Food, nourishment and body awareness have played a central role in Ruth’s life. For years, the relationship was one of love/hate – personal challenges with disordered eating and negative body image were combined with a passion for food, nutrition and cooking. The importance of food in her life led her to enroll in Home Economics at University, where academic training augmented her personal and family life experiences. Ruth went on to hold senior management positions in the food industry in Canada. As a coach, she integrates these life and career experiences with her training in eating psychology, mind/body nutrition, and depth psychology. For Ruth, a nourishing relationship with food and body has opened her to a more vital experience of living. It is her passion to awaken this same experience in others.
Ruth resides in Parksville, British Columbia.

Hello! I’m Sarah, I am a Personal Trainer and a Holistic Nutritionist who specializes in the psychology of eating. I am also a nature enthusiast, a chocolate lover and somebody who absolutely LOVES to dance in their underwear.

Within the wellness community I have always been considered the “odd-ball” because of my unique approach to health, fitness and weight. I made it my mission to become a nutritionist who supports people to stop dieting for good! Dieting is actually one of the worst things you can do for your health. Proper nutrition is about whole foods, all foods and, most importantly, trusting your body. Everyday I guide myself and clients to greater wellness by incorporating movement and nutrition, with an emphasis on self-love and healing.

Are you ready to dive into a deep love affair with yourself and your body?

I have always struggled with my weight and body image so I have committed myself to learning as much as possible about the many aspects of health and wellness in the hopes of helping those who also struggle.

I have been a personal trainer for 15 years and a Holistic Nutritionist for 5.

I am the coach I wish I had all those years ago, to my clients.

Learn more about Sarah by checking out her article on our Coaches’ Blog here: Navigating-Body-Image-Challenges

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Shawn is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Mind, Body, Eating Coach & Master Nordic Pole Walking Instructor with over 35 years of experience in the field of nutrition and wellness. Shawn loves to share her passion for overall health, nutrition and wellness in a way that brings simplicity to your challenges in a relaxed manner. Improved health and overall health is truly a journey, not a destination and Shawn enjoys sharing this journey with her clients.

Who am I? A constant work in progress – continually learning. Major health challenges started me on the natural healing journey – personally and professionally. Leading to discovery through workshops, books, courses, and personal experimentation. With 20 years in the natural health industry – 15 primarily on weight loss – interacting with hundreds of clients, I am honoured to serve in this capacity.
Connection, inspiration, and consistency provides the nourishment for my practice. Driven by a deep desire to accompany clients achieve their personal, health and professional goals while creating a more loving and gentle community to counter the negative messages surrounding us all. It’s about digging deeper and discovering our spiritual gems of inestimable value within, embracing who we are with positivity and gratitude, trusting in the process. Concentrating on the heart and soul. Inviting the ‘aha’ moments that fuels transformation.
In Short:
Empathy ~ Education ~ Encouragement ~ Empowerment~ Transformation …Success!
I have been married for 30 years, raised two amazing kids.
Questions? I invite you to call to connect.

My passion is in living life in a way that is authentic to me, as my unique expression in this world, and help others do the same.

I have a deep passion for deprogramming what this world has taught us, and transform our emotional and mental wellbeing to become our true expressions that is in itself, wholeness and healed, and a pure expression of love and happiness.

I work with clients somatically, and holistically, to achieve a healthy relationship to Self, others, and our bodies. I do not see any person, or condition, including illness as a sign of something broken that needs to be fixed, rather a state of being that inherently carries deep wisdom as a way-showing in our path of embodiment.

I believe when given the tools and guidance everyone has the ability to feel the part of themselves that is connected to all else. When we do, it is like arriving back home after a long journey in a foreign land. I believe in a world where we trust our own guidance rather than that of the media, in a time where we support and lift each other up rather than compete for who has more. I believe that when we are ready to make the changes required for this shift the universe provides us with the life lessons, the teachers and the desire to create a life that is aligned with the greatest good. I believe this movement can start by treating our bodies as the temples that they truly are. Nourishing who we are from the inside out and watching as it creates ripples through our lives and our communities. Get ready for an amazing Ride!

Learn more about Stacey by checking out her article on our Coaches’ Blog here:
From Fear to Love

As a holistic nutritionist, personal trainer and eating psychology coach, Stefanie’s compassionate upbeat approach to living a healthy balanced life comes from her 15 year health journey with debilitating stress, anxiety and digestive issues to heal her relationship with food and her body. Stefanie specializes in helping women find food freedom to live a healthy happy life in a body they love and feel confident in. She helps women beat binge eating, stress and emotional eating, works with weight challenges, bloating, overcome cravings and helps women transform their health and get into the best shape of their lives.

Certified in Holistic Nutrition, Social Work, and Mind-body Nutrition, I specialize in supporting people to free themselves from a diet mentality and the scale that dictates their lives.

I work with people to uncover their habits and patterns around food and dig deep into the emotional realm to create new and more effective coping mechanisms through self-love and balanced nutrition.

Susanne’s interest in this work is a result of her own journey in relationship to food and her body. She is a graduate of the Canadian School for Natural Nutrition working one on one with clients for 5 years and also as a yoga teacher for 15 years.

She leads retreats in BC for those who are looking for a better relationship to food, their bodies and themselves. She has combines her understanding of yoga, nutrition and eating psychology to offer a process that she calls ‘Feed Your Self’.

Simply put, my passion is helping others to forge a new path of operation when it comes to their body and how they feel and think about it. Many of us are running our days at high stress levels, unable to shift to a lower gear and set a slower pace so we can have the energy to take on a change in habits. I can help people learn how to slow themselves down, lower chronic stress states long enough to see clearer and forge a new and brighter path towards healing. If you are exhausted, have tried everything you know to do and have realized you need a different approach, I would love to chat with you further and see how I can help you.