About Me
My interest in food and wellness began as a young teenager. I used food and fitness as a means to an end, to obtain the outcome of a perfect body. At the end of this path, I believed was happiness.
The desire led me to become a registered dietitian, fitness trainer, and yoga teacher. My body had achieved the epitome of “perfect looking health”. Meanwhile, I struggled with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), amenorrhea (no menstrual cycle), insomnia, and chronic anxiety. The extreme discomfort I felt caused me to question everything I believed was true. It was a journey around the world to discover what true wellness is. It was not until I healed my relationship with food, my body, and myself that I could truly help people in their own wellness journey.
Throughout my personal journey I have found some unconventional ways to make sense of my experience outside the realm of nutrition, exercise, and meditation. Writing a story from a fictional lens, making a short film about nature, drawing a photo of a loved one examining every line and shade of color with great curiosity; and my favorite, hiking in the midst of dangerous thunder and lightning storm. It is the things that bring us out of our mixed tapes of repetitive thoughts that can help us gain awareness and perspective.
On my free time, you can often find me hiking, writing or drawing, wandering the streets of a small town in Latin America, or making friends with a stray cat! =D
Nutrition Philosophy
My work in the field of dietetics and wellness has led me to work in various settings. From an HIV clinic in Harlem, NY with underserved populations to conducting creative writing workshops and breath exercises to hippie vagabonds in the foothills of India. I practice many different modalities in wellness as diverse as the individuals I see.
My aim throughout is to help an individual gain awareness in how they see themselves and relationship to body and food. Without awareness we feel controlled by our limiting thoughts and stories that we are conditioned by. I am a certified diabetes educator and have advanced knowledge in managing insulin resistance, weight, and cortisol levels (stress hormones) through nutrition and lifestyle changes.
My nutrition philosophy does not endorse any specific rules or paradigms of good or bad foods, but understanding for ourselves and behaviors, while implementing sound nutrition based interventions.
Areas of Focus
Diabetes type 1 and type 2
Insulin resistance
Weight management
Heart health, hyperlipemia, high blood pressure
Post-bariatric surgery weight management
Female Athlete triad syndrome
HIV/AIDS patients
Spanish speaking clients
