My career started in health administration and took an exciting detour into the U.S. Army, where I served as a logistics officer and jumped out of airplanes. I came back to the health field with a master’s in public health from UNC Chapel Hill designing, implementing and evaluating community health programs. Then life changed direction again. As an Army wife and mom, I raised our family through constant moves, deployments, and years overseas. I couldn’t control where we lived or how often my husband traveled, but I learned I could control how I responded, how I lived, and my health.

That lesson became deeply personal when I lost my mom to type 2 diabetes. Diagnosed at age thirty — I watched her fight this disease my entire life. She developed metabolic complications, then congestive heart failure, and eventually lost that fight. What breaks my heart, even now, is knowing what I know today: that so much of what she went through wasn’t inevitable. It wasn’t a failure of character or discipline. There were physiological forces at work that no one ever explained to her. She didn’t have someone in her corner who truly understood what was happening, or who helped her feel like she had agency over her own body. 

I became a health coach to be that person — the one who listens deeply, who translates the

science into something livable, and who helps women understand that their health is

something they can actually shape. Military life taught me that you can’t always control where

you land. But you can control how you take care of yourself along the way.

At Balanced Well-Being, I work alongside functional medicine and lifestyle medicine

physicians to offer the kind of care that bridges the gap between a clinical appointment and real life —Your providers give you the plan and I’ll be in your corner, helping you live that plan, one realistic step at a time.