Nutrition
Your Body Is Talking. Are You Listening? Bringing the needs of the soul into the picture.
Your physical health plays a powerful role in your overall emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. When your body is properly nourished, everything else follows — your thinking is clearer, your emotions are steadier, your energy is stronger, and your sense of purpose feels more grounded. When it's not, the struggle shows up everywhere.
Mary Kay has spent her career learning how to help people listen to what their bodies are telling them — and give them exactly what they need.
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From the ICU to the Kitchen Table & Wellness
Decades ago, as an Intensive Care and Emergency Room nurse, Mary Kay had a realization that changed the course of her career. She saw, day after day, the pain and suffering that filled those units — and she saw how much of it was preventable. Not through more medication or more procedures, but through better health practices and better nutrition.
She decided she wanted to be on the healing end of medicine. If she could help people stay healthy through good nutrition, she could keep them away from the hospital beds she knew too well.
She began studying everything she could find about food, nutrition, supplements, and the soul — and that search led her to the legends in nutrition and health.
Working with the Legends…
Dr. Bernard
Dr. Bernard Jensen, DC, was an extraordinary healer with an outstanding clinical record for helping individuals recover their health at his healing clinic in the San Diego area. Mary Kay had read 25 of his books before she ever met him.
Dr. Jensen was 80 years old when Mary Kay trained with him. He was inspired, brilliant, and deeply committed to the principle that the body can heal itself when given what it needs. Training with him was life-changing — not just professionally, but personally. It shaped the foundation of everything Mary Kay brings to her nutrition practice today.
And then Mary Kay met Dr. Thompson
Through her three years of clinical training with Dr. Robert Thompson, MD, and their co-authorship of Mineral Medicine: The Missing Elements that Change Everything, Mary Kay gained a dimension of nutritional expertise that almost no other practitioner has: the ability to read your body's mineral pattern and understand what it means for how you process every bite of food you eat.
Your mineral balance affects everything — how you absorb nutrients, how your glands function, how your metabolism runs, and which foods your body can actually use. Two people can eat the same healthy meal and get completely different results depending on their mineral status. One may thrive. The other may barely absorb a fraction of what they ate.
Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis reveals what's happening beneath the surface. Combined with the Thompson-Dobereiner Principle — Dr. Thompson's groundbreaking theory of how minerals operate in interconnected triads — Mary Kay can identify exactly where your body's nutritional roadblocks are and design a plan that works with your unique biochemistry.
This is precision nutrition.
PhD Research: The Science of Motivation & Nutrition
For her PhD, Mary Kay focused on something most nutrition programs overlook entirely: motivational psychology as applied to nutrition. Here's what most nutrition programs won't tell you: consciously knowing what you "should" eat is rarely enough.
Mary Kay used a testing tool that measured carotenoid antioxidants at the cellular level. The concept was simple but powerful — if a person could see that increasing their intake of fruits and vegetables actually improved their antioxidant score, would they be more motivated to keep making better choices?
They were. Measurable proof of progress changed behavior in a way that willpower alone never could.
This insight runs through everything Mary Kay does. She doesn't just tell you what to eat. She gives you the tools to see your body responding — and that evidence becomes your motivation.
Hypnosis & Nutrition
As humans, we eat for reasons that have nothing to do with hunger. We eat when we're tired, bored, frustrated, or lonely. We eat because it looks good, because it's "time to eat," or because food is the fastest way to push down an uncomfortable feeling we don't want to face.
This is exactly why hypnosis is so effective in transforming our relationship with food. When we shift how we feel about food at the subconscious level — where our choices actually originate — the improved choices come naturally. This is true even if food and weight have been a lifelong struggle.
We act from our feeling mind. Change the feeling, and the behavior follows on its own. The goal isn't deprivation. It isn't a rigid meal plan. It's something much more sustainable: Learning to listen to your body. Feeling naturally drawn to foods that are colorful and nutrient-dense. Finding more joy in what you choose. Feeling satisfied with appropriate portions — not stuffed, not deprived, but nourished.
This is what becomes possible when nutrition guidance meets the deeper work of shifting your subconscious relationship with food.
The Whole Picture
Your body's physical health influences every other aspect of who you are — your mental clarity, your emotional resilience, your energy, and your sense of connection to something larger than yourself.
Mary Kay brings all of it together: the clinical nutrition training rooted in decades of study, the motivational psychology that makes lasting change possible, the hypnotherapy that rewires your relationship with food at its source, and the mineral science that ensures your body can actually use the nutrition you're providing.