HOLISTIC WELLNESS COACH

I am an NBHWC holistic wellness coach, restorative yoga instructor, and reiki healer. I help clients achieve goals around health and wellness, co-creating solutions unique to their needs. I am passionate about integrating more plant-based foods into the diet- both for health, and to combat emotional eating. I also offer restorative yoga and reiki sessions, and guide clients towards self-care and deeper healing.

After a profound experience with healing through dietary changes, I studied nutrition and health coaching with the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I then continued my studies in coaching skills as I earned my NBHWC certification. I now help clients to discover their own balanced diet and lifestyle.  

I have also been a dancer since childhood, which led me to complete my B.A. in Dance from UC Santa Barbara in 2009. After college, I continued to enrich my love for movement and knowledge of the human body. I became certified in Personal Training through the National Academy of Sports Medicine. I then completed trainings in Hatha Yoga and Therapeutic Yoga with the White Lotus Foundation in Santa Barbara, CA. I also studied Reiki Levels I & II with the Usui Reiki Institute and the Jikiden Reiki Institute.

My Food Journey:

My relationship to food has not always been harmonious. I remember feeling very confused in high school as I tried to navigate what I was supposed to eat... all of the different fad diets, food pyramids, and mixed messages about what was “right” or “wrong” to eat. I repeatedly set myself up for failure as I tried to follow any guideline that I learned about. This confusion and constant failed mission to "eat right" stayed with me well into adulthood.

I also spent years struggling with emotional eating and stress-management, and often found myself in a vicious cycle that occurred as these two issues literally fed into each other. I fell into weight fluctuations, and the body image issues that arose.

These issues were intensified as I was dancer. In the competitive dance world, where one spends the majority of their time in dance class for hours in front of a mirror, dressed to expose every curve. Dancers are often susceptible to comparing themselves to classmates and to the ideal image of what their body “should” look like. As I was also experiencing emotional eating at this time, I felt I was in a battle with my body.  

It wasn’t until I learned the value of self-care that I began to feel shifts in my eating and my well-being. Through yoga, breath work, meditation, and other holistic modalities, I began the journey of re-learning my relationship to food, stress management, and overall emotional health... I also found new strategies to take care of myself along the way. This was a slow moving-process that occurred over several years.  

After several years, I transformed significantly. However, there was still a bit of emotional overeating that was lingering in my life.  I decided to devote myself to a 100% plant-based, whole-food ingredient diet. Although I had shifted to a much more balanced diet, I was still allowing processed food into my diet.

When I made that final change, not once did I think about calories, portion-size, the “right” or “wrong” time of day

When I made this change, something just clicked. I could feel my body resetting and healing. I learned to listen to what my cravings were asking for. I experienced total satisfaction and pure nourishment as I instinctively ate the types and portions of food that were appropriate and healthy for me.

This is what led me to become a health coach, and to guide clients to find these types of life-changing skills for themselves. At the Institute of Integrative Nutrition, I learned a great deal more about the science of why this occurred for me when I switched to 100% whole and pure ingredients…And I want to share this with YOU!