Hi! I’m Andrea. 

I have spent my entire life taking care of others, at home and in my career as a nurse.  A couple of years ago, I realized I was completely failing at caring for a particularly important person, me.  Sure, everything looked great from the outside. I was a seemingly very happy person, always smiling, active, a beautiful family and always down to have fun.  

Inside, I was tired. I was tired of trying to pretend I didn’t have anxiety. Tired of trying to juggle everything I possibly could and feeling weak if I needed to ask for help. I never felt like I was enough for anyone. Thus began my routine of nightly wine drinking to relieve my stress. I would break open a bottle of wine as soon as I got home from a long day at work, and drink while I was making dinner, taking care of kids, visiting with my husband.  I honestly began to think that I was a better mom and wife with alcohol. In reality, I was checking out. Even though I was there physically- I wasn’t fully present. Society supported my habit. Everywhere we look, “mommy wine culture” is absolutely real. There are kitschy t-shirts, meme’s, even social media pages devoted to it. It’s joked about and glamorized in sitcoms and movies.

Eventually, I grew tired of the daily cycle of drinking to relax, then waking up at three am with a racing mind and a dry mouth, dreading the alarm clock going off at 5 to restart another anxiety filled day started off with a hangover. I wasn’t progressing in my health goals and I knew the underlying reason was that my food, sleep and exercise choices were stunted due to my alcohol consumption.

After trying to moderate my drinking, I finally realized I needed to step away completely from alcohol. I searched for ways to find help to ditch my habit, but I didn’t identify as an alcoholic, so programs like AA or faith-based courses didn’t resonate with me. I took an internal look as to the “why” behind my habits, attended the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to become a Certified Health and Wellness Coach, and developed my own program to ditch my habits and live my best life.

Now I am thankful to be able to share my proven program with women who are stuck in the “gray area” cycle of drinking. My passion lies in coaching women to ditch their self-sabotaging habit to be able to live a life of intrinsic joy and peace, passing their legacy on to the next generation.