I am a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach with over 20 years of experience, dedicated to helping individuals cultivate well-being and optimal wellness. My own journey with chronic pain and chronic conditions has shaped my empathetic, client-centered approach and deepened my commitment to supporting others through their challenges.

Life is a winding path, often filled with discomfort, uncertainty, stress, and times of feeling burned out or stuck. I believe that exploring this journey with openness leads to insight, growth, and lasting change. Having learned to live more holistically and with greater fulfillment myself, I aim to help others do the same.

I walk alongside clients as they pursue resilience, balance, and joy—guided by the belief that everyone has the potential to live a meaningful, healthy life. Integrating my background in social work, personal health experience, and coaching expertise, I use a collaborative, co-creative approach to support sustainable progress and each person’s own definition of optimal well-being.

I know firsthand how overwhelming life can feel when you’re juggling a demanding career, family, and everything else because I’ve been there myself. After experiencing burnout, I realized that wellness isn’t just about nutrition. To restore balance, I also needed to address sleep, hydration, stress management, and intentional movement. Self-care couldn’t just be a buzzword;  it had to become a reality. By focusing on one goal at a time, I regained my energy and clarity, which inspired me to train as a health coach and culinary nutrition expert so I could help others do the same.

I'm here to tell you the truth—and help you do something with it.

When you work with me, you're getting a coach who respects your intelligence enough to explain the actual science—and then tell you exactly what to do about it. No sugar-coating, no "just think positive," and definitely no vague wellness platitudes about self-care baths fixing your insulin resistance.

I meet you where your biology is, not where Instagram says you should be.

Your brain fog at 3 PM? That's not a character flaw—it's your blood sugar crashing because you ate a "healthy" smoothie for breakfast that spiked your glucose. Your inability to stick to that exercise routine? Maybe it's because you're forcing HIIT workouts when your cortisol is already through the roof. I look at what's actually happening in your body and brain, then we build from there.

Behavior is never the root.

You can track your macros, hit 10,000 steps, and follow the protocol perfectly—but if your nervous system is stuck in a survival state, if the story you're living is "my body is broken and I have to force it to comply," nothing sustainable happens.

The women I work with know what to do. They've done it all. What's missing isn't more data or better discipline—it's addressing what's underneath the behavior.

How you think about your changing body. What you feel when you look at yourself. The story you're living about what this transition means.

That's where the real shift happens. Because when you change the internal narrative from "I'm failing" to "my biology is recalibrating and I need to work WITH it," the behaviors follow naturally.

I help you make fewer, better decisions—not more perfect ones.

The wellness industry loves giving you 47 things to optimize. I help you identify the 3-5 moves that will actually move the needle for YOUR brain and body. We focus on what matters most, in the order that makes sense for where you are right now. Because when everything feels urgent, nothing gets done.

I teach you to listen to your body like the sophisticated feedback system it is.

You know that weird thing where you can't explain why you need to move your body, or why certain foods leave you feeling off? I help you decode those signals. We bring somatic awareness into the process—not in a woo-woo way, but in a "your nervous system is trying to tell you something important" way. You learn to trust what your body knows.

I personalize everything, because you're not a protocol.

What works for your best friend won't necessarily work for you. Your sleep issues might be tied to your muscle mass and protein intake. Hers might be about evening light exposure and cortisol patterns. I don't hand you a cookie-cutter plan—we figure out what YOUR brain and body need, based on your unique biology, lifestyle, and goals.

I practice what I teach—and I love what I practice.

Most mornings, you'll find me out on a nature walk before the day gets loud. There's something about moving my body outside, breathing real air, and letting my brain settle that I can't get anywhere else. When I need more—when I need to feel strong and capable—I'm in the gym with the weights. And when I really need to reset, I'm hiking in the mountains, reminding myself what my body can do.

In the kitchen, I'm all about experimenting with fresh ingredients and new flavors—but I keep it simple. I'm not trying to impress anyone with fussy techniques. I want food that tastes good, fuels my brain, and doesn't require a culinary degree to pull off. If it takes more than 30 minutes or has more than 10 ingredients, I'm probably not making it!

And when I'm not working directly with clients? I'm reading the newest research on brain health. Not because I have to, but because I genuinely love it. Every new study, every emerging insight about how our brains age and adapt—it all gets me fired up about what's possible for the women I work with.

