NorCal Healthy Solutions
Gwenn Henkel is a NorCal Healthy Solutions Counselor. For more information, go to norcalhealthysolutions.com or contact her directly for more info.
My NorCal Healthy Solutions Personal Story
By: Gwenn Henkel, CMH, MH and NorCal Counselor
September 2015 was the start of many signs that I needed a healthy lifestyle change. I was walking out of our local Safeway Store when I collapsed in the parking lot, experiencing sharp abdominal and back pain like never before. I was also suddenly vomiting and sweating profusely! My husband rushed me to the hospital emergency room where I was diagnosed with a very large kidney stone. I was given morphine and sent home with heavy duty pain pills and anti-nausea pills to help me out while I waited to pass the stone. I was in bed for 10 days waiting for it to pass. It took 10 more days to recover from the withdrawal of the pain medication.
During that time, I studied kidney stones and found out that my diet had been setting me up for getting a stone for quite a few years! I saw this as my opportunity to get my diet together so this would never happen to me again.
December and January were not very good to me either. Starting December 29th, I began having flu-like symptoms on and off. I’d be in bed a few days, then start to feel better. I would go back to seeing clients a day or two and end up with a fever again and back in bed again. This pattern went on all through January. I was put on some antibiotics and waited to feel better.
By February I was really sick. I ended up in the emergency room twice within four days. The doctor was really upset! Seems I had maybe a few days left to live if I hadn’t gotten in there. Further testing revealed that I had double pneumonia and a severe sinus infection. I could hardly breathe. I was given a whole new set of medications and spent a LOT of time sleeping or watching TV, which was all I really had the strength to do. The whole ordeal left me with asthma.
During all of this recovery time, I had a lot of time to reflect on myself...again! I realized that I had fallen into my old patterns of thinking which really needed changing. After all, that’s the business I’m in: changing minds! I was great at helping everyone else, but lax on paying attention to me. I was always on the back burner. I knew I needed a serious lifestyle change if I was going to get well, and especially since in 2016 I would be turning 65! With having had that near death experience, I knew it was now or never.
I knew I needed to lose weight, and I wanted to do it right away. I had lost a lot of weight with hypnosis in the mid 1990s—85 pounds, in fact—but it took me two years to accomplish that loss! I really didn’t want to wait that long this time. And now I had bad knees due to a torn meniscus, an injury that also slowed me down and prevented me from exercising, so the weight just piled on. I was now about 40 pounds overweight, and was really determined to release it fast!
So during my month of TV-watching in February, I kept seeing this one commercial repeatedly for NorCal Healthy Solutions. It claimed that without diet pills, prepackaged food, or exercise, you could lose up to a pound a day. I seriously had my doubts about that. Every time I saw it, I’d say, "YA RIGHT! This has to be a gimmick! That’s not possible, and not healthy." But my curiosity was so great, I finally decided to call the number on the screen, hoping to just be able to talk to someone about it and get some answers.
I left a message saying I wasn’t looking for a job opportunity, I didn’t want to have to go weigh in someplace each week, and I didn’t want to place an order. I just wanted to talk to someone to find out what their product was. A nice man called me back. To my utter shock, he lived in MY TOWN! I mean seriously, what are the odds that you call a number on TV and the person who calls you back lives in your town? I didn’t want a strange man coming to see me at my home, so I didn’t admit that we were neighbors. Instead I asked if he would be willing to meet me in my San Carlos office to talk to me, and he said yes! We set up an appointment to meet.
This would be a good place for me to mention that I definitely believe that everything happens for a reason. The rest of my story is living proof of that.
The man who came to my office was Don Blythe. When he came in, he looked as though he had seen a ghost! He was looking at my credentials and certificates on the wall with eyes wide as saucers! As I was thinking to myself at that moment that I was glad I hadn’t asked him to come to my home because he was acting kind of weird, he said, “You have to excuse me, but I’m trying to wrap my brain around something right now!” I invited him to sit down, and he kept looking at my wall of certificates. Then he said, “We need to back up to five months ago.” I asked if we had met five months ago, though he didn’t look familiar to me. He said, “No but I sort of knew YOU five months ago. I was at an airport in Utah waiting for a flight in a room filled with people. There was a guy sitting near me talking to some other people about his AMAZING hypnotherapist, GWENN HENKEL in California, who saved his life! It’s not like I was trying to eavesdrop, but what he was saying was so interesting, I had to listen! Then he passed out your business cards, which—by the way—didn't look the same as the ones you have in the waiting room now.”
