Welcome to Intentional Health for Women!
My name is Alana, pronounced “ah-LAY-nah" (ask my parents), and I used to want to be a nun or a Broadway actress. Mercifully, life had other plans.
Today, I am a Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner, and I may be about to change your life for good. Every area of it, from your mornings, to your dress size, to your savings account, and beyond.
How, you ask? By giving you back the very thing that fascinates us in little kids and wild horses. The thing we crave most when we get lost in our own unhelpful thoughts. The one we're most protective of, and yet so negligent with.
Your freedom.
freedom to think for myself
I’ve made a life and a career of searching for the unconventional solution, rebelling against the dogma, always choosing the road less traveled.
I’ve made notes for when I would “teach other women” since I was 12. I’ve left my job as a school counselor to join the Peace Corps with my husband. I’ve researched, and probed, and questioned everything that was ever presented to me as fact, as requirement, or as inevitable.
To be fair, I still do. Until there’s solid science or my own intuition fully behind a choice, that is.
It’s a habit I teach all my clients, and it’s what I most hope for them to take away.
This is your life, after all. Your decisions must be yours, too.
freedom to feel what is
One of the cornerstones of my work is healing old patterns and programs we didn't choose for ourselves (but learned early in our lives) and releasing the blocks they created.
You cannot expect to live your life on purpose when your heart says “Go!” and your feet won’t move. It’s the emotions, I’ve learned, that we need to get moving first, before we can ever hope to go places.
Seeing a woman I work with have a breakthrough, helping her undo what’s kept her numb and in place, is always the highlight of my week. So is seeing somebody dive deep for the sometimes uncomfortable, but real, answers. So is shared laughter over the silliest thing. So is watching someone learn to love themselves fiercely.
None of these happen when you don’t let the pendulum swing, when you try to only take the good, and bury the bad.
Letting it swing again may be scary to attempt alone, but it's not half as bad with a good guide.
That's why I will always lead you there.
And then, I’ll lead you out.
freedom to have fun
Because wearing a suit is not what counts. Putting on a professional face is not what counts.
Trust does. Comfort does. Ease does.
I care about you, I care about the impact our time together will have on your life, I have the tools to make it happen, a talent for teaching you those tools, and I’m pretty good about seeing the bright side of just about anything.
The rest is you and I, in a virtual room together, until you're at the point where your life is brimming with fun and progress, just like our sessions. Talking about what matters most, and drinking big mugs of my proprietary magic brew.
That’s the way I choose to do my work.
That’s the way you’re free to do your healing.
Thank you for joining me here.
Ready. Set. Radiate.
~ Alana
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