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Hi, my name is Monica Alvarez.
If you are interested in my personal story, I'll share some of that here. If not, no worries, you can continue to learn about my offerings here:
My health and fitness journey started before I even realized it. In 2012, I found out I was pregnant with my daughter. Although my choices weren't the best before then, I know my daughter was meant to redirect me back to my true self.
This jumpstarted my desire to know all about natural health so that I could be the best mother I could be. I was the queen of research. I spent most of my time researching every little detail of what could be bad for my baby. This lead to years and years of looking for that balance between our world, and the perfect world I wish we could be living in. What we can control, and what we just, cannot. I did the whole organic, cloth diapers, and grating my own laundry soap from scratch type of thing. But if you ever asked me to go to the gym, I literally have a post where I laughed saying I'd only go for the tootsie rolls (Planet Fitness people get it). Once my daughter was born, I met a friend at my first somewhat "real" job, who started to show me around the gym.
and am pretty happy with what I have created as my canvas. Although... what I gained was not just physical. Little did I know, that building myself up to who I am today, would be a tremulous journey. But also, one I would find such joy in, resulting in becoming addicted to growth in all areas of my life.
In this time, I have helped friends and family get fit and achieve their own goals. I became a nurse and a fitness coach. I spent 3 years in nursing, but a pandemic is not the easiest time to jump into this profession. Outside of the struggles COVID brought in, I saw people who have given up. People who did not have anyone to help them overcome these health battles, before it was too late. I saw people at high levels of obesity, with wounds that were not able to heal, because they were not able to move around properly to allow them to heal. I saw people lose their lives before their lives were lost, suffer from narcotic addictions, from side effects to pills that they needed to subdue these health complications. I saw that a lot of this suffering, was due to lifestyle, lack of accountability, desire, and lack of proper education. It was a vicious cycle for some of these patients.
I knew I had to use my passion for helping others and knowledge in health and fitness to remove people one by one from becoming a part of this path. I needed to find a way to make an impact. This is what led me to open up LVL UP Coaching and to work with people, helping prevent this from becoming their reality.
I am so honored, that you have taken interest in allowing me to help you make this change for yourself. Health, fitness, and helping people find their own balance is my passion and truly what brings me joy in this life. No matter where you are at in your journey, wether you are just dipping your toes or ready to go all the way, continue checking back in. Because I will be providing resources for you to explore the best ways in making this change for yourself. If you are ready to take that next step to dive in, then click one of the links below.