Welcome! I’m so glad that you are here.

There is a growing health crisis in America and you can be part of the solution!

The Center for Disease Control has alarming statistics:

• 90% of doctor visits are due to stress factors and stress is a major contributor to the top 6 causes of death!
• 75% of Americans are overweight
• 1 in 2 adult Americans has a chronic illness
• 1 in 5 Americans has an autoimmune disorder
• We are seeing adult diseases, like diabetes, increasingly affect our youth!

All of these health issues can be resolved or greatly improved by lifestyle change. That’s where you come in!

With the Advanced Brain Trainings of Neuro Linguistic Programming & Hypnosis Secrets, you can get great results that Wow your clients and get them referring friends and family! Learn powerful skills of Brain Training and get amazing results like these!

Register for A Lighter You Practitioner Certification July 28,2022 & The Hypnothoughts Conference July 30-Aug 1 in Vegas, click here to register

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Advanced A Lighter You  Training is for you if:

• You love people and want to make a difference.
• You are passionate about health and reducing the need for medications.
• You are a personal trainer, health coach, psychologist, dietician, nutritionist, life coach or hypnotherapist and you want to be more effective with your clients.
• You’ve been frustrated that you tell clients what to do, but they don’t follow through.
• You want advanced training in understanding how the brain works to address the REAL causes of weight gain: cravings, emotional eating, stress patterns and self sabotage!
• You want to build a fulfilling career helping people lead healthy, vibrant lives of purpose!

My vision is to help more people discover their inner strength and wisdom, become their healthy fit self, and lead vibrant happy lives filled with purpose!

If you are passionate about health and nutrition and you understand the importance of engaging your BRAIN for change, then becoming an ALY Certified Coach will help you build a fulfilling career helping people and doing what you love.

“If you do what you love, you will never work a day in your life.” Marc Anthony

It’s an exciting field and it’s an exciting time. I wake up excited about life in the morning.  I love going to work and meeting with clients. I have flexibility in my schedule. I fit most of my clients into 3-4 days a week. I am truly LIVING my life purpose while helping others live more fulfilling and meaningful lives. If you are passionate about helping people and want more than a job (just over broke) and ready for a meaningful career, join us and be part of the ALY Team to grow health and wellness with passion and purpose.

A Lighter You Coach & Practitioner Certification

The REAL reasons people are overweight are old habits, cravings, lack of motivation and self sabotage. And these are wired into the brain. That is why it can be so hard to make a change. Most people know what is healthy and what isn’t. But what really gets in the way are old habits, cravings and its almost like part of me wants to and part of me doesn’t – and then we find ourselves fighting against ourselves. But progress is slow, like taking 2 steps forward then 2 steps back.

Discover the secrets to addressing the REAL reasons behind weight issues – hint its in your BRAIN!

While doing my coursework in psychology at Portland State University, I was fascinated with how the brain worked. But I was even more fascinated with the power of the mind. We studied the research on the placebo effect. This is the effect in research that people who take a sugar pill (no chemical value) can improve just by the act of taking the pill. This can account for up to 50% of the results. This is why researchers learned to create double blind experiments where neither the client or the researcher knows who gets the drug and who gets the placebo. Why is the placebo effect happening? It’s not medical model that the body is just an interplay of chemical reactions. And so I looked for answers. I found advanced trainings that explained how this is possible. Our bodies are much more than a meat popsicle. Our bodies are a complicated interaction of chemicals, metabolic processes, hormones, specialized cellular functions. And then there’s the mental aspects. What we think has a physical effect on the body. We see this evidenced by the stress response. Most of our stress is imagined threat, but our body physically responds just the same by releasing hormones and raising blood pressure and heart rate. This affects how our body functions.

What we think about affects our body, physically!

Our thoughts cause our body to release chemicals and hormones. Our thoughts also cause emotions and emotions have chemical and neuro- transmitter components. Ok, I don’t want to give the impression that this is uber technical. I’ve kept the understanding of the brain to the basics and more importantly to how to apply this knowledge to everyday living. This is why your clients will fall in love with you because you’ll give them the tools to run their own brain.

You’ll learn how to teach, motivate, and inspire yourself and your clients by knowing:

• How to Control Your Cravings
• How to Deal with Emotions Effectively
• How to Increase Self Awareness
• How to Address Internal Conflict
• How to Identify Mental Blocks
• How to Change Mental Blocks Quickly and Easily
• How to Empower Your Clients to Change Habits
• How to Boost Motivation
• How to End Self Sabotage
• And More!

This is more than just positive thinking and affirmations.

Don’t get me wrong positive thinking and affirmations are great, but they are not enough. They feel great for the moment that you say them, but then your brain goes right back to its old patterns and thinking. What you need to do is actually rewire the brain and neural pathways and create new mental habits. And we can also address the unconscious mind quickly and effectively. I’ve brought together the best tools of applied psychology, understanding the brain, engaging the unconscious, neuro-linguistic programming, health coaching, and more to bring you a powerful program for lasting weight loss success. If you’ve worked with clients, especially with weight issues, you know that having a plan is not enough. What really gets in the way:

• Old Habits
• Cravings
• Stress Patterns
• Emotional Eating
• Lack of Motivation
• And Sabotage!

