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"When we are plateaued, we are not so much actively unhappy as we are just not happy. We could continue to live as we are, because it's not awful. But it is also not joyous. Most of us do not make changes in our lives until the pain in the present eclipses our fear of the future."
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Mood and Energy Management Program

The Mood & Energy Management Program is all about healing the physical imbalances that are causing disruptions in your mood and energy.

• Mary Ann Copson Health, Wellness, and Lifestyle Coach Mood and Energy Management Specialist MA Human Development MA Psychology & Counseling Certified Licensed Nutritionist Certified Holistic Health Practitioner Brain Chemistry Profile Clinician Eco-therapist Intuitive/Energy Healer Founder: Evenstar Mood & Energy Wellness Center

  Reduce your anxiety
• Increase your positive moods
• Have more stable moods
• Be more engaged with life
• Find relief from depression
• Increase your vitality and energy
• Weight normalization
• Eliminate:
  • Frustration
  • Irritability
  • Impatience
  • Fatigue
  • Mood swings
  • "Brain fog"
• Resolution of persistent health problems such as:
  • Generalized aches and pains
  • Digestive problems
  • Sleep dysfunction
  • Poor immune response
• Greater awareness and control in the experience of your life, plus:
  • Continuing use of empowering tools and techniques to leverage your new found self mastery

It’s More Than Just Psychological.

Mood and energy imbalances are not simply psychological in origin.

These unstable feelings and accompanying physical symptoms are the result of unbalanced brain chemistry driven by unbalanced body chemistry.

Due to the physical imbalances in your body, your brain is not able to maintain optimal balance. When the brain is not able to maintain optimal balance, this increases the imbalance in the physical systems and organs of the body. The result is unstable emotions, mood, and moderate to severe energy reduction. Wear and tear on physical processes in the body are part of the root cause. Some of these physical processes are genetic and some are a result of becoming depleted by stress. Often lifestyle choices (e.g. too little sleep and exercise) and dietary choices (e.g. skipping meals, living on junk food) result in your own mal-nourishment.

Without balanced mood and energy, few resources are available to you for achieving your personal level of success and experiencing a high quality of life.

Seven crucial physical imbalances in the body are targeted.

An essential part of the solution to mood and energy imbalances in women lies in correcting crucial physical imbalances in the body. The Mood & Energy Management Program addresses many of these including:

• Stabilizing your blood sugar levels
• Balancing key neurotransmitter levels including: serotonin, gamma butric acid, acetylcholine, epinephrine, norepinephrine, histamine
• Reducing your anxiety through the use of targeted supplements and tonics
• Eliminating food allergies, candida, and restoring proper GI health
• Implementing a brain chemistry friendly diet
• Designing a brain chemistry friendly exercise program
• Introducing stress reduction techniques to reconnect you to your resonate frequency and reestablish physiological coherence.

Key Factors Contributing to Mood and Energy Imbalances

Mood and energy problems are anchored in the physical realm and our comprehensive program includes correcting important physical imbalances in the body. Some of the key physical processes that are related to mood and energy imbalances include:

Prescription drugs – Many of these drugs interfere with your absorption and metabolism of essential nutrients. We can compensate with tailored supplement and nutritional programs.

Malnutrition- Most of us do not eat a well balanced diet. A recent USDA food consumption survey of 20,000 people showed that none of them consumed 100 percent of the Recommended Daily Allowance (RDA) of all major nutrients. The RDA is barely adequate to prevent vitamin deficiency diseases in healthy people. The RDA seriously underestimates the needs of people suffering from depression and other mood disorders and from chronic and degenerative diseases. We can correct this with a tailored supplement and nutritional program.

Lipid peroxidation – Oxidation ages you and irreversibly damages the intricate workings of your brain. This type of damage comes from exposure to toxic fumes in cigarette smoke, paint, gasoline, cleaning fluids, solvents, rancid oils, and chemicals of all sorts. An antioxidant program can protect your brain and body cells and nerves from being damaged by oxidation.

