Hi, I’m Brittany Anderson
Owner/Founder, Executive Coach
My journey into wellness was an unexpected one. As a teenager, I can recall countless nights of cheesy ravioli and break-and-bake cookies for dinner, calzones and apple soda at lunch from the cafeteria, and no concept of the consequences of how I took care of myself. I wasn’t on any sports teams, and I wasn’t particularly in shape. That’s why it came as such a shock that I lost twenty pounds in one month my senior year of high school.
I got sent to a specialist who did test after test trying to figure out what was wrong with me. I had several procedures and swallowed nasty drinks, special diagnostic cameras, and all kinds of nauseating concoctions in hopes of painting a picture of what was happening inside me. They eventually diagnosed me with indeterminate colitis, a form of IBD which isn’t clearly defined as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis.
Over the years I’ve done countless miserable diets, gotten way too intimate with my poop for diagnostic testing kits, been on and off disease management drugs, and struggled with orthorexia and exercise addiction. Eating left me bloated and ailed with wicked heartburn, my stomach inflated to the point that it looked like I was pregnant. There were points where I was taking handfuls of pills, multiple times a day, just to keep symptoms under control. At times my health would illicit so much anxiety that I truly feared that I was dying. Dramatic? Maybe to you, but to me, it was real.
I needed to take back power over my body. I knew there had to be pieces to the puzzle that I was missing. My doctors made me feel that going into remission was a matter of luck – not connected to the lifestyle choices that I was making.
That’s when everything changed for me.
I became obsessed with learning anything and everything I could about health. I started listening to my body and finding what made me feel my best. I realized how vibrant I felt when I ate meals that were full of veggies and how tired and unsatisfied I felt when I ate things that lacked them. I embraced my body for all the wonderful things that it was capable of and found enjoyment in challenging physical pursuits. I stopped leaning towards what I felt that I should be doing and started asking myself what would make me most happy. Most importantly – my condition started to improve. I had made a life changing realization.
My body had the inherit ability and desire to heal itself – and yours does, too!
I spent the majority of my professional career as an elementary teacher. I love education, and nothing feels as satisfying as finally helping a student reach that aha! moment. My drive and passion for education and wellness collided when covid hit and my son was born. It was a pivotal moment for me. I knew that I needed to upgrade wellness from a passion to a full-fledge career. I was bursting at the seams with all of this valuable information about how I could help and teach others to start living better. I stepped out of classroom as a teacher and reentered as a student of holistic nutrition, health coaching, and personal training. I thrive on helping others see the potential that lives in them already.
Health isn’t a destination that you eventually reach. It’s not about being perfect all the time and making yourself miserable in the name of wellness. It’s not about a number on a scale or comparing yourself to influencers on social media.
Your health is determined each day by the all the little, sometimes insignificant seeming things. It is believing in your soul that you were meant to live a beautiful, fulfilling life.
It’s deciding every single day that you are worth the life that you dream of living.
Brittany Anderson, BCHN, CPT