Because your body, your stress, and your life are uniquely yours.
If there’s one thing, I’ve learned in decades of working with clients, it’s this: there is no one-size-fits-all approach to health.
Personalized care means care designed just for you – your history, your habits, your goals, and even your temperament. When you work with me, the process is high-touch, intuitive, and compassionate. Together, we change behavior gently but effectively.
As the Beatles once sang, “With a little help from my friends,” – we all need that help. We need to feel supported, but more than that, we need to know we are supported. Those two things may sound similar, but they’re not. Feeling supported and being supported are two nuanced parts of the same coin.
Stress can show up in many ways: loneliness, anxiety, lethargy, feeling unproductive, or overwhelmed. It’s not always about pressure. It’s about life.
And one truth we often forget is that life doesn’t come without suffering. The sooner we accept that, the less we suffer.
It may sound like a radical concept but think about it. So much of what we do is an attempt to avoid or deny the simple fact that being human includes discomfort. Positive thinking and good habits are essential – but they don’t erase the reality that we sometimes hurt, struggle, and grieve.
Suffering, in its simplest form, is what happens when we don’t have what we want—or when we lose something or someone we love. There’s no point in our lives when we’re entirely free from it. What matters is how we move through it, with awareness and grace.
Why I Focus on Lifestyle, Not Diets
When I wrote my book Skinny Jeans Lifestyle, I didn’t call it The Skinny Jeans Diet for a reason. A lifestyle recognizes that every part of your life—your relationships, work, sleep, movement, emotions, and yes, your food—shapes your health.
Your ability to handle stress, to dream, to feel grounded and vibrant—these are all connected.
What Makes Personalized Lifestyle Medicine So Powerful
Everyone experiences stress and imbalance, but how they show up for you is completely unique.
Let’s look at three examples:
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The Energetic Eater – Eats clean, exercises regularly, but still feels tired or stuck.
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The Balanced Sleeper – Sleeps well and walks daily but struggles with poor food choices.
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The Restrictive Faster – Eats one large meal a day, sleeps well, and feels calm – but is taxing the body in subtle ways.
Each of these people needs a different approach. Personalized Lifestyle Medicine meets you exactly where you are.
When I work with someone, we begin with the basics, then modify and refine as we go. We address not only what you eat or how you move, but how you think, react, and live.
Your background, family history, cultural influences, emotions – all of it matters. And as your life evolves, your plan evolves too.
That’s what I mean by personalized.
Your Life Should Fit Your Program—Not the Other Way Around
If you want to fit into your “skinny jeans,” you also have to fit into your life. Any system for change has to work with your reality, not against it. That’s where guidance helps.
You may not always see what you need to see – but that’s what I’m here for. To guide, to observe, and to help you uncover what works for you.
