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Make your own rules for weight loss instead of breaking someone else's!Losing weight doesn't have to mean sacrificing happiness-especially when you want to do what's best for your body and your MS. If you're ready to make your health a top priority and find your individual answer to healing your body then Stop Carrying the Weight of Your MS is an essential piece of the puzzle.Losing weight is a known solution to slowing multiple sclerosis progression and making symptoms more manageable. But diets can be very complex and restrictive, leaving people to feel lacking and like they're failing at staying healthy. The good news is losing weight doesn't have to be like that.Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, Hanson found the key to lasting lifestyle change is making personally meaningful decisions.
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Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2000, Andrea coaches people to become their own wellness guru. Andrea combines her experience from five years of life coaching and 16 years of living well with MS to teach people how to create a customized approach to health that includes life balance, mindset tune-ups, and stress management so that they can feel like they're back to normal and in control of a life they love.
She received her bachelor's degree in Psychology at the University of North Texas, and her master's degree in Human Development with a specialty in Early Childhood Disorders from the University of Texas at Dallas. Andrea then became a Certified Life Coach at Martha Beck Inc., and a Master Certified Coach at the Life Coach School.
As well as running her own coaching business, Andrea worked with the National MS Society as a coach for their Planning Wise employment program and has taught classes and workshops for them about positive thinking. The Summer 2014 MS Connections magazine featured and interview with Andrea on her work with helping people with MS stay employed. She has also run classes for the MAPSS-MS (Memory, Attention and Problem Solving Skills for Persons with MS) research team at the University of Texas at Austin.
When she's not traveling the world, she lives in Colorado with her husband, Clay, and their perfect dog, Bud Friday.
