Healthy Chicks in the Community Series: Meet Kristen Reed of Nursing Your Way to Wellness
New year, new Healthy Chicks in the Community feature, a monthly series highlighting rockstar Girl Bosses doing their thang in the wellness world and beyond!
I’m thrilled to kick off 2020 with Kristen Reed, a Holistic Nurse and Reiki Master sprinkling her healing touch out into the world! I love her holistic approach to nursing — bringing together her love for people and health through Reiki, health and wellness coaching, and self-care.
In this months’s uplifting interview, we chat with Kristen about how she continues to bring holistic modalities into the medical world, her recovery from two back breaks (and a break up), and her love for sumo oranges. I’ll let Kristen take it away from here!
NAME:
Kristen Reed, RN, BSN, BA, HN-BC
DESCRIBE YOUR BUSINESS/LINE OF WORK:
My holistic health business, “Nursing Your Way to Wellness” helps busy women like you find more balance, manage stress, and live their healthiest, happiest lives☀️through Reiki therapy, Health & Wellness Nurse Coaching and wellness workshops!
With 1-on-1 coaching sessions, we work together to help you achieve your optimal health: feeling more balanced, energetic, resilient, and vibrant, with lifelong insights for lasting, powerful change, so that you can do ALL you want to do and feel amazing doing it!
You can visit my website to schedule your Free exploration session!
WHERE YOU LIVE:
Boston, but I offer virtual services via video calls from anywhere in the world!
HOW YOU SERVE THE COMMUNITY THROUGH YOUR WORK:
As a Registered Nurse with Bachelors degrees in both Psychology and Nursing and 9 years of experience in a variety of acute hospital settings, I have seen first-hand the effects of not only diet on physical health, but also the intricate mind-body connection, and how this can drive our entire well being.
I have always had a love for people and health, and nursing perfectly combines the two. Currently working in the Neuroscience ICU step-down unit at Brigham & Women’s hospital in Boston, I bring holistic care to my bedside nursing practice. As a Certified Reiki Master, I perform Reiki on my patients to decrease pain and anxiety and promote healing.
Putting my passion for holistic health in action, I co-head a “Reiki Resiliency” research project, studying the effect of Reiki therapy on nurses’ stress levels, feelings of overwhelm and job satisfaction as well as the effect on patients’ stress and pain levels. I also created monthly “Wellness Days” for nurses and hospital staff, which includes numerous holistic therapies such as Reiki, music therapy, guided meditation, yoga, aromatherapy and more.
This experience combined with my own personal struggles motivates me to continuously educate myself in all areas of health and wellness and put this into action through Health and Wellness Nurse Coaching! Helping others is what gives me life and fuels my intense passion for wellness, nutrition, and all aspects of health!
NUMBER ONE PASSION OUTSIDE THE JOB:
It’s a tie between cooking healthy meals and traveling.
ONE PIECE OF ADVICE YOU’D TELL YOUR CHILDHOOD SELF:
Believe in yourself and listen to your heart!
FOODS THAT MAKE YOU FEEL ALIVE & BRING THE MOST JOY:
Sumo oranges (you have to try them!), fresh seafood, and any homemade food from loved ones
SONG THAT MOVES YOU:
You Raise Me Up by Josh Groban
THREE FAB THINGS ABOUT YOU:
- I was born on Thanksgiving
- I am a Board Certified Holistic Nurse
- I speak Spanish and a little Polish and Italian (Na Zdrowie!)
FAVORITE BODY PART & WHY:
The hands because I feel as though there is so much healing that can be done through touch.
I GET MY INSPIRATION FROM:
My family and friends, clients, patients and books I read
EXERCISE THAT MAKES YOU SHINE:
Yoga and dance
SOMETHING IN YOUR “WELLNESS TOOLBOX” YOU CAN’T LIVE WITHOUT:
My gratitude journal and meditation practice!
GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT:
Recovering from breaking my back, twice and putting in a great amount of difficult personal work and self care practices after a divorce to overcome and thrive in my life…and find my love of my life!
FEMALE LEADERS YOU LOOK UP TO:
Oprah, Gabby Bernstein, Rachel Hollis and Kristina Miller
IF YOU COULD PICK ONE PERSON TO HAVE DINNER WITH, WHO WOULD IT BE & WHAT WOULD YOU MAKE THEM:
I would have dinner with my Grandma and I’d attempt to make her banana pies and I’d make my breakfast scramble with avocado to balance it out!
GO-TO MANTRA OR INSPIRATIONAL QUOTE:
“Whatever feels good to your soul, do more of that!”
MESSAGE YOU’D LIKE TO SHARE WITH OTHER HEALTHY CHICKS:
Decide to live your healthiest life today in order to live your best life, and don’t let anything stand in your way! You are capable. You are worthy. And, I am here with you and for you!
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