The food you eat can be either the safest and most powerful form of medicine, or the slowest form of poison. - Dr. Ann Wigmore, ND

My personal rabbit hole into creating a healthy lifestyle (and most importantly: a healthy mind!) happened almost by accident several years ago. Newly divorced, empowered, and sailing high on celebrated independence, I wanted to be in my best single-mom health & was tired of slugging from one day to the next. I didn't know where to start but had read for years about removing fake, processed, and commercialized junk food & drinks from my diet.

Almost immediately, I lost weight, had more energy and a sugar/carb brain fog lifted. Over time (and not without bumps and bruises), I was able to radically improve my overall wellness by making healthy changes not only in my diet and lifestyle, but most importantly my personal psyche ... by understanding what good nutrition and life balance really means.

I learned how to listen to my body (both intuitively and via professional training in holistic wellness coaching) in order to know what it needs. I learned the mindful and emotional aspects of eating, and work each day to identify what my body (or Life) is seeking in order to keep my bio-individuality's needs in balance. I learned that taking care of ME comes first because feeling good is not just about changing eating choices and habits: it is ALL about being empowered to change the way you think and feel about food AND yourself.

As a corporate-working single parent, I intimately know the challenges of finding a working balance of family, career, home, personal, play, life, spirit, exercise, and self-care ... all while trying to find the time to cook, shop and eat smart. I also know first-hand the great amount of invested time & personal dedication it takes to do the research, and become an educated food consumer and creator of your own destiny.

Everyone should be excited about the power that food has in creating positive health and most importantly, the power WE have to choose the foods that are put into our bodies every day. WE make these choices. Everyday WE lift our forks & WE re-choose what to put into our bodies: everyday, it's OUR decision. The power lives in US.

And yes: what we eat, think and feel really does make us what we are from the inside out. The food we are currently eating and thoughts we are currently thinking has everything to do with (and can pretty much predict) where we are going. We choose our destiny by our very own choices, every single day.

Close your eyes. What future are YOU creating for yourself?

Rosa graduated from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in conjunction with Teachers College at Columbia University.

She is a member of the American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP) and received board certification as a qualified expert in the health field as a holistic health practitioner.

Rosa provides inspired holistic wellness coaching to those on a personal journey who want to feel better, have more energy & create smarter, lasting habits for a better chance at a long, healthy Life.

She encourages clients to RE-design their health from the inside out by:

  • ENCOURAGING the importance of mindfully RE-choosing a healthy lifestyle each new day, as well as daily time for self-love and self-care

  • CREATING excitement & understanding on the power that food has in creating positive health

  • EXPLORING how personal psyche, health, & quality of Life are being affected by the food we are

  • EMPOWERING a healthy, safe-paced growth process of smart food & Life choices, healthy habits, self-care, crowding-out, bio-individuality and primary foods:


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