Create whole-being wellness
through sustainable habits
Simplifying holistic health.
developing a world that creates environments
for healing and lives in union with nature.
Maria Bellavia,
Nutrition Therapy Practitioner, Herbalist, Holistic Health Coach and Founder of The Health Habit
Hello!
I'm Maria and this is my story...
When I was 13, my grandfather spent a few weeks at a holistic nutrition clinic learning how to manage his type-2 diabetes. When he returned he was completely off of insulin!
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I was fascinated.
As he ecstatically told me about his experience, I felt the call. That was the moment I knew I wanted to be a holistic practitioner. To spend my life providing others with the freedom and joy that my grandfather felt.
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I started learning about health + nutrition, experimenting with my diet and eventually received a bachelor's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics.
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I loved my undergraduate experience, but I couldn't shake the feeling that I was learning the wrong things...​​
I wasn't learning how to heal.
I knew diet was a major part of health and healing but there was something missing.​ I needed to focus on more than just food if I wanted to be able to transform lives and create lasting impact.
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So only 2 months before graduation, my entire
life plan changed...
For that to happen food needed to be about more than just the nutrients. We need to view it as medicine... we need it to actually be medicine...
That was when I discovered Herbalism.​ My missing link.
ALWAYS stop to smell the flowers :)
Me harvesting Marshmallow root after 3 years of nurturing my beloved plant from seed
Dare to embrace your purpose.
I said no to becoming a registered dietician and instead spent 2.5 years studying herbalism with the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine. I took the unknown path.
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Once I was confident in my ability to grow, formulate and craft effective herbal remedies it was time to find a way to legally help heal people through food.​​
​​I soul-searched and scoured the internet looking for options all the while keeping my foot in the world of modern medicine while working as a phlebotomist.
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One day while I was drawing somebody's blood, a conversation about nutrition began. The patient told me about The Nutritional Therapy Association. The NTA developed a nutrition program for doctors looking to learn about nutrition. The class was such a hit that they created a certification program and opened it to the public. It was perfect!
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One year later I became a Nutrition Therapy practitioner.
I finally had all the tools to open a holistic health practice!
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And so The Health Habit was born.
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