed.

Because so many coaches have been quietly struggling with showing up consistently, trusting themselves, marketing their work, following through, stopping the overthinking spiral, building a business without running themselves into the ground, and assuming the problem is them.

It’s not. It’s capacity. And those two things require completely different solutions.

We didn’t do surface-level motivation today. We didn’t dress up hustle culture in wellness language.

We got real about burnout, nervous system overload, emotional capacity, identity shifts, and what sustainable growth actually looks like when you stop pushing through and start building capacity instead.

The replay is available now. Comment SUMMIT and I’ll send it to you. 👀

And if today hit hard, tomorrow is going to take it even further.

Day 4 we’re going deep on something every coach in this field needs to hear:
The Credibility That Gets You Trusted, Referred, and Respected. Special guests Jad Abi-Samra Dr. Diego Salinas MD, NBC-HWC Erin Johnson Gerkman - NBC-HWC, ICF-ACC Jennifer Lundman, MSW, LCSW, DSW candidate Nicole Pope, CAE, ICE-CCP

Because capacity is the foundation. Credibility is what builds on top of it.

See you there. 💗

Comment SUMMIT below for the Day 3 replay!

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