The woman behind yournest.life
Hi, I'm Sheila
What are you getting healthy for?
It's a question I ask women now.
But before I could ask it of anyone else, I had to begin asking it of myself.
For much of my life, health was something I understood professionally. I became a Registered Nurse in 1994 and spent more than 30 years caring for people across different stages of life — from newborns to critically ill adults, from intensive care to heart and lung transplantation.
I knew how to care for people, work hard, and keep going.
And then health became personal.
My own journey with Type 2 diabetes
changed the way I understood health and wellbeing
I had experienced gestational diabetes years earlier, and eventually Type 2 diabetes became part of my own life.
Suddenly, I wasn't simply the nurse who understood disease, risk factors, medications, numbers and recommendations. I was the woman living with these diagnoses.
And I began to understand something that healthcare knowledge alone could never fully teach me: knowing what to do and creating a life in which change can actually take root are not the same thing.
There is a whole human being living around every glucose reading, every A1C, every meal, every medication and every health goal.
There are relationships.
Responsibilities.
Dreams.
Exhaustion.
Joy.
Fear.
Identity.
And an entire life that still wants to be lived.
Today, my worlds come together
Today, I bring together more than three decades of healthcare experience.
I am a National Board-Certified Health & Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC), a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, a Registered Nurse with more than 30 years of experience, and the founder of YourNEST.Life.
But credentials are only part of my story. I am also a mother, a lifelong learner, and a woman living with Type 2 diabetes who has spent years discovering that becoming healthier doesn't have to mean becoming someone else.
Sometimes, it means coming home to more of who you already are.
