Coaching with Ray

You may already have a pretty good idea of what you want to change about your health. The harder part is often figuring out how to get from where you are now to where you want to be — and creating changes you can actually follow through on. That’s where coaching can help.

My role as your coach is to help you define your health-related goals, explore what may be helping or getting in the way, and support you as you make meaningful changes in your behaviors, habits, and daily choices. Our work together focuses on behavior and lifestyle change, accountability, and client-led exploration, which means we start with what matters to you — not with a predetermined program I expect you to follow.

When I started my own health journey, I had no plan and no idea where to begin. I figured it out one change, one lesson, and more often one mistake at a time. I wrote a book about that journey and everything it taught me. Now that I’m on the other side of it, I know how overwhelming the beginning can feel — and I absolutely can help you find your starting point and move toward the health goals that matter to you.

My background includes a master’s degree in Human Resources and Organization Development and years of experience working with people, growth, and change. After leaving the corporate world, I continued expanding my education — and following my passion — in health, wellness, fasting, and metabolic coaching. I earned a Food Matters Nutrition Certification and became a Fast Like a Girl (FLAG) Certified Coach through Dr. Mindy Pelz’s program, and I’m currently completing my Master Metabolic Coach certification. Continuing education is an important part of the work I do because I want to keep learning and bring both lived experience and current knowledge to the clients I support.

Maybe you want to change the way you eat, become more active, develop a healthier relationship with food, explore fasting, improve your daily habits, better manage stress, become more consistent, or simply feel better in your body. Maybe perimenopause or menopause has changed the way your body feels or responds, and you’re trying to understand what works for your body now. Your goals are yours, and my job is to help you explore how to move toward them in a way that makes sense for your life.

No Judgment. Just Honest Work.

I’m not here to judge you. I’ve made plenty of choices in my own life that didn’t support the health and life I really wanted, and I know what it’s like to keep doing something even when you know better. Whatever habits, choices, setbacks, or struggles you bring into our conversations, chances are I’ve wrestled with some version of them myself.

Coaching with me is a place to be honest about what is really going on, without shame, so we can get curious about what may be underneath it and decide what you want to do next. You don’t need to impress me or show up with all the answers; you do need to be willing to look honestly at where you are and participate in the process.

This Is Your Coaching

I’m not going to decide what your health should look like. We’ll start with where you are, what you want, why it matters to you, and what you believe may be standing between you and your goals. From there, I’ll help you ask better questions, recognize patterns, explore possibilities, and identify changes that make sense for your life.

Sometimes the work may be very practical, and other times we may discover that the behavior you want to change is connected to something you hadn’t considered. Because every body and every life is different, what works beautifully for one person may not be what works for you. Part of this process is learning to pay attention to your own body, your behaviors, your circumstances, and what you discover along the way.

Yes, There Will Be Work Between Sessions

Real change happens in your life, not just during a coaching conversation, so there will be work for you to do between our sessions. Depending on your goals, that may mean trying something new, paying attention to a behavior or pattern, tracking what you notice, practicing a new habit, gathering information, exploring tools or resources we’ve discussed, or following through on something you decide you want to change.

My job is to hold space for you, ask questions, help you explore what may be getting in your way, offer education and resources when appropriate, and help you stay accountable to the goals you set. I can support you, challenge you, encourage you, and help you see things you may not have seen on your own, but I can’t make the changes for you. Your success ultimately depends on the choices you make and the actions you take, and you remain in charge of your health, your goals, and your decisions throughout the process.

What Health Coaching Is — And What It Isn’t

My coaching is non-clinical and non-diagnostic. I am not a doctor, and I do not diagnose medical conditions, prescribe medications or treatment, or order laboratory testing. Our work is centered on behavior and lifestyle change, accountability, education within my scope, and client-led exploration of the health goals that matter to you.

There may be times when something we discuss raises a question that belongs in your doctor’s office. I may help you identify questions or concerns you want to discuss with your physician, and I’m happy to work collaboratively with your doctor or other healthcare provider when appropriate, with your permission, and assuming your provider is willing to work with me. Coaching is not a replacement for medical care, but it can work alongside it by helping you address the day-to-day behaviors and lifestyle choices that happen outside the doctor’s office.

If you’d like to get a better feel for who I am and some of what I’ve learned through my own journey, I invite you to explore my About page and my blog. You’ll get a pretty good sense of how I think, what I’ve learned along the way, and whether my approach feels like a good fit for you.

Let’s Talk

Deciding to begin can be one of the hardest parts, but if you’re ready to talk about where you are, where you want to go, and whether coaching with me could help you get there, let’s have a conversation. We’ll start by talking about what you want for your health, what you’ve already tried, where you may be feeling stuck, and what kind of support would be most useful to you.