About Me
Welcome to my website about living your most vital life and how to get there!
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My name is Danielle Krause and I'm a Certified and Licensed Health Coach as well as a Licensed Nutritional Counsellor. |
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I've always had an interest in all things health. I entered nursing school right after high school and then went on to get certified in adult cardiac critical care post nursing school. I worked happily as an RN and juggled that role despite my growing family but then my whole life drastically changed in 2001.
That's the year my youngest of 3 was diagnosed unexpectedly with type one diabetes, the day after he turned 19 months old. And if that wasn't enough to deal with, six months later, my oldest child who was 5, was diagnosed with Celiac Disease. My life had now forever changed as both these conditions required my constant vigilance. Over the next decade, while I sought to enjoy raising my kids despite the health challenges, I learned a lot about managing both of these conditions and I truly desired to share what I had learned to be able to help others who were struggling. I became very knowledgeable and capable with all things gluten-free and loved to bake yummy things for people with food restrictions. I also teamed up with T1D mom Michelle MacPhee in 2011 and together, with the support of the Alberta Children's Hospital Diabetes Clinic, created a resource for parents of kids with type one diabetes. A website called Waltzing the Dragon (still going strong) was created from our goal of wanting to educate, equip, and encourage these parents.
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In 2016 I left WaltzingTheDragon.ca to pursue a career in health coaching. I graduated from the Health Coach Institute with my basic health coach training and then spent another year pursuing a Transformational Coaching certification with them.
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Just prior to and while going through my coach training, my health started to take a nose dive. I sought help from a functional medicine practitioner after exhausting all the traditional avenues offered in medicine. Seeing Jeanette Queen at Evolve Well was one of the best things that happened to me as I was introduced to a world of "finding root cause" rather than the "pill for every ill" model that I had seen in the traditional medical setting. While I was on the road to recovery, I received a diagnosis of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome- a genetic connective tissue condition that explained a lot of what was going on. I continued on the functional medicine road but couldn't seem to overcome the chronic fatigue and chronic pain that h-EDS was causing. That's when I added in the Wahls Protocol® "food as medicine" approach to help me and that's when I experienced a huge shift in pain and fatigue levels. I was also recently diagnosed with Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and by modifying the Wahls Protocol® to be low-histamine, I have also experienced significant improvements in all my mast cell symptoms. I knew I needed to promote this protocol as an option for those suffering from a chronic condition and am happy to say I am now certified to coach the Wahls Protocol®.
Just when you think you have enough to deal with, in 2022 I found that my lifetime of "IBS" symptoms actually had a name- small intestinal bacterial overgrowth or SIBO for short. Besides the chronic constipation and bloating I had experienced my entire life, I found myself gaining 17lbs in one month without changing my diet and knew something bigger was going on. When I finally did a special breath test, I found out I had SIBO. I decided to take more training to understand this condition. I was basically learning on myself as I was guided by the experts- Dr Siebecker and Dr Jacobi- shout out to their amazing SIBO courses as well as the work of Dr Janel as highlighted in this article and microbiologist Kiran Krishnan's work in this video as well as a great synopsis of his work here. I am now 90% better and am now helping clients to manage and often overcome this condition which until recent years, didn't have a solution.
So why do I do what I do?...
It's to be able to help equip and empower people to step into living their best lives not just settling for "getting by"!
Simply said, I want to help people go from barely surviving to abundantly thriving in life. I absolutely LOVE being a health coach and a nutritionist and I love seeing how people's lives can literally be transformed through the power of coaching (read here to believe it).
It's to be able to help equip and empower people to step into living their best lives not just settling for "getting by"!
Simply said, I want to help people go from barely surviving to abundantly thriving in life. I absolutely LOVE being a health coach and a nutritionist and I love seeing how people's lives can literally be transformed through the power of coaching (read here to believe it).