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Meet your trauma-informed
health coach
Hello, I’m Shawn.
I’m an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach, Certified Trauma-Informed Coach, educator, and the founder of Wellness Journey Portal.
For much of my career, I helped schools, leaders, and organizations understand how stress, trauma, relationships, and environments shape the way people learn, lead, and thrive.
Over time, I realized something profound. The same patterns I saw in organizations were showing up in our bodies. We often blame ourselves for feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, disconnected, or unable to sustain healthy habits.
But our bodies don’t exist in isolation. They respond to the lives we’ve lived, the responsibilities we’ve carried, the environments we’ve navigated, and the ways we’ve learned to survive.
That realization changed the way I think about wellness. Today, I help women in midlife move beyond self-criticism and into self-understanding. Through trauma-informed wellness coaching, integrative nutrition, nervous system education, and sustainable behavior change, we explore what your body has been trying to communicate—and build practical rhythms that support your health instead of continually draining it.
As a woman in midlife myself, I understand that this season asks something different of us.
Our bodies change.
Our priorities shift.
The strategies that once helped us push through no longer serve us.
Instead of asking us to do more, midlife often invites us to slow down, listen more deeply, and care for ourselves with greater compassion.
That is the heart of Wellness Journey Portal. I don’t believe healing begins with another perfect plan. I believe it begins when we stop asking,
“What’s wrong with me?” and start asking, “What has my body been trying to help me survive?”
I hold a doctorate in Educational Leadership with a focus on trauma-informed schools and communities, and my work is informed by certifications in trauma-informed coaching, integrative nutrition, and applied educational neuroscience. These experiences allow me to bridge science, behavior change, and compassionate coaching in a way that honors the whole person—body, mind, and emotional well-being.
Whether I’m working with an individual, a group, or an organization, my intention is always the same:
To create a space where people feel seen, understood, and empowered to build healthier, more sustainable ways of living. I believe you are the expert on your own body. My role is to help you reconnect with that wisdom and walk alongside you as you create a life that supports your health, your values, and your future.
Let’s walk this journey home—together.
A Different Approach to Wellness
At Wellness Journey Portal, we begin by understanding you.
Your habits exist within a real life shaped by stress, responsibilities, relationships, culture, environment, lived experiences, available support, and the ways your body has learned to adapt.
Instead of treating inconsistency as a discipline problem, we treat it as information.
Our approach integrates trauma-informed coaching, integrative nutrition, nervous-system awareness, whole-person wellness, and practical behavior-change support to help you create change that reflects your needs, preferences, responsibilities, and capacity.
You will not be expected to follow a perfect plan.
We build wellness around your life—not your life around wellness.
The Four Elements
of Whole-Person Wellness
Your wellbeing is interconnected.
The Four Elements give us a way to explore what may need support in this season of your life.
Earth
Nourishment
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Stability
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Structure
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Support
What helps you feel nourished, grounded, and supported?
Air
Breath
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Awareness
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Perspective
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Mental Space
What needs greater clarity, spaciousness, or attention?
Fire
Energy
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Action
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Boundaries
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Courage
What energizes you? What needs protection, expression, or action?
Water
Rest
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Recovery
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Emotion
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Self-Compassion
What needs restoration, softness, care,
or release?
Nourish. Heal. Thrive.
You are the expert on your own body.
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My role is to help you reconnect with its wisdom, understand the patterns shaping your well-being, and create sustainable practices that support your health and your life.
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Together, we replace judgment with curiosity and take the next right step toward greater energy, self-trust, and wholeness.
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