So many of us suffer from lack of sleep, poor nutrition, and improper exercise -all perpetuating an imbalanced way of life. We urgently need help in solving the challenge of making everything better. What’s the point of stumbling through life in a mental haze? Establishing a one-on-one relationship with an experienced life coach married to a holistic approach to health can be the key that unlocks a joyous sense of vitality and wellness.

The Key to Vitality
Ramsay Mead “wants us to live to 100 – not just tighten our glutes.” More than 20 years of practicing multiple wellness modalities with thousands of clients have taught him what health really is. “Vitality and quality of life come from paying attention to every concern, assessing every dimension of a person’s lifestyle,” says Mead. “We chat about everything that’s going on in their life to uncover the issues compromising their health. Then we work side by side to realize improved balance and healing.”

Some see results in a handful of sessions. Others with a larger agenda may pace themselves in making incremental changes over a year or more. Much depends on a person’s initiative and ability to stick with it. No one is locked into a cookie cutter program. Every move is tailored to individual needs and each situation constantly evolves.

 “I’ve found that it works best to vary modalities as we go,” says Mead. “That’s because your body adapts and needs change. Plus you’re always growing emotionally and spiritually.” He finds that different personalities gravitate toward different patterns of movement.

 Mead encourages us to listen to our own body and intuitive sense as to which activities will meet our need today. “Should be’s” and “have to’s” naturally lose their influence. What a relief to stop judging one’s self by some Hollywood standard or what a neighbor is doing.

 For those who say they don’t like to exercise, Mead says it’s because they haven’t hooked up with the activities that are right for them. “The right type of exercise,” he says, “is actually enjoyable.”


The Path of Radiant Health
Radiant health isn’t achieved by plunging into a 30-minute workout, organic diet, a couple of protein drinks and calling it a day. That may work for a short-term goal. But as a holistic health practitioner, Mead’s more interested in the quest, in helping someone incorporate the factors that will meet their ongoing physical, nutrition and lifestyle needs day to day, month to month and year to year.

Exhausted, stressed out, run-down adults suffering from chronic pain and disease to obesity and despair get relief and results from Mead’s workouts. Underlying issues may include anything from family problems to environmental pollution to a hated job. Stability, calm and balance can return through practices of meditative movement, relaxation, visualization, breathing, sound sleep, a healthy diet and various forms of exercise.

 “When people use the knowledge I teach them, it’s amazing what they can do,” says Mead. “I’ve seen indescribable miracles with people whom doctors had written off.”

Ramsay Mead knows the truth of this first-hand. The year his family stopped growing their own food, moved from the family farm to the city and began microwaving processed foods for dinner, his health spiraled out of control with a gastrointestinal illness that would plague him for the rest of his life. He was 13, diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and watching his body decompose before his eyes. So he switched to more healthy foods and began working out at a local gym, which hired him three years later as an inspiration to its members. “Here was a dying kid who now looked healthy,” he says.

 At age 23, still under a doctor’s care for Crohn’s, Mead found himself taking eight drugs in a single week. This wasn’t how he wanted to live, virtually married to the toilet. So he threw away the drugs, discovered metabolic typing, immersed himself in organic foods and launched a practice of heated yoga and refined weight training that made him strong enough to play sports and launch a social life.

 Today people mistake Mead for an Olympic athlete. But his biggest success is leading a normal family life with his wife and kids. His appreciation for life is enormous. And he asks us all to ponder the question: “What legacy are we giving our children if we’re not teaching them by example how to take care of themselves? What will happen to them?”

 Ramsay Mead is a holistic health practitioner, registered yoga therapist, and wellness coach. He is a certified nutrition and lifestyle coach, a master of fitness sciences, and is certified through the National Academy of Sports Medicine.

He may be reached at 704-222-7731. His office is located  at Signature Wellness - The Center for Optimal Health 15105 John J Delaney Drive, Charlotte, NC 28277.