My journey into health coaching is both personal and professional. I’ve always been drawn to health from an early age. I naturally gravitated to healthy foods, and moving my body every day. Breaking a sweat makes me happy. Truth be told, I believed I was doing enough “right” things in nutrition and exercise to counterbalance the poor habits like emotionally eating sugar and chronic stress from work and thought patterns. The stress my body was experiencing slowly started to emerge through an autoimmune condition where I would occasionally find small bald spots on my head, known as alopecia areata.

Years later, in my early 30s, while raising a young family, working long hours in tech program management, and pregnant with my second baby, my health took a more significant turn from chronic stress and I lost all of my hair, an extension of my autoimmune condition known as alopecia universalis. That experience was deeply distressing and dark for me, but I did come through it learning about my strengths and my resources, and a wake-up call to start listening to what my body had been trying to tell me.

This life-altering event led me on a deeper journey to understand what true health looks like. I worked with healthcare providers, learned about nutrition, prioritized my energy and rest, reassessed my work, and sought support through therapy and medication. I started building a more intentional relationship with my body. Over time, I developed a clearer sense of my values, strengths, and what sustainable health actually means in my life.

Health coaching became a natural next step, bringing together my lived experience, my passion for health, and my desire to support others in meaningful change. My background in program management and servant leadership, customer service, along with exploring nursing, running my neighborhood food bank, and volunteering with local greenways groups, has shaped my ability to support people from many walks of life across different cultures, socioeconomic backgrounds, and life experiences.

As a health coach, I’m trained in behavior change to compassionately support clients’ desires to make their own sustainable changes in their health across the all areas of health and wellness.