About Liz
I’ve spent a lot of years interested in one question.
Why can we know what we want to do and still not do it?
I didn’t start there.
My background is in biology and health education. I’ve worked in clinical research. I’ve coached strength, fitness, nutrition, relationships, business, and plenty of things in between.
For a long time, I thought the subject was the important part.
Food.
Exercise.
The goal.
The relationship.
The decision someone needed to make.
But after coaching people for years, I started noticing something.
The subject changed.
The stuck part didn’t.
Someone could know exactly how they wanted to eat and still find themselves doing something completely different.
Someone could know they needed to have a conversation and avoid it for six months.
Someone could make a plan they genuinely wanted to follow and then watch themselves abandon it three days later.
And usually, when that happened, they had an explanation ready.
I’m lazy.
I have no discipline.
I always do this.
I’m terrible at follow-through.
Maybe I don’t want it badly enough.
That became much more interesting to me.
Not because I think every problem comes down to mindset.
I don’t.
And not because I believe that if we can just find the right thought, everything suddenly becomes easy.
I don’t believe that either.
I’m interested in what is actually happening.
What are you thinking?
What are you assuming?
What happened right before you made that decision?
What have you tried?
What worked?
What didn’t?
What are you calling a fact that might actually be an interpretation?
What keeps repeating?
And what can we learn from it?
That is how I coach.
I ask a lot of questions. Sometimes extremely specific ones.
I want to understand what happens when your intentions meet your actual life.
Because that’s usually where the useful information is.
I’m not approaching this from a distance.
I know the experience of knowing better and not necessarily doing better.
I know what it’s like to have plenty of information and still have to figure out how to live it.
Health. Food. Fitness. Work. Relationships. Faith. Big decisions. Starting over. Changing your mind.
I’ve had my own places where I’ve been stuck. Places where I’ve had to look more closely at what I believed, what I was doing, what I was assuming, and what I kept telling myself about all of it.
That matters to me.
Not because my experience is the same as yours.
It won’t be.
But because I don’t think behavioral change is something we master and then teach from the mountaintop.
We’re human.
We keep learning.
We make decisions.
We get things wrong.
We adjust.
We try again.
I think good coaching should make room for that.
My faith is part of my story too.
I’m an Orthodox Christian.
That came after a long period of searching.
For years I explored New Age spirituality, Human Design, meditation, yoga, and a range of Eastern spiritual and mystical practices, some of which are still reflected in older interviews and work you may find online.
I eventually left that world behind and became an Orthodox Christian.
That was not a small change in my life.
My faith is now part of how I understand the human person, responsibility, freedom, humility, and change.
It has also made me much more careful about some of the ideas I once accepted without questioning very deeply.
The idea that our thoughts somehow create reality.
That every uncomfortable emotion needs to be changed.
That resistance always means fear.
That we can control enough of ourselves, our thinking, or our circumstances to guarantee a particular outcome.
I don’t believe those things anymore.
I still care enormously about our thoughts, beliefs, interpretations, habits, and choices.
I just understand their limits differently now.
My broader coaching practice is not only for Christians, and I don’t require my clients to share my beliefs.
But I’m also not interested in pretending that part of my story, or who I am now, doesn’t exist.
My background matters. It just isn’t the whole story.
I have a Bachelors of Science with concentrations in biology, chemistry, and health education, along with experience in clinical research, strength and conditioning, nutrition, fitness, and coaching.
I’m a NASM Certified Personal Trainer and NASM Certified Nutrition Coach.
I also hold Rouxbe’s Plant-Based Professional Certification and have completed Culinary Rx, the plant-based cooking and nutrition program created by Rouxbe Culinary School in partnership with The Plantrician Project.
I’ve spent years working with people around health, behavior, decisions, goals, and change.
And I co-host Oh! So No One Told You?!, a menopause and midlife podcast where we talk about many of the things women were somehow expected to know without anyone actually telling us.
All of that informs the way I coach.
But credentials are not the part I find most interesting.
People are.
What happens when someone really wants something to change but keeps doing the thing they said they weren’t going to do?
What happens when the plan looks good on paper and falls apart in real life?
What happens when somebody has spent years telling themselves the same story about who they are?
What happens when they finally stop long enough to question it?
That’s where I want to work.
So why work with me?
Probably not because I have a perfect system.
I don’t.
And definitely not because I’m going to tell you exactly what to do with your life.
What I can do is pay very close attention.
I can ask questions you may not have thought to ask.
I can help you slow down the story long enough to look at what actually happened.
I can notice when you’re making a conclusion sound like a fact.
I can help you look at what you’ve tried before without turning every attempt that didn’t work into evidence that something is wrong with you.
We can try something different.
Then we pay attention to what happens.
Maybe it works.
Maybe it doesn’t.
Maybe something happens that neither of us expected.
Okay.
Now we know something.
That is much closer to how I understand change.
Not becoming a completely different person.
Not finally getting yourself under control.
Not never struggling again.
Becoming more aware of what is influencing what you do, more capable of making deliberate choices, and more willing to learn from your own experience.
If that sounds like the kind of conversation you’ve been looking for, I’d love to hear what’s going on.