The reasons people don’t follow through with what they know they should do have to do with their brain. These old patterns and habits are wired into the brain and that is why they are so hard to change. If you’ve worked with clients on weight loss, even if they are having success, they still fall off the wagon. Until now. Through my years of leading healthy lifestyle classes and working with thousands of clients, I bring you the tools of the stuff that really works. To help people make effective change you need the brain training tools + solid science backed information to address the REAL reasons people gain weight: mental blocks, old habits, cravings, lack of motivation and self sabotage.

I Created A Lighter You System because the REAL reasons we gain weight are in the BRAIN!

As I started leading healthy lifestyle classes, I recognized quickly that most people know what’s healthy, but the real reasons they don’t follow through are in the BRAIN! With my background of training in Hypnosis and Neuro Linguistic Programming, I applied the skills of managing your mind to working with weight issues. And I wrote the book, A Lighter You Train Your Brain to Slim Your Body which is all about changing those habits, cravings, lack of motivation and the mental blocks with your brain. I also knew the power of Hypnosis to change habits, cravings and patterns quickly, so I developed the A Lighter You Mind Body Weight Loss Hypnosis CD set. This covers the essential 6 aspects of getting the brain onboard with healthy lifestyle and weight loss. Here’s the titles of the 6 Hypnosis CD set, each one covering a sepcific aspect for getting your brain into healthy habits and patterns: A Lighter You! Mind Body Weight Loss Hypnosis CD set:

• Step Into Your Healthy You
• Curb Your Cravings
• Enlighten Your Body Image
• Motivation for Fitness
• Release Your Reasons
• Boost Your Metabolism

Another Roadblock: Misinformation and diet fads!

There is a ton of misinformation in the health and diet industry. You’ve seen the fad diets, the tuna and grapefruit diet. For awhile the diet trend was all low fat and then people gained weight because of the high carb intake. There is constantly hype in the media about fad diets. Beware the hype and look at the research. Misinformation is rampant in advertising and media campaigns. Do you remember the milk campaign? “Drink 3 glasses of milk a day and lose weight.” That claim was based off a research study of 12 participants where only a few of those participants lost a fraction of a pound over a month. What about “you need milk for strong bones?” Very common right? Did you know that America has the highest rate of milk consumption and it also has the highest rate of osteoporosis (a progressive disease of decreased bone mass leading to higher risk of bone fracture). If you just needed milk for strong bones, America should have the lowest rates of osteoporosis. The real reason for osteoporosis comes from chemical reactions in the body. When we eat a highly acidic diet, the body needs to balance its pH and so it leeches calcium from the bones (calcium is alkaline) to counteract the acidity and bring the blood pH back to an acceptable level. Milk even though it tests alkaline before consumption, turns acidic in the body. Misinformation is everywhere. Even dieticians and nutritionists are taught outdated ideas like, “All calories are the same.” Well no, they’re not (calories I mean). Let me emphasize this.

Not all calories are the same!

Calories in – calories out makes mathematical sense, but our bodies are not a math equation. Foods AFFECT the body differently. Different foods have different effects on the body and certain foods cause you to gain weight. This is not a calorie counting program. Many weight loss programs focus on counting calories and outdated information.

People need better information based on science. And that’s why I wrote the book, A Lighter You Health Coach’s Guide to Nutrition in Action.

It’s a program based on the sound science and research of understanding HOW  foods affect the body. It’s designed to take a person from the Modern American Diet to a healthy eating lifestyle that will last a lifetime. This comprehensive system covers digestion, food allergies and food sensitivities, why gluten free and more. Plus, I’ve added segments on SuperFoods. It’s a very practical approach with small changes over the course of 6 weeks. As an ALY Certified Coach, you’ll learn to teach this indepth nutrition information and sound principles of natural healing and nutritional healing. And you’ll learn to lead productive, positive weight loss support groups. Plus, you’ll learn the secrets of addressing the mental aspects of weight loss, which are the REAL reasons people struggle. Good information is a start, but people need more. To truly be successful with lasting weight loss (for yourself or your clients), you simply must get the BRAIN onboard!   I’ve spent more than $50,000 on my education and training over the course of more than 20 years.  And I’ve applied the methods I’ve found with REAL clients for REAL and effective results (not just theories).  I’ve streamlined the materials and strategies into effective tools that you can start applying right away to help clients and build a fulfilling career. And I’m offering this training at a fraction of the cost. Plus, once you’ve certified you’ll be eligible for the ALY Business Support group and Train Your Brain for Business Series. This offers you business support in getting your successful business started and growing your fulfilling career. Most other Coaching programs just offer you the certification and then its up to you to build a business with it. But with my ALY Business Support group, you’ll also get the know- how to start, run and grow your business. You don’t have to do it alone. I wish I had this support when I started. I made a lot of mistakes and I’ll help you jumpstart your business right out of the gate. Now, I know you’re probably wondering about tuition. You don’t need years of toiling away in academia, they don’t even teach this stuff anyway! You don’t need to sign up with an Multi Level Marketing company and sell their products. They don’t have the knowledge of BRAIN Skills.

