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“Cynthia Pasquella is a superstar, plain and simple. Here’s how I describe her: smart, sexy, compassionate, generous and incredibly knowledgeable. Cynthia knows more about how to combine foods, herbs and supplements to create the most balanced, healthy you than anyone I know. There’s a reason why everyone wants to work with her – cause her systems work!”
- Giselle Achecar |
my story
Hey there, sunshine. I’m Cynthia Pasquella.
I’m a nutritionist. I help women ditch their unhealthy, bloated, and tired bodies and going-through-the-motions lives. In exchange, they get a kick-ass, turn cartwheels in the street, vibrant body coupled with a life that radiates authenticity, happiness, and purpose without deprivation or compromise. I encourage you to celebrate YOU (the real you) with reckless abandon – daily.
I do more than tell you what to eat. The thing that really lights me up is helping you repair your relationship with food and empowering you with the ability to discover your real, down-and-dirty, authentic self.
You see its part science and part listening to your body (aka trusting your instincts). It’s about knowing what works for YOUR body and YOUR life. It’s about slinging the door to your future wide open and finally, FINALLY stepping into your greatness.
What makes me special?
Oh… lots of things. Just like lots of things make YOU special.
When it comes to changing bodies and transforming lives, I have a ton of education, fancy schmancy training, and well over 10 years of hands-on, digging in the trenches experience. However, what really makes me special is that I have x-ray vision. I can see through the self-doubting, self-loathing, disparaged you to the you 2.0 that lives a kick-ass, take names kind of life empowered by your own choices.
If you could see the you that I see, you would be in awe of yourself.
I meet women wherever they are in life and coach them through their breakthrough. And yes, it’s as profound as it sounds.
You see, “healthy” isn’t just a term for your body. Your body is just one part. Being truly “healthy” is living every day of your life passionately, lovingly, mindful, open, energized, and alive and enjoying every tiny detail of the process. It’s living authentically, connecting with your body so deeply that you know without a question what it needs at any given moment. It’s discovering the life of your dreams, and then hopping on that pony and riding with your skirt flying in the wind (or up over your head, if you so desire).
So… did I just pop out of the womb knowing exactly what to eat and how to live my life to the fullest? Ummm… Hell to the No!
Money-wise, I was born into a whole lot of nothing. But, I was rich beyond my wildest dreams when it came to authentic living and healthy eating. My family grew their own food (out of necessity, not because they were interested in living “healthy”) and trips to the supermarket were only to pick up the basics like flour and corn meal. The veggies were all organic, the cheese and butter were made by churning cow’s milk (fresh from Ol’ Bessie – I loved that cow), and every meal was cooked using basic, whole food ingredients.
But there was more than that… You see, where I grew up, you were who you were and you didn’t apologize for it.
You didn’t have to have a college degree on the wall or a successful business to be “somebody”. No one really had anything so we were all on equal playing ground. You were just you.
Now, I didn’t have this awareness at the time. I was five. I loved candy (in the rare instance that we actually got it), cherished Christmas, and played outside from sunrise ‘til sunset. I was carefree and life was simple. Honest. Good.
Alas, you don’t stay oblivious forever. As I grew up, I realized that not everyone lived this way.
There were fast food joints to be found, teenage phases to go through, a better (read: more complex) life to make for myself. So I did.
I headed to college, got a degree, tried the corporate route and found out that just wasn’t my thing. A windowless office and 60 hour work weeks? No, thanks. Time to move on.
I headed to Hollywood, was a model, did some television hosting, hung out with movie stars, rock stars, and tried hard to be just like everyone else. Different is… well, different. Not good – or so I thought.
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My lifestyle quickly caught up with me (surprise!) and I became a hot mess (the technical term for unhealthy).
I gained over 25 pounds, had cystic acne, eczema, and cellulite in places I didn’t know you could get cellulite. My hair was breaking and falling out. I battled eating disorders. I was always exhausted – physically and mentally, depressed, and even suicidal at times.
Ring, ring… It’s your life calling… it says it’s time for a change.
I tried every diet known to man, saw doctors, nutritionists, trainers, healers, and each one of them seemed to have a piece of the puzzle but no one could quite put them all together.
So, I did what any Type A woman would do… I figured out how to heal my body all by myself.
I threw myself into studying, researching, experimenting. I tested theories, thoughts, and beliefs. What I found wasn’t just a way to lose weight, clear my skin, get rid of that pesky cellulite, and heal my mind. I also found something I realized I had been looking for all of my adult life…
I found FREEDOM.
I was finally free from obsessing over food all day and night, worrying about everything I put in my mouth, and counting every calorie. I no longer cared about what anyone thought. I didn’t want to be like everyone else. I finally discovered that it was time to be ME. Little ‘ol, not-always-perfect-but-trying-really-darn-hard-and-thats-ok ME! I was now living life on my own terms – healthy, happy, real, and free.
Time to kick ass, take names, and change some lives!
To celebrate what I had learned and to show others how great food and healthy living could be, I created the only program that specializes in breaking through and eliminating Weight Loss Resistance Disorder™ (the little monster I discovered while going through my own struggle). I titled it called “Break Through Weight Loss Resistance Disorder”. (Clever, huh?)
I also worked with my handsome hubby to create the world’s first and only USDA certified organic, healthy cleansing and detox company – called SoCal Cleanse – where we focus on not just creating a renewed body but a nourished lifestyle without starving, juicing, fasting, or deprivation.
But wait… there’s more…
I’ve been very lucky (thanks Universe – you wild and crazy son of a gun) to be able to build a successful business while helping people transform their lives. And now, what I’m really digging, is teaching other wellness professionals how to build THEIR business so that they can make more money and help more people while working less and enjoying THEIR ideal life. I partnered with Pilates extraordinaire, Ana Caban, and we’re revealing all the secrets of our success (and we’re having a blast doing it) in our Wealth & Wellness Success Blueprint Program.
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So… that’s about it, I guess. That’s who I am, where I came from, and what I’m up to these days. I’m always changing, creating, and challenging myself so this is far from my whole story. There’s many more amazing twists and turns to come (and miles to go before I sleep).
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.Want something a bit more “official”? Check out my bio HERE.
