Meet Amanda Moxley, Body and Soul Coach

Amanda’s Professional Bio

Amanda Moxley is a Body Transformation Expert who coaches women and men on how to lose the last stubborn 10-20 pounds naturally, without dieting or extreme measures. Amanda has an international holistic health coaching practice, guiding her clients through her 7 Steps to Release the Fat that’s Holding You Back system. You can receive a free special report on her 7 steps by visiting www.AmandaMoxley.com. Amanda is a board-certified holistic health coach, yoga teacher, certified social worker (CSW) and an award-winning business owner. She is an avid world traveler, having visited five continents, wife and mother.

National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) awards Amanda The Rising Star Award for 2010

Amanda’s Story

It seems like I’ve spent my entire life in school! I received my nutrition education from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City (2005), where I had the opportunity to work with some of the top practitioners in the field of Holistic Nutrition: Deepak Chopra, Andrew Weil, Paul Pitchford, Ann Marie Colbin, Marc David, Julia Butterfly Hill, Sally Fallon, Barry Sears, Peter D’Adamo, John Douillard, David Wolfe, Liz Lipski and others.

I learned how to listen, coach, communicate and counsel while getting my Master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Utah (2004), and my undergraduate degree in Communication Studies from the University of Montana (1997). I also have a Minor in French from the Sorbonne in Paris, France which I received while studying abroad my junior year in college.

I’m a certified Bikram Yoga Instructor (2002), a Dharma Mittra Certified Teacher (2004) and have been practicing and living yoga since 2001.

My food and body journey:

1984, Age 9

As a kid, I was teased for being fat. This scarred me deeply. As a result I believed that I was fat and proceeded to do what “fat” people do: I ate. I ate a ton of cookies, chocolates, cakes, ice cream, bread, muffins, bagels, pasta, etc. pretty much unconsciously but with a lot of guilt and fear about getting fatter and not being loved, liked or accepted. My self esteem plummeted and I believed that I was fat and unattractive. I exercised to combat the food. I ran, I played sports, I did aerobics. I swam.

1995 in College

In college, I did what I thought I was supposed to do... I drank beer (a lot of it), ate pizza, pasta, bread, bagels and tons of sugar and coffee to keep me going. One day while on a walk with my Dad, he said “you might be an emotional eater.” I was obsessed with food, weight and exercise. I was lost, out of balance, hated my body, had crazy cravings and had no idea how to nourish and take care of myself.

Amanda and her Dad 1995

It was so hard. I wanted to eat well; I wanted to stop using sugar and caffeine to keep me going; I wanted to love my body and feel comfortable all of the time so that I could attract my soul mate; I wanted real infinite energy; and wanted to know what was best for my body. I tried everything from fasting, extreme exercise and diet programs to nutritionists, doctors, chiropractors, iridologists, quitting cold turkey and deprivation.

Everyone I saw told me the same thing: “Get off sugar, don’t eat bread, eat protein and don’t eat meat.” And none of their advice worked!

1999 Meeting Johnn

The defining period in my life was in the winter of 1999, I fell in love. I didn’t want to have emotional eating problems, hate my body and be obsessed about food and afraid that I was going to be fat in my romantic, soulful relationship so I began to study everything I could about holistic nutrition and health, and surround myself with healthy friends. Johnn (My boyfriend at the time; my husband today.) and I were living in Mammoth Lakes, California for the summer after college. I got a job (After offering to work for free because I really wanted to learn and be mentored by the healthy/beautiful/radiant owner) at a tiny mom and pop health food store making juice and preparing live food all day. I absolutely loved nurturing myself and others with pure, live juice. I felt strong, balanced, beautiful, radiant, alive and free for the first time in my life. Soon after that I did a two week raw food liver and gallbladder cleanse. I felt like the butterfly coming out of the cocoon. I felt radiant, pure, beautiful, free, connected, alive and really me for the first time in my 25 years on earth.

Thus began my journey into nutrition, healing, spirituality, creativity, abundance, manifestation, yoga, co-creating, trust and freedom.

Amanda and friends hiking 2000

Recalling my time at the juice bar in Mammoth Lakes, California brings me joy and excitement. It was the first time the “light” really came on and I woke up to the simplicity and abundance of healthy living. Now I love helping my clients, friends and students discover this light within each of them.

I have since dedicated my professional life to helping people learn about whole foods, self love, and body confidence. This commitment led me to the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York City in 2005. At the Institute, I finally had a mentor/holistic health coach who really got me. We talked on the phone twice a month over a year.

She listened and loved me up and allowed me to share with her my deepest fears, secret emotions and feelings about my body, my relationship with food, my uncontrollable sugar cravings, emotional eating binges and all of the fear and tremendous amount of guilt I carried about food and my body. I had never talked to anyone about my internal food/body monologue. This was very freeing and taught me how to listen, love and coach other women on similar journeys.

She helped me understand my cravings and release guilt and fear about food and my body. She really worked with me to become more aware of how I felt when I ate and how to listen to my body.

I am ecstatic to say that as a result of my commitment and intention to heal my sugar addiction and understand my emotional eating patterns, all of my food issues are gone!

I am committed to helping women and men who truly desire to change and transform on all levels: women and men who are sick of feeling tired, overweight, fearful, unhealthy and out of balance; people who are ready to let go of the old and create what they truly desire in mind, body, heart and soul; individuals who know (or are open to knowing) that it is their birth right to have abundant energy, radiant health and balance.

