When I first started working with Sophie I had suffered the largest professional, financial & personal loss of my life. I had and had put on a little over 40 pounds (18 kilos) of weight and was in full-on depression “pizza in blender mode”. I was drinking fairly heavily around 5 days a week and smoking about a pack a day.
Sophie helped me radically change my life, my health, the way I thought about, valued, respected and accepted myself. For that I am eternally grateful, there are no words I can muster to eloquently express that. Sophie is not just a nutritional coach, she invests in you, she learns who you are, where you are at and helps connect the dots to where you want to be. I have been a client for nearly 2 years now and I meet with her twice a week, every week without fail.
In that time Sophie has helped me to quit smoking entirely, curbed my drinking, and educated me on how to use both food and supplements to nourish my body. She’s taught me that good habits and gains are formed over time, and there isn’t a quick fix solution or one size fits all. She’s helped me on the journey to love myself, not just a version of myself that I wanted to be (or others to see me as) but the version of my self I really am. Her curriculum is custom and approach is incredibly supportive while holding me accountable.
To consider Sophie just a health & nutritional coach would be a disservice and inaccurate picture for what she’s done for me. Sophie’s an empathetic & compassionate healer, a coach, an adviser and my friend. I couldn’t recommend anyone higher to work with, or more worth the investment into yourself. Thank you Sophie.
The way Sophie came into my life was through a mutual friend. Therefore it felt good and trustworthy to start working with her. Plus I’m a guy who trusts his instinct and see.. Here we are 1,5 year later since we started. Next to getting to know a coach, creating a better and a healthier lifestyle I also gained a friend. If I look back, I totally changed my habits for the best, got more knowledge about which foods work best for me and I had a personal workout motivator! In comparison to the man I was before when I started with Sophie to the man I’m now I can say I feel more open, positively driven and more alive than ever. There were 3 women in my life who helped and supported me last year in my transformation and Sophie is definitely one of them. Like I said I gained a friend.. So why the heck wouldn’t I recommend her to everyone!
When I found Sophie, I had been looking for a dietician/nutritionist to help me lose weight and be healthier. Funny enough a couple of days before having my consultation with Sophie I had mentioned to some close friends how I was a bit lost in purpose and was developing some unwanted habits and I had no idea why that was.
After my first visit, and talking about what she could offer me as a life coach, I was intrigued. She offered to help me not just with my eating habits but also with all the factors surrounding the choices that led to my habits. I decided to choose her instead of simply a dietician because I wanted to get to the root of my problems. I didn’t want a restrictive diet, because every one of the other diets I had tried so far always gave me that bounce-back effect. I wanted to try something new to get different results from those I had always had before. She offered me the tools to understand myself better and through that make informed decisions about my actions. I’m not going to say I instantly said yes, I was a bit hesitant at first since it is an investment. Everything she offered sounded tempting, grocery visit, kitchen cleanse, tools to know me and take charge of my health. As a 26-year-old, who still feels like she’s getting the hang of being an “adult”, it sounded like the perfect way to feel comfortable with the day-to-day decisions that shape my life.
The deciding factor for me, in the end, was that she was genuine, I could feel it since Day 1 and for me it’s important I trust the person helping me achieve my best self. After 6 months, I can say the investment has been worth it. Throughout this time I went from only eating take out, to full-on meal prepping and enjoying cooking. My kitchen is my favorite place in my apartment now. I am no longer afraid of buying fruits and vegetables. I have a healthy relationship with food and am more aware of what I’m putting in my body and why. As if that wasn’t enough, apart from helping me reach the original goal of making better eating habits, with her help, I also learned how to be more active in my day to day life, I went from not exercising, to enjoying adding movement to my life almost daily.
The sum of these two aspects did lead me to lose some weight, but more importantly, it helped me feel better overall. I constantly felt well-rested and with sufficient energy without the extra caffeine boost. Every day since day 1, I feel more and more comfortable with my body. And I am aware that this is a continuous journey, there won’t be a day where I magically feel perfect and that’s the end, but rather each day I get a chance to choose what I want to do and how I want to do things. Each day I learn to love my body more and more and therefore take care that it is nourished, well-rested, active. This eventually also reached how I interact with others (family and friends), and how I did at work. The sessions with Sophie touched every aspect of my life and I feel they each improved in their way. I would recommend working with Sophie to anyone who wants a positive change in their life. If you are willing to be open and do the work (reflecting, searching within yourself, being honest), you will find yourself taking better care of yourself and see it reflected in your everyday life. So whether it is weight loss, time management, self-growth, or something else, this is an integrated solution that reaches every corner of your life.
I would say yes again and again to my time with Sophie. Thanks to her, I feel more capable of dealing with life (work, friends, boyfriend, money, active lifestyle, cooking, exploring my creativity) now.