Welcome, I’m Evey.
I love my work helping clients achieve better health. I was drawn to this career path through my own personal journey back to wellness.
My Story
In my forties, I was the one suffering from nagging back and hip pain when I started my day, when I walked, and when I exercised. My energy levels were at an all-time low. I drank 3 to 4 cups of coffee just to get through my day. I relied on afternoon sugary snacks to keep me going. And my thoughts were foggy; at times I even had trouble focusing. I had stomach upset that led to digestive problems. I took all of this for granted as part of my day-to-day life.
I thought this was just the aging process! In fact, my doctors all told me to accept the way I was feeling and could only offer me medications to help reduce my symptoms. That was their solution to my problems.
Unwilling to accept this as my fate, I started looking for alternative solutions to my growing list of health issues.
Luckily, I was referred to a holistic practitioner by a friend who helped me understand that the foods I was eating and some lifestyle habits were causing a defensive inflammatory response in my body and that was causing many of my symptoms.
Zest for Life: Adopting an Anti-Inflammatory Way to Eat
I began my own personal journey to wellness by switching to a nutritious whole food diet and making small healthy lifestyle changes. I got back into the kitchen and began experimenting with different food preparations. I explored different theories of healthy eating. I experimented with many of the current diet plans such as the Alkaline Diet, Eating for Your Blood Type, Candida Diet, and Paleo Diet.
I finally realized there was a common thread in all these “diets.” They all had me eating nutritious whole foods instead of packaged prepared foods. I began to embrace the philosophy that “food is medicine” and choose foods that sustained my health instead of contributing to early aging.
At first it was a challenge to find new foods to replace my sugary snacks, but in the process, my tastebuds were changing. I began to appreciate flavors like never before – the true sweetness of a raspberry or watermelon, for example. As I learned about their nutritional benefits, I was encouraged to try new ways to prepare foods too. I bought a dehydrator, slow cooker, and high-speed blender. I experimented with fermenting vegetables.”
And things changed for me.
Having changed the foods I was eating and improving some of my lifestyle habits I began feeling SO MUCH BETTER!
Very soon I was waking up pain-free and stayed that way. I stopped relying on caffeine to get me going and found I had new energy. I was able to replace my sugary snacks with healthy naturally sweet alternatives and felt satisfied. Other people started commenting on how glowing my skin looked and how much better I appeared. It caught me by surprise to realize I’d lost that stubborn puffy look and that my midriff muffin-top bulge was gone. I even noticed (dare I say it) I stopped passing gas as frequently. Another by-product of inflammation that disappeared. I had a NEW ZEST FOR LIFE!
Seeing the remarkable changes that can occur, I became passionate about helping others achieve the same results. Today I feel more energetic, confident, and fitter than I have in decades. I feel good about who I am, and in many ways I feel younger than I did when I started this journey.
My goal is to now serve as a guide for my clients to achieve this same transition without the trial and error that I had to go through when I was learning everything on my own.
My Philosophy to Aging Better and Feeling Younger
Good health is the path to aging better and feeling younger [this comment seems obvious. The question is what is the path to good health]
My approach is different than most conventional nutritionists. My goal is to have you stop focusing on calories, carbs, fats, and/or proteins; creating endless lists of foods for you to avoid; or denying yourself the things you love through adhering to onerous restrictions.
Instead, I work with you to reach your specific health goals in a way that is flexible, fun, and rewarding. I help you develop a deeper understanding of the food and lifestyle choices that work best for you. I enable you to adopt lasting changes that will improve your overall energy, balance, and health for you to experience greater happiness and wellbeing.
Evey recently turned 60 and is an example of how applying simple health-directed changes can assist you to not only age better but to slow and actually reverse the aging process so you feel and look younger.
Evey has been happily married for 35 years to her college sweetheart John and together they have two beautiful adult children: Andrew (recently married during the Covid-19 pandemic – what a journey that has been!) and Becky.
Evey received her training from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, where she studied a variety of dietary theories and practical lifestyle coaching methods. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, summa cum laude from Colgate University and is a certified Health Coach.
