About
About
Kuhntastic Health is about masking yourself first.
As a healthcare provider, an entrepreneur, a friend, a daughter, a significant other, and a mother, I know what it means to be last on a long list of things to take care of. It often means fatigue, pain, poor immune health, extra weight, looking haggard, poor sleep, and feeling disconnected from yourself and others. It means you are not doing the most important thing you should be doing in an emergency situation (and let’s face it, we are always in an emergency situation these days) and that is to mask yourself first! I’m not talking about an N-95, I’m talking about true protection that comes from prioritizing your self-care, paying attention to your healthcare, and synergizing the two to raise your vibration and find your fantastic!
Who I Am
I am Denise Kuhn,
Owner of Kuhntastic Health and a 25 year veteran of the Rehabilitation Industry. As a physical therapist in the outpatient orthopedic and skilled nursing settings, I have been exposed to intriguing food and medication prescription that sparked my desire to learn more about natural health. As a result, I am now a doTERRA Wellness Advocate, an Institute for Integrative Nutrition Graduate/Health Coach, a Foundation Training Instructor, a certified Functional Movement Systems practitioner and a certified Breathwork Practitioner.
The knowledge I have gained in the nutrition and specialty movement arenas is changing the method of health and wellness I use for my patients, my clients, and my family. Instead of being reactive, I now chose a proactive path that integrates modern and alternative interventions. Both health care models have merit and an important place in our society. I believe that teaching people this marriage of philosophies and how to make healthy daily choices will empower them to create healthy, happy, and fulfilling lives that are likely to be free of disease and chronic illness.
At Kuhntastic Health
Our Mission
To insure optimal personal and global wellness by empowering individuals with self-care practices that honor the science of medicine while decreasing reliance on an over-taxed and broken medical system.
My Background
I am a native of Long Beach, California where I spent most of my time in a gym or at the beach. I guess you could say I was a beach bum, as I enjoyed countless hours of biking, skating, swimming, and playing volleyball. This active life led me to the University of Oregon where I earned a bachelor’s degree in Physical Education. I also earned the honor of being a Duck Volleyball Alumni. After college, I returned home to Long Beach where I worked three years as a volleyball coach and a physical therapy technician. Through this experience, I decided that Physical Therapy was the profession for me. In 1996, I earned my master’s degree in physical therapy at the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Pomona, California.
Education
I treasure the education I attained at school and on the road. While in school, I gained the ability to stick to something, even when it is difficult or mundane. While I was traveling, I gained the knowledge of adaptability, differences in culture, and differences in people. I believe that my education and my travels to Europe, Canada, Mexico, Africa, and 20 states taught me that there are many different ways of living, eating, and thinking. I remain passionate about education and travel because it is from these experiences that I have been able to maintain an open mind and a wide perspective on what makes people who they are.
Personal Treasure
My most valued treasure and accomplishment is being the mother of a young adult male. My love for him is the force that drives me to learn more about natural health. He is also the force behind my decision to venture out on my own. As a health coach, a doTERRA wellness advocate, a blogger, a specialty trainer, and an entrepreneur, I believe I can help others create the lives they have always dreamed of. With proper integration of self-care and health care, I believe it’s possible for each of us to live lives that provide for our financial success, our happiness, our health, and our time freedom. We should not have productivity standards or quotas dictating where we spend our time. We should be able to spend it as we see fit- enjoying the our friends, our family, and the beautiful planet we live on.
Pierre Teilhard Chardin
Why Kuhntastic Health?
My physical therapy career still suits me, as I value helping people, interacting with people, and showing people how to stay mobile. However, I have always felt that pieces of the puzzle were missing. Why do we have the “repeat offenders” in for treatment every 6 months, with a new ailment? What is causing younger and younger people to be hospitalized for disease that only “old” people experienced in the past? How is it that there are more “syndromes”, with no known cause, are popping up every year?
The answer lies in the fact that we cannot separate the parts from the whole; we are not machines. We may be able to fix parts, but we often do so while dismissing the rest of the system. When we treat the parts, without treating the whole, we are missing most of what ails or cures us. As I learned as a student at IIN, we must attend to our relationships, our careers, our spirituality, our physical body, and the food we eat to be healthy, happy, and balanced.
Site Goal
Wellness is not the sum of the minutes one exercises or the number of calories one counts. Instead, It is one’s ability to listen to the physical, emotional, and spiritual response to the challenges they experience. Each person is instilled with an inner knowing. Unfortunately, stress and societal pressure have dampened our mind’s ability to appropriately respond to the “yes” or “no” signals the body sends. As a result, people lose sight of what it takes to stay healthy and happy. Consequently, the goal of Kuhntastic Health is to help individuals increase awareness of their internal alert system and to guide them on their journey of optimal wellness.
At Kuhntastic Health
We provide a Synergistic approach to health and wellness coaching
“Each breath is like a little rebirth, a renaissance that can only be celebrated if we recognize it’s happening.”
Cristen Rogers
” Movement is medicine for creating change in physical, emotional, and mental states”.
Carol Welsch
“You are what you eat!”
Momma Said
Although our mothers were very insightful about the eating well, I now know it is more accurate to say, “you are what you absorb”. The truth is that proper nutrition contributes to our cellular health, nourishing us from the inside out. Unfortunately, dietary outcomes are not a “one- size- fits -all” proposition. Aside from a few fundamental truths, dietary success depends on each person’s cellular make up, or bio-individuality. With proper and diligent dietary detective work, individualized nutritional decisions can result in unprecedented gains in cellular health, energy, vitality, weight loss, mental clarity, strength, and vibrational frequency!
“The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease”
Voltaire
The only thing that matches the wit of Voltaire’s statement, is its truth. When we look back at centuries of generational medicine, we see that effective interventions were obtained from what mother nature supplied. Even now, many medicines are formulated by mimicking compounds found in nature. Unfortunately, our bodies do not recognize the artificial chemical constituencies, often resulting in side effects and excessive toxic load that builds up in our organs, our fat, our glands, and our brain. By using natural solutions and reducing reliance on synthetic substances, we can reduce toxic load and provide the body the ingredients it needs to cleanse, restore, and heal itself.
“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says I’M POSSIBLE”
Audrey Hepburn
Despite hearing negative voices quite frequently (take that any way you like it), my late mother adored Audrey Hepburn for her forward thinking, her grit, her vulnerability, and her tenacity. In a world where “no” is frequently the first word we hear and where comparison is king, we often start believing that we are not worthy, and our dreams are not possible. Our mindset becomes tainted and dimmed by the negative memories of our past and the loud voices that engulf us on a daily basis. With proper management and attention, it is possible for one to emerge from the grips of the self-defeating beliefs and the negative voices and to find their true fantastic!
Signs that indicate you may need a Synergy Session:
- Fatigue
- Brain-Fog
- Abdominal Fat
- Poor Exercise Tolerance
- Irritability
- Digestive Discomfort
- Difficulty Sleeping
- Frequent Malaise
- Mood Fluctuations
- Cravings
- General Dissatisfaction
- Poor Skin Quality
- Excessive Sitting
- Postural Dysfunction
- Pain
- Difficulty breathing
Stay In Touch
We serve areas in and around the beautiful high desert of Soutern California. Our services are also available online and via phone. If you’re interested in learning more about our synergistic approach to breath, movement, health, nutrition, and mindset coaching, you can contact us by email at denise@kuhntastichealth.com or by phone at: 760-503-4660.
