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Tamara
Grow Towards Wellness
Choose to live a healthy and fulfilling life. Wellness is more than being free from illness: it is a process of change and growth towards a mentally, spiritually and physically healthy lifestyle.
Your Health & Wellness Matter
In order to live a higher quality life, maintaining optimal wellness is key. Everything we feel and do relates to our well-being and directly affects our actions and emotions. In order to subdue stress, reduce illness, and ensure positive moments in your life, you must achieve optimal wellness.
Live With Passion & Purpose
To achieve optimal wellness, one must apply it towards every possible endeavor. You can apply a wellness approach towards your environment, community, career, belief systems, physical activities, self care, healthy eating, self esteem, and creative activities. Applying wellness in your everyday life will allow you to achieve your full potential and live with passion and purpose.
About Me
Let me tell you a little bit about myself; I'm a Behavior Specialist, Certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and Reiki Master/Teacher, specializing in Wellness Counseling and bioenergetics. With an emphasis on chronic issues, I work with patients to holistically reclaim their health, using old, as well as new, tools and techniques that heal spirit, mind AND body.
With 25+ years of education and experience in the medical, holistic and wellness fields - obtaining extensive training and certifications - I combine a passion for healthy living, as well as my own experience with severe chronic pain, multiple surgeries and illness, to teach people how to look great, feel better and love their life again. I educate on how to work with your doctor, how food, lifestyle development and energy management will influence your health and healing and create a big impact on the issues being dealt with.
Learn how to use your issues as a stepping stone instead of a roadblock to a better life.
Using principles grounded in Functional Medicine, Psychoneuroimmunology and Integrative Nutrition – addressing the root cause and the interaction between mind, body, spirit and the immune system – I will help you create a plan to achieve and maintain your goals, as well as help you support your current treatment.
Services
Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching
Lose weight, improve symptoms, chronic conditions
Spirit, Mind & Body Coaching
Sometimes, it's not just what you're eating...it's what's eating you. Having conversations about what's holding you back, or in your way...or just needing someone to discuss life situations with...Holistically make the changes and turn your quirks into your perks
PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field)
Naturally recharge your body, expedite recovery, increase circulation, decrease inflammation. Used for pain reduction, depression, anxiety, PTSD and much more
Red Light
Non invasive fat reduction for stubborn areas, reducing the appearance of cellulite & body contouring - lose inches fast! Stimulate fibroblasts, helping to strengthen elastin fibers and collagen
Photon LED Face & Neck Skin Rejuvenation
Increase circulation, reduce the appearance of pores, stimulate collagen, acne, smooth wrinkles and fine lines, anti-aging and lymph metabolism
Bioenergetic Mats
Several modalities in 1 session Hot Stone, Photon Lights, Far Infrared, Negative Ions and PEMF
Energy Work
The human body's energy field extends about 15 feet from the physical body. Maintain, clear and improve your body's energy flow
13 Deck, 1 Hour Card Reads
Utilize your subconscious to address life issues and focus in on the root causes
Essential Oils
All essential oils are custom blended and muscle tested to your specific needs
Reiki
A very old Japanese stress reduction and relaxation technique that promotes healing and balances energy
Officiant Services available
Weddings, Ceremonies, House Blessings and Energy Clearing
Per special Request
Testimonials
Liz
I came to Tammy to learn how to incorporate a consistent healthy eating and active lifestyle. Over the years I noticed a pattern of trying to live a healthy lifestyle only to sabotage myself with unhealthy choices. I wanted help in breaking those unhealthy habits. Tammy was kind, compassionate, patient and full of wonderful knowledge. She walked me through with many tools to incorporate into my life to help me be aware of my bad habits and plugging away to keep an eye on the goal ahead.
She shared many new recipes from green drinks, healthy breakfast and snack ideas to books and websites to understand the importance of staying on track. Also, I loved the information she gave me to understand who I am and accept myself for who I am right now in the present time, not the past ,not the future. She helped me to add better habits and other tools into a new daily schedule to help me remember what is important to me. One of the tools I personally had a hard time with was journaling daily food intake, thoughts and gratitude throughout the day. But when I finally incorporated that into my life it does work and helps to keep me on track.
Along my journey she helped me uncover not so happy instances of my past that I choose to keep buried, to help me see what was "really eating at me". That proved to be the piece of the puzzle that was missing. I loved the help of learning to meditate daily. It opened the peace that was trapped....... all along in my heart.
I am blessed the Lord placed Tammy into my path to be a trusting person that could help me with at the time, a difficult journey. After hard work I can honestly say I have crossed over to a much happier, healthier lifestyle.
Frank
I have been seeing Tamara Hayes as my personal health counselor for the past 3 months. I have learned more from her as far as losing weight and learning to help heal my mind and my body. I have lost approximately 33 pounds in the first 3 months of my counseling sessions with Tammy.
In the past, I have been through many other programs and a psychologist who specializes in food eating disorders. I have failed to continue losing weight under all of these programs, and returned to my old, destructive habits of eating. My major problem with these programs is that once I lost some weight, if I gained some weight back, I would get into a depression and start binge eating, and would just give up.
