A nutritionist and local business owner with a passion for promoting health in both her clients at health store Nutrition World and her children at home, Cady Kuhlman is well-versed in the world of well-being. Here, Kuhlman shares more about her holistic approach to food, feelings, and family, and how she stays grounded in gratitude.
What does your daily routine look like?
My days differ whether I am home with my kids or whether I am at Nutrition World. But all days include a delicious, hearty, and protein-rich breakfast, with lots of audiobooks on parenting, nutrition, and health to further expand my knowledge. I also try to begin my day with a few things I am grateful for. I know that gratitude is a powerful emotion in creating positivity in your own emotional state. Then, pouring into clients’ health and wellness, expanding the business with new ways to reach customers to better their health, and then being a present mama to my boys.
How do you approach emotional well-being?
I am a firm believer in listening to the thoughts that come into our minds but also finding a way to not become the thoughts. I think that being an observer of our thoughts allows us to not shove away feeling because we need to feel, deeply feel. We need to feel the good, the hard, the bad, the sad, the happy, and all of it.
But then allowing ourselves to not run away and become those thoughts helps us to stay balanced. I also believe in the power of chiropractic care for the nervous system, walks in nature, prayer, grounding sheets for our bed at night, and sitting in silence to calm our brain.
What are the traits you most value in yourself?
I value that I have grown more authentic with my age. I believe I owe the credit for this to motherhood. It has allowed me to step into my fullest self by seeing that honesty, hard work, and being my real self at all times is the person I want my kids to look up to. My intention is that, when I speak, someone can feel the honesty behind my words. I realized as the years have gone by that those that I look up to the most are the people who are most willing to be authentic at all times.
What do you find the most rewarding?
At home, I find it most rewarding to watch my children learn new things as they grow. Within our business, I find it most rewarding to watch people’s health and vitality turn around. Setting up a lifestyle, food, and supplement plan that gives someone an increased sense of well-being and energy is hands down one of the most rewarding experiences.
How do you encourage health and wellness within your family?
We value eating most all of our meals at our table at home. We are big on cooking foods from mostly farmers who we know and allowing the kids to experience many different varieties of food, flavors, and spices. All items that we keep in our house are fair game for the kids to eat at any time, because everything we keep we consider healthy. I also love our use of the 80/20 rule where 80% of the time we eat very healthy, and the other 20% we eat what we want. I don’t want our kids to feel deprived, and I know we can live a healthy life while eating a few foods that bring great pleasure!