Become A Lighter You Coach & Practitioner  & Help Yourself & Others End the War with Food!

And you’ll be ready to rock and roll with your own business, with flexible hours, and building a REAL career for yourself without crippling student loans and massive debt. And you won’t be selling a product or pushing friends and family to join an MLM.  You’ll be able to help REAL clients get REAL results.

• Are you ready to make a difference in the world?
• Are you ready to fulfill your life purpose by helping others?
• Are you interested in helping others navigate their BRAIN, their body and their health?

Next Live Online Course Starts Mon. Nov. 30 & Mon. Dec. 14:  Email for application or call/ text me: 801-810-9406

Get Everything you Need to Attract Clients, Run Workshops and Problem Solve the Sabotage, here’s what’s included in Certification:

• Live Trainings for Creating Assessments & Enrolling Clients
• Get 6 and 12 Week Course Models, (for both individual sessions and groups)
• Marketing Templates & Flyers to fill your groups and sessions
• A Lighter You Train Your Brain to Slim Your Body books wholesale rates
• A Lighter You Health Coach’s Guide to Nutrition books wholesale rates
• Online Access website to Training & Marketing Videos
• Get Listed in Your Area as an A Lighter You Practitioner
• And More!

2 Options to Enroll:

Option 1: A Lighter You Practitioner

This is for you if:

• You want to learn “Brain Training” skills to boost client results
• You want to Wow your clients with advanced tools
• You want to attract new weight loss clients to your practice in 2021

A Lighter You Practitioner Certification includes:

• Live Trainings to Learn Powerful Brain Training tools and skills
• Live Trainings to Attract Clients & Grow Your Business
• Online Access to Trainings & Videos
• Live Trainings to Learn Brain Training Skills
• VIP Rates for 1:1 Sessions on Clearing Your Mental Blocks & Marketing Your Business
• A Lighter You Practitioner Pack with 6 and 12 Week Course Formats for Groups or Individuals
• Templates & Worksheets
• Certificate suitable for framing

Option 2: A Lighter You Practitioner PLUS Business Profitability Builder

This is for you if:

• You value ongoing learning and support
• You value group coaching and connections
• You want support in attracting clients and filling your practice

All of A Lighter You Practitioner plus:

• 6 Months of Business Profits program to grow your business
• Monthly Live Support & QA
• Access to Online Trainings & Resources
• Wholesale Rates on Books & CDs for Resale
• SAVE $350!

PLUS BONUSES

• Extra Training for Adapting to Online Services
• One Hour Private Coaching for Brain Training Skills or Marketing ($165 Value!)

Holly Stokes, The Brain Trainer, 3 time Author, Speaker and Master NLP Coach,  has more than 20 years experience in the field of applied psychology.  She has worked with thousands of clients in ‘rewiring’ the brain out of old habits, fears, stress and the sabotage that steals health and vitality. She created the A Lighter You! System to address the REAL reasons we gain weight: old habits, cravings, mental blocks and lack of motivation. Through Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Hypnosis and Coaching, she loves inspiring clients to lead healthier, happier lives of purpose and achievement. She has been quoted by Shape Magazine, Active Times and Chicago Tribune. She appears on radio shows and local TV in Salt Lake City, where she keeps a busy practice and co-owns The Life Harmony Wellness Center. She says, “Life, health, happiness, achievement – all gets easier with your brain onboard.” Find her books and Hypnosis CDs online at www.TheBrainTrainerllc.com

• 1994 Certified As A Nutritional Vitalogist and Herbalist with The Dr. Christopher School of Natural Healing, Springville, UT
• 2005 Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology from Portland State University, Portland, OR
• 2005 Neuro-Linguistic Programming Practitioner Certification from Apositiva, Portland OR
• 2005 Certified as Clinical Hypnotherapist from Apositiva, Portland OR
• 2006 Certified as NLP Coach with NLPCA in Seattle, WA www.nlpca.com
• 2006 Certified as Master NLP Practitioner with NLPCA in San Francisco, CA
• 2006 Opened Expanding Potentials, LLC later changed the name to The Brain Trainer, LLC
• 2008 Certified as NLP Health Practitioner in San Francisco, CA
• 2008 Author of A Lighter You! Health Coach’s Guide to Nutrition in Action
• 2008 Certified as Thought Pattern Management Practitioner, Vancouver, WA
• 2010 Author of A Lighter You! Train Your Brain to Slim Your Body
• 2010 Author of A Lighter You Health Coach’s Guide to Nutrition
• 2016 Author of Visioneering Your Business
• 2019 National Guild of Hypnotists Certified Trainer
• Current Owner of Life Harmony Wellness Center, Salt Lake City UT
• Current Owner at The Brain Trainer, LLC Salt Lake City, UT