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Discover how personalized health coaching from board-certified health coach Martha Kester can help you be your best self - for you and those around you.
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Why Pause?

Our proven process and personalized 1-on-1 health coaching make healthy living attainable for anyone. Here’s our formula for success:

Plant-Based Diet

Plant-Based

A plant rich diet doesn’t necessarily mean full vegan or vegetarian — it just means that the plants on your plate are the main characters!

Active Lifestyle

Active Lifestyle

Being active doesn’t have to look like running and lifting heavy weights. We’ll work together to find activities that you enjoy — while helping you stay fit.

Understanding

Understanding

Clearly understanding your goals, your motivations, and your values and strengths is the first step to building healthy habits that will stand the test of time.

Stress Management & Sleep Coaching

Stress & Sleep

Stress and poor sleep habits go hand-in-hand, often leading to obesity, hormonal imbalance, and other health issues.

Elimination Diet

Elimination

Most people don’t realize the impact the 7 main allergens (dairy, gluten, yeast, soy, eggs, peanuts and corn) are having until they cut them out and then reintroduce them 1-by-1.

NBC-HWC

National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC)

Why Work with a Health Coach?

Here are a just a few areas a Health & Wellness Coach can help:

Sleep Health

Gut Health (easing belly bloat)

Customized Exercise Plan

Customized Diet Plan

Reducing Cravings

Increasing Energy

Managing Stress

Finding Work Life Balance

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Martha Kester | Board-Certified Health Coach

Meet Martha

Martha Kester is a board-certified health coach with a passion to help people build habits that lead to healthier, happier lives.

A native of Beaufort, South Carolina, Martha’s journey to health and wellness began nearly two decades ago as a young adult struggling through a number of mental and physical challenges and searching for greater balance in her life.

A full-time elementary school teacher at the time, Martha found herself perpetually stressed out, grumpy, sleep deprived, and burdened by constant injuries. One day, a friend who Martha worked out with after school remarked, “You light up when you work with us. I don’t see that when you are in the classroom.” That’s when she knew something had to change.

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Testimonials

What are people saying about our personalized, 1-on-1 health coaching?

Beaufort Health Coach Recommendation - Melissa
“Working with Martha on two occasions now has improved my overall wellbeing and quality of life. Call her…it feels good to feel good!”

Melissa

Beaufort Health Coach Recommendation - Colleen J.
“As of last week all of my levels were in the normal range and I am no longer needing the medication. My doctor attributes it to better exercise, diet and sleep. Thank you!”

Colleen

Beaufort Health Coach Recommendation - Amy P.
“She helped me realize that it is ok to take care of me. So so so glad I decided to email her and ask for help! I feel taller, more confident and more independent!”

Amy

From the Pause Wellness Blog

Recipes & health coaching resources to help you live well.

Apple Cider Chicken Crockpot

Apple Cider Chicken Crockpot

This is the easiest crockpot dinner ever!  It involves just a handful of ingredients but is full of taste and smells amazing as it is cooking.  It has lasted Lee and me three nights.   "Chicken and apples happen to be one of my favorite unexpected flavor combos, plus...

Slow Cooker Peanut Thai Chicken

Slow Cooker Peanut Thai Chicken

This isthe perfect crockpot meal as the evenings grow colder.  It is tasty, colorful, and easy to put together.  There are some ingredients in this recipe that can be substituted for other things you might have in your cupboard too.  For example, it calls for seasame...

Favorite Chickpea Salad

Favorite Chickpea Salad

This is both a colorful and tasty side dish.  "It is bursting with fresh Mediterranean flavors, thanks to chopped bell pepper, parsley, red onion, and celery." It is a versatile dish too.  It can be eating as a snack, for lunch on a bed of lettuce or even paired with...