Ayyy, I’m so happy you’re here!
I’m Jill, a New Jersey resident turned east coast wanderer + corporate dropout turned holistic nutrition health coach.
I became interested in health coaching through my own lived experience, as I’ve had an ever-changing medley of symptoms for as long as I could remember. In addition, I developed poor coping mechanisms to deal with my emotions as a highly sensitive person (HSP) and empath, unconscious of the ways they’d further my state.
From Burnout to the Jungle
When I was about 23 yrs. old, I knew that conventional medicine was failing me so I started studying healthcare on my own. Around the same time, I began a 12-yr climb up the corporate ladder. Exacerbating my symptoms and always developing more, I grew closer to my studies in hopes of healing myself once and for all but, instead, I found myself on the fast track to burnout.
I knew my body and soul needed a break, so I booked a solo trip to Costa Rica for the sake of renewal. The trip came right after a tiring, multi-day convention for work led by my team and I across the country. I got on the plane and eventually landed, unrefreshed, in a spiritual community in the middle of the jungle.
Goodbye, Career.
I wasn’t aware of it at the time, but the trip to Costa Rica changed my life. One way it did that was by introducing me to the school that would later certify me as an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach.
When I earned my certification, I didn’t do much with it. I didn’t begin offering a service to others needing care, I just used what I learned for myself as I continued to work my corporate job. That changed a year later when I realized, the motivational YouTube videos I listened to while getting ready for work in the morning weren’t motivating anymore. I’d officially had enough. I was unwell and unhappy, so much so that a nerve developed in some unfamiliar part of my brain that gave me the courage to quit my job, and help people who felt like me.
Space & Spirituality
With my newfound freedom, I planned to spend most of my energy creating a business as a self-employed coach, but what I realized is that I needed most of my energy for myself. I was fresh out of a breakup, without the armor or distraction of a successful career, and still feeling very far off from good, health-wise. I was supposed to be navigating entrepreneurship in the field of health and wellness, but I felt exposed and unsure of myself in the entire game of life. I began swinging between two modes, creation and resistance.
Hello, spiritual awakening.
The experience held my attention more than my relationships, physical condition or career goals ever did and through it, I found what I was missing in life the whole time.
Me.
I learned what I value and want in life.
And then, everything changed.
My Mission
To move the culture of deep-feeling people toward peace by helping them create meaningful relationships with themselves and others.
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