The Heart Behind The Nest
Meet Sheila
National Board Certified - Health & Wellness Coach, certified by National Board of Health & Wellness Coaching (NBHWC)
My work didn’t begin in a classroom — it began in my body.
After decades of caring for others as a nurse, mother, and woman taught to be strong at all costs, my own health called me home.
What I discovered changed everything:
Women don’t heal through discipline.
They heal through safety, connection, identity, and truth.
Our bodies carry invisible stories—of survival, over-giving, cultural expectations, and brilliance that was never fully mirrored back. When we slow down and listen, life begins to reorganize itself from the inside out.
Living in alignment with my body and my Human Design steadied my energy, softened my rhythms, and reshaped my relationship with myself.
That lived experience now shapes how I understand health—and how I support other women living with Type 2 Diabetes.
What changed everything?
When I was first told I had Type 2 Diabetes, I didn’t believe it.
I questioned the labs. I told myself there had to be a mistake.
Quietly, I held a promise I didn’t say out loud: I’m going to reverse this.
But the diagnosis didn’t disappear.
My numbers climbed. My A1c reached double digits.
Medications followed—and then the conversation I feared most: insulin.
That still wasn’t the hardest part.
The hardest part was the fear that I wouldn’t truly be there for my children.
That even when I was present, I was fading—exhausted, foggy, disconnected.
The gap between the mother I knew I was
and the woman I was becoming felt unbearable.
I knew then: I couldn’t keep doing more.
I had to do something different.
I had to be different.
That moment changed how I began searching for answers.
The DOORWAY
I reached a point where "managing it" wasn't enough.
I knew there had to be another way to live in my body.
So I went searching.
I enrolled in Functional Medicine Coaching Academy—not to coach others, but to become my own first client. I needed to understand what was actually happening beneath the symptoms and find a way of living that supported life, not just lowered numbers.
But the real shift didn't come from protocols alone.
It came when I stopped trying to fix myself and started feeling myself.
I discovered Dr. Sue Morter's Energy Codes, and something I'd learned decades ago in nursing school suddenly rearranged into a new truth: I am energy. Not a problem to solve. Not a body to control. A living system responding to safety, alignment, and truth.
I studied Quantum Human Design with Dr Karen Curry Parker and finally understood why I'd been fighting my own nature for so long.
Through Dr. Claire Zammit's work, I uncovered the inner barriers I didn't know I was living inside—shame, over-giving, the "good girl" conditioning that made me invisible to myself.
And slowly, I began integrating it all—science and soul, body and energy, structure and surrender.
Healing didn't come from trying harder.
It came from meeting myself differently.
That's when things began to shift.
Quietly. Steadily. From the inside out
How this shapes my work today
That lived experience reshaped everything—how I understand health, how I coach, and why I do this work the way I do.
I don't believe in fixing women.
I believe in helping them reconnect with their bodies, restore safety from the inside out, and create lives rooted in vitality, joy, and purpose.
Because what I discovered in my own healing is what I now see in every woman I work with:
Type 2 Diabetes isn't just about blood sugar, exercise, the right foods, or stress management.
It's all of that—AND your nervous system, your design, and the invisible stories your body has been carrying.
The women I support aren't broken.
They're brilliant, over-giving, deeply responsible women who've been conditioned to put themselves last—and their bodies are responding to that story.
So my coaching doesn't start with meal plans or protocols.
It starts with safety. With slowing down. With helping you feel your body again, not just manage it.
We work with food, movement, and lifestyle—but also with nervous system regulation, energy, identity, and the patterns that have been running beneath the surface.
Because healing doesn't come from doing more.
It comes from meeting yourself differently.
Today, I'm still living with Type 2 Diabetes—but I'm no longer living in fear of it.
I'm not on insulin. My A1c has improved over time. And most importantly, I feel alive. Present. Engaged with my children and my life.
No longer afraid that life is slipping past me.
That's what I want for you, too.
If This Feels Familiar
f you're a midlife woman living with Type 2 Diabetes—
If you've been doing "all the right things" but still feel like something's missing—
If you're tired of fighting your body and ready to start listening to it—
You're not alone.
You're not to blame.
These are imprinted stories we inherited—patterns of over-giving, invisibility, and survival that live in our bodies long before diagnosis ever appeared.
Your body isn't the problem.
You're not the problem either.
There is another way.
And you don't have to figure it out alone.
I'm here.
If any of this resonates, I'd love to hear from you.
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