Essential fatty acid depletion – Essential fatty Acids (EFAs) are required for your survival, but they are not produced by your body. The average diet has few foods that can supply the proper essential fatty acid balance in your body. Without the proper ratio of essential fatty acids your brain never gets enough EFAs to provide for adequate mood regulation, to control hormone levels and to stabilize your emotions. Without the proper EFA ratio in the body and brain, inadequate levels of important prostaglandins can not be made - resulting in auto-immune disease, inflammatory disorders, coronary disease and serious depression. We can correct this with proper supplementation and diet.

Pancreatic enzyme insufficiency – If your pancreas fails to deliver adequate digestive enzymes to your intestinal tract the absorption of fats and proteins will be impaired. This can result in malnutrition - with your brain and body being deprived of nutrients essential for health. We can correct this with proper supplementation, herbal tonics and diet.

Betaine hydrochloride insufficiency – Insufficient stomach acid is a significant health problem. More people have too low gastric acidity than too much stomach acid. If you have this deficiency it can result in a number of digestive symptoms, chronic conditions such as eczema, auto-immune disease and compromised moods and energy. We can correct this with proper supplementation, herbal tonics and diet.

Unstable blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia) – Your brain requires glucose and oxygen for survival. Without a steady, balanced supply of glucose to your brain you can experience mental instability, anxiety, depression, fatigue, mental confusion, phobias, fears, muscle pains, crying, headaches, heart palpitations and more. We can correct this with the proper diet, targeted supplements, and appropriate lifestyle routines.

Low fat diet – A low fat diet can be dangerous to your health and well being. The gray matter of the brain is predominantly composed of fats. Without the right kind of fats - in the right amounts and ratios - you will experience unstable emotional health and run serious health risks. Anger and negativity both increase with a low fat diet. Moods deteriorate right along with reduced fat intake. . We can correct this with proper supplementation and diet and the proper inclusion of natural fats in your diet.

Use of stimulants such as caffeine, sugar, and nicotine – These stimulants rapidly shoot up your blood sugar, energizing you temporarily. Caffeine does this by stimulating your adrenals to release adrenaline and thereby emergency sugar into your bloodstream. Continually stimulating your adrenals like this burns them - and you - out. Adrenaline circulating in your bloodstream makes you irritable, anxious, shaky, and restless. It leaves you prone to panic and anxiety attacks and drives you further into energy depletion. Nicotine addiction also drives hypoglycemia. We can correct this with an appropriate detox and stimulant withdrawal recommendations.

Rushing, attempting to meet impossible deadlines, high stress lifestyle – These kinds of lifestyle choices also stimulate your adrenals to release adrenaline and thereby emergency sugar into your bloodstream. Again, continually stimulating your adrenals like this burns them - and you - out. Adrenaline circulating in your bloodstream makes you irritable, anxious, shaky, and restless. It leaves you prone to panic and anxiety attacks and drives you further into energy depletion. . We can correct this with targeted supplements and herbal tonics, a balanced diet and non-adrenaline lifestyle routines.

Adrenal insufficiency/ burnout – This creates poor production of glucocortical hormones. When more blood sugar is needed, the adrenals can’t secrete enough adrenal hormone to trigger a fast conversion of glucose from the liver’s stored sugar reserves and hypoglycemia results. . We can correct this with targeted supplements and herbal tonics, a balanced diet and non-adrenaline lifestyle routines.

Slow oxidation – Slow oxidizers change food to energy very slowly. The slow oxidizer can not transport enough glucose across the cell membrane because of too little sodium and potassium. And the burning of glucose within the cells is inefficient. The slow oxidizer has chronic symptoms of fatigue, constant cravings for sweets, depression, and mental confusion. . We can correct this with targeted supplements and herbal tonics, a balanced diet and appropriate lifestyle routines.

Fast oxidation – Fast oxidizers change food to energy very quickly. Fast oxidizers have low calcium and magnesium levels. Their high sodium to potassium ratio is linked with the alarm stage of stress and produces the rapid metabolism of foods and overactive thyroid and adrenal glands. This adrenal activity produces a continual conversion of stored sugar to blood glucose and severely depletes glycogen reserves. Hyperactive thyroids rapidly burn glucose and further deplete sugar reserves. Under stress, fast oxidizers experience precipitous falls in blood sugar with significant negative emotional, mental and physical symptoms. We can correct this with targeted supplements and herbal tonics, a balanced diet and appropriate lifestyle routines.

