About me
Hi, I'm Joanna.
For a decade, I worked in humanitarian aid in some of the hardest places in the world. I loved that work — the urgency of it, the belief that it mattered.
It's still part of who I am.
But it also asked everything of me: constant relocation, no roots, no rhythm, crisis as a baseline state. I told myself that was just the cost of doing work that mattered. I pushed through exhaustion, gut issues, anxiety, chronic stress — until my body simply stopped going along with it.
The diagnosis: advanced burnout & depression.
At first I thought my career had pushed me to the edge, and that stepping back would fix it.
It didn't — not fully.
So I started paying real attention, and I found deeper patterns underneath the burnout: food sensitivities I'd never had named, a nervous system that had been running in overdrive since long before my career started, stress responses shaped by things I hadn't processed.
My body hadn't been running on empty for a few hard years. It had been running on empty for most of my life — the career had just made it impossible to ignore any longer.
Conventional medicine offered me a diagnosis and a prescription. What it didn't offer was an explanation — why my body was responding this way, and what would actually change it. So I did the slower, harder work myself: understanding my own nervous system, rebuilding my gut, relearning how to actually hear what my body was telling me instead of pushing past it.
That process is what became my work.
Today, I help people who recognize this in themselves — people who are used to pushing through, achieving, holding it together, and who've quietly stopped listening to what their body's been signaling for years.
I guide them through the same process that changed things for me: regulating the nervous system, understanding their own body's specific patterns — especially around metabolic and gut health — and rebuilding from there, in an order that actually lasts.
Not another protocol to push through. A way back to living in a body you can trust again.
