Hi!
I’m Kelly welton-Lewis, BA, RRT-NPS
Registered Respiratory Therapist and Respiratory Health Coach
Helping You Live Your Best Life with COPD, Asthma, or IPF
Do you struggle to breathe…or feel short of breath even when you are resting? Do you get winded just taking a shower or run out of breath walking across the room? Keep Reading below!
What is a Respiratory Health Coach?
While COPD, Asthma, and ILD/IPF cannot be reversed or cured, A Respiratory Health Coach can help you do 3 main things: (1) Optimize your medications, (2) Work more effectively with your Doctor and Healthcare team and (3) Manage your symptoms such as Breathlessness. I do not diagnose, treat, or prescribe anything. I give you tools, one at a time, to help you live your best lung life!
*Note: Online Health coaching is done through a site called BluZone.health.
Will Your Online Program Actually Help Me?
Hospital-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation has been proven to lessen the effects of COPD and other lung diseases. But not everyone can make it to a live program. If you stick with my online lessons, and do the exercises (if your Doctor says it’s OK), and work to achieve your goals, then YES it is my sincere promise you will start to feel better. 25 easy-to-follow lessons. Learn things like essential breathing techniques, and how to form a plan with your healthcare team.
Hi there, I’m Kelly, the Breathing Specialist. As a Registered Respiratory Therapist, I have over 30 years of experience in critical care and emergency medicine. Over my decades of experience, I have seen far too many people diagnosed with COPD, Asthma, Interstitial Lung Disease like IPF, Pulmonary Fibrosis, or other restrictive diseases, and live a life of limitations and discomfort.
They stop doing the things that they enjoy. They are stuck at home, tethered to a nebulizer, or taking puff after puff of their inhaler with little or no real relief.
Every day is spent struggling to get that crucial next breath of air.
But it doesn’t need to be such a struggle!
That’s why I’ve dedicated my life to helping people with these conditions. I’ve developed simple programs that you can easily follow, and I’ve been teaching these programs in hospitals for over 15 years.
But I got tired of only being able to help a handful of people each year who could afford the program through the hospital.
That’s why I’ve now developed programs to be delivered in an online setting, so I can reach far more people — and help you breathe easier regardless of whether you have health insurance or not.
And it all starts with my ebook: 10 Ways to Breathe Easier with COPD, Asthma and ILD.
So if you want to get out and do more… without worrying about inhalers, nebulizers, or feeling like you’re limited in what you can do…
…if you want to get out and go shopping,
…spend an afternoon with friends…
…if you want to be able to walk around the block without getting winded or struggling to breathe…
Then enter your name and email to instantly access the 10 Ways to Breathe Easier eBook — so you can do it all.
And for a limited time, I’m also going to give you access to my weekly newsletter with more tips and tricks that will help you and your family breathe easier.
You’re going to discover how the foods you may be eating are actually making your condition worse… even if they’re considered healthy!
I’m going to show you how to breathe correctly for your specific condition. Breathing is a natural reflex of the body — but you may actually be doing it WRONG, depriving your cells of vital oxygen and making your body struggle unnecessarily.
I’m also going to show you the #1 strategy that will increase your quality of life, improve your condition drastically, and give you far more energy than you ever dreamed possible since your diagnosis!
All you need to do right now is enter your name and email, and I’ll send you the 10 Ways to Breathe Easier instantly. And I promise to NEVER sell or share your information.
I have helped hundreds of people with breathing conditions — giving them real relief and solutions. So don’t struggle for one more day — take advantage of the knowledge and experience of the Breathing Specialist and start breathing easier!
Helping You Achieve Success
Unlock Your Full Potential. Say Hello to the NEW, EMPOWERED YOU
What would it be like to go to your doctor and YOU tell him or her what YOU want to see happen? When you tell your doctor you want to spend an entire day with the grandkids at an amusement park, and your doctor helps you figure out all the ways you can attain your goal! THAT, my friends, is EMPOWERMENT.
