About Me
I didn’t always approach health the way I do now.
My early life was shaped by periods of illness, illness of loved ones, adverse events and a deep feeling that there had to be more to health (and life) than I otherwise knew.
For years, fear shaped my relationship with health — worry, hyper-vigilance, and a sense of vulnerability in my own body.
Although I had some exposure to "alternative" approaches to healing, I didn't know then how much we were never taught about staying well.
Until I discovered a different way.
Like many women, my understanding of health has evolved through some negative experiences, curiosity, and a consistent desire to feel better in my own body and mind.
Health education became super important to me in 2011 after a year long "mystery illness" and really since then it's been a long process of going through some challenging experiences and (re)education that has lead me to where I am today.
And I'm still learning.
Life Education
The last 15+ years I've experienced some significant changes in my life including moving countries, living nomadically for several years, having an unexpected C-section, losing loved ones as well going through various personal health issues (and collective ones).
Each experience and event has always brought me back to looking at what makes and keeps us healthy and what we can do if/when we do get "sick" and how can I approach this in a "better" way.
Formal Education & Experience
I graduated from the University of the West of England with a BA(Hons) in Politics and International Relations in 2008. During these college years, I also started volunteering (and then working) as an Helpline Counselor for the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (Nacoa) in Bristol, England. Between 2007 and 2010 I developed excellent counseling and listening skills as well as learning about the importance of looking at the root causes of individual health experiences as per un-healthy family dynamics and addictive patterns. It became apparent to me how un-healed generational trauma can impact families as well as wider communities and societies - which includes physical health as well.
With my ever-present inquisitiveness and my desire to figure out how to create positive change in the world, in 2009 I embarked upon an MSc. in Wellbeing & Human Development at the University of Bath (UK).
It wasn't until I had to solve my own health conundrum in 2011 that I would truly begin to understand that in order for any of us to change or improve the world, we have to start with ourselves.
New and unique ways of living and working ensued for me over the interim years (between 2012 and 2018). After getting married and moving to the United States in 2012, I lived and worked "on the road” up until settling in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 2015.
I've spent many years working in various roles in the customer/guest service industries and have also kept learning all the while.
In 2018 I graduated as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach with the Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN).
In 2024 I became a Certified Natural Health Coach through the Global Healing Institute which brings me to where I am today - helping women improve their health, naturally, through root-cause practices.
I currently live in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan with my human and animal family. I like to play and explore outside, especially at the beach (where I also like to do nothing). I also appreciate my home time; cooking & baking, puzzles, drinking tea and a lot of reading. I also love to travel and visit new places. But mostly, my favorite thing is continually learning - and I truly believe that it is curiosity and education that is the ultimate healer for us all.
I'm always looking for interesting conversations, so send me a message :-)
~ Stephanie