After my second month starting my program, I could not exercise due to back problems. Therefore, I became depressed about being unable to exercise and gained some weight back. In my next session with Tammy, she was surprised to find out that I got over my depression, and was in a happier mood. I told her the reason for this was because of what I have learned from our sessions together - to not just look at losing weight and counting calories, but to follow the holistic philosophy, in other words, to look at the whole person and to look at all of the different ways in life that controls your eating habits.
I have found that working with Tammy was not just about losing weight, but was making me a healthier person physically, mentally and spiritually. You have to treat all three parts in order to accomplish your goals of keeping and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. In my months of working with Tammy, I have found that she is a very caring person, and that she can make you see the positives in your life, even when you feel like you don’t have any.
For example, Tammy would tell me about all the good things I accomplished since our last meeting, even when I felt like I didn’t accomplish anything. After talking to her, I would have a greater desire to accomplish my goals of losing weight, eating healthier and maintaining a positive attitude. And I still have 3 more months left to go. Thanks, Tammy!!
Tyler
I would have to say getting my son on the PEMF machine helped in speeding up his healing process after cutting off several of his finger tips in a farming accident. The first week he did PEMF 3 times and the second week he went twice I believe and after each treatment you could see a difference in his fingers. Thank goodness for holistic health.
Dave
I was a wounded person when I first visited Tammy. Countless times I tried to diet but to no avail. I wanted to get fit but didn't know how. Tammy helped me develop a healthy relationship with food and encouraged me to find someone who could help me move my body.
Her counseling helped me stay fit physically, mentally, and spiritually. Now I have a healthier relationship with food and deadlift over 400 pounds. All it took was someone to help me find the ways to do it. Tammy was that someone. She is a gift!
Alex
I've just been so busy and have gone through so many ups and downs, but I also have completely fallen in love with falling in love with myself throughout this whole process! There have been plenty of downs, but I have never let myself feel hopeless over it and I just wanted to thank you.
I know I have a lifetime more to go, but Words will never accurately describe how much you have helped me and changed my entire life around. I have never been more confident, content, patient, and more in love with myself and my life than I have been since meeting you and taking your advice.
Aaron & Jamie
As most people are, we were very nervous about our wedding and wanted everything to run smoothly. Tammy helped us to feel at ease about the officiant part of our day. She was very professional, kind, and very witty! She put together a beautiful ceremony that was personalized to us.
Her words were very meaningful and sincere. We received so many comments on how great of a job she did. She far surpassed our expectations on what a wedding officiant should be and we would be proud to recommend her to anyone lucky enough to acquire her services.
Marcella
As the Marathon approaches, there are two special women I want to thank. Without their care and compassion I would not be able to run this weekend. For those of you who didn't know me four years ago, I was very sick. I was in bed more than I was out. I'm not exaggerating when I say that some days I only had enough energy to shower and get dressed. I was in constant pain and I relied on sugar and caffeine to function.
After researching and pleading with God to help me, I came across this sign. I drug myself out of bed on Saturday, July 28, 2012 and attended their workshop. I met with them the next week. They took time to listen to me, care about me, and develop a treatment plan.
Dr. Wendy Menigoz and Tamara Hayes began educating me and holding me accountable. I radically changed my diet and lifestyle. Slowly and steadily I began reclaiming my health. When I started seeing them I could only take my dog on a "stroll" for a half an hour and got dizzy if I tried to walk on a treadmill. It is amazing to me that in less than 48 hours, I will be running in the Chicago Marathon.
When you walk into Naprapathic Healing Center there is a large sign that says, "With God All Things Are Possible." I want to thank my Heavenly Father for leading me to people who desire to partner with Him to bring healing and restoration.
Thank you Dr. Wendy and Tammy for being God's healing hands in my life. Thank you for loving me unconditionally and pushing me farther than any of us ever imagined I could go. I am eternally grateful.
Shayn
After having a serious arm injury and separating my bicep in my left arm, I had looked to PEMF treatment to help with the recovery process. Tamara was instrumental in accelerating the healing of my arm after two surgeries within three weeks. The soft tissue healing was so much more progressive, along with the pain management involved in the healing process.
The nerve issues I had that correlated with the pain were greatly reduced and the healing time was cut by 1/3 of the time expected. My Dr. could not believe how fast I was healing and progressing. I recommend this treatment for anything from minor aches and tension, to helping heal after major surgery or injury.
Tamara made the whole experience comfortable and her knowledge and background in the medical field shows.
Ray
I've been suffering with neuropathy for several years. It was continuing to get worse. On a scale of 1 - 10 my pain level was about 8. I had brought up my condition to my family doctor. Basically, he told me to deal with it as long as I could, and when I couldn't any longer, there were pain medications he could prescribe. I wasn't thrilled with that option.
Then I heard about Tammy's PEMF...
At this point I've had 7 sessions and I can honestly say I have zero pain! I'm going to follow up with maintinence sessions as needed. PEMF has worked so well for me that I'm trying it on an old thumb and rotator cuff injury.