My name is Jessica Martin. I am a mother of two little girls, as well as a pet mom to two rescued dogs, two rescued cats and currently 17 backyard chickens. We live on Long Island in New York. I have been a Certified Health Coach for the past 12 years but have not been practicing, as I was not sure what I specifically wanted to do with it or who I wanted to help. Over the past four years my purpose has been coming full circle, and I have been working on putting the pieces together.
I spent the majority of my life unhealthy and overweight, even though during this time I was vegetarian or vegan and played sports or ran daily. I still never could maintain a healthy weight and didn’t feel great. Becoming a health coach did help me learn a better way of looking at and managing a healthy diet but it wasn’t enough just to learn something, implementing it & maintaining it is what is needed the most.
About 4 years ago I got pregnant with my first daughter. I went into the pregnancy with a ton of knowledge. I had trained to be a doula the summer before. I had also worked in the health food industry for an organic chocolate company a few years prior. I knew I wanted to have a home birth with a midwife, no drugs during pregnancy or labor. I wanted to breastfeed. I had done my research. I was however, still not healthy. I hit my highest weight ever early in that pregnancy. Below is a photo take at the same apple farm early in that pregnancy and then a comparison to this year.
Jumping ahead a bit: After having my first daughter my mindset started to make major shifts. I had already been reading and watching a lot of things on parenting, specifically conscious & respectful parenting and montessori. I started to realize I wasn’t being a good example for my daughter being overweight & unhealthy, especially if I wanted to give her the best start in life to thrive. It seemed my parents generation, and the ones that followed, as technology became a bigger part of our lives, caused the parenting style to degenerate. I myself grew up on diet coke, tv dinners and a whole lot of television. My parents as great as they were, were both over weight when I was growing up (my father however did make a major shift when I was 16 and lost a ton of weight and started working out daily which, he still does to this day.)
I started to make changes, we had been ordering out for dinner almost ever night. And no matter how healthy it seemed it wasn’t, and it was a waste of money. It was also pure laziness. I realized this especially after having two kids, the second who hasn’t slept through a night since she was born. That you are never really as tired as you think you are. You can still make fresh food everyday and stop sitting around because you need to “relax”. Kids have so much energy and you need to be able to keep up with them. I started working out daily, stopped watching TV and stopped using the TV as a babysitter. I started cooking literally everything we eat. I lost some weight between my first and second daughter but the real change came after my second. I dropped close to 100 lbs and have been working on maintaining for the past few months which is a very delicate balance. Maintaining is almost harder than losing honestly.
During all this I also worked on my mind. I started heavily studying Mindfulness, Self Awareness, Meditation and Breathwork. This all helped my own self care as well as my studies into conscious parenting and how I talk to and react to my kids & triggers. I am now a breathwork teacher, and doing a two year meditation teacher training as well as becoming a conscious parenting coach.
With this mindset and my holistic approaches I also have continuously studied healthy diet & lifestyle for not just myself but for raising my kids and our whole family, I have been continuing my education with this by becoming a Naturopathic Doctor, which will still take a few years until completed, but is furthering my education from my Health Coaching certification.
Because I don’t believe in our current medical practices especially for infants and children I decided to become a board certified Homeopath as well. I am also currently in training for this but feel comfortable using my knowledge for acute care at this point with my one on one clients.
All of this has now come together to be here to help women and mothers on their fertility, pregnancy and postpartum journeys. Self care is so important, if you don’t care for yourself first you can’t care for others. My purpose has presented itself, as taking all my knowledge and life experience to be able to raise the next generation of healthy & conscious mothers. So that they can pass it on to their children and reverse the downward path we have been on the past few decades. It’s time for us to awaken to the needs of the next generations and implement the changes the world needs.
It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
L.R. Knost
Our parenting journey starts with ourselves. In most cases we need to reparent ourselves with the help of our children and our triggers. This all starts before we have children though. The best thing you can do for yourself and your kids, is start before having them. Start with your health and mindset during fertility. You will only grow and learn from there. If you already have children I can help from that point as well. Your self care, mindset & wellness are top priority and that is where I come in. My children are still young, and just like you I am on this journey for life, I am always learning & growing. NO ONE is perfect.
For now you can follow me on Instagram & Facebook, or join my email list to learn more for free. Or go to my offerings page to work with me one on one, to become the best you, to raise the best them.
My Mash up of education (not all listed):
~ Certified Health Coach from IIN
~ Mindfulness Meditation Teacher in training via The Awareness Training Institute and the Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley
~ Breathwork Teacher in training via Academy of Breath
~ Naturopath Doctor in Training
~ Certified Classical Homeopathist in training via AHE
~ Certified Crystal Healer
~ Reiki Level 2 certified
~ Spirit Junkie Masterclass via Gabby Bernstein
~ Inner Temple Mystery School via Rebecca Campbell