My Mission
I believe your health should give you the freedom to live a full life.
My mission is to help women understand their bodies, improve their metabolic health, and build the knowledge, habits, and self-trust to feel confident caring for themselves.
I want you to have the energy to show up for your relationships, pursue your ambitions, enjoy the things you love, and say yes to the experiences that make life meaningful.
Whatever that looks like for you.
Because ultimately, the work we do together is about helping you build a healthier foundation for the woman you're becoming.
Hi, I'm Stephanie.
I'm the founder of Wildflower Nutrition, a functional nutritionist, and a health coach.
I help women connect the dots between their symptoms, nutrition, lifestyle, and health history so they can better understand what's influencing how they feel.
My approach combines clinical insight, data-informed nutrition, and behavior-change coaching. Together, we explore your health concerns, identify meaningful priorities, and create practical strategies that support your goals and fit your life.
But my interest in nutrition is deeply personal.
It began with a love for the Colorado mountains and a period of my life when I no longer had the energy to enjoy them.
A Life Built Around Adventure
After graduating from college, I packed everything I owned into my car and drove west.
I was looking for adventure, and Colorado quickly became home.
I fell in love with long days skiing fresh powder, hiking alpine trails, backpacking into the wilderness, mountain biking, and camping beneath the stars.
Eventually, I moved to Summit County, where the mountains became my backyard.
At the time, I was working in healthcare on a demanding seven-days-on, seven-days-off schedule, often logging 70-hour workweeks.
On my days off, I wanted to do everything.
I'd spend hours in the mountains, pack my schedule with adventures, and rarely give much thought to slowing down.
I loved the life I had created.
And for a long time, I assumed that if I could keep pushing, my body would keep up.
Until it didn't.
When I Stopped Feeling Like Myself
I'd been diagnosed with celiac disease at 17 and ADHD shortly afterward. Throughout much of my teens and twenties, I was also taking hormonal birth control and ADHD medication.
As I approached my thirties, I decided to discontinue both medications, with medical guidance, to better understand my body and prepare for the possibility of starting a family someday.
Around the same time, I became severely ill with COVID-19.
I expected to recover and return to my normal routine.
Instead, I began experiencing persistent fatigue, bloating, weight gain, and irregular menstrual cycles.
The woman who once happily spent sunrise to sunset in the mountains was struggling to make it through an ordinary day.
For nearly two years, I tried to understand what was happening.
I was frustrated by the symptoms, but what affected me most was how much my life had changed.
I missed having the energy to do the things I loved.
I missed feeling at home in my body.
And I wanted someone to help me understand why.
The Experience That Changed My Direction
With my background in laboratory medicine, I started looking more closely at my health.
I ordered hormone testing and brought the results to a physician, hoping we could discuss what they might mean in the context of my symptoms.
Instead, my concerns were dismissed, and I was encouraged to return to hormonal birth control.
I left that appointment feeling unheard and without a clear path forward.
That experience stayed with me.
I wanted to understand my symptoms, explore the possible contributing factors, and make informed decisions about my health.
Eventually, I found a practitioner who took the time to listen, review my history, and explore my concerns more thoroughly.
That experience introduced me to a more comprehensive approach to nutrition and health—and ultimately influenced the direction of my career.
Learning to Care for My Body Differently
As I continued my education in clinical nutrition, I began looking at the relationships between nutrition, digestion, metabolic health, stress, sleep, movement, and recovery.
I also started examining my own habits.
For years, I'd been asking a lot of my body without consistently giving it the nourishment and recovery it needed.
I began making changes to how I ate, trained, rested, and managed the demands of everyday life.
Progress happened gradually.
My energy improved. I started sleeping better. I became more aware of my body's needs and more confident making decisions that supported them.
I learned to approach my health with greater curiosity, consistency, and respect for my capacity.
And eventually, I found my way back to the mountains.
Today, you'll still find me skiing Colorado powder, backpacking to alpine lakes, mountain biking through the aspens, or camping with my husband and our Goldendoodle, Beau.
Sometimes, you'll find me simply enjoying a quiet morning outside.
Those experiences continue to shape how I think about health.
I want to feel well enough to participate in my own life—and I want the women I work with to have that same opportunity.
Why I Created Wildflower Nutrition
My personal experience taught me how overwhelming it can feel when you're experiencing symptoms, receiving conflicting advice, and struggling to figure out what to do next.
My professional education taught me how to assess health concerns, interpret relevant information, and develop individualized nutrition strategies.
And my training in health coaching taught me something equally important: knowing what to do and consistently doing it are two different skills.
That's why I created Wildflower Nutrition and my signature Root to Restore™ program.
Through my R.O.O.T. Method™, I bring together clinical insight, nutrition education, and behavior-change coaching to help women:
Understand their bodies and identify factors that may be contributing to their symptoms.
Build a strong foundation through personalized nutrition and lifestyle strategies.
Create practical systems that make consistency easier.
Develop the confidence and self-trust to make informed health decisions long after our work together ends.
I believe you deserve to be heard, to understand the reasoning behind your recommendations, and to have a meaningful role in your own care.
My goal is to help you develop the knowledge and skills to become an active participant in your health.
Here's to the Woman You're Becoming.
The woman who understands her body and knows how to care for it.
Who can make food choices with confidence.
Who has practical systems to support herself through busy seasons, unexpected changes, and everything life brings.
Who trusts herself to make decisions that align with her health and the life she wants to live.
Whether your version of a full life involves raising a family, growing a business, traveling the world, exploring the mountains, or simply having enough energy left at the end of the day to enjoy yourself, I want your health to support it.
That's the work I'm here to help you do.
