I spent years trying to understand what my body was telling me

My own health experience is what first led me to this work. More than 30 years in healthcare and my training as a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach taught me how to look beyond one symptom, recognize patterns, and ask what might be missing.

For most of my life, there was always something

As far back as I can remember, I dealt with symptoms that seemed random and unrelated. As a child, it was strange skin issues. By my teens, it was horrible acne that followed me into adulthood, along with redness that was diagnosed as rosacea. As I got older, sinus issues, migraines, digestive problems, and reactions to food were added to the picture.

The food reactions were especially difficult to understand. I could eat something one week and feel fine, then eat the same thing a few weeks later and break out or feel terrible. I did not know why, and I certainly did not know how to explain it to anyone else.

As I moved through perimenopause and menopause, problems I had dealt with for years became harder to manage, new symptoms appeared, and some days I felt like a shell of myself. Some of the things I had always counted on to feel better no longer seemed to work the same way.

I kept looking for answers

Over the years, I saw conventional medical doctors, chiropractors, naturopaths, and functional medicine practitioners. I tried antibiotics, Accutane, laser procedures, allergy and digestive testing, dietary changes, and more supplements than I can remember.

Some of those things helped, sometimes significantly. But I never felt as though I got an entire answer. One practitioner might address my skin. Another might focus on my digestion. Someone else would recommend a new protocol or a large stack of expensive supplements. Each experience gave me another piece of information, but no one seemed to be looking at how the pieces might fit together.

Even when I found a legitimate answer, it was not always the whole answer. A month-long migraine led me to make significant changes to what I was eating and drinking, which made a dramatic difference. Years later, I discovered that a food I had been eating almost every day because I considered it healthy could trigger the same pain.

That experience taught me something I would continue to see in other areas of my health: one useful answer does not necessarily explain the complete picture.

The tests were “normal” but I wasn’t feeling normal

After spending thousands of dollars on extensive testing, I was told that everything looked normal. But I knew something was still going on.

That was not easy for me to dismiss because my career began in clinical diagnostics, which is essentially laboratory testing. I understand the value of test results, and I also understand that they are one part of the information available.

So I went back through my history and began looking at when symptoms appeared, what made them better or worse, what I had been eating, what medications or supplements I was taking, how I was sleeping, my stress, and what else was happening in my life. Within a couple of weeks, I began recognizing patterns that years of separate appointments and testing had not connected. Symptoms that had been treated individually started to make more sense together.

That did not mean I had figured everything out or that every symptom had one cause. It meant I had learned how to step back, organize what I was noticing, and build a clearer picture from information that had previously felt scattered.

Why I do this work

That experience shapes how I now work as a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach.

My professional experience has strengthened those instincts. Over more than 30 years in healthcare, I have worked in clinical diagnostics and medical devices in roles spanning research and development, technical support, sales, product management, marketing, commercialization, and leadership. That range taught me that the same problem can look very different depending on where you are standing. It also taught me to ask questions, bring together perspectives from different areas of expertise, recognize when something is missing or does not add up, and make complicated information easier to understand and use. Those are the same skills I bring to coaching as I help women recognize patterns, connect information that may appear unrelated, and determine what deserves attention next.

I do not diagnose clients or promise to uncover one perfect root cause. I help women look more closely at what has been happening, organize symptoms and other relevant information, and notice patterns or possible connections that may have been overlooked. From there, we consider what the information may be telling us, what deserves more attention, and what questions may help create a more useful conversation with a healthcare provider.

Long before I became a health coach, friends and other people in my life came to me with questions about food, symptoms, and situations they could not quite explain. My instinct has always been to listen, ask questions, and help someone consider what else might be part of the picture.

Now I combine that instinct with my personal experience, healthcare background, and coaching training to help women who know something feels off but cannot figure out why.

You should not have to spend decades trying to piece it together alone.