ABOUT

Why I Do What I Do

As an Integrative Health Practitioner, who has worked in international relief and development in South Asia, South America and the Arab Gulf, and someone who lost my mom to cancer, I understand how important health is to be able to keep up with it all…

I also used to struggle with gut and hormonal imbalances plus heavy metal toxicities that led to skin, energy and health issues. Luckily, I learned how to eat and live more healthily and to uncover the underlying root causes of these and many other health problems that used to affect me and the clients I have been fortunate enough to work with.

For the last 9 years I have worked as a certified health coach, raw food educator, essential oil safety advisor, and Integrative Health Practitioner. Using my diverse background of education, study and experience, I am able to draw upon many disciplines to create far more than a “one-size fits all” approach.

Each of my private clients gets a personalized program developed just for them and their unique needs. I have personally found that helping people discover their underlying root cause imbalance and developing a customized protocol is the difference maker to ensuring that my clients get the exact results they have been looking for.

If you’d like to discover how to get your customized plan created just for you, simply click the link below to schedule your no-obligation, free consultation.

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Who am I, and how do I know how to help you?

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I’m the daughter of two parents who worked for the UN.

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My mother was my first country, the first place I ever lived.

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I grew up in Kenya, Ithaca, NY, Malaysia, Pennsylvania, and Rome, Italy.

I studied International Development at American University, School of International Service. It was in my blood.

At 61 years old my mom suffered from a stomach ache that took two months to get a diagnosis of non-hodgkin’s lymphoma.

Then after that she was put on chemotherapy and radiation, and it failed. Each dose of chemo was more lethal than the last, but the cancer came back stronger every time. As a last resort she was going to have a stem cell transplant, but her body was too weak to generate enough stem cells because chemotherapy weakens your immune system.

We lost her on January 29, 2003. My grandmother wished she could trade places with her. It was an otherwise beautiful night in January. I ran to the bay window to wave goodbye for now, and it was as bright as day outside because of the light of the moon on the snow. To this day, I cry when I’m walking outside at night and it’s snowing.

Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

John Spence

I had always thought I’d have my mom around until I was 80. Her mother lived to be 97. My brother said it was like a tornado had come through and wiped out everything. Our glue was gone.

I hung onto my impact-driven self, but the light had gone out of my eyes. I was buried in there somewhere, but the twinkle in my eyes had become so dim that I barely recognized myself. Life, as I knew it, was over and my journey of self-rediscovery was just beginning.

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I poured my heart into my work as a child rights activist in the global movement to end child slavery and exploitation and advocated for the universal right to education.

Child rescued from debt bondage to landowner in Pakistan. Photo Credit: Beth Lindley

I traveled extensively in Pakistan and India, interviewing children, their families and other stakeholders in order to fully understand the connections between inter-generational poverty, child slavery and education.

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Moved by what I saw, I raised money to extract children from brick kilns, carpet looms and soccer ball factories and put them into schools in Pakistan.

I led the development of proposals to rehabilitate child soldiers in Colombia and to rescue girls trafficked into sexual exploitation in Kosovo in collaboration with local non-governmental organizations, government agencies and the International Labor Organization. I was active in stakeholder meetings with socially responsible multinational corporations committed to moving children from cocoa fields to classrooms in Africa.

In hindsight, my humanitarian efforts were putting my health at risk. I was running on coffee and croissants. I was pulling all-nighters in order to submit proposals on time. My colleagues in Peru had to drag me out to lunch instead of working through it. I loved my job so much and it brought me so much fulfillment that it was like a band-aid for my grief and loss.

Eventually, my lifestyle caught up with me. One night my urine was the color of Welch’s grape juice. I drove myself to the emergency room and a CT scan revealed not one, but two kidney stones – one in each kidney, 1.2+ cm each. I was like, What is a kidney stone and why do I have them?

I had laser lithotripsy twice and extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy three times over two years, and there was still a remnant of one stone lodged in the wall of my lower kidney.

Then I was put on a pharmaceutical that I was told I would have to take for the rest of my life. None of my doctors could tell me why this happened, how I got here and how I could get out of it.

Meanwhile, I got trained in disaster relief, trauma, grief and loss, and critical incident stress management and volunteered as a reservist with a non-profit organization dedicated to disaster response.

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I volunteered to distribute relief packages to Iraqi refugee families who had found refuge in Beirut.

Fortunately, for me it was a book that I found in 2012. That was what ignited me – reading about the concept of living food and dead food. I had never heard raw food talked about in those terms before.