Why exercise is your friend and will help you feel better
Which breathing exercises to do and why
All about oxygen -why it is crucial to your health!
Are your inhalers conflicting with other medicines you are taking?
Goal Setting
One step at a time, at your pace.
Relationship Coaching
How to get your family to understand what you are feeling.
Stress Management
When shortness of breath strikes suddenly – how to STOP it in its tracks
Pay once for life
No monthly fees. Just 24 lessons, a newsletter, and access to all my blog posts.
What Is COPD Success ?
Who is Respiratory Health Coaching For?
COPD Success is an online course consisting of 24 lessons in an easy-to-listen-to format. Listen any time of day or night, at your convenience. Listen as many times as you like.
24 modules to do at your own pace.
Want to watch it again? Want to skip ahead and then come back to where you left off? Want to watch it at 3 AM? All on your time, at your convenience.
Lifetime access for one payment
No monthly recurring fees or annoying upsells.
Just a few newsletters
No need to clog up your inbox.
Access to all blog posts
Access to live sessions with Kelly available for an added fee.
Need a jumpstart? A recap of Pulmonary Rehab you took years ago? New ideas to take to your doctor? Schedule a live Google Meet call with me!
About Us
COPD Success exists to serve people with COPD, Asthma, ILD, PF, PH, and parents of kids with asthma. As a Registered Respiratory Therapist with over 30 years of experience, I wanted to create a resource to help people who do not have access to traditional Pulmonary Rehab programs.
I have been teaching Pulmonary Rehab for over 20 years, graduating 6 patients every 6 weeks. That’s 48 people every year who can get out, do more, and resume doing the things they love.
All of my graduates said the same thing:
It helped tremendously. They loved the program. They got their life back.
Some even got off of oxygen.
But I realized: 48 patients a year is just a fraction of the number of people who have COPD and Asthma.
I should be graduating 48 HUNDRED people a year.
Thus, I built this site for YOU.
Pulmonary Rehabilitation has been proven to decrease breathlessness, and increase endurance and strength. Pulmonary Rehab is generally offered at major medical centers. Insurance or Medicare usually pays.
But what if:
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You live too far to travel to Pulmonary Rehab 3 days a week?
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The co-pay per visit is too high?
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Your insurance doesn’t cover Pulmonary Rehab?
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You’ve already used up your Pulmonary Rehab benefits?
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You’re still working, or
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Most commonly, you no longer drive and transportation is an issue?
I built this program for those exact people.
I had a vision — where everyone with lung disease could safely and affordably improve their health, one step at a time.
If you wish to subscribe, read my blog, and explore the site, I promise you will learn a lot.
So grab a cup of coffee or tea, get comfy, snoop around the site, and enjoy.
I do not diagnose, prescribe nor treat anything! This site is not intended to take the place of your Doctor. I am here to empower you to ask the right questions, have the right tools, and help you get what you need from your healthcare team.
Testimonials
“I learned more in one session with Kelly than my Doctor told me over 10 years”
“I never made the connection that food would have anything to do with my breathing difficulties. Now that I know which foods to avoid, breathing is a lot easier!”
“Kelly worked with me to get in shape for my lung transplant. I never thought I could do half of what she said I could, but slowly I got strong enough to be able to qualify”.”
Online Coaching Resources
10 Ways to Breathe Easier eBook
The Essentials of Goal Setting
Yes, we will DREAM BIG! Aaaand, we will go at YOUR pace. No need to rush. You do you, I’m here to help.
30 Days to Breathing Easier
One breathing tip a day, delivered right to your inbox for 30 days.
Find Your Balance. Set Your Goals. Take A Challenge. Reward Yourself.
Prefer to work with me ‘in-person’ ( online)? I am working with BluZone Health as my telehealth coaching platform. If you don’t see an available time that works for you, send me an e mail through the ‘contact’ page and let’s find a time that works for both of us . Kelly@COPDSuccess.com
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