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Amber Rose MacLaird
Board Certified Massage Therapist
Medical Massage Therapist
Medical Intuitive
Life Coach
Spiritual Healer
Holistic Hypnotherapist
Amber Rose is the owner of a holistic practice in Fairhope, Alabama specializing in massage, structural-integrative therapies for body alignment, and various holistic approaches to healing. She has been practicing massage therapy since 2011.
For Amber Rose, a mind-body-spirit approach has been central to her life since childhood. Her mother brought her to many holistic retreats in the mountains of Arizona with the local Hopi and Zuni tribes. During these retreats, they studied various healing modalities. “Growing up with a mother who was aware that there were many paths to healing, taught me to think outside the allopathic / western medicine box to seek my own solutions to wellness. This enabled me to live my life as a solution-oriented person, developing a whole-being, independent diagnostic process, rather than being dependent on others for answers.” MacLaird says.
Amber Rose has always felt very tuned in to others; able to sense, see, and feel the emotions, pain, and suffering of others. As a developed medical intuitive, she can now see where her clients carry pain and illness in their bodies. “I see this as a natural, God-given ability that we all can utilize if we know how to tune in.”
In spite of her keen insight as a child, Amber Rose was not immune to health challenges, starting with a brain injury following a car accident in 2001. At age seventeen, the injury left her in brain-fog for decades. “After the initial three weeks in an acute coma, I was conscious but blindly moving through daily life. As long as I stay on my path, I feel great in my body, mind and soul!”
“Everyone’s journey unique, so it is essential to offer a wide variety of methods to approach healing.” Being confident in her gifts of discernment, healing and intuition allows her the clarity she brings to her practice.
Michelle Smith, B.A.
National Board-Certified Functional Medicine
Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)
Owner of TeamWorks LLC
Owner and Publisher of Natural Awakenings Magazine, Gulf Area
Michelle is a National Board-Certified Functional Medicine Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and owner of TeamWorks, LLC. There, she manages multiple businesses focused on health, wellness and holistic living. She is the publisher of Natural Awakenings Gulf Coast, a franchise magazine that promotes healthy living and sustainable lifestyles. Through her publication, she builds relationships with local business owners who provide valuable content on natural health and sustainable living. Community-focused features include Gulf Coast Green Living, Masters of Bodywork, Healthy Eats Guide and Community Resource Guide.
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Michelle has a BA in Journalism from Louisiana State University, with additional focus on advertising and marketing. She later became a certified health coach through the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (FMCA), focusing on longevity through “Food as Medicine” principles, behavioral change management, and lifestyle best practices. Her coaching business, Good Life Health Coaching, helps individuals and groups achieve health goals using a “Values in Action” approach, motivational interviewing, empathic listening and personalized SMART goal techniques.
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As a lifelong athlete, Michelle is impressively accomplished in competitive swimming, a thriathlete, and USTA tennis. A USA Triathlon and US Masters Swimming Certified Coach, she founded TeamWorks Multisport Training, training beginner triathletes to Ironman competitors. Her leadership extends to the local community where she has served as President of the Tortugaman Tri Hearts Club, volunteer swim coach for Eastern Shore Masters Swimming and volunteer board member for the City of Fairhope Recreation Board.
Her early career was in corporate sales and recruiting, which honed her skills in project management, relationship building, goal setting and team leadership—skills she now applies in coaching and business. Michelle is deeply committed to empowering others to live healthy, fulfilling lives.
Alexandra Clay
Co-Founder of Smart Healthy Lifestyles
Gourmet Chef
Holistic Lifestyle Coach
Wellness Retreat Coordinator
Alexandra (Lexie) became passionate about creating healthy, gourmet recipes after overcoming a thyroid imbalance that led to intermittent dyslexia. After she and her father discovered that the episodes of dyslexia were directly connected to certain foods, she realized that she actually had the power to minimize or stop the episodes.
