Welcome to Nourish & Thrive Health and Wellness Solutions!

Hello! I am Alexis Bloomstrand, a wife, mother, grandmother, gardener, forever student, passionate, hopeful, and compassionate human being!

It all began in the fall of 1972 when I attended a lecture on the University of Minnesota campus; it was on the Yin/Yang of Macrobiotics. Up until that point, I had eaten a pretty typical American diet, growing up in a suburb of Minneapolis. As a kid, I had severe eczema, food and seasonal allergies, and migraine headaches. The lectures were on changing your health through diet. Over the course of that fall, I had changed my eating habits to a strict vegetarian Macrobiotic diet.

I took cooking classes to learn how to make tofu and mochi, all new and exotic foods and tastes. At the time, there was nowhere; you could buy many of these foods, so you made them from scratch.

In 1974, we moved to Boston, so my husband could attend Boston College, and we could study Macrobiotics with Michio and Aveline Kushi, learning about Chinese medicine, food, and natural healing.

During this time, I taught Natural Foods cooking classes all along Massachusetts’s Cape Cod at the evening night schools.

While in Boston, we begin to run into people that had been to a community in Northern Scotland called Findhorn. Paul Hawken had just written the book THE MAGIC OF FINDHORN, after reading it, we knew we had to go.

My husband had just completed Boston College and needed to do his student teaching. He was able to made arrangements at the nearby high school to do his student teaching near the Findhorn community. We packed everything into storage, and my husband, 14-month-old daughter, and I headed to Scotland for an adventure for the next two years. Findhorn is a spiritually based Eco-community of people of all faiths, backgrounds, ages, and from all over the world. Living and working there was an honor, and a life-changing experience, that I’m incredibly grateful for; the values gained at Findhorn are still with me today.

After leaving Findhorn, the plan was to return to Minneapolis and prepare to go to Mexico to study Lay Midwifery with a midwife in a village community. However, all plans sometimes do not work out; after having three girls at home, I found a local community of lay midwives in Minneapolis and began apprenticing and attending births. I also taught birthing classes for a local doctor who was doing home births. The honor to be asked to come into a family’s home and assist in one of the most sacred times of a woman and family’s life was extraordinary.

Healing, cooking, gardening, ongoing learning, and health became a theme and interest. In October of 1980, I went through Reiki 1 and the following year Reiki 2. From 1978 to 1982, I attended births and had a Reiki practice in Minneapolis’s Lyn-Lake area.

In 1981 my husband was beginning a custom window business. It was starting to grow and needed both of us. For the next 25 years, I owned and operated a custom window business that sold custom windows to window manufacturers and window distributors. I learned a whole new set of skills accounting, personnel, marketing and sales, and computer. In 2012 the business did not make it through the recession. It was a painful experience to go through, but it taught me a lot about myself and my resilience.

. After losing the business, I decided to go back to my original roots, Healing, and Health. This brings us to the now; I have had an incredibly full life of adventure, learning, divorce, remarrying, illness, physical pain, joy, difficulty, sadness, happiness, and gratitude. My experiences have taught me to respect both western and alternative medicine. Western medicine helped my daughter after she broke her neck in gymnastics and put stage 4 Lymphoma into remission for my husband. I found out in 2010 that I had been born with an IGG deficiency which makes it difficult for the body to fight infections and viruses. Suddenly years of being sick made sense. So today, I get an IV every three weeks of IGG to keep me healthy. I rarely get sick anymore. Halleluiah! On the other hand, I eat a clean diet and have acupuncture, Reiki, and massage every week. I use essential oils in my life for both medicinal and cleaning purposes. The synergy of natural and western medicine keeps me personally healthy, and I would love to share that possibility with you.

I bring 45 years of experience to my health coaching, Reiki Practice, Life Coaching, and Aromatherapy practice to serve you in your journey to a healthier, less stressed, more empowered life.

I want to invite you to a community of growth and learning, health, and well-being – Are you interested?