About

Welcome! I’m Courtney Pool, and I’m a nutritionist and coach who specializes in healing overeating, plant-based nutrition and juice cleansing.

 
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I've been vegan since 2005, and teaching nutrition, cleansing and healing overeating for nearly that long!

I’ve run my own health consulting business since 2012 and have coached hundreds of people. I have Juice Feasted and fasted for hundreds of days in total, including a consecutive 60-day Juice Feast. Prior to starting my business, for over 5 years I worked as a supervisor at the Tree of Life Center in Arizona, founded by Gabriel Cousens, M.D. At the Tree of Life, I taught nutrition and juice cleansing classes as well as lead guest support sessions for guests. I am a certified Juice Feasting coach, trained under David Rainoshek, M.A., founder of Juice Feasting.

There are some truths that I'm passionate about. Some of them are:

  • Overeating can be healed! No matter how long you've struggled with it, and no matter how severe it's been, nobody's soul is broken beyond repair, and you can heal.

  • Proper nutrition and holistic lifestyle practices can absolutely transform your health. Your diet and lifestyle can not just make a little difference, but a massive difference.

  • A vegan diet can revolutionize your health and the planet. It is possible to learn to follow a vegan lifestyle in a balanced way that you stick with, and will thrive on.

How I came to this work: When I was in my late teens, I found myself in a total crisis of body and soul. I had developed a combination of autoimmune symptoms, hormonal problems, chronic fatigue, viral issues that resulted in me being exhausted and feeling absolutely terrible all the time.

Additionally, my lifelong compulsive overeating had morphed into restriction, followed by binge eating, and I had developed severe depression. I eventually gained 65 lbs over a 2 year period and often felt suicidal. I began a quest to heal myself physically, emotionally and spiritually. I felt like I was dying on all levels.

This kicked off years of study on how to heal food addiction, and about nutrition and holistic health. In the end, I healed my binge eating, lost the weight, have kept it off, as well healed my physical health issues.

Over the last 16 years, I have been privileged to watch so many people experience beautiful breakthroughs in their food addictions, as well as seen people who thought they were doomed to suffering from their health issues, experience so much benefit from plant-based nutrition and juicing.

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I am passionate about helping the following kinds of people:

  • People who feel trapped by their food addictions and want to heal it deeply, and permanently.

  • People who want to adopt a plant-based or vegan diet and want guidance as to how to do this in a balanced way, and as to how to have a soul-based shift to being vegan.

  • People who are interested in juice cleansing to feel better physically and/or to help them to access the underlying root causes of food addiction.

I would love to connect with you! You can contact me here on my website, view my free information on my YouTube channel, or connect with me on social media.

Love,

Courtney

Disclaimer: Please note that Courtney Pool is not a medical professional nor a therapist. All material on this website and all coaching is offered as life coaching and as a nutritionist, and is not a substitute for medical or psychological advice.

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