She began reading nutrition labels in grocery stores at ten years old, and became conscious of the mind-body connection that we each have with food. Because her dyslexia was intermittent, and thus atypical, her teachers were baffled. The educational and medical community were unsure how to help.
From her dad’s work as a wellness coach, Lexie had learned to track both her symptoms and her food. “Soon, it became evident that certain foods were triggering my dyslexia: anything with dyes, red dye #40, blue dye, yellow dyes, or any type of food coloring. Also, artificial sweeteners, and many chemicals that are so prevalent in processed foods.” She explains.
Lexie's journey fueled her love of creating and sharing delicious and healthy recipes, while honing her skills as a health-conscious, gourmet nutrition coach and chef.
Thomas Clay
Co-Founder of Smart Healthy Lifestyles
Author, Health Advocate, and Wellness Coach
Energy Medicine Specialist and Medical Intuitive
Founder of The National Indoor Quality Institute 1998
​Hi there, I'm Thomas. My passion to help people heal from environmental illnesses started over thirty years ago. My wife and I just had our first baby, a boy, when we moved into, and began renovating a historic, one-hundred-seventy-five-year-old farmhouse. The home had a lot of charm but needed extensive work. We’d heard stories of old houses quickly turning into money pits.
Our renovation project did indeed become a money pit while triggering some life-changing problems. Midway through the project, we began to experience serious health issues, which meant our biggest expenditures were related to illnesses born of a toxic house.
With the three of us chronically sick, each of us suffering from different symptoms, doctors were clueless as to the causes. This led to three years of specialists and doctor-hopping to find answers and effective treatment. Even worse, we lost our health insurance due to the chronic illness. Soon it became evident that our only hope was to become our own health detective. This is when things began to turn around for us. We were finally on the right track!
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The more I researched, the clearer it became that our wonderful old house had hidden toxic mold that we disturbed while renovating and living in it. The mold poison had chronically stressed our bodies from the inside out. The reality was, our home was poisoning us and traditional doctors had no idea how to help; and they certainly knew nothing about mold remediation in homes.
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Waking up to this took me down the rabbit hole even further. How common was this and why was mold growing in places it didn’t use to grow? I wondered. My discovery revealed that a new generation of mold species was mutating and becoming more toxic and allergenic. In other words, molds are feeding on all the toxins in our environment and becoming more toxic and aggressive in the process.
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In my quest to understand what was making us sick, I came to realize that our modern, fast-paced world is full of both stressors and toxins that our nervous and immune systems are just not prepared to deal with. Compounding the problem is that everyone’s body responds with different symptoms making it very hard for doctors to find accurate diagnoses. Making matters worse is the fact that conventional medicine doesn’t have a pill that can solve the detox issues.
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Once this all came to light I realized I had to venture into the world of holistic and alternative treatment options. Since that time, I have found so many resources available to help those suffering from stress related burnout, toxic overload, fatigue, thyroid dysfunction, and the entire pathway of illnesses triggered by our fast-paced, over-connected, and toxic world.
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The more I researched, the more people with information and resources showed up in my life, and I have since worked collaboratively with holistic focused medical doctors, wellness coaches, and alternative health practitioners to empower people to regain their health.
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The most empowering lesson throughout my journey is recognizing that we all have a natural gift of healing ourselves. We just need to learn how to activate it and practice it! We also all have the gift of intuition and when you combine these two gifts you can dramatically improve your own health and the wellness of those closest to you!
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I also learned that modern families can not rely solely on our conventional healthcare system to take care of them. Not only does it make financial sense, but being proactive and taking responsibility for our own health enables us to prevent most illnesses in the first place. This has fueled my passion, along with my daughter Alexandra, to team up with other wellness practitioners to offer holistic focused Wellness Retreats along the Gulf Coast so YOU can enjoy a variety of holistic treatment solutions while learning to activate their own natural gifts of healing and intuition.
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Bottom Line: I’ve learned how to ReCharge, ReGroup and ReLaunch my family’s Wellness Journey and now I’m on a mission to share what I’ve learned through Retreats, coaching Programs and online courses!
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