Inspiring Conversations with Grace Buffa of Life Journey Coaching

Today we’d like to introduce you to Grace Buffa.  

Hi Grace, we’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
Grace’s journey has started out over 25 years ago when she started helping people heal as a Physical Therapist Assistant. After 8 years of working in a busy Physical Therapy department, she became a mom and stayed at home to raise her children. Life looked good from the outside. On the inside, she had struggled with bouts of depression and had a distorted view of her body, and did not have a healthy relationship with food. She finally found yoga two years later, and her life changed. As she became a Registered Yoga Teacher, she noticed her depression lifted and that conscious breathing, mindfulness practices, was healing her body and mind as the view of herself was changing. 

At the same time her son was struggling with food and environmental allergies, her husband with high cholesterol and triglycerides at the age of 33. 

Grace was now driven to find truth in why her family was experiencing these ailments and what does it take to live a high quality of life and to age well without illness and disease. 

So, she started to research nutrition, took her son and husband to many doctors to find no real results or answers. They were just given prescription drugs. She was not going to settle for that. 

After 13 years she fell upon Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s Ted Talk “I love Nutritional Science.” This video would change her family’s life forever. 

As they transitioned to a Whole Foods Plant Based Diet, she realized this was the answer she had been looking for. This was the first time that her body felt satisfied, balanced, and freed from the deprivation way of dieting and looking at food like the enemy. Her family was the healthiest they had ever been up to this point. 

At this time, she had also found Cardiologist Dr. Joel Kahn through one of her yoga students. He has helped her and husband find truth in why he was suffering from high cholesterol and triglycerides. 

She discovered in essence when you nourish your body properly, practice self-care and stress management techniques along with having a positive mindset that this is the key to being preventative in your health and to live a high quality of life. 

She found herself very passionate on helping people understand their bodies and become advocates for their own health. This is when she decided to become a Board-Certified Health and Wellness Coach. 

She feels it is her purpose and passion to guide people through hope and healing to find being whole and free on the other side. 

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Not a smooth road as I had always been an employee and worked for another person or company. Now I had to figure out my worth, how do I charge people, how to start a business, and what does it take for it to be successful. 

Thanks – so, what else should our readers know about Life Journey Coaching LLC?
I specialize in stress management and preventative health. I am proud of how I hold myself to high values and ethical standards. 

What sets me apart is I ultimately bring solutions that people can count on to be accurate and get results. I look to do things correctly simply because that is what a trusted person would do. I take pride in delivering what I promise and then some. I believe that when relationships are based upon trust, then sky’s the limit. I truly believe in contributing to a greater cause, to make a true difference in someone’s life. I seek to add value to everything I do, and that I am known as the ” Go to ‘ person. 

When you are looking for a coach, you need to make sure that they have the credentials and certifications that are not just from a cookie-cutter program, I know that a lot of people that might call themselves a “Health and Wellness Coach”, but they might be Board Certified like I am. 

I believe with my experience in the medical field and yoga it brings a different level of experience and expertise to the table and understanding for each individual person. 

If you had to, what characteristic of yours would you give the most credit to?
I feel I have a couple. I continue to work on a good balance between confidence and strength and to be humble. I also feel to be a good business owner you have to be Heart Centered first. This is what I strive to be good at as well.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.lifejourneycoaching.net
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gracebuffaspeaks/
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• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grace-buffa-nbc-hwc-48a624192/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAVNQHseadHvmyVD4hcPYrg