We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Jocelyn Brousseau. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Jocelyn below.

Alright, Jocelyn thanks for taking the time to share your stories and insights with us today. Can you tell us about a time where you or your team really helped a customer get an amazing result?

When I started working with a recent client of mine, she said that her stress levels were very high and that she was constantly craving sugar. She has recently finsihed my signature program and told me that her stress level is down tremendously, and she is more aware of her daily actions and quick to change them when they are off course. She has also lost 10lbs and is now better aware of what her want body wants and needs. She also said that her husband has been observing the changes she has been making and starting implementing them in his own daily routine!

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I would love to! I am currently a Certified Holistic Health Coach and a Whole30 Certified Coach living in Indianapolis, Indiana. I remember being 10 years old and sneaking down to the kitchen to get cookies from the pantry. I was using food as my emotional support, and even at such a young age, I was extremely self conscious of my body. I continued to use food as a crutch to temporarily mask the grief and pain that I was experiencing through my teenage years and early adulthood. When I was 27, I felt so uncomfortable in my own skin and was at the highest weight I had ever been. I knew something had to change. So I went on my own health and wellness journey starting in 2017 and found the structure, tools and information that empowered me to take back control of my life and learn how to love myself with the food I put into my body.

Now I want to help other women do the same! In my signature Food Freedom Framework program, I help women repair their relationship with food so they can feel empowered and in control of their bodies and eat without shame or guilt. I also guide and facilitate individuals who want to complete the Whole30. The Whole30 is an elimination protocol where you eliminate certain foods that are potentially inflammatory to your body and learn how to fuel your body with what foods serve you best. I give people the tools to succeed throughout their 30+ day journey and find those non-scale victories (NSV) they have been looking for!

What sets me apart from others is that I am still on this journey myself, but I have already done so much of the work, and I would love to share that knowledge with others so they can be successful in their food freedom. Having accountability and someone who has been where you are now is such a game changer! I am proud of how far I have come and that I have already been very successful in helping women create a healthy relationships with food since starting my own coaching business!

Can you share a story from your journey that illustrates your resilience?

One big life example of when I was tested physically, mentally and emotionally was when my youngest brother passed away unexpectedly in May of 2020. As I mentioned before, I have been an emotional eater since I was a young child, and it would have been easy for me to slip back and fall back on emotional eating again. But I was determined not to let myself fall back into these bad patterns and continue to build upon the tools and mindset that I had worked so hard for over the past 5 years.

I was beyond grateful that I had already started on my own path to healing my relationship with food back in 2017 because the knowledge that I gained about my body, my mind and my spirit since starting that journey had led me to become a better version of myself.

When I first heard the news about my brother, my whole world felt like it came crashing down on me. I made a promise to myself during the beginning stages of my grieving process that I wasn’t going to turn to food for my main source of comfort. But if there were times where I thought that it woudl be best for my body, then I told myself it would be ok. I still made the effort to cook food that I knew that was nutritious for my body, my mind and my soul. I still kept training for my triathlon later that summer, and I continued my healthy habits of walking every day, drinking water and getting the rest my body needed.

Grief is one of the hardest things we go through on this earth, but I know that when I respect and listen to my body and really hear what it needs, I can really thrive in the here and now. I am not saying that food is the answer to all our problems, but I am saying that food can be a tool that you use to help us really understand who we are as people and who we want to become.

I leaned into my grief in those really dark times because I knew that I had the tools to help me continue to exist and serve myself and others here on this earth.

And if I can do it, so can you.

We’d love to hear the story of how you built up your social media audience?

I don’t currently have a big social media following, but I am so grateful for the people who follow along on my page. I have realized that I find success when I show up as my true authentic self and show people the highs and lows of life. Not everything is that highlight reel that we see on social media, so I want to level with my audience and show them that I am not perfect and I don’t always succeed, but that I keep showing up for myself.

My biggest piece of advice to thrive on social media is to just be yourself. Don’t try to get the most likes, views or go viral. Show up and share things that people find valuable and share your life authentically because even if I make a difference in one persons life, that too me means so much more than any other number on social media.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wholisticjocelyn/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jocelyn.brousseau.3
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jocelynbrousseau/

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