RN BSN Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach
Hello and Welcome!
My name is Mary and I am a Registered Nurse and a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach. I am passionate about helping individuals with fatigue and pain regain energy, vitality and achieve OPTIMAL health and wellbeing.
My Story
During my 3 decade long career as a Registered Nurse I witnessed how chronic illness negatively impacts lives and how the conventional medicine system can only take one so far along their healing journey. As someone who has struggled with chronic illness, I found that the support of a Functional Medicine Doctor and a Health Coach was instrumental in helping me regain my health.
“Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen”
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Coaching
ARE YOU READY FOR A CHANGE?
As your health coach, I can help you get unstuck and move forward along your journey toward optimal health. I can support you and help you optimize the 5 Foundational Lifestyle Factors: Sleep & Relaxation, Exercise & Movement, Nutrition, Stress, Relationships. I can help you identify and address barriers that stand in the way of your success. I can help you discover your strengths and provide you with education and accountability to help you on your journey toward OPTIMAL health. I am here to provide you with wellness expertise, support, goal setting and accountability to help you make lifestyle changes that are sustainable.
What is Functional Medicine?
Functional Medicine is a systems biology approach used by practitioners to help identify the root cause of illness. Conventional medicine provides a diagnosis based on symptoms/labwork/tests and then provides individuals with various medicines and treatments to manage the symptoms and/or surgical interventions. In Functional Medicine, the goal is to go beyond managing symptoms or removing diseased organs and to discover the reason why those symptoms and diseases occurred in the first place. The principles in Functional Medicine are to go as far upstream as one can to determine the root cause of illness through various tests and then to address those issues through a systematic approach.
Functional Medicine Health Coaching
Using the principles of Functional Medicine and looking at root cause of illness, Functional Medicine Health Coaches focus on the Modifiable Lifestyle Factors that may be contributing to an individual’s illness. Nothing exists in a vacuum and with chronic illness there are usually many contributing factors that can influence the outcome of health. A Functional Medicine Health Coach can help address things that are within your CONTROL. If you are experiencing symptoms such as fatigue, pain, poor sleep, lack of energy, feeling constantly stressed or if you are struggling with your weight, a Functional Medicine Health Coach can help you look at things such as: Sleep & Relaxation, Exercise & Movement, Nutrition, Stress, Relationships to help move you toward feeling and looking better.
