About Nina
I'm on a journey. A journey to complete health ~ not just "not having a disease". I want to feel good in ALL areas of my life and to live out the mission I was put here on earth to accomplish. Therefore, I continually strengthen each of my Six Pillars of Health™ ~ Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual, Social, & Financial ~ and I want to teach you how you can also, so you can live your best life ever! I use my extensive healthcare and life experience to help you so you don't have to make the same mistakes I did.
My broad experience in healthcare as a clinical nurse specialist allowed me the privilege to see the entire healthcare continuum up close and person ~ from the bedside and from the leadership perspective. My presence on many different hospital-wide and unit-based committees gave me an inner working perspective of the entire "patient" experience. I also responded to the 'rona crisis in 2020 by heading to New York City. I went to train new nurses, but the chaos brought me on the front lines in the ICU for 4 months. And in that winter of 2020, I worked in Chicago in the ICUs, as well as the summer of 2021. It was an eye-opening experience that showed the true colors of "health"care.
As my career blossomed, symptoms that I had in high school began to worsen. No one cared. No one believed me because I was still successful at whatever I did. I didn't look sick. And I didn't have a definable diagnosis. My brain fog and what felt at times as complete brain shutdown, as well as my worsening headaches, were of no interest to doctors because I "didn't have brain cancer". And my gut issues were of no interest because it wasn't IBS or Crohn's or any other diagnosis. I would actually double over in pain at times. And my intermittent swallowing difficulties were addressed with multiple endoscopies and pills and conflicting diagnoses.
In my graduate work, I studied the effects of stress and anxiety on critically ill patients who were both chronically and acutely ill. My clinical focus was cardiology/respiratory critical care. I was always aware of "other" factors ~ social support, mindset, sleep, stress, faith and more ~ that impacted the health outcomes of those who were hospitalized. I saw patients with similar diagnoses and conditions have very different outcomes. I researched these issues in graduate school and I tracked quality improvement data and outcomes of cardiac arrest patients, high tech home infusion patients, and other conditions/treatment practices in my clinical positions. It was crystal clear that stress and anxiety, as well as healthy social support (and faith and mindset), greatly impacted morbidity and mortality in people with both chronic and acute conditions.
When my son was born over 20 years ago, I began to see the impact that food had on many issues ~ mood, weight loss, resiliency and more. When he was an infant, I was instructed to remove gluten, dairy and corn from my diet as I nursed him. Gluten was extremely hard. Once I successfully removed it all, my digestive issues resolved in days. Then, months later, (I didn't anticipate this change), my brain fog dramatically disappeared overnight. It took me years after that to connect the mental clarity issues to gluten, but at that moment, I knew I wanted to help people become and stay well.
I've always operated in life by serving and teaching. But I don't want to just give you Knowledge or inspiration ~ I want you to have the proper Tools & Resources to implement this information into your life and into the life of your family. I want you to start tilting the needle back toward health and balance and then radically shift it. I also want you to have the proper Support to make concrete, lasting changes in your health and life. Therefore, my mission is to provide Knowledge, Tools & Resources, and Incredible Support to Educate, Empower and Inspire YOU to Take OWNERSHIP™ of Your Health and Your Life so you can live up to your highest God-given potential and live healthy, happy and vibrantly ~ so you can help your family and others do the same.
The Six Pillars of Health™, as well as strength and balance among them, are critically important to your overall health. When one Pillar is weakened, if affects the others. If other Pillars are already weak, it impairs your overall ability to respond to whatever challenging situation is taxing your resources. Learning to rebuild these areas is imperative to recovering from outside attacks to your system, as well as strengthening them to minimize future assaults. Therefore, I've created a program designed to help you address the root causes - your cellular health - and the effects of the issues that assault you; whether big OR small, they interfere with your life.
