'Weighed Down' is about the experience and journey to health and self-restoration of the writer, Debbi Sanzo-Davis, a former American Airlines employee who after 30 years of dedication to the company found herself rundown, stressed, overweight, unhappy, and suffering from chronic illnesses including high blood pressure. She was approaching retirement age with no hope for health and well-being in her retirement years. Desperate and anxious to not meet the "conventional medicine healthcare" fate of the elders, co-workers and others in her life she began her quest for lifestyle change, health knowledge and well-being. Having long been a follower of new age thinking and philosophy greatly influenced by the teachings of Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, and the inspiration of the Hay House family, with recent addition to Jennifer McLean's "Healing with the Masters," she expanded her focus to the progressive leaders of the nutrition and self-health movement which included Joshua Rosenthal, Pam MacDonald, Daniel Vitalis, David Wolfe, James Colquhoun and Laurentine ten Bosch. She learned from them and their works, a way to affect the kind of change that would restore her health physically, emotionally and spiritually. This written work takes you through Debbi's periods of personal loss, downfall and stagnation to moments of self-realization, awareness, and choice for change. The wheels were set into motion and the results were so incredible and uplifting it prompted her decision to receive a formal education and training from "The Institute for Integrative Nutrition." As a result a new Integrative Nutrition health coach was born to share this gift by helping others, particularly the 45-65 age group, longing to reach and live their retirement years with good health and vibrancy not weighed down with doctors' appointments and prescription medications. She developed her practice and wrote this book so that you may live better, longer. Debbi's passion for health and well-being has been a catalyst of change for clients, family, friends, and other health coaches. The overwhelming message of this book is one of hope realized, overcoming personal and professional challenges, embracing change, self-reliance, and that making good nutrition and health choices produces good health results. By following the path Debbi has developed the reader will learn to select and add better options to daily nutrition and personal routines ultimately replacing lesser quality choices with good quality, giving the participant optimal nourishment for their mind, body and spirit. She now works together with other coaches through www.thenewself-healthmovement.com to bring assistance and awareness to the public through book events, webinars and retreats. She combines her message with the message of other health coaches with ongoing retreats at www.selfhealthretreats.com If you are feeling weighed down, as if the weight of the world is upon you, and you have given all you have to your career, children, and families and have forgotten yourself, it's time to make a shift. Your life has been centered on how to make everyone else's lives better, and time has slipped away. You are left in less than optimal shape. Now, as you move closer to retirement, the time has come to reclaim it and shift it by taking more time for yourself and relearning that sense of joy, purpose, and nourishment you know is inside. Each one of us has the ability, not through the latest pharmaceutical or gadget but through remembering who we are and reconnecting to it. This is about a proven practice of revitalizing from the inside out, not through some magic pill or outside influence. Imagine how it would feel to reenergize and reignite your flame within - revitalize with ease It's time for you to ditch the weighed-down effects brought on by everyday life and embrace a future, taking you from a devitalized world to a world of vibrancy. Within the pages of 'Weighed Down' you can find you