I was still in shock to hear that someone in Utah was talking about me, let alone passing out my (old) business cards. The thing is, I had changed the design of my business cards nine years earlier! I told Don that. We just stared at each other for a moment. He said that the man and the others got up to board their flight, and one of them dropped the business card. Don picked it up, looked at the name so as to remember it, and then returned it to the person who dropped it. So then he said, “Fast forward five months to now and GWENN HENKEL leaves a message on MY answering machine asking me to call her, and I’m thinking, "Why do I know that name?" I didn’t realize who you were until I walked in here just now...AND OH MY GOSH, YOU ARE THAT LADY! I think we are supposed to know each other!” I said, “You don’t EVEN know how the half of it yet!” As it turned out, Don Blythe is the founder of NorCal Healthy Solutions!
On March 1, 2016, I began the program weighing in at 172 pounds (on my 5’1” body), and by my 65th birthday the following June, I had lost 40 pounds! Even now that I'm off the program, I have continued my healthy lifestyle and have released a total of 55 pounds. I never ever believed that I could weigh under 120 pounds at my age, but I have done this and I feel so fantastic! All cravings for old foods that caused weight gain are completely gone. I am not even tempted to eat unhealthy! All my food choices are good ones; on occasion I have fun things, but there is no guilt or weight gain because of it.
Now my CD for envisioning a new healthy lifestyle is a part of NorCal Healthy Solutions, and I am a counselor to help people with any challenges they may find they are having due to subconscious patterns they have established from their past programming, so that they are successful on their new paths and stay there! Also, my before and after pictures are on the NorCal brochures, and on the homepage of the website!
I have NorCal to thank for helping me get my life back on track and getting me healthy once and for all! It’s been the MOST amazing journey, and the best phone call I ever made. THANK YOU NORCAL HEALTHY SOLUTIONS!!
By: Gwenn Henkel, CMH, MH and NorCal Counselor
September 2015 was the start of many signs that I needed a healthy lifestyle change. I was walking out of our local Safeway Store when I collapsed in the parking lot, experiencing sharp abdominal and back pain like never before. I was also suddenly vomiting and sweating profusely! My husband rushed me to the hospital emergency room where I was diagnosed with a very large kidney stone. I was given morphine and sent home with heavy duty pain pills and anti-nausea pills to help me out while I waited to pass the stone. I was in bed for 10 days waiting for it to pass. It took 10 more days to recover from the withdrawal of the pain medication.
During that time, I studied kidney stones and found out that my diet had been setting me up for getting a stone for quite a few years! I saw this as my opportunity to get my diet together so this would never happen to me again.
December and January were not very good to me either. Starting December 29th, I began having flu-like symptoms on and off. I’d be in bed a few days, then start to feel better. I would go back to seeing clients a day or two and end up with a fever again and back in bed again. This pattern went on all through January. I was put on some antibiotics and waited to feel better.
By February I was really sick. I ended up in the emergency room twice within four days. The doctor was really upset! Seems I had maybe a few days left to live if I hadn’t gotten in there. Further testing revealed that I had double pneumonia and a severe sinus infection. I could hardly breathe. I was given a whole new set of medications and spent a LOT of time sleeping or watching TV, which was all I really had the strength to do. The whole ordeal left me with asthma.
During all of this recovery time, I had a lot of time to reflect on myself...again! I realized that I had fallen into my old patterns of thinking which really needed changing. After all, that’s the business I’m in: changing minds! I was great at helping everyone else, but lax on paying attention to me. I was always on the back burner. I knew I needed a serious lifestyle change if I was going to get well, and especially since in 2016 I would be turning 65! With having had that near death experience, I knew it was now or never.
