Is Vita Nuova Coaching for You?
Are you Ready for a New Life and a New You?
Are you sick and tired of being sick and tired?
Do you have a diagnosis that you’re struggling to resolve?
Is your doctor spending time listening to you and helping you with your health concerns?
If you are just looking to improve your health and learn how to eat and live in a way that sustains and maintains your wellness for years to come – you’re in the right place.
If you’re managing a digestive condition, or a ‘digestive adjacent’ issue, you’re still in the right place.
If you’re looking to prevent DisEase, or feel you may be genetically predisposed to certain diseases, you’re still in the right place.
If you’re looking to advocate for your health, you’re really in the right place.
Conventional medicine has no shortage of diagnoses and prescriptive cocktails to dull discomforts, but what if you could change some lifestyle habits to begin improving the root cause of your health challenges?
Making lifestyle changes can be difficult, especially when it involves making changes to how you eat, shop, cook, exercise, breathe, and what you put in and around your body.
Vita Nuova makes healthy eating and living simple and sustainable.
Allyson offers Health Coaching to best support this Lifestyle transformation, taking you step-by-step as you adapt to a new way of living that helps you achieve true health and vitality.
At Vita Nuova we practice functional nutrition, fast and functional workouts, and mindfulness.
The name “Vita Nuova” is inspired by Dante’s medieval text where his personal suffering lead to a New Life, a transformation. Like the book, Vita Nuova Coaching offers transformative programs that Refocus, Re-energize, and ReNew your life to create a ‘New Life’ of true health and wellness.
Read more about our Program offerings here.
About Allyson
Certified Health Coach and Functional Nutritionist
Because wellness is a lifestyle, not a destination, and you don’t have to go-it alone.
I set out to complete my B.S. in Dietetics at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, only to become disillusioned by the incredible political influence Big Business had on the field of dietetics at the time. After taking a detour, and instead completing my Master’s degree in Communication Studies, I spent over a decade teaching and coaching talented working professionals within Fortune 500 Companies and Universities, only to find myself back where I started – learning about nutrition and examining how it could help with my debilitating health issues.
I struggled with weight my whole life, but it wasn’t until my late 20’s when it caught up with me. That’s the funny thing about health, we can feel good (even if we’re doing some unkind things to our bodies) and then seemingly suddenly, not feel so good. Our unhealthy lifestyle habits may take decades, months, or weeks to catch up with us.
My struggles began as a young girl. I was always pudgy, wishing I was thin like my friends, feeling left out because I didn’t fit in the same trendy clothes that they looked so cute in. It wasn’t until I was in graduate school, when I got really sick that I finally figured out how to manage my weight. Unbeknownst to me at the time, I was living the perfect-storm-of-a-life for sickness:
- High stress from full time work and graduate school
- High stress on my body from chronic cardio. You know how students typically go to a coffee shop or library to study – I’d go to the gym and camp out on the cardio equipment with my highlighter.
- Vegetarian for 15+ years, which led to serious nutritional deficiencies.
- High stress from full time work and graduate school
Despite leading, what I thought was a very ‘healthy’ life, I was suffering from a myriad of chronic illnesses that prevented me from feeling Happy and Healthy.
I struggled to find answers to my health issues for more than 5 years. I went to some of the most prestigious institutions to find answers, only to be turned away. I didn’t know what questions to ask or what lab work to request. The practitioners I saw looked at me and didn’t take my concerns seriously because they saw a young, healthy looking woman. But I was suffering inside, and I didn’t know how to advocate for my needs. It became evident after 5 years of trying to find answers with conventional medical practitioners, that the allopathic system wasn’t equipped to find the source of my health struggles, and I didn’t want to take medications to mask my symptoms – I wanted to find resolve and the root cause of my suffering.
After exhaustive research and partnering with my own village of progressive, functional practitioners that included acupuncture, nutrition therapy, naturopathic and functional medicine – I finally found resolve to my symptoms. Along the way I discovered with the right community of support, the right nutrients, movements, rest, and mindfulness practices, the body will restore its natural balance.
And for the first time in my life I figured out how to manage my weight without starving myself or eating cardboard or watching my weight yo-yo once I began eating again.
It’s this discovery that lead me to shift from coaching ‘career wellness’ to coaching life and wellness skills.
I went back to school to become a certified Nutritionist, Health Coach, and functional nutrition practitioner. My latest certification comes from Precision Nutrition’s certification program, as I am always looking for ways to forward my understanding of our complex human body.
Our health care system is broken – it is a sick care system. It is a system that is great at treating acute issues, but fails at preventing disease. And the majority of our modern diseases are preventable and reversible, and they are typically rooted in poor lifestyle habits. With simple and sustainable habits you can take back your body and experience a healthy weight, digestion, skin, energy sleep, cycles, moods..
I pride myself on spending time with you, listening to you, helping you advocate for your health needs and identifying root causes of unwanted symptoms – because no one should have to experience anything less than a life filled with true health and happiness!
I take great care in making a Healthy Lifestyle simple and sustainable!
It takes a commitment, not a sentence. This is your life, make it fulfilling with the foods, fitness, rest, and mindfulness that bring your life joy and meaning!
I welcome the opportunity to answer any questions with a Free 15 Minute Consultation.
Allyson Kleinbrodt, NC, NBC-HWC, MA