Hello!

I’m Debbie, a certified holistic health & life coach, student in spiritual direction certification, and former social worker.

Root cause & ripple effects.

Although I’ve felt close to God for as long as I can remember and before I really even had a name for the Transcendent, Loving, Guiding Presence that I felt was with me, my journey with religion and faith have had a lot of twists and turns.

Alongside that journey has been my very rocky and difficult relationship with food and my body and my fearful, noisy, distracted mind.

As a teenager and college student I struggled with binge and emotional eating and yo yo dieting. In my 40’s, I struggled with physical problems I later learned were symptoms of hormone changes from perimenopause, as well as food sensitivities and poor gut health.

In the past I also struggled with starting things but not finishing them, poor boundaries & people pleasing, and career burnout.

Although I’ll always be growing and evolving, answers to those challenges found me and healing has come. Answers that got to the root of the problems and were slow, steady and holistic instead of band-aids or drastic, scary and unhealthy; and therefore they stuck and improved all aspects of my life.

All the bandaids I had tried: fad diets, products & protocols, getting more information, motivation or head-knowlege, self-care checklists or prayer formulas just didn’t stick or create holistic transformation…. they often just made me feel worse, like there was something wrong with me or I just didn’t have enough willpower or self-discipline.

And religion ultimately made me feel further from God and worse rather than closer to God or experiencing the “peace that passes all understanding” or the “freedom and life to the fullest” that the Bible says is available to us.

I’m pretty sure you can relate.

I’ve learned through both my career and personal experiences is that answers and healing don’t take place through head-knowledge alone or by rules & legalism, force, checklists, discipline, willpower, etc. We need to learn to listen to our soul & spirit (connected to God), to differentiate between the ego voice and the divine voice, and to understand and nurture the body-mind-spirit connection.

I help you do that as well as take the right steps in the right order with the right timing so you can experience what I call “Ripple Effect Wellness”: the better you feel on the inside, the better your relationships, work, financial decisions, travel, and almost everything else is.

And the more you can help co-create a better world, a.k.a. the kingdom of heaven.

When we’re feeling our best and connected to the Source / God, we can “live by the Spirit” and love our neighbors as ourselves. None of that happens through knowing or relying only on our ego minds.