Client Testimonials

See what Lydia’s clients have to say…

I’d say Lydia Buschen­feldt has changed my life, but that would­n’t be exact­ly true. What she does is even more pow­er­ful. Any­one can tell some­one else what changes they ‘need’ to make to live a health­i­er life. It takes some­one spe­cial to enable and empow­er you to change your own life. Lydia is that some­one spe­cial. Dur­ing every ses­sion, at every twist and turn and bump in the road, Lydia meets me where I am with an incred­i­ble amount of knowl­edge and patience, and helps me iden­ti­fy one or two steps for­ward to accom­plish the goals I have for myself. She knows that each jour­ney is dif­fer­ent, and cus­tomizes our ses­sions so our dis­cus­sions are tai­lored toward what I need in that moment to help me build the health, future and hap­pi­ness that I deserve.
— L.S.
Man­as­sas, VA

I began work­ing with Lydia when I was diag­nosed with Celi­ac Dis­ease last sum­mer and was under­do­ing sev­er­al major lifestyle changes at the same time. Lydia was extreme­ly knowl­edge­able about nutri­tion and well­ness in gen­er­al, and specif­i­cal­ly with diges­tive con­di­tions like mine. She helped me address diet and stress chal­lenges from mul­ti­ple angles — pro­vid­ing me with recipes, shop­ping strate­gies, stress-reduc­tion prac­tices, and gen­er­al wellness/happiness coach­ing. Lydia was flex­i­ble with my busy work sched­ule and sup­port­ive between ses­sions which made it easy for me to work with her. I’m extreme­ly pleased with the changes that she has helped me imple­ment and my over­all health has improved dra­mat­i­cal­ly this year.

– E.C.
Fair­fax, VA

Hatch Health and Hap­pi­ness saved my morn­ings!!! I was a new Cross­Fit ath­lete and starv­ing in the morn­ings and not eat­ing enough pro­tein. Lydia not only fig­ured out what was wrong, but gave me ideas, meth­ods, and recipes to make my morn­ing meal a suc­cess. And it has been a smash­ing suc­cess! I can make it to lunch with­out snack­ing. I’m more awake and effi­cient. And I love the food I am eating–it is deli­cious and nutri­tious! These changes came with­in the first cou­ple weeks of the pro­gram and were the most dra­mat­ic changes, but the whole pro­gram was a great way to solid­i­fy my oth­er goals and the great oth­er meth­ods Lydia gave me to accom­plish those goals. Lydia has a way of lis­ten­ing to my ram­bling and extract­ing exact­ly what I want to get out of a ses­sion. And then she per­fect­ly answered my ques­tions and gave me solu­tions. My life is for­ev­er changed for the bet­ter from my Hatch Health and Hap­pi­ness pro­gram. I would high­ly rec­om­mend the pro­gram to anyone–it’s solu­tions for healthy liv­ing for all!

– L.S.
Philadel­phia, PA

I worked with Lydia over the course of a 6 month peri­od dur­ing which she served as my health coach to help me regain con­trol over my eat­ing habits (to make them health­i­er), to improve my exer­cise habits, and to decrease the stress in my life relat­ed to my career. After suf­fer­ing the dev­as­ta­tion of sev­er­al ear­ly mis­car­riages, due to sus­pect­ed PCOS, and over­whelmed with the amount of infor­ma­tion out there about how to alter one’s lifestyle to reverse or sig­nif­i­cant­ly change the effects of PCOS on one’s body, I knew I need­ed help get­ting myself on the right track, and I found my answer in Lydia.

Since I live sev­er­al hours away from Lydia, our time togeth­er con­sist­ed of bi-week­ly one-hour phone meet­ings, and unlim­it­ed email con­tact dur­ing which she helped to gen­tly but firm­ly guide me towards health­i­er eat­ing habits, work habits, and an exer­cise sched­ule that is man­age­able and effec­tive. I looked for­ward to my meet­ings with Lydia, and felt (and still feel!) that she gen­uine­ly cares for me and the progress I made toward my well-being. Instead of mak­ing me feel inad­e­quate when I fell short of my expec­ta­tions for myself, Lydia helped me to see what accom­plish­ments I had still made, and worked with me to find solu­tions that would pro­mote health and hap­pi­ness with­out com­pro­mis­ing the changes occur­ring in my life that were affect­ing my pro­gram and result­ing in unex­pect­ed changes on my path to change. Lydia pro­vid­ed me with a wealth of infor­ma­tion on as to why the nutri­tion­al and exer­cise changes I was mak­ing would make a pos­i­tive impact on my health in even more ways than I was considering–and I have a resource to go back to and refer to and keep me moti­vat­ed. I am impressed that, even though our time togeth­er has come to an end, Lydia has kept in touch and con­tin­ues to touch base with me to see how I am doing. And, while the pro­gram was going on, she was my cheerleader–sending me cards, send­ing me unex­pect­ed praise in emails, and also prais­ing me in our phone calls…always using praise with purpose–not just cheer­ing for me hol­low­ly but with mean­ing by let­ting me know why she was cheer­ing for me and rein­forc­ing what I was doing cor­rect­ly to keep steer­ing me on the right direc­tion in a pos­i­tive way.

As I progress through the healthy, hap­py preg­nan­cy that I whole­heart­ed­ly believe is the result of the changes Lydia helped me to make in my life, I still hear myself think­ing “Lydia would be proud to know I took tonight off just to rest and re-group for me” or “I had greens 3 times today in 3 dif­fer­ent ways–Lydia would be thrilled”. Lydi­a’s sup­port has had a huge­ly pos­i­tive impact on my path towards health and hap­pi­ness, and with her help I have made not tem­po­rary changes but per­ma­nent, pos­i­tive lifestyle changes.

I only wish I could have had more time with Lydia, and look for­ward to work­ing with her again in the future!

– A.C.
Mechan­ics­burg, PA