I knew I needed to lose weight, and I wanted to do it right away. I had lost a lot of weight with hypnosis in the mid 1990s—85 pounds, in fact—but it took me two years to accomplish that loss! I really didn’t want to wait that long this time. And now I had bad knees due to a torn meniscus, an injury that also slowed me down and prevented me from exercising, so the weight just piled on. I was now about 40 pounds overweight, and was really determined to release it fast!
So during my month of TV-watching in February, I kept seeing this one commercial repeatedly for NorCal Healthy Solutions. It claimed that without diet pills, prepackaged food, or exercise, you could lose up to a pound a day. I seriously had my doubts about that. Every time I saw it, I’d say, "YA RIGHT! This has to be a gimmick! That’s not possible, and not healthy." But my curiosity was so great, I finally decided to call the number on the screen, hoping to just be able to talk to someone about it and get some answers.
I left a message saying I wasn’t looking for a job opportunity, I didn’t want to have to go weigh in someplace each week, and I didn’t want to place an order. I just wanted to talk to someone to find out what their product was. A nice man called me back. To my utter shock, he lived in MY TOWN! I mean seriously, what are the odds that you call a number on TV and the person who calls you back lives in your town? I didn’t want a strange man coming to see me at my home, so I didn’t admit that we were neighbors. Instead I asked if he would be willing to meet me in my San Carlos office to talk to me, and he said yes! We set up an appointment to meet.
This would be a good place for me to mention that I definitely believe that everything happens for a reason. The rest of my story is living proof of that.
The man who came to my office was Don Blythe. When he came in, he looked as though he had seen a ghost! He was looking at my credentials and certificates on the wall with eyes wide as saucers! As I was thinking to myself at that moment that I was glad I hadn’t asked him to come to my home because he was acting kind of weird, he said, “You have to excuse me, but I’m trying to wrap my brain around something right now!” I invited him to sit down, and he kept looking at my wall of certificates. Then he said, “We need to back up to five months ago.” I asked if we had met five months ago, though he didn’t look familiar to me. He said, “No but I sort of knew YOU five months ago. I was at an airport in Utah waiting for a flight in a room filled with people. There was a guy sitting near me talking to some other people about his AMAZING hypnotherapist, GWENN HENKEL in California, who saved his life! It’s not like I was trying to eavesdrop, but what he was saying was so interesting, I had to listen! Then he passed out your business cards, which—by the way—didn't look the same as the ones you have in the waiting room now.”
I was still in shock to hear that someone in Utah was talking about me, let alone passing out my (old) business cards. The thing is, I had changed the design of my business cards nine years earlier! I told Don that. We just stared at each other for a moment. He said that the man and the others got up to board their flight, and one of them dropped the business card. Don picked it up, looked at the name so as to remember it, and then returned it to the person who dropped it. So then he said, “Fast forward five months to now and GWENN HENKEL leaves a message on MY answering machine asking me to call her, and I’m thinking, "Why do I know that name?" I didn’t realize who you were until I walked in here just now...AND OH MY GOSH, YOU ARE THAT LADY! I think we are supposed to know each other!” I said, “You don’t EVEN know how the half of it yet!” As it turned out, Don Blythe is the founder of NorCal Healthy Solutions!
On March 1, 2016, I began the program weighing in at 172 pounds (on my 5’1” body), and by my 65th birthday the following June, I had lost 40 pounds! Even now that I'm off the program, I have continued my healthy lifestyle and have released a total of 55 pounds. I never ever believed that I could weigh under 120 pounds at my age, but I have done this and I feel so fantastic! All cravings for old foods that caused weight gain are completely gone. I am not even tempted to eat unhealthy! All my food choices are good ones; on occasion I have fun things, but there is no guilt or weight gain because of it.
Now my CD for envisioning a new healthy lifestyle is a part of NorCal Healthy Solutions, and I am a counselor to help people with any challenges they may find they are having due to subconscious patterns they have established from their past programming, so that they are successful on their new paths and stay there! Also, my before and after pictures are on the NorCal brochures, and on the homepage of the website!
I have NorCal to thank for helping me get my life back on track and getting me healthy once and for all! It’s been the MOST amazing journey, and the best phone call I ever made. THANK YOU NORCAL HEALTHY SOLUTIONS!!