The WholeYou Weight Wellness™ Team

I started sleeping better, focused better at work, lost the last bit of my weight and at 40 found my best body and my best fitness.

I love talking to clients and sharing what I know. I’m told I am kind and supportive as a coach and that I help people make decisions within their own life with no judgement.

I’m also an emergency physician, a mom, a wife, a global health educator, and a believer in the capacity of people to work together to create impactful solutions. I’m happy to be on your team!

For a very long time, my life motto has been, “you learn something new every day.” I am curious and flexible and strive to be constantly growing and evolving. 

I also love to learn about people. They fascinate me. One of my superpowers is that I will see the best in you and believe in you. 

This is one of my roles as your health coach. It is also to ask questions that allow you to come to your own answers, help you figure out what is most important to you, help you see your strengths, educate you, and provide accountability. 

Dr. Shola is a board certified internist and an ICF certified life coach. Over four sessions over the next 12 weeks, she will help you uncover and change limiting mindsets that prevent you from stepping up to your healthiest self. Through motivational interviewing as well as traditional coaching methods, together you will strategize the best plans, work within your busy schedule to keep you on track with your goals for a healthy weight and self image. Having struggled with weight and body image issues herself, and having done the inner work required for her change and growth, she will be with you every step of the way, offering support, empathy, understanding and motivation. By the end of your sessions you will have the correct mindset, more confidence and a “can do” attitude. This will keep you on track by not only inspiring you not only to lose weight, but to maintain your weight loss over the long term, and tackle the rest of life as it comes.

In practice since 1992, Jenny teaches and facilitates Effective Communication and works with children, adults, families, and couples to free themselves from physical and emotional pain and meet the present moment with clarity.

To effectively invite your body to arrive at and sustain a comfortable weight you must clear the memories, habits, emotions, life situations, and understandings that lie at its root.

Using Alchemical Hypnotherapy you and I will respectfully and powerfully explore all that is involved in your current weight and empower you to shift it.

And we’ll have fun doing it.

Alchemical Hypnotherapy uses a medium trance in which you are consciously aware, participating and communicating with me, and at the same time, accessing the emotions and information that have previously blocked you from enjoying your slimmer self. You are always in command of the material we access and can tell me when you want to go deeper and when you feel ready to stop.

Throughout your weight wellness program, we will meet virtually to complete your mindset transformation. Each session begins with a thorough review of where you are now, where you want to be, and what you feel is most important today.

With your permission, I access not only my (over two decades of) experience as a hypnotherapist but also my extensive intuitive training to guide us as directly as possible to the center of the issue. I then gently invite you into hypnosis through guided visualization and relaxation.

Each session follows your natural flow – we work and play with what offers itself for healing that day. We may revisit and clear old memories, discover more satisfying ways to meet the emotional needs that food has been meeting, and create positive changes in your life in general to support your new self.

We will always access your own powerful inner guidance so that, in the long run, you become your own therapist for your weight and for your whole life.

I started working with Heather last fall when I came to Wholist having gained 70 lbs after having my first baby. I had already lost some of the weight, but I was really STUCK – in more ways than just physically. I didn’t FEEL healthy. I felt addicted to food, uncomfortable, physically weak and I believed so many negative things about myself and my body.

I am, like you, many things to many people. I am a wife, mother, sister, rural family physician, obstacle course racer, and – more recently- a physician life coach at The Anti-Fragile Female MD.

My journey with Wholist and with life coaching has transformed me from a place of burnout, hopelessness, perfectionism and isolation into a thriving, healthy, happy, strong and positive woman. I have lost 40 lbs, but more importantly, I am showing up as the woman I want to be in my work and in my personal life.

Along the way, I gained some amazing insight into just how complex the human brain is and how much it can be our own “worst enemy” at times.

We think anywhere from 40,000 to 70,000 thoughts per day. Most of them are unconscious, yet they have enormous power to affect how we feel and what we do. I teach my clients how to recognize those sneaky, and often very poisonous, thoughts as also being our greatest teachers, how to learn to use the emotions they create as our guides, and how to thrive in any circumstance. Overcoming obstacles to use them to our advantage is my specialty!

In doing this work both personally and professionally, I have observed that when we struggle with our weight and body image, we often experience a lot of shame, guilt, self-doubt and self-loathing. I love this quote from Brene Brown and I believe it can be applied to any of these emotions: “Shame cannot survive being spoken. It cannot tolerate having words wrapped around it. What it craves is secrecy, silence, and judgement.” 

If you choose to coach with me, I will help you identify what has been hiding under the surface and leading you to sabotage your health for too long. It is from this place that you can truly decide NOT to let those beliefs define you any longer and to create the healthy mind and body that you have always dreamed of. 

I look forward to working together!

Coach Ana 

1. Stoic Philosophy
2. The Hero’s Journey
3. Yoga Philosophy and Psychology
4. Nonviolent and Effective Communication
5. Intra-personal Meditation, Circling, and Relational Intimacy
6. Spiral Dynamics and Integral
7. Contemplative Practices
8. Conscious Leadership
9. The Creative Process
10. The Enneagram