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Questions and Research Meet Discernment and Clarity By Bentley Murdock As a Wholistic Nutritionist, I work with clients to alleviate sickness, illness, and disease symptoms through food choices and lifestyle behavior changes. As a phlebotomist, I coach clients on supplementation options and transitions by first looking at what’s in their blood. As a Lifestyle Wellness Coach, I often discuss—within marriages and families—how relationships and communication play pivotal roles in overall personal, familial, and professional success and peace of mind. As a mediator and facilitator, I work to create bridges of transparency, trust, responsibility, and accountability. As a husband, father, and business owner, I’m fortunate to have had many experiences which greatly contribute to the value my clients are able to take home with them. As a survivor of sexual abuse and having navigated chronic and degenerative disease, divorce, addiction, suicidal ideation, identity crisis, and a slew of other life-altering experiences, I feel incredibly blessed to sit across from some of the most phenomenal humans on the planet, finding myself fully able to empathize with their pain, grief, confusion, and heartache as well as their joy, happiness, and triumphant victories. 32 www.sghealthandwellnessmagazine.com
The majority of my educational, professional, and academic life has been dedicated to studying, learning, and providing various forms of coaching to clients from every walk of life. With topics ranging from drugs and alcohol, substance abuse, addiction, marriage and family communication, anxiety, and depression to nutrition, exercise, disease prevention, and disease reversal, I can’t think of any topic that I have not yet had the opportunity of addressing with a previous client. All of my clients’ needs are as unique as the clients themselves, and because of that fact, my multi-faceted approach to wholistic lifestyle wellness must always be as customized as is humanly possible. This line of work has definitely kept me on my toes and has taught me the critical importance of insatiable curiosity, thorough research, finetuned discernment, and baby-micro-nano-step transitional coaching techniques. One of the biggest take-always thus far is the fact that everything (and I mean every single thing) is inseparably connected. As I currently navigate my doctoral degree in psychology with a specialization in the wholistic origins of chronic disease, I’m constantly reminded that no one person will ever have all the answers,
