My story

Let’s get to know each other a little better. Starting with…me. (Duh, it’s my blog. You’re visiting ME here, right?) Anyway, I’ll stop the sass for now. So here’s my story.

Throwback: 2010. I’m a young little sophomore in college, eating whatever I please (no food allergies yet!), exercising like a fiend and totally overworking myself physically and mentally in school, varsity swimming, and probably one too many nights of killing my liver. You see where this is going.

I started really getting into cooking resulting from a random, inexplicable sickness that came over me that year. One morning I woke up with nausea so bad I could barely choke any food down, which continued for about 4 months (did I mention this is in the middle of swim season, where we’re training between 2-4 hours a day?).  I started seeing multiple doctors, all who could not figure out what was wrong. Up until this point, I had been following the conventional treatment protocol – get tested for a bunch of random things. Listen to your doctor: Take prescription meds. This all ended up making me even sicker in the short and long-term, so I decided to go the non conventional route and stop listening to everything my doctor was saying. I began to read more about health and nutrition, of which my doctor had never asked me. At all. At this point, I had nothing to lose – how could I feel any sicker?

4 years, multiple tests, an eating disorder and many diagnoses later with the help of a naturopathic physician, I finally learned that true health and healing go so much deeper than food and exercise, and your relationship with food and body image can act as a powerful aid or roadblock to long-term health and healing.

 I learned the hard way, from years of running my stressed-out, perfectionist, type-A personality self into the ground, thinking I was being “healthy” by over-exercising and under-eating – which eventually turned into an eating disorder. I ended up with a host of chronic health conditions that I worked on for years, including leaky gut, parasites and candida, hypothyroidism, adrenal exhaustion, amenorrhea, celiac disease and a handful of severe food sensitivities.

When I finally got through it all and truly healed my relationship with food and my body by kicking the all-or-nothing mentality to the curb, I knew I wanted to work with clients with stories like mine so I could help them out of this burnout-driven health vortex. So I quit my job in politics, went back to school to get a degree in Health Coaching and then a Masters’ in Clinical Nutrition and Integrative Health, and over the years developed the Whole-Hearted Eating™ philosophy to fill a huge void we saw in both the integrative health and intuitive eating worlds.

Now, I help my clients get out of the elimination diet yo-yo cycle and heal from the root cause of chronic symptoms by combining neutral nutrition and integrative health with deep mindset work on their body image and relationship with food – which both play a huge role in health.

Over the years I’ve worked with clients on health challenges from adrenal fatigue and burnout, leaky gut/intestinal permeability, other gastrointestinal conditions like SIBO, parasites, candida and celiac disease,, thyroid dysfunction, anxiety and bipolar disorder, to binge eating.

Does this sound like you?

You’re struggling with gut issues, hormonal imbalances, and feeling totally burned out. You’ve tried protocol after protocol to try and figure out your food sensitivities, your gut issues, and everything else – but nothing seems to stick, and now even just trying to figure out all your health stuff is stressful (on top of everything else you have going on in life)! You’re feeling trapped in your body that just doesn’t feel like you any more. You know you probably need to make some nutritional changes, but you’re done with this all-or-nothing stuff.

You’ve come to the right place.

Click here to learn more about my services and how we can work together.