After that, I knew for sure that what I needed was more raw food, but I didn’t know how to do it. I didn’t know how to grow sprouts. I didn’t know how to grow wheatgrass.

So I had to learn by immersing myself in a nourishing raw food retreat. That is when I first tasted wheatgrass juice. That is also where I was introduced to dōTERRA essential oils – oils that I can get 100% behind because their #1 priority is sourcing pure oils and they create abundance worldwide through their co-impact sourcing model. I began to flood my body with the micronutrients found in green juice.

And you know what happened? I got better – ridiculously fast. I began to replenish nutritional deficiencies, rejuvenate my body, raise my vibration, and optimize my health and immunity with plant-based medicine.

When you flood your body with micronutrients and antioxidants you can have some of the most profound effects.

  • It just made me happy.
  • I had endless energy.
  • I began to glow again.
  • I lost 5 pounds in 1 week.
  • At that point, I got off the medication, and I have been dis-ease free.
  • I had crystal clarity.
  • I received a new vision, and I had the stamina, focus and motivation to see it through to the end.
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Now I help people serving other people to live a long, health life so they can impact even more.

– instead of getting sick and dying at at 63 (like my mom and Goodwill Ambassador Audrey Hepburn did).

This journey had such a profound effect on me that I decided to go back to school and study nutrition.

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In order to be the best at what I do, I studied with some of the top mentors and teachers in the field of raw and living foods.

Why raw foods? Quite simply because raw food is the most powerful food on the planet and everyone needs to be eating more of it. I have personally found it to be one of the most transformative tools that any person can use in their life. It really is magical. It is a miracle what raw food can do for the body, mind and spirit. Its ability to rejuvenate and transform is, in my opinion, second to none.

I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of nature.

Rudolph Steiner

These are things that should be learned in elementary school, but they are not. This is about skill power. It’s not about will power.

So I decided to combine my knowledge about the power of nutrition and my desire to help people doing great work in the world to do it even better, and thus Beth Lindley Wellness was born.

What’s more is finding a good Integrative Health Practitioner who can share Functional Medicine lab testing with you that will enable you to uncover the underlying root causes of why you are sick or aging rapidly and to refine precisely what to do about it. That is what happened for me and inspired me to get my Integrative Health Practitioner certification.

I help people serving other people to respond to and recover from their own disasters and get better from within, using a Personalized Wellness Plan that is based on their story and their lab results and includes nutrition, movement, stress reduction, toxin removal, smart supplementation, and much more!

MY WHY

The thing that propels me to share these tools with people is that feeling that I have everyday in my life of empowerment. I want every person to have the opportunity to feel empowered.

Before this, …

  • I knew what it felt like to NOT have these tools and techniques.
  • I knew what it felt like to NOT be able to help my mom as much as I wanted to.
  • I knew what it felt like to feel helpless.
  • I knew what it felt like to NOT be in the know. Just to be clear, I am not saying that raw food is THE answer to cancer, but for many people it has been.

That feeling of EMPOWERMENT in my life is what propels me to keep sharing the power of Functional Medicine, raw food and essential oils.

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As she did many times throughout my life, my mom still sheds light on my purpose.

While out of sight, she is never out of mind. I often wish she could be here to see what my brothers have accomplished, to love my nephews the way she loved me, to continually support me, and so much more. I used to be angry that my nephews would never know her. Yet I realize that if it weren’t for her demise, I would not be doing this work. She was always an amazing helper and source of inspiration to me, whether she was protecting me from perceived danger or being of service. Since her death, I have often wondered what a difference she would have continued to make in my life.

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Allow me to customize your wellness plan for you. Working directly with you to get what you want is what I do best.

CERTIFICATIONS & ACCREDITATIONS

  • Certified Integrative Health Practitioner, L1 & L2
  • Certified Essential Oil Safety Advisor, Essential Oil Safety Academy
  • Certified Raw Food Educator, The Raw Food Institute
  • Certified Raw Food Coach & Teacher, The Raw Food Coach
  • Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, American Association of Drugless Practitioners
  • Certified Health Coach, Institute for Integrative Nutrition
  • Certified Raw Culinary Arts Associate Chef and Instructor & Advanced Raw Culinary Arts Instructor, Living Light Culinary Arts Institute

The bottom line is, if you’re serious about making or sustaining an impact then you need to BEGIN with YOUR health. You don’t get to create, or sustain or increase that impact unless your health enables you to do that. That’s a fact.

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