So why am I qualified to help you on this journey? I have a masters degree in nursing and worked in healthcare over the span of three decades in various roles and multiple leadership capacities, as well as my keen focus on health and wellness issues for over three decades. I have a wide breadth of experience along the entire "patient" care continuum. I realized quite early on in my career that real healing does not just happen in the Physical Pillar of Health. True healing encompasses the entire person and the entirety of their circumstances. I want you to feel your best. I want you to live your best. Therefore, my goal is to Educate you on what creates health and what takes it away; Empower you with this knowledge to make the changes that you are able at the time; and Inspire you to understand what is possible and that you CAN make the difference you want in your health and your life, as well as the health and life of your family.
To round out my education, I took a program to be a Strategic Intervention Life Coach. I have also walked the road of having a silent illness that has given me the unique perspective of the journey one travels with chronic illness, as well as the uncertainty and alterations in social and financial relationships that this brings. I know what it's like to feel invisible because you don't look sick and your symptoms are not seen by others.
I have worked with and coached people from all walks of life to improve their health and wellbeing ~ male and female, parents and singles, elderly and young, entire families. I am very excited to create a business around this, starting with a comprehensive group program that addresses ALL Six Pillars of Health™. I address ALL the issues that impact your health and your life, as well as the underlying reasons why your health and your life are where they are. By addressing these issues, looking at root causes and how they all impact each other, you will identify simple things that you can change. By providing extensive coaching access for a prolonged period of time, you will be able to make changes that become a life-long habit, rather than just get results in the short-term. I will also share my journey so you can avoid my mistakes and take inspiration from my successes.
The changes you make affect not just yourself, but those around you ~ family, neighbors, coworkers, friends, etc. You'll find as you become healthier ~ in ALL Six Pillars of Health™ ~ you will begin to impact those around you differently. One mother I worked with found her life and her children's lives were healthier and happier as a result of our work together. Their relationships with each other improved as grating physical issues disappeared and a new way of thinking and being infused their lives. They were inspired to continue the changes ~ almost ten years out and they still report continued positive changes. Check out what people have said here.
Each one of us must understand the factors that create health and what takes it away. It is imperative we make our OWN decisions regarding our health and our lives and that our ability to make these decisions is not limited or influenced by outside forces. It is IMPERATIVE to heal the body at the most basic levels..
It is time to take control ~ Take OWNERSHIP™ ~ of Your Health, Your Wealth, and Your Life!
Join me on the journey to true health and living an authentic life
My broad experience in healthcare as a clinical nurse specialist allowed me the privilege to see the entire healthcare continuum up close and person ~ from the bedside and from the leadership perspective. My presence on many different hospital-wide and unit-based committees gave me an inner working perspective of the entire "patient" experience. I also responded to the 'rona crisis in 2020 by heading to New York City. I went to train new nurses, but the chaos brought me on the front lines in the ICU for 4 months. And in that winter of 2020, I worked in Chicago in the ICUs, as well as the summer of 2021. It was an eye-opening experience that showed the true colors of "health"care.
As my career blossomed, symptoms that I had in high school began to worsen. No one cared. No one believed me because I was still successful at whatever I did. I didn't look sick. And I didn't have a definable diagnosis. My brain fog and what felt at times as complete brain shutdown, as well as my worsening headaches, were of no interest to doctors because I "didn't have brain cancer". And my gut issues were of no interest because it wasn't IBS or Crohn's or any other diagnosis. I would actually double over in pain at times. And my intermittent swallowing difficulties were addressed with multiple endoscopies and pills and conflicting diagnoses.
In my graduate work, I studied the effects of stress and anxiety on critically ill patients who were both chronically and acutely ill. My clinical focus was cardiology/respiratory critical care. I was always aware of "other" factors ~ social support, mindset, sleep, stress, faith and more ~ that impacted the health outcomes of those who were hospitalized. I saw patients with similar diagnoses and conditions have very different outcomes. I researched these issues in graduate school and I tracked quality improvement data and outcomes of cardiac arrest patients, high tech home infusion patients, and other conditions/treatment practices in my clinical positions. It was crystal clear that stress and anxiety, as well as healthy social support (and faith and mindset), greatly impacted morbidity and mortality in people with both chronic and acute conditions.
