How did I get here?

Why Functional Medicine Coaching?

To put it briefly, because it changed my life.

I was born with stomach problems and a host of chronic infections that persisted into my 20s and culminated in a fertility journey which has lasted into my 30s.

What functional medicine offered me was different than anything else. I was given understanding, empathy, and the opportunity to explore and optimize my health. Functional medicine empowered me to find the pivotal lifestyle pillars in my own health that helped me feel and live my best. I learned to love the foods and exercise that love me back.

My studies, experience, and trials have given me this overarching theme: the mind and body work together as an organism, not a machine. The parts and pieces cannot be separated and treated in silos for long term effectiveness.

We have studied and learned the importance of gut health and microbiome as it relates to long term brain health. Oral health, or lack of it, can directly affect heart and lung health which can ultimately impact the kidneys. The effects of chronic stress cannot outweigh even the best of diets and no amount of exercise can negate reckless nutrition.

At the heart of the functional medicine matrix are the mental, emotional, and spiritual pillars which we can all use to effect long lasting change in our own lives.

It all works together. And because they are all connected, you can rest assured that there is something accessible to you that will help move your health in a positive direction.