Incompatible chemical reactions between your blood and the foods you eat – Different blood types may relate differently to diet. Sometimes foods incompatible with your blood type may upset your hormonal imbalance. This can cause water retention and thyroid problems; compromise the production of insulin; slow your metabolic rate; cause weight gain; inflame your digestive tract lining; disrupt your digestive process, and cause bloating. We can correct this with appropriate supplements, herbal tonics and diet.

Use of artificial sweeteners such as Aspartame (NutraSweet)- These contain excitatory amino acids and other excitatory nutrients that effectively block your production of the calming neurotransmitter serotonin. Low serotonin levels are related to depression. We can correct this by eliminating the use of these substances and any damage done healed with appropriate supplements, herbal tonics, and diet.

Plus more:

• Skipping meals
• Parasites
• Lack of sleep
• Irregular wake-sleep cycle
• Eating the wrong kind of carbohydrates
• Altered histamine levels
• Altered blood lactate levels
• Subclinical or unrecognized thyroid gland or hormone problems
• Candida and other GI disturbances
• Gluten grain sensitivity
• Low protein diets and eating the wrong kind of protein
• Depressed metabolism
• Disrupted circadian rhythms
• Disrupted ultradian rhythms
• Out of phase seasonal rhythms
• Insulin resistance
• Low calorie diet
• Food allergies
• Parasympathetic/ sympathetic imbalance
• Low DHEA levels

The Program

The Mood & Energy Management Program gives you comprehensive screening and follow up to ensure identification of critical physical factors that may be impacting your moods, energy and physical symptoms.

The Mood & Energy Management Program is divided into several phases. Each phase is individually designed to address the most likely and most crucial physical factors contributing to your specific mood and energy problems.

We Begin with Phase I

To begin the program, I meet with you individually in an initial history taking session. During the history taking session, I'll gather information about your present and past health and well-being and your current stress levels, lifestyle patterns and other factors that may be affecting your mood and energy and your health and well-being.

Phase I of the Mood and Energy Management Program tends to be similar for most people. However, every program is individually designed to meet the needs of your unique situation.

We Will Focus on Eight Health Parameters.

In installments, I give you key recommendations in the following areas:

• Diet
• Lifestyle
• Exercise
• Stress Reduction
• Body Maintenance
• Personal Foundations
• Herbs
• Nutritional Supplements

The Mood & Energy Management Program is uniquely comprehensive - focusing on integral health, wellness, and well-being. It not only addresses the underlying physical and neurotransmitter imbalance causes of mood and energy imbalances but it also highlights the importance of lifestyle choices, personal foundation issues and emotional, mental, psychological and spiritual energy imbalances.

Built into your Mood & Energy Management Program are assessments, recommendations, and individual personal life coaching that focus specifically on rebalancing "soft" contributors to mood and energy problems.

Here are just a few of the life changing actions you will implement as part of this comprehensive program.

• Establishing circadian and ultradian friendly routines around sleep and your morning and evening activities
• Addressing important personal foundation issues such as: boundary setting, values and needs, and self-care
• Redesigning non-supportive physical environments
• Implementing lifestyle and scheduling routines that are brain and body chemistry friendly
• Introducing proven psychological techniques for reducing and eliminating anxiety attacks

Functional Health Tests

As a Certified Nutritionist, I have access to many functional tests that allow us to assess the foundations of your health. The data provided by these tests will give us a wealth of information about your health status and those patterns and trends that contribute to optimal health and mood and energy balance or those patterns and trends that may signal a need to restructure some of your current health care habits.

The Mood & Energy Management Program gives you complete screening and follow up to ensure identification of critical physical factors that may be impacting your moods, energy and physical symptoms.

To gather information pertinent to the discovery of these factors, your Mood and Energy Management Program includes the following five functional test panels which include over 40 individual functional tests:

Adrenal Stress Salvia Test- The Adrenal Stress Salvia test is compromised of a series of saliva tests that measure the level of cortisol four times a day to establish its circadian rhythm. Additionally, it measures a two sample average of the sulfated form of DHEA (DHEA-S). Plus, it gives a measure of insulin levels and 17-OH progesterone.

