Meet Emily
We were created by God as physical and spiritual beings. How we choose to live, eat, think and steward our daily habits, rhythms and routines, directly impacts our health and wellbeing.
Emily appreciates the simple things of life— a good sunset, spending time with her family and black lab Spero, slow mornings sipping coffee and reading her bible, long walks outside, journaling, dancing to country music, getting a good workout in with her friends, making healthy meals and getting wrapped up in a really good book. She has a passion for health and wellness and what it means to pursue it well.
It is difficult to embrace the call on your life when you are physically and spiritually exhausted, bloated all the time, unable to focus, riddled with anxiety, shaky between meals, laying awake into the deep hours of the night, constantly losing your thoughts and words and in pain. These can be alarm systems that something is off, and when paired with blood work, can help communicate what may be going on.
At the wake of covid, Emily took her in-person nutrition practice virtual and created several online courses and programs to teach others. Over the years, she has learned that so much of our health comes back to this concept of ‘Foundations.’ A house must be built on a strong foundation. How we live, eat, think and steward our daily habits, rhythms and routines determines the strength of that foundation. Because, though a house might ‘look’ beautiful, without a stable foundation, it likely won’t whether the storm. And much like a house, our lives and health will face its fair share of storms.
Wellness is a choice, regardless of what you do or do not have access to. It is a choice to surround yourself with live-giving community. It is a choice to prioritize sleep. It is a choice to drink water and consume nutrient dense foods. It is a choice to move your body and adopt habits of rhythm and rest. On the contrary, it is a choice not to. You can choose to consume a lot of processed foods, scroll on your phone all hours of the day, live in a posture of bitterness and unforgiveness, avoid sunlight, live a sedentary lifestyle, drink endless cups of coffee, constantly skip meals or even chase the latest and greatest gut cleanse and detox. We have a choice. The goal of our choices is not perfection; in fact, that can lead to its own set of issues, but rather a choice to lead a lifestyle that honors our physical temple and supports resilience and adaptability.
The beauty of bio-individualty is that though we all share similar characteristics, we are each uniquely different. I think that’s what makes the study of nutrition, health, and wellness so awe-inspiring. It is a gift to be able to learn from one another, and share our experiences, findings, and testimonies. We get to choose to take a posture of humility and adopt a willingness to constantly learn, pray, and surrender the rest.
Notes, Programs & Services
Emily is no longer accepting new public clients outside of her current network
To inquire about working with someone on Emily’s team, please email emily.practicebetter@gmail.com
Explore Emily’s Referral List (Practitioners who took Emily’s blood chemistry course)
Learn more about Emily’s Master Blood Chemistry with Em (MBCE) Course
Explore Core Formulas (a supplement line that Emily Co-Founded)
Get to the root of your acne with the CLEARSTEM Skincare Acne Lab Test
For speaking and other inquiries, please email emily.practicebetter@gmail.com
Education
Emily graduated with a Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology and Dual Minor in Nutrition and Leadership Studies from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. After college, Emily enrolled in the NTA and IHP programs, while working alongside a Functional Medicine Doctor for clinical experience.
NTA
Certified Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (FNTP), October 2018
As an FNTP, we identify and address imbalances in the body with nutritional modalities for improving overall health and wellness. The NTA does a fantastic job of teaching you about the ‘foundations’ of health and how signs and symptoms correlate with various dysfunction in the body. As a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, we are able to personalize protocols, whereas many other programs out there only teach you one size fits all protocols. I loved this program and highly recommend it. It is a bit of a time commitment (around 9 months) and does require zoom classes and meetings.
Certified Integrative Health Practitioner, 2019
I really enjoyed the IHP program. You can finish it a lot faster than the NTP program! The programs compliment each other really well and teach entirely different curriculums! I'd recommend exploring both options to see which one suits your style better if you only want one certification!
Benefits to IHP:
- One of the most cost effective and informative nutrition ceritication programs out there in my opinion
- Great for beginners or advanced practitioners looking to expand their knowledge about labs (level 2)
- IHP Level 2 provides insight into lab interpretation (Food Sensitivity, GI Map, OAT, HTMA, Hormones & Omega 3)
- IHP Level 2 grants you access to a Fullscript dispensary (level 1 does not)
IHP has extended a special offer to all of you, my incredible community. You can use the code EMILY for $100 off IHP Level 1 and/or $250 off the IHP Level 1 and 2 bundle.
Read more about IHP on their website; simply click curriculum to see all that the program has to offer.
Core Formulas
Whether it was the combination of nutrients or herbs that were not quite right, dosages that we wished were increased or decreased, or simply a product with tons of unnecessary ingredients or fillers, we knew we needed to create what we could not find for ourselves and clients.
Core Formulas was created out of a need for better solutions and formulated with simple, pure ingredients and intentions. We include only the solutions that are needed and nothing else. Simple and effective are the two most important aspects to our formulations.
Our formulas provide simple, yet effective, support with clean and targeted ingredients.
Blood Chemistry Course
The MBCE course takes a deep dive into functional blood chemistry ranges and numerous reasons a marker may be high or low, with added patterns, root cause clues, case study practice and more.
FAQ:
Q: When will you re-open seeing 1:1 in practice?
A: At this time and for the foreseeable future, I do not plan to re-open my 1:1 to the public outside of my current network.
Q: If you had to choose one educational program, which one would it be?
A: I sincerely loved both programs and they teach entirely different curriculums. The programs compliment each other really well. The NTA covers more of the foundations of health and how symptoms correlate with different imbalances whereas IHP (level 2) covers more science and lab testing such as the Organic Acid Test and Hair Tissue Mineral Analysis.
Q: I want to learn more! How can I learn what you know?
A: I worked in two different functional medicine offices over the course of 3 years. I also had some incredible mentors come into my life. I highly recommend immersing yourself in continuing education though online courses and in person conferences. It is a great way to learn and network. I launched MBCE to educate people about functional blood work and how to address the imbalances from a bio-individual standpoint.
Q: Where did you learn about blood work?
A: I learned a baseline of knowledge rom the Chiropractor I worked alongside. It lit a fire under me and I began studying and attending online summits and conferences to learn more. Most of the education came from my own research and what I was seeing as patterns in my practice. I would have their blood work laid next to tons of other functional labs with their health history questionnaire and the patterns all started to click.
Q: If I take MBCE, can I set up a lab account to use blood work in my practice?
A: As a practitioner or health coach or doctor or nurse, yes! You will be able to set up an account with our lab partner. Their physician signs off on every order so technically it is you putting in the request and they order the labs. Many people complete my course alongside or after the IHP and NTP programs. Lab set up is only available to those in U.S and Canada. Labs can not be acquired in certain states where it is prohibited, like New York and New Jersey. See MBCE website for more FAQ about the course.