"The first wealth is health."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is a Health Wellness & Nutrition Coach?
A Health Wellness & Nutrition Coach is a professional and expert in behaviour change, partnering with clients who want to make sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their whole-health and wellness.
A Health Wellness & Nutrition Coach understands that each individual is unique and takes a holistic lens to consider a wide variety of lifestyle factors which can either support or undermine health, enables and empowers a client to respond and adapt positively to challenges to their health environment, supporting them to develop the confidence to make conscious, sustainable lifestyle choices and pursue activities that supports that individual’s continuum to achieve their whole-health potential. Life can be a transformational journey. A Health Wellness & Nutrition Coach can help you to look at all areas of life that affects your health (e.g. exercise patterns, relationships, career paths, food habits, nutrition choices), and how we nourish the essence of our spirit.
As human beings, we are constantly changing and evolving and sometimes we need to have help with this process. The world is coming to terms with the fact that being healthy and well is not something we can take for granted. Health and Wellness is not just about arriving at a destination, it is our own unique responsibility and is a lifelong process..
A Health Wellness & Nutrition Coach will support, educate and motivate you to find simple, sustainable ways to break through resistance and overcome self-sabotage in their journey to whole-health.
About me
THIS IS ME, CANNOT WAIT TO GET TO KNOW YOU!
I have always LOVED everything to do with wellness, food, health, movement and I recognise the importance in creating, sustaining and maintaining healthy, happy individuals. Health, wellness, nutrition and educating others have been my passion and purpose for many years.
Like most, I have had challenges with my health and nutrition. I am so grateful for the journey it has taken me on and the lessons that I have learned along the way. I truly believe your path through life teaches you the most valuable lessons. Since making changes to my own lifestyle habits, I feel empowered not restricted, I enjoy my life now more than ever.
EDUCATION
- Certified Professional Nutrition & Health Coach, The Irish Institute of Nutrition and Health (IINH), IRL;
- New York University, Engineering Health: Introduction to Yoga and Physiology, USA;
- Yoga Teacher (+500 hours of training in Vinyasa, Rocket and Yin yoga);
- University of Wageningen edX, Nutrition and Health: Human Microbiome, NL;
- A Wellness Revolution Institute, Certified Health & Wellness Coach, NL;
- Certified Breathwork Coach (currently in progress, expected completion end 2022), USA;
- Guest Lecturer at The Irish Institute of Nutrition and Health (IINH), Dublin, IRL;
- Continuing Education Lecturer at A Wellness Revolution Institute, Amsterdam, NL.
I pursued my lifelong goal of studying health wellness and nutrition, after careers in the corporate world as commercial manager. Helping and educating people of all ages has always been what has driven me throughout my career.
After graduating with a Bachelor in Corporate Communication and two university masters in Economics and in Business Administration, I started my corporate career in Italy for then move to The Netherlands. As a lifelong learner, I kept studying Business, Leadership and Influencing skills, which resulted in over 13 year career accross different industries. Elevating, empowering and enabling others have been my passion and purpose for many years. Which led me to collaborate as guest lecturer with different Universities in several occasions and join mentorship programs as mentor within organizations. After over a decade working as a manager, I realised I needed to pursue my lifelong dream of studying wellness, nutrition and health. I wanted to understand the science behind the choices I had been implementing to improve my own health over the years and to empower others to do the same. I decided to go back to school and certify myself as a Certified Coach! For this reason In addition, I pursued my passion for movement and yoga by becoming a certified yoga teacher.
MY JOURNEY
My own health journey has formed much of my view on the importance of health education. And though I advocate for a healthy lifestyle now- I cannot say that I have always subscribed to it.
When I was 33, I invested myself in studying how to reach an holistic healthy lifestyle. This led me to begin my journey towards healthy eating and healthier lifestyle choices. Like many people, I’ve had my own physical health challenges. Before taking the decision to change my lifestyle, I experienced physical symptoms which impacted my health and left me with several gut issues.
These challenges have enabled me to bring all of my skills, training, life experiences, knowledge and lifestyle habits together to do what I do daily as a wellness, health and nutrition coach. It truly is a joy, passion, and purpose.
