I am a certified IIN Health coach and have found my passion in learning about health and nutrition and using a holistic approach.  Prior to IIN, I have spent 18 years as a teacher where I got to teach, learn and grow each day.  I would say my life brought me to IIN after years of struggling with infertility.  This was a very difficult period in my life and I was willing to do whatever it took to get pregnant.  I took all the advice that I was given by all the different medical professionals I saw; doctors, nurses, nutritionists, acupuncturists etc.  While I know all their advice was with the best intentions, it was during this point in my life that I was the most unhealthy.  I walked away from those years feeling lost and broken, I didn't feel like myself anymore and when we adopted our daughter I knew that was not the version of me I wanted to show her.  In looking back, I wish I had one person who could have helped me piece together all of the recommendations so that I could still be physically, emotionally, and spiritually healthy, but also feel like I was following through.  Becoming a health coach has been an ongoing healing journey for me and I want to be able to be that person for others that I once needed.