If there were a gold medal for starting and stopping health “fads,” I’d win it for sure.

Like many of you around my age (38), my obsession with my body and food started young. My parents did the very best they could with the information they had, but let’s just say my food habits were far from nutrient-dense.

After elementary school, every day I’d beg my mom to take me through the drive-through for a burger and fries, then eat an entire plate of whatever was made for dinner + dessert. It didn’t take long for it to catch up to me, and unluckily for me, it was right when I went into Jr. High (when body image was everything).

Cue the disordered eating patterns, y’all.

I’ve done it all: Weight Watchers, detoxes, over-exercised, low-fat, low-carb, extremely low-calorie, multiple Whole30s, years of Paleo eating bordering on the edge of Orthorexia, the bean protocol, the list goes on.

It wasn’t until I had my babies that I ultimately snapped out of it. Suddenly, there were more important things in life than whether or not I ate some gluten on the weekends… and boy did that feel good.

So good, in fact, that I decided to quit my corporate marketing job and go back to school to become a nutritional therapy practitioner. I wanted to understand why those one-size-fits-all approaches never worked for me. I wanted to learn how to identify the foods and strategies that would actually get me to where I wanted to go – finally feeling nourished, alive, and strong. SO STRONG!

Now I’m on a mission to help other women do the same.

Let me pull back the curtain for a second and give you the secret the billion-dollar wellness industry doesn’t want you to know.

THERE ARE NO APPROACHES THAT WORK FOR EVERYONE.

Every human body is different. We were all raised in different cultures practicing different traditions. Our microbiomes are programmed for what we’re used to. Some people are exposed to more toxins than others. Other people have genetic mutations that require different forms of nutrients (e.g., MTHFR mutation). Our ethics and values are different. We have different budgets and preferences.

So let me repeat one more time. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to health and wellness.

What does work, then?

An approach that has nuance built-in. One that pairs what’s actually going on in YOUR body with what you can work into your lifestyle. Combine that with the magic of real, whole, unprocessed foods, and you’ve got a DIY health plan that is sustainable and actually works.

Intrigued? Then I have good news for you because I’ll be diving more into this topic on April 24th at 11:00 am CST via Zoom. I’m hosting a free workshop all about why DIY health approaches fail and what you can do instead. Attendees will also get a sneak peek (+bonus) into my new group program.

And don’t worry if you can’t make it live, I’ll be sending the recording to everyone who registers.