I am a health and wellness coach with a Bachelor’s in Sport Psychology, a diploma in Exercise Science, a Certificate in Nutrition and a certificate in The Psychology of Eating. I work with clients and coach them to better their overall health and wellness by looking at how all aspects of life can affect their health as a whole. I strongly believe that a healthy lifestyle should be flexible and fun and does not dwell on calories, fads, or restrictive diets. I understand how important coaching can be in helping people accomplish long sought-after goals and how coaching can ultimate set someone up for long term success on their journey to improved health and wellness.

As I have been on my own journey in seeking health and peace since the early 2000s, I felt it was my calling to hold space for others on similar journeys. Unconditional support, love and acceptance are key in understanding, peace and alignment with self. I would be honored if you shared your journey with me and allowed me the opportunity to hold a loving mirror for you.

I have been in the fitness and nutrition world for 20 years. Starting as a dancer then moving into group fitness. I owned a Crossfit gym for 6 years and transition into bodybuilding. When I couldn’t lose weight after my 4th baby I decided to study nutrition. It changed my body and the trajectory of my life. I am so passionate about teaching and helping others do the same with their lives. I work with women who want to lose weight, have body image issues. I help them live a life where they can feel how they truly matter! 

Sun Dragon Living Arts was founded by Kristen Ronning to provide healing service in the Reiki system of energy healing, with a divine vision towards the improvement of health, self-empowerment, and the harmonizing of relationship.
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Kristen is a multimodal empath, clairaudient, and intuitive healer with skill in the technology and practice of relaxation, mastering the mental-emotional-spiritual life through embodiment and ritual, and breaking through eating challenges for long-term success.
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She would love love love to get to know you and to be your guide on the journey of healing and intuitive development, making peace with food and feeling at home in your body and the world, finding your song, and living your new life now.
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Kristen is an Intuitive Healing and Wellness Coach. Trainings and certifications include Holy Fire III Reiki Master Teacher, Psycho-Spiritual Alchemy Mentor, Vibrational Sound Therapist, and Mind-Body Eating Coach.

With the ancient understanding which embraces that true nutrition extends beyond what we eat, coaching and consulting is uniquely formatted to identify and remove blocks that are hindering one’s health and well-being. Services will identity the best avenue that will leverage each individual into optimizing the functionality of the body while discovering the potential they are seeking. This universal yet individualized approach will provide resources, strategies, and tools while integrating restorative foods, nourishing rhythms, and more.

From our relationship with food, to navigating chronic illness/ symptoms, tuning into our bodies intelligence, restoring balance and increasing fortitude; all sessions are centered around cultivating life rhythms that complements a flourishing relationship with mind, body and our innate design.

In turn, supporting one’s goals and wellness journey to live a life of alignment, with hope, on purpose and nourished by design.

Fitness and nutrition ARE WHAT I DO. I have spent my entire life researching, learning and practicing various forms of fitness and nutrition. I have definitely had my fair share of obstacles, and I understand how real the struggle is. I know all about the emotional and physical battles, but this is about YOUR journey. I have been down this road myself, and I’m confident that I can show you the path to freedom!

Laura Burkett is a certified holistic nutrition & eating psychology counselor. Her work blends balanced nutrition and self-care practices with Dynamic Eating Psychology principles, providing clients with a unique & effective approach to navigating some of the more elusive and frustrating challenges around eating and health that other approaches often miss (self-sabotage, nutritional confusion, digestive problems, poor self-image, mood related concerns, food perfectionism, and weight concerns) Through a heart-centered philosophy, clients learn how to nourish themselves, navigate their inner world more skillfully, re-claim freedom around food and eating, and step into a more fully expressed version of themselves.

Learn more about Laura by checking out her article on our Coaches’ Blog here:
Some Unhealthy Baggage of Healthy Eating

Bilingual and Bi-cultural Anthropologist interested in helping women of all ages to become happy and the best they can be. Certified as Eating Psychology Health and Wellness Coach and Functional Medicine Health and Wellness Coach, Candidate.

Learn more about Laura by checking out her articles on our Coaches’ Blog here:
Helping Others I Helped Myself

Laura has been an AADP Certified Health Coach since 2013. She helps women who are struggling with food and weight embrace a different approach – one that is free of dieting and overly restrictive living and focuses on creating health and enjoying life more fully now. After years of struggling with energy, health, and weight, Laura discovered this new approach and is eager to share it with you.

If you are ready to finally end the frustrations around dieting and weight, then contact Laura to begin your journey today.

Laura graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2013 and from the Institute for the Psychology of Eating in 2021.

I’m a mama, wife, certified coach and rebel on all things dieting, deprivation and body shaming. Lawd knows, we’ve all spent enough time and money on shenanigans that don’t work.
It’s time for something that does.
My mission is to give you the exact path to end binge eating and emotional eating. I’ll help you question all of the rules that keep you stuck and teach you the proven tools to food freedom.

Sassy. Spiritual. Sensitive. Intuitive. Interested. Inquisitive. Fun. Feisty. Festive. Direct. Driven. Dependable. Creative. Curious. Conscientious. Witty. Whimsical. Wild. Passionate. Practical. Perceptive. Each one of those words is a characteristic that I bring into the coaching experiences I offer. And Mind Body Eating Coaching brings together three things I’m ridiculously crazy about and practiced in: the powerful mind/body connection, food, and coaching. That melding of passions and training makes for a powerful place for you and I to address your weight concerns, binge eating, overeating, body image challenges, and various nutrition related health concerns together.

Hello. My name is Laureen, and good health is my passion. Like many others, I have struggled for many years to find the right diet for me. Well, I learned that I don’t ever need to be “on a diet”..nor does anyone else. I wish to help you find the right path for YOU, for your mind, body and spirit. It is doable, in this cutting edge approach to nutrition, as there truly is a psychology to eating, and eating challenges. It’s time to kick those toxic nutritional beliefs to the curb! I’m excited to be your coach!
To learn more you can check out my website or visit me on my Facebook page here:
https://facebook.com/Laureenseatingpsychology/

Learn more about Laureen Merrill by checking out her article on our Coaches’ Blog here:
It’s Never Too Late!