GI Health Panel - Tests 22 parameters to investigate GI function and health (includes tests for pancreatic enzymes, a candida screen, gluten grain sensitivity, SIgA levels, and tests for certain pathogens and parasites)

Hair Mineral Analysis – Tests for heavy metal toxicity, mineral imbalances, and parasympathetic/sympathetic dominance

The Bloodspot IgG Food Antibody Assay - Measures the amount of antibodies that are the primary cause of adverse food reactions. IgG mediated food allergies are the most common type of food reaction. Therefore, this type of antibody profile gives very useful data to design appropriate diets that exclude major offending foods.

NeuroSelect Profile - the most comprehensive neurotransmitter panel available. This profile reports on the levels of creatine, ten neurotransmitters and one amino acid: serotonin, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, GABA, PEA, histamine, taurine, glycine,  glutamate, and glutamine.

The Prophyrins Profile - Porphyrins measured in urine serve as biomarkers of toxic effects on the heme biosynthetic pathway. Heme is the deep red, nonprotien, ferrous component of hemoglobin and is essential for the proper function of many proteins for oxygen transport, energy production, and detoxification. Patterns of specific porphyrin elevations in urine serve as functional markers to specific toxins, including toxic metals, such as lead, mercury, arsenic, aluminum, and cadmium.

The Organix Profile - Your body is constantly generating products from metabolic reactions. This comprehensive profile provides a view into your body's cellular metabolic processes and the efficiency of metabolic function. Many of the compounds that are found give clues about how your body is working and where specific additions of vitamins or minerals may be needed. Identifying metabolic blocks that can be treated allows individual tailoring of your wellness program that maximizes your responses and leads to improved health.

I order these functional tests and send them to your home. You do not need a doctor’s prescription to have these tests processed. These tests are simple enough that you do them yourself at home and send to the independent lab. When I get the results, I will forward the results to you and incorporate the results into your program recommendations.

Brain Chemistry Optimization Profile

Each Mood & Energy Management Program includes a Brain Chemistry Optimization Profile at no additional cost (normally $250). This is an online assessment that provides information about your major brain neurotransmitters. This enables us specifically to tailor activity, diet, behavioral, exercise, spiritual and nutritional recommendations to enhance your brain chemistry. Enhancing your brain chemistry maximizes your health and well being.

Gathering Information

There are a number of information gathering profiles, tools, assessments and questionnaires you complete that supply information pertinent to your program. These include:

A weekly diet sheet - Write down what you ate and drank and when. No need to weigh or measure serving size but do include an estimate if the serving size is either a smaller or a larger serving than normal. Plus, jot down any significant symptoms you notice.

Taking your temperature several times throughout the day for one week with a digital quick read thermometer.

Tracking your moods every day using the Mood tracking charts that I will email to you. We use these throughout the program.

Keeping a list of significant signs and symptoms that indicate stress in your body that you would like to monitor during this program for resolution.

Plus, you may be asked to track factors that are specific to your situation such as: taking your blood pressure; keeping a sleep dairy; or monitoring GI symptoms.

Seven Additional Health Assessments Are Included

• Adrenal Burnout assessment
• Comprehensive Health Appraisal form
• Energy Blockers Assessment
• Quick Symptom Checklist
• Energy Audit
• Pyrroluria screening
• Histamine screening
  • And others pertinent to your own situation

You'll need to complete some of the information, assessments, and functional tests before the first installment of your program is delivered to you because that information is vital to your unique program. As you continue to complete the remaining tests, assessments and information, the results are integrated into your ongoing recommendations.

Program Installments and Check-Ins

Your Mood & Energy Management Program is delivered to you in installments. This makes the program more manageable, more meaningful, and more fun for you. Plus, it will help us leverage progress into deeper, more specific and more comprehensive results.

You will receive your first installment of recommendations within 3-4 weeks of beginning your program. You take this installment and begin working with the recommendations for a month.

Once or twice a month we meet for a check-in session. Our check-in sessions are held on the phone or, if you prefer, you may come to the Mood and Energy Wellness Center for in-person meetings. During these check-in sessions we discuss:

• How you are doing
• What improvements you see with regards to your symptoms
• What is not changing with regards to your symptom picture
• What is working for you with the program
• What does not work for you
• What you have been able to implement
• What you have not been able to implement

In addition to monitoring the program, our check-in sessions also include Personal Wellness Coaching. When implementing a Mood and Energy Management Program it is common for many life and personal foundation issues to surface that are directly related to the successful implementation of the program. At these times, it is important to get some coaching about these issues in order to facilitate the successful implementation of the program.

