Make your comeback bigger than your setback.
Bounce Back & Thrive in 2027
Nutrition & Fitness Challenge to Reclaim Physical and Mental Wellness
*Next Nutrition & Fitness Program Will Start Monday, January 4, 2027
Nutrition and fitness are the physical building blocks to brain health and positive mental wellness. Consider the research:
From the American Psychological Association:
“The same foods that promote physical health foster positive mental health: foods that are whole (versus processed or ultraprocessed); diverse in vitamins and minerals, or micronutrients; and contain enough fiber to help the digestive system effectively process what it takes in.
Conversely, poor diets that contain a lot of ultraprocessed foods with little nutritional variety or micronutrients appear to exacerbate depression and other mental health problems, according to recent data (see, for example, Lane, M. M., et al., Nutrients, Vol. 14, No. 13, 2022).
Alarmingly, Americans now derive most of their calories in a less-than-optimal way: According to the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, U.S. adults obtain 57% of their calories from ultraprocessed foods like packaged pizza and sugary beverages, and for children and teens, that share rises to 67% (Wang, L., et al., JAMA, Vol. 326, No. 6, 2021; Juul, F., et al., Clinical Nutrition, Vol. 115, No. 1, 2022).”
From Harvard Health Publishing:
“Exercise is an all-natural treatment to fight depression. ‘For some exercise works as well as antidepressants, although exercise alone isn’t enough for someone with severe depression,’ says Dr. Michael Craig Miller, assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
Exercising starts a biological cascade of events that results in many health benefits, such as protecting against heart disease and diabetes, improving sleep, and lowering blood pressure. High-intensity exercise releases the body’s feel-good chemicals called endorphins, resulting in the ‘runner’s high’ that joggers report. But for most of us, the real value is in low-intensity exercise sustained over time. That kind of activity spurs the release of proteins called neurotrophic or growth factors, which cause nerve cells to grow and make new connections. The improvement in brain function makes you feel better. ‘In people who are depressed, neuroscientists have noticed that the hippocampus in the brain—the region that helps regulate mood—is smaller. Exercise supports nerve cell growth in the hippocampus, improving nerve cell connections, which helps relieve depression,’ explains Dr. Miller.”
What you will get:
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Maria’s Online Coaching and Keynote Presentation
Maria’s online coaching and keynote presentation, titled, “#MENTALHEALTHMATTERS: How to Create and Stick to Your Nutrition & Fitness Goals Starting Today!” exclusive to challenge members. Colleges and universities normally invest thousands of dollars to host Maria to keynote their student leadership conferences, and now for the first time ever, you can leave with the life-changing coaching tools she teaches at those conferences to create massive change in your own life!
($3,500 value)
The Bounce Back and Thrive Power Meter
Find out EXACTLY how likely you are to:
• Bounce back from adversity and thrive in 2026
• Stick with the New Year’s nutrition, fitness and mental wellness goals you set for yourself not just in January but all year long
• A blueprint of what you can do to raise the likelihood that you’ll accomplish your goals Maria’s coaching support.
($497 value)
This Bounce Back & Thrive Power Meter Coaching Package includes:
- An Energy Leadership Index Assessment (ELI) that you take online via a private link. The ELI is a one-of-a-kind attitudinal assessment that enables you to hold up mirrors to your perceptions, attitudes and behaviors that you both consciously and unconsciously role model to your loved ones, co-workers and friends.
- 10-Page Written Report that reveals to you exactly what has been draining your body of energy and preventing you from bouncing back, what has been stopping you from creating and sticking with your nutrition, fitness and health goals, what it will take to patch up the leaks, and then how to create more internal power to finally bounce back and thrive in 2026!
- A bonus 90-minute debrief and group coaching session with Maria. The insights and clairty you will gain during this video call will be life-changing!
- A confidential, judgment-free zone to ask anything you want.
Twice per month group coaching session with Maria
Want to build momentum and celebrate your accomplishments? Bring your questions, wins and challenges to this Zoom call and get coached by Maria! Bust through your blocks and achieve your nutrition and fitness goals that support brain health and positive mental health and wellness. Can’t make the calls live? No problem. Submit your questions in advance and Maria will answer them in the call. Reply link will be provided. 6 sessions total.
($1,500 value!)
Private Facebook Support Group
Connect with Maria and other Challenge members. Find a buddy in the group and go through the challenge together!
(value = priceless based on what you put in and the commitment you bring to yourself, to Maria, and to the group!)
Fun, Full-Body Rebounding Fitness Videos
Several times per week, Maria will be posting fun, full-body rebounding fitness videos that you can do anytime, anywhere in the world!
(a $1,500 value)
Have a bellicon rebounder? Great! You can bounce with Maria in the comfort of your own home. Don’t have a bellicon?
CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE!
If the thought of bouncing on a mini-trampoline makes you nervous, you can invest in a T-bar or support handles as you build your balance and bone density.
Want to exercise on the floor? No problem! Maria will teach modified versions of all moves that you can do with or without a rebounder.
There will be 10-minute fast paced workouts if you’re strapped for time, as well as 30 to 50-minute full body workouts.
If you choose to give rebounding a try, click here to learn about the many health, fitness and relaxatiion benefits you will receive.
Foundational Recommended Reading Book
You’ll receive a print copy of the foundational “recommended reading” book:
The Better Brain: Overcome Anxiety, Combat Depression, and Reduce ADHD and Stress with Nutrition – a paradigm-shifting approach to treating mental disorders like anxiety, depression and ADHD with food and nutritients, based on the original, ground-breaking research of two leading scientiests. Bonnie Kaplan, PhD. and Julia Ruckledge, PhD. have dedicated their lives to studying the role of nutrition in mental health. Together, they have publised over three hundred peer-reviewed scientific papers, many of which reveal the healing power of nutrients in the form of vitamins and minerals, and the surprising role they play in brain health.
($25 value)
Healthy Cooking Classes
Healthy, nutrient-dense cooking classes taught online by Maria, her husband Shaun and their 5-year-old son Alex that you can access anytime, anywhere you have an Internet connection! Learn the basics of unprocessed whole food nutrition that supports brain health and mental wellness. Teach your kids to fall in love with healthy cooking by watching Alex cook too!
Each class is a flavorful adventure that empowers you to create mouthwatering, nutrient-packed meals with joy and confidence. Maria and her family’s inventive recipes are delightfully simple, quick to prepare, and bursting with creativity.
(value = $2,500)
Expert Interviews
Maria will also be interviewing other experts in the field of health and wellness and bringing them in to share their knowledge with the group.
($500 value)
Additional Resources
Ready to Transform your Life?
Next program begins on Monday, January 4, 2027!
Email maria@youcanbounceback.com to get on a list to join the next session.