Process

If you’ve read this far, you may be wondering how Health Coaching works.

1. First, schedule an exploratory call. This is a 30 minute telephone call during which you tell me your story. This is a time for us to identify potential areas for growth and determine both whether coaching is right for you at this time and whether we are a good fit for one another.

2. Commit to positive change and set up our monthly meeting schedule! Before our first coaching session, I will email you a Welcome Packet with several forms to fill out so we can hit the ground running. You may be surprised at the fast pace of your progress, once you commit to coaching.

3. Partner with me and see results. During our first session, we will clarify your goals, and take care of some housekeeping in order to keep future coaching sessions streamlined and productive. We will have two regular sessions each month in order to ensure adequate support, consistent communication and total accountability in order to optimize your growth.

My Story

I created Best Life after years of receiving persistent calls to practice the healing arts. Throughout my lifetime, that has taken many forms including being a mother to my three children, working as a professional nurse, and focussing on my own healing. After over a decade of experience in nursing and another five years healing from a debilitating autoimmune disease affecting my heart, I discovered health coaching. In this role, I could best blend my professional skills and personal experience. My clinical work as a Nurse Practitioner in both Family Practice and Internal Medicine, along with my years working as a hospital nurse in Pediatric Intensive Care and Labor and Delivery, informed my experience as a patient. I strongly believe in the power of modern medicine and respect its place in the healing spectrum. I also learned that, having reached the limits of conventional medicine, I needed take my health into my own hands to get results I wanted.

I have experimented with many healing diets - gluten-free, dairy-free, Autoimmune Paleo, Ayurvedic, vegan, raw food, ketogenic, intermittent fasting, Traditional Chinese Medicine, to name a few - and am continually learning what foods work best for my changing body. I encountered many experienced helpers and healers: coaches, body workers, yoga instructors, traditional healers, spiritual mentors, naturopaths, functional medicine doctors, homeopaths, acupuncturists, physical therapists and chiropractors. I became an avid consumer of all forms of healing, allowing me to develop a more nuanced, discerning and experiential knowledge base. A former fitness enthusiast, I transitioned to gentler forms of exercise that strengthened my body without pushing beyond its safe limits. Importantly, I developed a regular spiritual practice to help me cope with the daily ups and downs. It took all of these approaches and more to get me where I am today.

Best Life means living a life of authentic connections, day in and day out both “at the office” and in the real world. Life feels meaningful when steadying a woman who gets dizzy in the aisle in front of me at the grocery store, when inquiring about someone’s day while sharing an elevator ride, when responding to my children’s’ questions about their bodies, and when letting someone who has been waiting for a long line of cars turn first. We all have a natural human desire to connect deeply to ourselves and also to others. I will help you tap into your own inner healer.