I’m a Certified Health & Well-Being Coach, trained at Duke Health & Well-Being.

I also hold a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and Journalism from Wake Forest University. For six years, I worked as a Brand Manager at leading Public Relations and Communications agencies in New York City supporting healthcare, pharmaceutical, consumer and consumer health/wellness clients businesses. By day, I would plan and execute unbranded disease state awareness campaigns and branded marketing campaigns for medications and self-care products, and by night I would sweat it out at fitness studios across the city, try out healthy new recipes and consume all the wellness content I could in magazines and online.

While wellness has been one of my consistent interests since high school, my journey hasn’t been without obstacles. In my late teenage years and early twenties what started as a passion for health slowly morphed into an obsession with exercise and a struggle with disordered eating habits that took years to recover from. I was finally forced to take a critical look at my life, habits and “wellness” practices that I'd picked up throughout the years and flip the script on what I thought I knew about how to stay happy and healthy.

As I moved through these personal challenges, it became clear to me that I had previously overlooked key components to the multifaceted pursuit of health – cultivating mental and spiritual well-being alongside physical well-being. Through trial and error, I’ve ultimately found that a holistic, integrative approach to my wellbeing, focused equally on mind, body and spirit, has provided the most positive health outcomes for me.

In the process of my health and wellness journey, I’ve seen firsthand that there is a stark difference between learning and applying, between reading and acting and between information and transformation. Although I was actively consuming helpful, accurate information on steps I could take to improve every aspect of my health, it was using that knowledge to enact meaningful, sustainable behavior change that was, by and large, the biggest challenge. I think many people struggle with taking what they’ve heard, read about and been told by their doctors and putting it into action in their lives. Moving forward into that next step of implementing healthy lifestyle behaviors across the mental, physical and spiritual dimensions of your life is not easy, but you don’t have to do it alone. I'm here to play that crucial support role in your health journey.