ABOUT RACHEL
MEET RACHEL
Rachel Alvarado is a certified holistic nutritionist, board certified holistic health practitioner, strength & conditioning specialist, professional figure skater, and founder of Holistic Atelier de Elegance also known as Holistic Bride. She specializes in root cause healing, supporting her clients in the refinement of improved digestive health, intensional fitness, skin glow, reverse-aging, and hormonal balance for good. Rachel approaches her practice virtually through one-on-one coaching services.
EXPERIENCE ELEGANCE IN WELLNESS
S P E C I A L I Z A T I O N S
BRIDAL BEAUTY . HORMONE BALANCE . REVERSE AGING . SKIN GLOW . WEIGHT LOSS . DIGESTIVE HEALTH . ELITE FITNESS . WEDDING PLANNING . ART THERAPY .
HER PHILOSOPHY
Rachel applies functional medicine lab testing, supplementation, lifestyle & dietary protocols, and intentional routines in an individualized approach to accurately & compassionately unveil root-cause issues, & achieve her client’s goals.
Calling all high achieving professionals & brides— experiencing total body vitality in your work life balance & for your wedding day IS POSSIBLE. If you are currently an ambitious professional or ever planned a wedding before, you get it. It’s A LOT. Stress is high, and you honestly need that extra tender, intentional care for your body, mind, & spirit. If you know Rachel at all, you know she gets it. Her holistic bridal experience & path to true elegance in wellness went from no hope to transformation in total body vitality, cascading a shift in her career path with no turning back to help other women experience the same.
HER MISSION
Rachel works with her clients in a genuine, empathetic nature to renew beauty in wellness, bring hope, & level up health from the inside out.
This is Rachel’s story to finding herself again, restoring her mind, body & spiritual life. With a holistic path to healing & icing on the cake in applying functional medical lab testing, she has found that sweet spot to a healthy lifestyle that has made her happily ever after story a reality.
Through her love of natural remedies & romanticizing about naturopathic ways to health, wellness, & healing, Rachel expanded her education shortly after getting engaged in 2019, officially becoming a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, something she’s always wanted to do. Additionally, she went on to become a Board Certified Holistic Health Practitioner & has incorporated Naturopathic, Ayurvedic, Functional Medicine and Integrative Methods into her root cause healing private practice.
When looking at Rachel’s history in nutrition, she began her journey at a young age by researching all she could about health & wellness, & decided at 7 years old to start altering her family's recipes into healthier versions to aid her passion in competitive figure skating. Fast forward to all things fitness & nutrition, and a postgraduate in a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science, she continued by working with Elite Athletes (predominantly golf, figure skaters, dancers & football) as a strength and conditioning specialist (CSCS) & golf fitness specialist, opened up her private practice, Elegant Edge Refinery, & continues to train skaters & golfers locally to this day.
“ SHE OVERCAME EVERYTHING THAT WAS MADE TO DESTROY HER.”
After college, running multiple businesses was hard. Moving away from her hometown, having emergency surgery, & going completely self employed was even harder. When burnout and unexpected trauma struck her life, a spiral effect of symptoms kept piling up. Her immune system was shutting down, unwanted weight gain, embarrassing skin conditions (including acne & sebaceous dermatitis), digestive issues, a breast cancer threat, thyroid, adrenal, & hormone imbalances & all the classic signs of autoimmune made life very uncomfortable. It was getting to a point of being difficult to feel like herself, let alone have hope that it would get any better. She had been literally and figuratively knocked off her feet while stress kept piling on with work load. Tying natural remedies was doing nothing to help. Doctors continued to give bandaid solutions, that it was all in her head, or that she was completely healthy & fine, when she knew something was wrong.
On paper, she was implementing a holistic lifestyle throughout her life as an athlete & personal trainer & everything in between so it didn’t add up. Why all these issues? She had been dreaming of her wedding day her whole life– what her future husband was like, what her dress would look like, the smells, how she would feel having family and friends all around for the biggest day of her life. This was not good timing. It never is. Enough was enough. She had no other choice but to find hope. She couldn’t keep living this way, feeling this way. Being a researcher at heart, she dug for answers, and that is when she came across functional medical lab testing.
THERE HAD TO BE MORE…
“...it can be challenging at times to take a step back, breathe, & look at what self love & romance of what would be good for YOU looks like... Rachel was the staple child for that, but knew there had to be more...”
When you are a high achieving professional & recovering perfectionist, it can be challenging at times to take a step back, breathe, & look at what self love & romance of what would be good for YOU looks like. In order to serve others best (in your career, home, romantic relationship), it should be from a state of overflow, not of burnout. Too often than not, strong, ambitious women tend to work so hard that they forget about their own personal wellbeing. Rachel was the staple child for that, but knew there had to be more, finally said enough is enough, & prepared for saying I DO with holistic health at the forefront of the process.
“Experiencing elegance in wellness was an incredible gift. Being the healthiest version of herself she had ever been by means of creativity, art & scientific data, ignited a passion to help others do the same.”
Through prayer, seeking wisdom, & sitting in the quiet, she took a deep dive into holistic self care, took up painting & art therapy, started skating for herself again, & romanced what she needed as an individual for the whole of her daily life. Being a romantic at heart, she wanted to solve the puzzle before she said I DO and be the bride & wife she hoped to be for her future husband & family. When she came across functional medical lab testing, it sparked a new reality & beautiful experience of elegance in wellness. She was able to completely get rid of her dermatitis, skin cleared up better than she had ever experienced, her period cycles became normal again, energy levels went through the roof, mental clarity was at an all time high, and she reached her ideal body weight for her body type in time to fit into her dream wedding dress for her wedding day. Experiencing elegance in wellness was an incredible gift. Becoming the healthiest version of herself she had ever been by means of creativity, art & scientific data, ignited a passion to help others do the same.
Ready to experience elegance in wellness?
Being a natural helper personality, it wasn’t natural to focus on what she needed to do to be her best mentally, physically or spiritually. Through life’s unpredictable struggle & preparing for her wedding day, Rachel learned what it meant to implement self care in order to serve others in the best way— from a state of overflow. That romance of who she was as an individual began to be a beautiful experience of elegance in wellness. Through intentional self care & functional medical lab testing, she finally was able to heal. No regret for restoring health and healing. It’s your turn now. No grit, no pearl. What do you decide?
HER VISION
Through her individualistic approach to holistic health care, Rachel’s vision is for her clients to whole heartedly embody what it is to live out elegance of wellness. She see’s hope, freshness & faith in the path that awaits the seeker in total body vitality, reverse aging, & being elegantly well.
HOLISTIC ATELIER IS A SERENE PLACE OF HEALTH & HEALING.
RACHEL’S DESIRE IS TO OFFER A SECURE AND NOURISHING SPACE THAT LEADS EACH OF HER CLIENTS TO EXPERIENCE THE LUXURY OF HEALTH, TRUE RENEWED VITALITY, & BEAUTY IN WELLNESS.
“SIMPLICITY IS THE KEYNOTE OF ALL TRUE ELEGANCE.”
— Coco Chanel
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Elegantly Yours,
Rachel Alvarado