About Amanda
I’m Amanda - a Health Coach
This business is a labor of love. I struggled with health issues from a very young age when I was first diagnosed with a dairy allergy. While I eventually “outgrew” those particular symptoms, my digestive problems persisted. In college, I was diagnosed with mercury poisoning followed by Lyme disease, which resulted in rounds of aggressive antibiotics. This course of treatment wreaked havoc on my already fragile and imbalanced system causing gastrointestinal issues – food sensitivities, pain, vomiting after meals – anxiety/depression, hormone imbalance, and even skin issues. Despite barely being able to function, conventional medicine did not provide me with any answers. I was repeatedly diagnosed with “IBS” (a label doctors give when they don’t know the cause of your digestive symptoms) and sometimes even told the symptoms were “in my head.”
Wanting to share this sense of empowerment with others, I left the practice of law and dove into the world of nutrition, biohacking, functional medicine, and clean living. I eventually enrolled in the Institute of Integrative Nutrition where I earned my health coach certification. I have since received extensive functional nutrition and functional labs training under Institute for Functional Medicine-trained practitioners and experts. Even with three young children at home and working full time, I have been able to maintain my approach to health because I have learned to make myself a priority and create healthy habits that fit easily into my busy lifestyle. As a health coach, my passion is guiding clients through their own transformation, so they too can have the body, emotional state, and life they deserve.
My Solutions
My Philosophy
We have all been conditioned to reach for convenient processed foods, to stay up late, to fuel ourselves on sugar and coffee all day, and to equate our self-worth with what we “do.” We believe that exercise requires going to the gym, that doctors know our bodies best, and that we can’t get better without prescription pills or diets. But the truth is, these assumptions are keeping us from feeling our best. We all have an innate capacity to heal and optimize ourselves when we have the right information and accountability to do so. And that is why I do what I do – because there is nothing I love more than helping you realize how to turn your own health around to become the energetic, resilient, confident, and happy person that you deserve to be.
My Approach
Core Pillars of My Practice.
The Inner Shift Method
Trying to change on the outside without changing on the inside will never yield sustainable results. You might achieve temporary behavioral change or shifts in your body, but eventually old subconscious patterns will pull you back into old ways, keeping your body and life stuck in a sub-optimal place. That is why I help you change from the inside-out. Because when you do the inner work to clear emotional blocks like overwhelm, self-sabotage, and people-pleasing you drop resistance and empower yourself to create lasting, effortless transformation.
Functional Medicine Based Outer Strategy
Sustainable change requires deep inner work to regulate your nervous system, master your emotions, and cultivate a stronger connection to self; but, no would deny you also need the right outer strategy to get you to your goals. I approach health and weight loss from a functional medicine, precision-based lens. Symptoms and ailments arise in the body when systems become imbalanced, which is why I work with each client individually to address and rebalance the key systems related to optimal health and vitality: insulin, intestines, inflammation, and intuition.
The Four I's of Holistic Health
Insulin covers your body’s ability to regulate blood sugar and therefore is the key to your metabolic health as well as overall hormonal balance and prevention of chronic disease.
Gut health is essential to every aspect of your physical health and emotional well-being: it is tied to hormone balance, nutrient assimilation, weight and metabolism, immune function, inflammation, depression and anxiety, and of course bloating and any GI issues you frequently experience.
ALL disease (and dis-ease) in the body relates back to inflammation. Inflammation is a necessary system to our survival, but when it goes unchecked, things can quickly go sideways! Addressing inflammation through treating the gut as well as through dietary and lifestyle changes is crucial to ensuring you can meet and forever maintain your health goals.
Here is where things get good! You have addressed insulin, intestines, and inflammation. You feel and look better than ever. But now what? How do you go through life while sustaining that feeling? Intuition, my friend! Once you learn to tap into what your body needs and what feels “right” for you in any given moment, you have truly unlocked the ability to stay on top of your health and to lead a life in alignment with your truest desires. Talk about sustainability!
The Methodology
In order to create an inner shift and address the 4 I’s to help you reach your goals, I use a unique combination of the following tools depending on YOUR specific needs:
These are the essential elements of my transformative health coaching practice that will help get you from where you currently are to where you want to be. With coaching, you can expect to break away from your current state of frustration and pattern of sliding backward with your progress and step into a whole new reality when it comes to your health, joy, and freedom.
- Nutrition
- Lifestyle modifications
- Nervous system regulation
- Emotional mastery
- Intuition training
- Gut health optimization
- Detoxification
- Customized supplement protocols
- Habit reformation
Ready to Take Action?
Are you sick of waking up feeling exhausted, overweight, and uncomfortable in your own body? It’s time to realize YOU are the greatest factor when it comes to your health, how you feel, and how you look. Say goodbye to yo-yo dieting, food guilt, and confusion over what to eat FOR GOOD. Life is complicated…but your health doesn’t need to be. Take charge of your health journey today!
