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Welcome to Functional Roots Wellness, where I believe the answers you seek reside within you. 

• You choose the path, I will follow. As we travel together, I will listen deeply while we explore your personal story. During the journey, I will help you clarify your values, create a vision, and set your own unique achievable goals. 
• Through this process you will learn how to connect with your inner essence of well-being, something that already exists within you, something that is unique to you and your human experience. Using this connection, you will create a life of thriving well-being unique to you. 
• I believe in the concept of focusing on simple daily habits, developing a growth mindset of 1% better, as a process for facilitating achievable and sustainable change. 
• We can DREAM BIG together, but the real work will be accomplished when you connect your BIG DREAM to key simple daily habits unlocking your vault of inner well-being, making achieving your dream a daily habit. 
• The “secret sauce” of this work is not about herculean efforts, accomplishments, or endless will-power. The secret is gaining insight and clarity about what you desire while building a foundation of simple daily habits that create an environment where success is habitual and achievable.
• Through self-discovery, you will learn to identify personal strengths and use those strengths to create a plan to address root causes of dysregulation or imbalance in your life. 
• With clarity you will tap into your personal values driven by intrinsic motivation and learn skills to create and achieve the unique, thriving, well-lived life you desire.

 

The most powerful experience in life is when we have the privilege to show up, listen, and witness another fellow human without judgement while they journey. If this resonates with you, it would be my privilege to journey with and witness your story as you create it! 

 

Be Well, 

 

Coach Jeff

 

More about My Background:

• I have 30 years’ experience as a national board registered and licensed Occupational Therapist, (MS, OTR/L), a clinical leader and innovator with an MBA, and a passion for athletic training including triathlon, cycling (road and mountain), swimming (pool and open water), running (trail and road), hiking, kayaking, and tennis. 
• I also engage clients exploring the benefits of Taichi, Qigong, Yoga, breathwork, mindful movement practices, and nature therapy in my practice. Some of my most interesting work has focused on companion animal relationship-based therapy, engaging horses, dogs, and dolphins in collaboration with humans to facilitate well-being experiences. 
• I have extensive experience working with children and adults in the community, school based educational settings, home health and traditional rehabilitation settings. 
• I work with neurodivergent populations, people suffering from neurological disorders, and people recovering from injury or illness, including navigating oncology (cancer journeys) and COVID. I work with clients to manage chronic diseases such as COPD, Diabetes, and heart disease.
•  I am passionate about helping my clients implement personalized lifestyle approaches incorporating food as medicine and fuel while optimizing goals for desired and achievable healthy body weight. 
• I have deep empathy for both the commonality and uniqueness of human experience. During my life I have had the privilege to witness amazing transformations, each one teaching me lessons about how humans navigate life both during times of thriving, and during times of challenge and suffering.
• These experiences have taught me strategies for helping clients tap into the amazing diversity of resilience and unique talents we all possess within us to adapt, heal, and create within the context of personal meaning. I became a Master Certified Wellness Coach so I can work with clients in a way that creates space for each unique human to be authentic while exploring their unique story.
• Through this personalized client centric process, you are the expert, not me. While I have expertise, experience, and knowledge to help guide and inform, my job as your coach is to help you learn how to connect with and tap into your own internal reservoir of well-being knowledge and energy.

 

Each of us is on a personal journey. Life presents us with challenges that are outside of our control during this journey. My focus is to help you build skills that will help you thrive with joy during the good times and live with resilience, purpose and gratitude during the challenging times. 

 

Be Well, 

 

Coach Jeff

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