Here's the thing: Energy, focus, and vitality aren't just buzzwords for me. They're what I cultivate in my own life every single day. And when I have the honor of working with a woman who's ready to reclaim those things for herself? That's when this work stops being a job and becomes a calling.

I want every woman I encounter—whether in my practice, at a speaking engagement, or in passing conversation—to know she can be the sharpest, strongest version of herself for as long as possible. Because she deserves that. And because it's actually achievable when you know how to work with your biology instead of against it.

What if your body was never the problem?

What if Type 2 Diabetes—the diagnosis that may have felt like a verdict—was actually an invitation?

An invitation to return to yourself. To the wisdom already living within you. To a relationship with your body that was never truly lost—only waiting to be remembered.

My name is Sheila Certeza Asare. I'm a Registered Nurse, National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, and Whole-Person Wellbeing & Life Coach.

For more than 30 years, I've had the privilege of caring for people through some of life's most vulnerable moments. From the tiniest babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit to adults navigating complex health conditions, one truth continued to reveal itself to me:

The body is always moving toward life.

Given the right conditions, it already knows the way.

That understanding became deeply personal when I, too, was diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes.

Years ago, I was told that insulin was inevitable. Today, it isn't. Not because I discovered a perfect diet or pushed harder, but because, little by little, I began relating to my body differently.

That changed more than my blood sugar.

It changed my relationship with myself.

Over the years, I've come to believe that lasting wellbeing begins with relationship—our relationship with our bodies, our thoughts, our emotions, our stories, our relationships, our environment, and ultimately, our relationship with ourselves.

At the heart of my work is a simple belief:

We are whole. Fully, wholly, always.

I don't believe our work is to become someone else. I believe it is to gently reconnect with the wisdom, capacity, and truth that have been within us all along.

Type 2 Diabetes may be the reason we meet, but it is rarely where our work ends. More often, it becomes the doorway back to your body, back to your own rhythm, back to trusting yourself, and back to living in a way that reflects who you truly are.

This understanding became the foundation of The NEST—a whole-person coaching philosophy rooted in the belief that wellbeing is not something we earn. It is something we continually return to.

Within our coaching partnership, I don't replace your healthcare team, nor do I tell you what your life should look like. Instead, I offer a space where you can slow down, become curious, and listen more deeply to yourself—a space where you are witnessed, supported, compassionately challenged, and trusted to discover what wellbeing looks like in your own life.

Wherever you are in your journey, you are welcome exactly as you are.

You don't need to become someone else before you begin.

You don't need to have all the answers.

You don't need to earn your wellbeing.

You are already whole.

If this way of thinking resonates with you, I'd love to meet you.

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Coaching is educational and supportive and does not diagnose, treat, or replace medical care. Please continue to work with your licensed healthcare team regarding your medical care.

I work with two kinds of people, and what they have in common might surprise you.

One is still in the same classroom, the same role, the same work they love and that's exactly the point. They're not looking for a way out. They're looking for a way through. A way to keep showing up without slowly disappearing in the process. 

The other has made a dramatic external change; a move, a new country, a life that looks completely different from the outside. They took the leap. And now they're living in the part nobody talks about: the disorientation, the quiet grief, the slow work of figuring out who they are in this new context.

Different journeys. The same core question: How do I stay rooted in who I am while everything around me, or inside me, keeps shifting?

That's the question I'm here to help you sit with.

I came to this work the long way. A love of stories led me to teach English, eventually to classrooms around the world, and to roles that kept expanding: teacher, manager, mentor, coach, counselor. I thrived in the complexity of it all… until I didn't. Like many people who pour themselves into their work, I hit burnout. Finding mental health support wasn't just a professional turning point, but a lifeline. It gave me language, tools, and permission to be both a work in progress and worthy of care.

That experience reshaped my purpose.

Today I'm a coach because I believe everyone deserves that kind of support; especially the people quietly holding everything together. My work isn't about fixing you or optimizing your life. It's about slowing down enough to hear yourself again, and building the kind of wellbeing that makes it possible to stay in the work you love, root into a new place, or move forward without second-guessing every choice.

I am a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, a Certified Mental Health Coach, and a proud graduate of the Headspace Training Institute.