The good news is I’ve been in your shoes!

I am passionate about teaching my clients how to listen to, trust, honor and respect their beautiful bodies. I believe that the body has infinite wisdom and if given half a chance, will find a natural path to healing and balance. I love giving my clients the gift of learning how to breathe consciously to nourish every cell in their body, to stop anxiety and fear, to love their bodies, tap into their intuition and connect with their Soul. I am very inspiring, uplifting and positive and LOVE sharing what I know about affirmations, and using the mind to create what you want through visualization, self talk and manifesting the body and life of your dreams.

10 Interesting facts about me:

I love getting a sneak peak into my health coaches’ lives out of the office and I wanted to give you a chance to know me on a more intimate and personal level so here are a few things about me…

- My most empowering, magical, life-changing experience to date was giving birth to my son Sawyer Fir Williams (I kept my maiden name). I gave birth in the privacy and comfort of our home (in a birthing pool in our bedroom with two fantastic Midwives) on December 23, 2008. After Sawyer was born, I felt like I had climbed Mt. Everest! I felt so empowered and triumphant as if anything was possible! Click here to read Sawyer’s home birth story and to see pictures.

- I am deeply and madly in love with my Soul mate, Johnn Williams. We met skiing in Alta, Utah in January 1999, were engaged under the Eiffel Tower in France on Bastille Day in 2004 and married where we met in Alta, Utah on August 27, 2005. We had a huge wedding and danced all night long with our friends and family. Johnn rode his mountain bike onto the wedding platform and my dress was made from silk which I bought on a solo-spiritual journey to India.

- I learned to really let go, trust and surrender to the Universe after Johnn had a near-death ski accident on April 10, 2008. He hit a tree and suffered a severe head injury. His angels dragged him out of the tree well and down the mountain 60 feet so he could be seen and rescued. A medical student found him and ski patrol came in the nick of time. The overcast clouds parted, the helicopter landed and he was flown to the hospital. At the hospital it was determined that Johhn had an epidural hematoma, had broken his skull, jaw and nose, and needed immediate surgery. I got the call while I was in session with a client and raced to the hospital, my entire body shaking like crazy. I thought, “This isn’t supposed to happen. Johnn and I are supposed to have a family and live together forever.” I prayed, affirmed and visualized our future life while he was in neuro-surgery. My mantra was, “Johnn is going to have a complete recovery.” The surgeon came out hours later and told us the good news. ”Your husband is going to make a complete recovery!” Thank you God, Universe, Angels! I was overjoyed with happiness, faith and love. Johnn spent a week in the hospital. The day he returned home, I was feeling VERY nauseous. I took a pregnancy test and then three more. I was pregnant! What a miracle! Sawyer Fir was named after the tree Johnn hit and the miracle of his recovery. Johnn has made a 110 percent recovery. He has suffered not one deficit. If anything, he has improved! He had a deeply spiritual experience and has renewed faith in the Universe and LIFE itself. We are beyond grateful and thank the Universe every day for this enormous gift of Life.

- I envision a world where all people have access to real, whole organic food from the earth. I started “Amanda’s Hope Garden” at the Children’s House of Hope in Salt Lake City, Utah. My dream is to have organic gardens and yoga education incorporated into every school across the globe. Can you imagine how the world will transform if everyone was eating real, whole organic food and living yoga? Our future is so bright, we need sunglasses!

- I have trekked in Nepal to the base camp of the world’s third largest mountain; climbed in Thailand; explored Peru and Costa Rica; surfed in Brazil and Mexico; skied for a winter season in Chamonix, France; traveled on an overland Safari in southern Africa; studied Yoga and Meditation in the Himalayas in India; and drank wine and ate a ton of cheese and chocolate in France, Spain and Italy.

- I was a competitive free skier for three years and won first place in one competition! I love skiing! I love going fast, feeling free and so alive in the expansiveness of the mountains.

- I won the first (and only) triathlon I competed in.

- My personal exercise routine includes three days a week of Bikram yoga practice, and either mountain biking or hiking in the summer or skiing in the winter three times a week. I absolutely thrive on physical exercise because it clears my mind, strengthens my body and keeps me energized, happy and alive.

- The truth is… I am NOT a fantastic chef but I truly want to be! My intention is to create healthy, nutritious and delicious meals for my family. I like to eat very simply, easy, healthy foods.

- My favorite foods are avocados, kale, sweet brown rice, mangos (Fresh from the trees in Hawaii) and I really love dark chocolate (Always have, always will!).

- My dream is to live and work with my clients and run my 30 Day Cleanse and Total Body Confidence programs while living on Kauai, Hawaii two months of every year.

- I love manifesting, visualizing and creating vision boards and mind movies because they work. I get so pumped up envisioning my life and body it manifests practically over night!

- I love my Mom (Donna) because she is generous, caring, funny and helpful. She’s an awesome cook, party planner, gift giver and caretaker. I love my Dad (Paul) because he is fun, wild, generous, supportive and annoying. (He reminds me so much of me!) My heart is full of gratitude and appreciation for my loving and fun parents. I wouldn’t be who I am today if it weren’t for their guidance, support and belief in me.

Want to read my food and body paradigm? Click here.