Dee Davidson, FDN-P, owner of Confidently Love Yourself, combines her expertise in functional health and mindset coaching to empower her patients in taking better care of themselves—body, mind and soul. Many women have become physically, mentally and energetically depleted from taking care of everyone else except themselves. Davidson’s approach to healing emphasizes the necessity of loving oneself enough and making oneself a priority.

While functional lab diagnostics help to accurately identify imbalances in the body and root causes of illness, healing requires more than taking responsibility for proper diet and exercise. Restoring well-being also requires self-loving habits of replenishment, including mental and spiritual self-care.

Davidson’s D.R.E.S.S. for Health Success approach to restoring wellness focuses on five key areas—Diet, Rest, Exercise, Stress Reduction and Supplementation. She enhances this approach with personalized coaching. “Caring for yourself is about how you want to show up for yourself,” says Davidson, “and this begins with how you start your day. When you wake up in the morning, ask yourself, ‘How do I want to feel today?’ rather than ‘What do I need to do today?’ Then take time to set your intention.”

As a single mother with two sons, Davidson begins her day with gratitude—gratitude for another day—and sets her intentions for the day, “like a trailer for a movie.” She imagines the energy she wants to put out for others, and she takes time for breath work. “Cortisol is highest when we wake up,” Davidson states. “It’s the hormone that helps open our eyes and get us going. It should not start rising. It should decline as the day goes on. Breathing is the best way to help bring cortisol down. Five to 10 deep breaths help with stress reduction, relaxation and digestion.”

She hydrates with a glass of cleansing, replenishing lemon water. Then she seeks some kind of movement, asking her body what it needs that morning—“a gym workout or a 15-minute walk?” She mentions the strategy of “habit stacking,” attaching a new habit to one that is already well-established, so it becomes automatic.

Moving through the day, self-love means setting personal boundaries, knowing when to say no, choosing that which sustains and people that have good energy.

Davidson eats dinner at least four hours before bedtime to allow for proper digestion, stable blood sugar levels and better sleep. Before bedtime, she takes time to reflect on three good things that happened during the day. Her holistic practice goes beyond functional healing to create a lifestyle plan that elevates confidence, nurtures self-love, enhances quality of life and transforms health completely.

For more information or to schedule a consultation with Davidson, call 888-679-3815, email [email protected] or visit ConfidentlyLoveYourself.com.