When my son was born over 20 years ago, I began to see the impact that food had on many issues ~ mood, weight loss, resiliency and more. When he was an infant, I was instructed to remove gluten, dairy and corn from my diet as I nursed him. Gluten was extremely hard. Once I successfully removed it all, my digestive issues resolved in days. Then, months later, (I didn't anticipate this change), my brain fog dramatically disappeared overnight. It took me years after that to connect the mental clarity issues to gluten, but at that moment, I knew I wanted to help people become and stay well.
I've always operated in life by serving and teaching. But I don't want to just give you Knowledge or inspiration ~ I want you to have the proper Tools & Resources to implement this information into your life and into the life of your family. I want you to start tilting the needle back toward health and balance and then radically shift it. I also want you to have the proper Support to make concrete, lasting changes in your health and life. Therefore, my mission is to provide Knowledge, Tools & Resources, and Incredible Support to Educate, Empower and Inspire YOU to Take OWNERSHIP™ of Your Health and Your Life so you can live up to your highest God-given potential and live healthy, happy and vibrantly ~ so you can help your family and others do the same.
The Six Pillars of Health™, as well as strength and balance among them, are critically important to your overall health. When one Pillar is weakened, if affects the others. If other Pillars are already weak, it impairs your overall ability to respond to whatever challenging situation is taxing your resources. Learning to rebuild these areas is imperative to recovering from outside attacks to your system, as well as strengthening them to minimize future assaults. Therefore, I've created a program designed to help you address the root causes - your cellular health - and the effects of the issues that assault you; whether big OR small, they interfere with your life.
So why am I qualified to help you on this journey? I have a masters degree in nursing and worked in healthcare over the span of three decades in various roles and multiple leadership capacities, as well as my keen focus on health and wellness issues for over three decades. I have a wide breadth of experience along the entire "patient" care continuum. I realized quite early on in my career that real healing does not just happen in the Physical Pillar of Health. True healing encompasses the entire person and the entirety of their circumstances. I want you to feel your best. I want you to live your best. Therefore, my goal is to Educate you on what creates health and what takes it away; Empower you with this knowledge to make the changes that you are able at the time; and Inspire you to understand what is possible and that you CAN make the difference you want in your health and your life, as well as the health and life of your family.
To round out my education, I took a program to be a Strategic Intervention Life Coach. I have also walked the road of having a silent illness that has given me the unique perspective of the journey one travels with chronic illness, as well as the uncertainty and alterations in social and financial relationships that this brings. I know what it's like to feel invisible because you don't look sick and your symptoms are not seen by others.
I have worked with and coached people from all walks of life to improve their health and wellbeing ~ male and female, parents and singles, elderly and young, entire families. I am very excited to create a business around this, starting with a comprehensive group program that addresses ALL Six Pillars of Health™. I address ALL the issues that impact your health and your life, as well as the underlying reasons why your health and your life are where they are. By addressing these issues, looking at root causes and how they all impact each other, you will identify simple things that you can change. By providing extensive coaching access for a prolonged period of time, you will be able to make changes that become a life-long habit, rather than just get results in the short-term. I will also share my journey so you can avoid my mistakes and take inspiration from my successes.
The changes you make affect not just yourself, but those around you ~ family, neighbors, coworkers, friends, etc. You'll find as you become healthier ~ in ALL Six Pillars of Health™ ~ you will begin to impact those around you differently. One mother I worked with found her life and her children's lives were healthier and happier as a result of our work together. Their relationships with each other improved as grating physical issues disappeared and a new way of thinking and being infused their lives. They were inspired to continue the changes ~ almost ten years out and they still report continued positive changes. Check out what people have said here.
Each one of us must understand the factors that create health and what takes it away. It is imperative we make our OWN decisions regarding our health and our lives and that our ability to make these decisions is not limited or influenced by outside forces. It is IMPERATIVE to heal the body at the most basic levels..
It is time to take control ~ Take OWNERSHIP™ ~ of Your Health, Your Wealth, and Your Life!
Join me on the journey to true health and living an authentic life
