My Intention and Mission
is to support individuals in deeply connecting with their body and inner realm—awakening joy and honest, loving relationships with self, work, life, and others.
Through body-led coaching and evidence-based mind-body practices, begin to understand your felt senses, behavioral and emotional patterns, and reactive responses— and shift what’s no longer serving you, building real self-trust and self-love from the inside out.
The result is a more grounded, connected, and aligned way of being—something I call Badass Joy.
Hi, there!
I'm Joanna.
When life hit me hard- 3 kids, a nutrition practice to manage, a parent I suddenly became a care provider for- I was overwhelmed by my emotions and duties!
It brought old wounds to the surface, and I was lost.
But in the midst of soccer games, care meetings, and dirty diapers, I realized something- I was responsible for my own joy.
I dove into embodiment coaching, parts work, and how to shift your energy, and never looked back!
I became a certified embodiment coach, and now in addition to my nutrition therapy practice, I support clients to a strong embodied connection so they can grow into authentic joy, meaningful growth, and loving relationships!
Professional & Evidence-based
My Methods
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Inner resourcing- learning to feel present, safe, and grounded in your body
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Body connection and nervous system awareness
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Parts work — understanding the different inner drives running your reactions
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The Four Elements model — your elemental wiring and how it shapes how you relate
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Intuitive self-care — learning to hear and meet your real needs
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Embodied pattern shifting — moving from autopilot toward who you actually want to be
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Mindfulness and grounding practices you can use in real life, in real time
"...She had such a warm and encouraging presence and I truly felt that she understood my struggles and knew how to help me through them.
Michelle, VA
Learn to shift harmful embodied patterns.
End unhelpful habitual emotional and behavioral patterns and build skills to manage stress and overwhelm in relationships and life. Show up more fully as your authentic self- with joy, power, and calm confidence.
I support clients to shift these patterns at the level they exist:
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the nervous system
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the body memory
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protective embodied reactions
So instead of:
Looping You trust yourself
Inner Conflict Calm within
Armor You feel fully alive
Overgiving You feel balanced
Avoiding You feel capable
Overdoing You can just be
This isn't just mindset work.
It's about shifting on a deep level- coming from the body first.
THE PATTERNS
Autopilot ways of seeing, being, and operating can quietly disrupt our life, health, and relationships.
OVERDOING
Always doing or fixing.
Trouble slowing down.
Worth tied to productivity.
LOOPING
Overthinking.
Stuck in over analysis.
Second-guessing.
Low self-trust.
OVERGIVING
Focused on others.
Depletion.
Trouble receiving or making self a priority.
ARMORING
Strong.
Self-reliant.
But disconnected, numb, and guarded.
CONFLICTING
Inner critic.
One part of you pushes, another resists.
Inner conflict.
AVOIDING
Emotions feel heavy.
Trouble moving forward.
Avoidance dominates- addiction, using food, or zoning out.
These aren't personality traits.
They are protective patterns you learned.
And they can be unlearned.
Imagine...
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Genuine joy and aliveness — felt in the body, not just understood in the mind
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Deeper, more authentic connections in your most important relationships
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Freedom from the patterns that have kept you stuck, reactive, or disconnected
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A grounded relationship with yourself — self-trust, self-compassion, and real confidence
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The ability to express your needs honestly and be truly known by others
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A nervous system that supports you rather than hijacks you
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Clarity about who you are, what you want, and how you want to show up
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More of yourself — present, alive, and fully here
What Guides This Work
Embodiment over intellect
Understanding something is the beginning. Feeling it — in your body, your breath, your lived experience — is where change happens. This work always starts there.
Curiosity over judgment
Every pattern, every part, every reaction you have developed for a reason. We meet all of it with genuine interest rather than criticism.
Connection as foundation
Real change happens in relationship — with yourself, with others, and in the safe container of the coaching relationship itself. I take that seriously.
Wholeness, not fixing
You are not broken. You are patterned. There is a profound difference, and it changes everything about how we approach the work.
Science and soul, together
I am grounded in research — behavioral science, neuroscience, somatic theory, positive psychology, attachment theory. And I believe deeply that we are more than the sum of our measurable parts. Both things are true, and both belong in this work.
Our work together has helped me acknowledge deeply-buried emotions that impact not only how I eat, but my overall well-being..."
Sarah, VA
TWO WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER
FOR INDIVIDUALS
Embodied Connection Coaching
Come home to yourself. Transform how you show up in every relationship that matters.
This is one-on-one coaching for people who are ready to stop managing their patterns and start actually shifting them.
We work with your body, your nervous system, your parts, and your elemental nature to help you:
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Feel genuinely grounded and at home in yourself
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Understand your reactive patterns — and have real tools to shift them
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Show up more authentically in your closest relationships
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Express your needs and desires without shutdown or conflict
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Access the clarity, confidence, and joy that's already inside you
This work is for individuals navigating relationship patterns, life transitions, burnout, disconnection, or simply the feeling that there's a fuller, freer version of themselves waiting to emerge.
FOR ORGANIZATIONS
Wired to Connect: Embodiment Workshops for the Workplace
Emotional intelligence, communication, and resilience — taught through the body.
The research is clear: the quality of our relationships at work is one of the greatest predictors of wellbeing, performance, and retention. And yet most communication and EQ trainings stay in the head — leaving people with frameworks they can't actually use under pressure.
Wired to Connect is different. It's a body-based workshop experience that gives teams a felt sense of what grounded presence, authentic communication, and real connection actually feel like — and practical tools to return there again and again.
Teams leave with:
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A shared language for understanding themselves and each other
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Real tools for regulation, communication, and resilience
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A lived experience — not just a concept — of what it means to show up connected
Available as a 60-minute keynote, half-day workshop, or full-day immersion.
