WHOLLY HEALTHY
Holistic health coach Kristina
Borza is a proponent of
self-care, whole foods and
leaps of faith.
MIND + BODY
By DANIELLE BRODY
@DLB1022
To Borza, these are not just buzzwords,
but ideals which have guided her life, and
which she now shares with her clients to
help them make long-lasting lifestyle
changes, too. A former corporate digital
marketer, Borza decided to pursue her
passion for wellness and took a course at
the Institute for Integrative Nutrition last
July.
This led to her quitting her job to focus
on a career in helping others with their
health.
“It was time for me to get in alignment,”
Borza said. “Now, I have much more freeness
of speech to talk about making big
changes and how those leaps of faith can
absolutely work for you.”
As a holistic health coach, Borza takes all
aspects of a client’s lifestyle into account
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to create a personalized plan for them to
reach their goals. This can involve weight
loss, career, relationships, stress management,
diet and more.
She said people crave this type of discussion
about their lives since doctors
don’t often give patients enough time to
get a holistic view of their lifestyle.
Her particular focus is diet and finding
out which foods work best for someone’s
body. At age 11, Borza discovered she was
gluten intolerant. A modified diet solved
a host of her own health issues, which
piqued her interest in nutrition.
“I was raised with this awareness of what
I eat could affect how I felt,” Borza said.
Borza said if a client says they want to try
a certain diet or food modification, she always
asks why to determine if it’s because
they want to lose weight and think a program
will help, or they’re suffering from a
food sensitivity. She said she is “agnostic”
when it comes to popular diets like paleo
or Whole30.
“People know intuitively what works for
them,” she said. “My job is to help them
cut through the confusion."
Borza questions new clients when defining
their goals to open up the conversation.
She also leads clients through an exercise
using a “circle of life” graph which is
divided in several sections: each are slices
of a circle that connect to something in a
person’s life like spirituality, relationships,
joy, education, physical activity, socializing
and more. She uses that as a visual way
of seeing someone’s lifestyle, and where
more balance is needed.