Hi There!

I’m Shannon. A plant-hoarder, DIY addict, food-lover, and Mom to four.

I started exercising in high school to change the appearance of my body in order to feel better about myself (Thanks ’90s). I struggled to get results and maintain those results.

When I became pregnant with my first child, I lived it up — I ate what I wanted when I wanted because the baby “needed” it. My doctor actually scolded me for the amount of weight I gained at my first prenatal appointment — which did not motivate me to change my behavior.

Needless to say, I was a bit shocked that after birth, the weight did not magically disappear. My daughter was just a few hours old when comments about her weight started.

Maybe it was my hormones, maybe it was my mood, maybe it was exhaustion, but I instantly felt like I hurt her in some way.

I did not want to pass along my body image issues to her. I knew that actions speak louder than words and I would have to do this for myself. I would have to learn how to become more confident in my body.

Like most people at that time (again, thanks media!). I thought that meant losing weight. Which meant counting calories and doing cardio and avoiding weights.

I became pregnant 8 months later and my doctor’s comments from my first pregnancy stuck with me along with realizing that weight would not magically disappear after birth.

My second daughter was born 15 months after my first and I was feeling the best I had ever felt — mentally and physically.

After my third and fourth child were born (15 months apart, again!), for context, I had a 6-year-old, a 5-year-old, a 15-month-old, and a newborn, my good feelings gradually disappeared.

I was exercising, I was eating healthy, and I hated life.

I felt I was not doing enough, and I felt I could not do anymore.

I was stuck.

I was at war with myself.

I told myself what I should be doing, and I had internal whispers and faint sensations of what I needed.

As I moved away from listening to the “shoulds” and started following the “whispers” I felt like I was doing something wrong.

I felt I was making too many excuses, I was lazy, I believed I lacked motivation, I lacked discipline, and so on.

I decided to become a personal trainer to discover what I needed to do to feel good and maintain feeling good. I passed my certification exam January of 2016 — 6 months after my fourth child was born.

I still felt I was missing crucial information and signed up for and obtained certifications in nutrition, behavior change, and women’s fitness. And. I. Still. Struggled. to feel good in my body. The women that volunteered to help me apply what I learned also struggled to feel good in their bodies.

I was ready to give-up. Then, I came across a pre & postnatal fitness certification and it changed everything.

It turns out I was doing too much without support (not lazy),

I had competing priorities (get more sleep or sacrifice sleep to exercise),

I faced many barriers (time, money, support, access, physical limitations), and

I was interrupted (for snacks, sibling squabbles, more snacks, monitoring suspicious silences…) so many times that I lost my focus.

It also turns out that most of the advice and guidance about my body, was from research done on healthy, 18-25 year old males. And most of the professionals giving that advice was from men — that experienced life and parenthood differently than I did.

I decided to create the support that I needed to change my body.

I encourage and support busy, overwhelmed women to honor fluctuations in their energy, appetite, attention, & motivation to achieve their health and fitness goals.

  • the woman that has limited time, energy, support, or money to devote to herself on a consistent basis.
  • the woman that is constantly interrupted by her children or constantly adjusting to the unpredictableness of motherhood.
  • the woman that is not feeling like herself and is being critical and mean to herself.
  • the woman that struggles to put into words what she needs and how she can be supported.
  • the woman that puts too much pressure on herself to take care of everyone else’s needs at the expense of her own.

Here, you will find blog posts, self-study wellness guides to review and apply* things that make sense for you and to apply it at a pace that works for you.

You are probably already doing many of the things I discuss on this website, my blog, and in my wellness guides, but you are missing information, need a little bit of guidance, encouragement or validation to take the next steps.

If you are looking to avoid social media and you like do things independently, you can sign-up on Substack to get my wellness series delivered to your inbox. My wellness series give you information plus action steps. There is a free option (very small steps) and a paid option (my wellness self-study guides broken down into small steps).


If you need individualized support, you can work with me in-person or virtually.

In case you need to know, here are my qualifications:
I am a NASM Certified Personal Trainer, NASM & PN1 Nutrition Coach, and NASM Change Coach, NASM Youth Fitness Specialist, NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist, NASM & GGS Women’s Fitness Specialist/Coach, and GGS Pre & Postnatal Coach.

*Disclaimer: The information contained on this website is not intended as medical advice or diagnosis and should not replace consultation with a medical professional. If you tried this advice and it does not work for you, you cannot sue me. This is only my opinion, based on my background, training, and experience as a coach, personal trainer, mother, and woman.