I am a Registered Nurse, Certified Wellness Practitioner, Fitness Specialist, Sports Massage Therapist and Certified Aromatouch Technician; passionate about teaching, promoting, and advocating patient wellness, and a strong believer in "prevention is better than cure". I work with, and support, individuals who are interested in making a new start; reducing their risk factors for chronic disease, and making a lifetime commitment to their wellness. My integrative philosophy on wellness focuses on holistic wellbeing, and encompasses the 8 dimensions of wellness: physical, mental, spiritual, social, intellectual, occupational, financial, and environmental. Each dimension of wellness affects your health and overall quality of life, thus it is important to consider them all when creating an integrative approach to wellness. My mission is to promote and support long-term behavior change that aims to prevent and/or effectively manage chronic disease, so as to achieve sustainable health, wellbeing, and quality of life. My goal is to empower individuals to take ownership and control of their own health and wellness matters, so that they are able to LEAD their change process. This page will be used as a platform to do just that, by informing individuals on simple, cost effective, efficient, fun, “out-of-the-box”, and sustainable lifestyle changes that can be made in their lives today, and that will ultimately result in a profoundly positive health benefit tomorrow. I will achieve this goal by
• Counseling on the importance and relevance of chronic disease prevention.
• Providing preventive solutions that focus on avoiding the incidence of disease altogether rather than disease management.
• Explaining how the lifelong disability associated with chronic disease increases morbidity and reduces quality of life.
• Emphasizing that current preventive solutions are simple, cost effective, and fun. I believe that wellness means something different to everyone and that effective, successful, and sustainable wellness programs always embrace the thoughts, ideas, and personal aspirations of the population for whom they are being designed. In addition, these types of programs can be designed by focusing on what the individual is doing right rather than on what they are doing wrong. I believe that besides health, total wellness embraces loved ones, honesty, humor, service, and community.
