Functional Medicine & Mind Body Medicine
Health Coach
Functional Medicine & Mind Body Medicine
Health Coach
InTended Holistic Wellness started as a promise. I made a vow when I was bed-ridden-sick, with no answers, that when I was better I would help others facing health struggles. Out of that transformative experience grew a deep desire to help people like you find their way to optimal vitality – mind, body & spirit.
Whether you want to prevent or reverse a “wellness breakdown,” or just live your most vibrant life, I will work with you to cultivate and set InTentions (or goals) for yourself, and then I will guide you through learning InnerTending (or self-care), to fulfill that vision. My InTention is to make this process fun and empowering!
InTended = The InTentions, or goals you set for yourself & the InnerTending, or self care and lifestyle choices you make.
I believe that we all have a set point for inner balance, but then life happens. There can be many factors that pull us out of our homeostasis, some even starting before we are born – environmental toxins, unhealthy relationships, low-nutrition diets, poor sleep, stress, trauma. As science is proving more and more, the most important factor may actually be our relationships and emotional wellness. Many of us in today’s world have reached a tipping point, or have lost ourselves, and in the processes we have come up with different unhealthy ways to cope or disconnect altogether. I feel that no matter what your current challenges or goals are, the journey begins with reconnecting with yourself and hearing the messages your mind and body are trying to send you. Ultimately you know yourself better than anyone. No doctor, alternative medicine practitioner, or health coach can give you all of the answers and solutions you are looking for. They can give you the seeds, but you are the gardener. It begins and ends with YOU.
Holistic = A commonly misunderstood concept in wellness.
It simply means cultivating health – mind, body, and spirit.
When it comes to finding your personal flow in life no plan can be one-size-fits-all. I will partner with you to find a path that works best to meet your needs, and we will course-correct as necessary. While my approach is very personalized, there are foundational concepts we will build upon, which are based in my Functional Medicine training. Though each person and every health imbalance is different, I believe robust nutrition, movement/exercise, sleep/relaxation, social connection/relationships, stress management, and JOY are the fertile soil for vibrant health, and enhancing them at the mind, body & spirit levels is key.
It is just a matter of finding the right specifics and combinations for what will make YOU feel the most whole, and having someone there to help you weed through it all and keep you on track means the difference between having a hope, wish, or dream and actually making it happen. That is where I come in…
My goal in working with you is to be a guide, a partner, a cheerleader, a nonjudgmental support system, an advocate, and an ally. To me you will never be treated as a disease, labeled by your health challenge, or judged for your habits and choices, but instead I will see you for the healing potential and wholeness you already embody. Our focus will be on growing those positives, not on attacking the dysfunction, so your body can do what it was made to do…repair and heal. If you think of yourself like a tree, conventional medicine treats you at the symptom level (or the branches and leaves), but Functional Medicine works with you to tend the soil, getting to the root of what causes all dis-ease or imbalances in the mind/body, reversing or preventing issues where they begin.
My goal in working with you is to be a guide, a partner, a cheerleader, a nonjudgmental support system, an advocate, and an ally. To me you will never be treated as a disease, labeled by your health challenge, or judged for your habits and choices, but instead I will see you for the healing potential and wholeness you already embody. Our focus will be on growing those positives, not on attacking the dysfunction, so your body can do what it was made to do…repair and heal. If you think of yourself like a tree, conventional medicine treats you at the symptom level (or the branches and leaves), but Functional Medicine works with you to tend the soil, getting to the root of what causes all dis-ease or imbalances in the mind/body, reversing or preventing issues where they begin.
Whether you are setting out solely from your own initiative, or following the suggestions of a practitioner, I am excited and honored to have the opportunity to help you navigate your wellness journey! Let’s set some InTentions, and start your InnerTending, so you can live the life you are InTended to live!
