I didn’t always trust my body.

For a long time, I approached health through control. I tried to outthink hunger, follow the right rules, and optimize my way into feeling better. From the outside, it looked disciplined. Internally, it felt like I was constantly negotiating with myself.

Over time, I realized something simple but hard to accept:
you can’t build a healthy relationship with your body through control alone.

I grew up as a competitive Irish dancer, where precision, discipline, and pushing through discomfort were the standard. That environment, along with early exposure to healthcare, pulled me toward clinical nutrition. I went on to become a Registered Dietitian and Certified Personal Trainer.

My clinical training started during COVID in a level-one trauma center. It was a crash course in how healthcare actually functions. I saw how much health is shaped by more than physiology alone. Behavior, environment, stress, access, and context all matter. Often more than we acknowledge.

Around that same time, I was navigating my own health challenges, including an eating disorder. Recovery forced me to rethink everything I thought I knew. Not just about food, but about control, identity, and what it actually means to take care of yourself.

After working in acute care, I left with a clear and overwhelming conviction:

We cannot rely on reactive care to build real health.

I saw firsthand how much effort, expertise, and resources go into managing illness once it has already taken hold. And while that care is essential, it also made something undeniable to me. By the time most people enter the system, we are already behind.

It became clear that if I wanted to meaningfully impact health, I couldn’t just work within that model. I needed to be part of building something earlier, more proactive, and more human.

That realization didn’t lead me straight into private practice.

If anything, it pulled me off the expected path entirely.

I spent time doing door-to-door sales, which, unexpectedly, ended up shaping my perspective more than I anticipated. I had conversations every day with people who looked like they had everything together, yet felt confused, exhausted, or stuck when it came to their health.

That experience gave me space to travel, step outside of my own routines, and connect with people in a different way. It also made something very clear: the need for real, honest, full-person support is much bigger than most systems are built to handle.

Today, my work is centered on helping people step out of extremes and into something more steady.

I combine clinical nutrition, behavior change, and nervous system awareness to help you build habits that are actually doable. Not perfect, not rigid, but consistent enough to create real change.

Less noise. More clarity.
Less starting over. More follow-through.

Because health isn’t something you force.
It’s something you build.

If you’ve been doing everything “right” but still don’t feel right, you’re not the problem.
There’s likely a mismatch between the approach you’ve been given and what your body actually needs.