About Teri

I live, breath, and love living well.

My ‘whole self health’ approach enables you become  your personal best by addressing all aspects of you.
I show you how to cultivate self appreciation and worthiness of true self-care.  Together, we tackle the very basics from the thoughts you think to the way you honor or dis-honor yourself with lifestyle behaviors such as your self-talk and your eating habits. 

Discover how to reset your mind-set and create a 'wow' approach to life.  With lifestyle and behavior changes, anxiety, excess stress and self sabotage will dissipate and you'll embrace taking care of yourself mentally, emotionally, physically and nutritionally.
Aging with grace becomes your reality. Whole-self health promotion means self discovery, accepted worthiness, personal passion, purpose, health promotion, fulfillment and joyful, vibrant living!

My 30 plus years of whole-self health coaching and practice is founded and influenced by age old natural health studies in Naturopathic, Homeopathic, Allopathic, Native American and Traditional Chinese Medicine; The Tao, Ayurveda, Philosophy, Psychology and Metaphysics.
Educated, researched and certified in Natural Nutrition and Lifestyle Wellness. I am brand Ambassador for SUNBUTTER, SUNWARRIOR, RAW ELEMENTS, MAISON ORPHEE,
FOUR SIGMA FOODS, EARTH CIRCLE ORGANICS AND NATURES EARTHLY CHOICE.

Helping others take better care of themselves
I've long focused on helping others take better care of themselves in every way they can. It is my inherent knowing, life is meant to be fully embraced and enjoyed. There is profound importance in living each day to the best of our ability. This means making time to nurture our ‘self’.
How we eat is a very powerful expression of how we feel about ourselves and the world around us.

Influenced over the years by many great teachers including Dr Wayne Dyer, Shakti Gawain, Lao Tzu, Dr Christiane Northrup, Dr Neal Barnard, De Elson Haas, Ram Dass, Deepak Choprah, Dr T. Michael Collins; Michael Pollan: Mark Occiphinti, Dean Ornish, Bruce Lipton, Dr Michael Greger and endless others including my remarkable parents, I’ve learned there are many paths to promoting well-being. Living a balanced lifestyle, staying present, conscious and compassionate and consuming whole ‘real’ foods with gratitude and joy is imperative.

Your body is talking to you
Each of us needs to relearn how to listen to our body and honor the conversation it has with us in a language of symptoms such as: chronic fatigue, depleted energy levels, mood swings, high blood pressure/ blood sugar/ cholesterol, digestive disorders, cravings, headaches, excess weight, arthritis, etc. Responding accordingly, we can overcome chronic illness, accelerated aging, weight challenges, hormonal imbalances and more. I can help you do this by showing you how to tune in to what and how we feel, identify potential health inhibitors and deal with the causes rather than simply silencing or abating the symptoms. Treatment alone is not the path to healing. Lifestyles need to shift.

Nourishing your body…and nourish your life
Living a balanced life and nourishing yourself with nutrient-rich foods from a rainbow of colors and a full spectrum of tastes is imperative to your health. This involves taking time to shop for, prepare, share and enjoy ‘real food’, consciously consuming your meals – meals made from living food not factories. Each of us has our own nutritional needs and no one dietary approach out there will ever fit all.

What drives me
With a romantic passion to live life fully, my long-time mission and drive is inspiring and enabling others to embrace and sustain truly self-honoring, loving, conscious, healthy lifestyles. Hang out with me and you’ll find I’m authentic, creative, kind and ever intent on connecting with and empowering others to truly know and honor themselves, cultivate their passions, and star in their own lives. I do this with eclectic combinations of proven psychological and actual practices gathered in my over 30 plus years as a lifestyle wellness coach who walks her talk.

My own life has had many very tragic happenings along the way including the loss of my parents to a drunk driver, two cousins in a carbon monoxide poisoning, my uncle in a fire, his son in a car crash, my sister in law and nephew to suicide, my brother at 48 to a heart attack and more. I’ve dealt with the loss of my home to a fraud artist, my own cancer scare and divorce. Every challenge brought me to my knees while engraving acceptance, gratitude, strength, faith, hope and trust upon my heart.
 
My keynotes, workshops and programs enable people to shift age-old habits of thinking and behaving, and implement strategies that result in sustainable success in all aspects of their life.
After giving you the why and what I provide you with tangible practices that are easy to implement, sustain and deliver measurable results.
 
My poetic side
Own your life experience - Own your health and happiness.

"It’s not just genes or jeans, racial grace or societal disgrace, family wealth or compromised health,
Prosperity or disparity,
Luck of the draw or luck of the damned,
Being younger, being older,
Being easy to mold or oh so bold…
What truly makes the difference is the difference you want to make!
You - one of a kind you, no other like You,
Perfectly imperfect You, choosing everything, yes I mean everything even Your parents.
Huh, you may think… do you know for sure you didn’t?
Haven’t they taught you so much, even in simply learning how to manage your relationship with them?
I know for sure for myself, I am here to learn and those in my life causing me the most grief are my greatest teachers. I know I need to be grateful, to thank them even.  I don't always ace it.
Yep, I’m still learning. : > ) TRG

Let me help you
Book me for your next company talk, educational and inspirational conferences and retreats, continuing education workshops, lifestyle/stress management and nutrition courses, personal coaching and real food cooking classes. I welcome you to take the next step towards healthier living.
For more information or to book you package now, Contact Teri!

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Each morning I start my day listening to a podcast or webinar to instill my mindset with insights and inspirations.  A favorite I love to share are the teachings from Brene Brown. 

Start with her Ted talk that went viral: 

www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_on_vulnerability

Quotes are also one of one true loves.
Here is a fabulous life approach summed up perfectly my Henry Van Dyke:

"There is only one way to get ready for immortality and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.  Use what talents you possess. The world would be very silent if not birds sang except those who sang best ."