Barbara Ann Thistle-Grova has been helping me and my family for over 20 years!! Love her!! So much knowledge and passion for helping others! When my kids were young, our doctor recommended that one of them have their tonsils taken out because they had chronic strep throat and wanted to put tubes in the other one because he had chronic ear infections. Barbara helped me avoid both! She's helped me tremendously over the years to make sure I'm making healthy choices for my family and me. She's helped me to lose weight, helped me manage my anxiety, and helped me balance my hormones. I'm forever grateful to Barbara!

Reach for the Stars Tutoring

Nine months ago in July 2007, Barbara Ann Grova, Holistic Health and Nutrition Counselor, owner of Nutritional Healing began to teach me how to think differently, change my eating behavior/ eat healthier and lose weight permanently. With the help of Barbara, I have successfully lost 88lbs. I have a greater awareness of nutrition; it is now my lifestyle and will continue to lead me to the appropriate eating behaviors not just for the short run, but for the rest of my life! It is with great pleasure that I whole heartedly endorse Barbara. She is both professional and personal. She cares about her clients and her goal is to help you succeed at meeting your needs in various areas: Family Nutrition, Weight Loss, Womens Health, AutoImmune Diseases, Digestive Issues, Autism, ADD/HD, Nutrition,Cleansing and Detoxing, Vitamins, Herbs and Aromatherapy. For Preventing Ilness and Preserving Wellness contact ~ Barbara!!!

I have been attending Barbara’s classes for 8 months.  Before I started her classes, I struggled with the worst sugar and chocolate cravings.  I was feeling unhappy with myself and felt unhappy, irritated, bloated and moody all of the time. I had been gaining weight for a few years and couldn’t seem to get ahead of it.  What I enjoyed about working with Barbara was the personal attention.  Barbara made me realize that what I was eating was creating a vicious cycle of eating and cravings.  In the past I was on a “diet” and needed to follow it exactly or I was “bad”.  I never felt that way with Barbara.  She encouraged me to cut out all of the food that could be causing my problems and then slowly add some of them back in and “see how I felt”.  If I went back to feeling bad and gaining weight I knew it was a food I could not eat anymore.  She encouraged me to listen to my body and just put food into it that made me feel great, and I do feel great now.  I never want to go back to feeling that way again.  My favorite part about working with Barbara was that I feel healed from the inside out.  When I went for a routine physical (something that I had been avoiding for 5 years) everything came back excellent.  My cholesterol is now under 200.  I have not had “normal” cholesterol my entire life.  My allergies and asthma are under control too!  I have been thinner (and definitely younger) in my life, but have never been healthier.

I came to Barbara from a Doctors referral. I was in tears in her office and felt so overwhelmed that my 7 year old son was diagnosed with Aspergers last year. I had lost all hope of getting a hold of my life and my son’s behavior, which was out of control. I felt like I had lost my little boy. After my first session with Barbara I felt hopeful and enthusiastic about how a Holistic approach could help my son. I was so desperate that I would do anything she said! Well, after only a few sessions and changing some of my families nutrition and lifestyle choices, my sons behavior started to improve dramatically. I could tell that my son felt so much better physically too. I decided to continue with Barbara’s amazing program after the 6 months because I still needed her caring and loving support and the support of her program. She is so very passionate about helping children like my son. She also taught me how take better personal care of myself, what she calls guilt-free self-care! I had neglected myself over the past year just trying to cope with my son and finding someone to help me help him. Barbara was a God send to me and I will be forever be grateful for her coming into my life. I highly recommend her to everyone I know!!

I use to struggled with emotional eating, lack of motivation to exercise and low self-esteem. I am now more aware of why and when I eat. Barbara has really motivated me to ‘get moving’! She has made me realize that I need to be happy with myself the way I am until the weight comes off. What I enjoyed most about working with Barbara is how relaxed and comfortable she makes you feel. I could talk to her about anything in confidence and feel her caring nature. What I saw as possible as a result of working with Barbara is that anything is possible when you put your mind to it. I am now in control of my own destiny. I can do it!

Barbara taught a workshop about eating according to your Metabolic Type at Stony Brook University. She is extremely knowledgeable and very generous in sharing that knowledge to help others that are struggling with their weight. I had been trying to lose 30 lbs for 10 years and tried all kinds of diets, nothing worked. Before going to Barbara I was addicted to chocolate, always having dessert and eating very large portions. Barbara was able to educate me on what was causing my sugar addictions and was able to help me get it under control. She knows so much about what your body needs and is lacking in order for you to feel better and lose weight. Just by incorporating a few of her suggestions I was able to lose 9 lbs in 4 weeks!!! She does not make you feel deprived at all, I was able to eat plenty, just the right foods for my body type now. I always felt so motivated after everyone of our sessions. As a result of working with Barbara I am in control of my chocolate cravings, lose weight, I eat lots more veggies and drink water every day..I feel terrific!!