Hello Dear Friends!
Before 2024 ends, I call you in to celebrate with me:
My 20th ANNIVERSARY working as a health coach! 🎉🎉🎉
I graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2004, back when it was in-person in NYC. It was a pivotal time in my life, this new knowledge feeling like *home* and simultaneously blowing my mind as to how far it was from mainstream. Although I initially intended the certification to be a jumping off point into health journalism (which did happen, via magazines, newspapers, and websites), I realized that I LOVED connecting with clients over wellness sessions.
Perhaps serendipitous, it was at this 20-year mark that I've fully returned to my client work after a several year hiatus. You may recall back in 2017 that my family embarked on a big adventure: a relocation from New York to California. We craved a simpler life for raising three young kids, nature on the daily…but little did we know we’d face more than just a relocation: family health issues that would consume our focus for the next seven years.
In a nutshell, family members dealt with Lyme disease, which then triggered other challenges such as mold sensitivity. This entailed many doctors, healers and therapies, both alternative and allopathic...plus many environmental reactions to schools and houses (yes, which meant many houses moved in and out of, and schools changed). It was not just fighting to make sense of it all and determine next steps, I also took on the role of Mama Bear to keep my kids’ lives as stable as possible whilst guiding them to not fear the world.
Not that my family’s challenges are completely gone but that we now have a semblance of calm in a new reality. My kids know their bodies better than ever. My nervous system has re-regulated. I have nourished myself with grief work around letting go of the way I thought things would be. On this alchemic journey I have found deeper connection to my kids and to myself.
I’m so happy to be here with you all again! Please keep me in mind if you, or someone you know, could use a wellness uplevel. I see clients virtually or in-person, as one-time sessions or multi-session programs. In 2025 too, I aim to revive my seasonal Clean Eating Reboot virtual programs.
The newest vein of my work: as a result of my own journey and wishing I’d had such a support when I was “lost”, I'm creating a program for women in the midst of big life transition (divorce, relocation, new motherhood, chronic illness, unexpected occurrences of any kind). Stay tuned as that is birthed, and please send any woman my way who is having trouble latching onto new, sparkly dreams. ✨
Meanwhile, I’d love to hear from you, please drop a line to say hi!
Love,
Jennifer