Our check-in and Wellness Coaching sessions last approximately one hour.

Based on your feedback, I tailor the next installment of recommendations for you.

Because of the comprehensive nature of mood and energy problems, it may not be possible to adequately address all of your symptoms in one phase of a Mood and Energy Management Program. Additional phases including additional functional tests, retesting for progress and changes, further recommendations, and follow up time may be advantageous.

Follow Up Period - Extended to Six Months

Your Mood and Energy Management Program includes a 6 month follow up period. The purpose of the follow up period is to provide a format for monitoring your progress on the program, adjusting the program if needed, answering your questions regarding your program and provide a forum for your Personal Wellness Coaching.

The follow up period begins when we meet for our history taking consultation. During the follow up period, you complete assessments and functional tests, gather information, and actively implement your program recommendations.

We keep in touch by email and by phone to monitor your progress and the results. There are regularly scheduled check-in and Wellness Coaching sessions during the follow up period. During our sessons, we assess the progress that is being made, answer any questions you have, address important life and personal foundation issues impacting the program and assess the next appropriate set of recommendations. If at any time during the follow up period, you have questions concerning the program and your results feel free to contact me by email or phone

There is a high support and accountability factor built into the program. During the follow up period you make daily or weekly email contact with me giving a brief update on diet, schedule, moods, etc. Most Updates receive a follow up from me with suggestions for gaining more effective results and support highlighting your achievements.

You keep a daily Diet, Schedule, Mood, and Activity Log, and do a number of self-assessments and tracking assessments some of which we review daily/ weekly and some that we review in our Check-In sessions. You also keep a Symptom Checklist to monitor the progress in resolving your symptoms.

It's a lot, but these assessments and tracking measures are what enable us to obtain effective results.

Please be aware that the Mood and Energy Management Program is not a stand alone program. I don't just deliver a program for you to read and set aside. Your program is designed to be implemented with regular and consistent follow up with me as your clinician and Wellness Coach.

Healing can be a mysterious process. Yet I'm sure that healing is an inter-relational activity. Healing works best when there is a strong and active relationship between at least two people focused on the healing. In order to get the best results from the program it is important for us to stay in close contact with each other. Even if you are not making the progress you hoped for – especially then – we should still make contact on a regular basis – you never know what that a little extra support can do for you.

To get the most out of your program you should plan to maintain regular and consistent contact with me during the follow up period.

Fees and Payments

The fee for the standard Mood & Energy Management Program as outlined is $3939. This includes:

• Six recommendation installments over a six month period
• Six to twelve Check-In and Personal Wellness Coaching sessions
• Six months follow up, support and personal contact
• Unlimited email contact and follow up
• Brain Chemistry Optimization Profile
• Seven functional test panels for a total of more than 60 individual functional health tests
• Numerous screening and assessment forms, profiles and questionnaires
• Regular and consistent follow up with me as your Nutritionist and Wellness Coach.

You may make your payment all at once or in scheduled partial payments.

Remember that you will be working to produce an optimal physical environment for your body to activate its own healing responses and to reconnect with your natural vital energy.

You are not working to simply eradicate a symptom, problem, or condition.

You are working at building the optimal environment for health and well being to support your own natural vitality and healing.

You can create within yourself balanced, stable and positive moods. You can live with vitality and enthusiasm. You can take steps that will permanently improve your health and the quality of your life.

Getting Started

If you are not yet sure if the Mood and Energy Management Program is the right program for you give me a call at 434-263-4996 or email to schedule a time to go over your questions and review your situation.

If you feel ready to begin the Mood and Energy Management Program - Great! Let’s get started. You can call me at 434-263-4996 or email to schedule a complimentary session so that we can talk about your unique, individual needs and how we can design a Mood and Energy Management Program that is exactly right for you.

Once we are both sure that we have the unique program that will work for you we will schedule your first history taking session and begin the program.

Congratulations! You will be taking an exciting, rewarding, and life-changing journey.

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