About Jen.
Hi! I’m Jen. I’m a holistic health coach who specializes in working with clients who have followed their intuition to take healing from chronic disease, autoimmune conditions, mental health imbalances, sexual and reproductive health issues, gut health problems, and trauma to an elevated state through personal and medical autonomy. Together we employ nature, nurture, nutrition, and neuroscience to dismantle the blocks standing between you and feeling really good, body, mind, and spirit.
Several years ago, facing some new and exacerbated health challenges of my own after going through an emotionally stressful divorce, I lost my health insurance. Faced with having to embark on a medical journey without the safety net of preferred provider networks and minimal copays for insurance approved medical services, I was forced to look at health care in a whole new light. It’s been a wild ride, but losing my health insurance turned out to be the best thing, by far, that ever happened to my health.
The key to healing starts with taking back your power from a system that is designed to keep you a helpless victim and repeat customer. The chemical shift that occurs in your own internal pharmacy is the first step required to tilt the balance from disease to wellness. While it may sound esoteric to say that healing is an inside job, there is simply no other way to put it. Good doctors, nutritionists, health coaches, body workers, physical therapists, and healers of many kinds are partners on your healing team, but ultimately you are at the wheel and it’s up to you to decide whether to engage the gas or the brakes. Your team is simply on board to help you identify the best tools for restoring balance to your body and mind. Reclaiming your personal and medical autonomy while making the transition from patient to executive of your own health is imperative to a successful healing journey.
The human body is exceptionally resilient when given the best resources to heal. Pain, while unpleasant, is the body’s way of communicating with you. When something feels off, that is your cue to know that something needs to change. We start with adding all things that nourish the body, while removing the components that cause disease. Allopathic medicine is designed on a symptom management model that does not address the root causes of disease. In a holistic model of care and education, the patient takes ownership of his or her own health and engages his or her healthcare team to address the diet and lifestyle factors that created the original imbalance causing disease. We dig deeper as a team to facilitate the inner work often required to discover mind-body and body-mind origins of disease that extend beyond dietary modification and basic lifestyle factors.
75-90% of all doctors office visits are for stress related conditions, yet few doctors provide prescriptions addressing the stress, and of stuck stress responses of trauma in the body. Emotions are physically stored in the connective tissues of the body. Talk therapy, while an import tool of many healing journeys, does not address that the body must be engaged in order to heal emotional origins of physical and mental disease. A holistic approach incorporates embodiment healing modalities required for re-regulation of the autonomic nervous system and releasing emotional trauma from the physical body. While moving away from the Standard American Diet (SAD) and engaging the body in a conscious, physical exercise routine is essential to creating balance in the body and mind, addressing past trauma and ongoing daily stress is often the key to creating radical wellness.
Although common, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune disease, diabetes, menstrual problems, infertility, sexual health problems, obesity, hormone imbalance, incontinence, vaginal infections, and perimenopause are NOT NORMAL. Stop settling for anything less than optimum wellness. We’ve been culturally conditioned to believe we deserve less than what Mother Nature intended for our health and human experience. Our biology has not caught up with the cultural and technological changes of the last few centuries. We are essentially inhabiting caveman bodies in the age of industrial food and information overload. Something has to give, and forcing your natural biology into submission with symptom overriding pharmaceuticals and invasive surgeries does not address the real problem and does not provide a long term solution for true wellness.
If you’re ready to experience truth and freedom inside your body and mind, an amazing adventure is about to begin. Turn on to the wisdom of your body as we connect your wellness dots by exploring whole person healing, from neuroscience and nutrition to sexual health and sleep.
Join the wellness revolution and start speaking your body’s language.