I came to this work through my own body.

For years, I was really good at pushing through.

I built a career in the health tech industry, worked hard, took pride in what I did, and became very good at finding ways to keep going, even when my body was telling me otherwise.

Behind the scenes, I was dealing with recurring insomnia, anxiety, migraines, and debilitating premenstrual symptoms. In the days leading up to my period, my ability to cope with everyday stress would practically disappear. I felt wired, overwhelmed, and completely exhausted.

And that exhaustion didn't necessarily end when my period arrived. Some months, I was lucky if I got one good week where I actually felt like myself.

When I struggled to keep up, my mind told me I needed to manage my time better, be more productive, or simply try harder.

I had become so good at listening to my mind that I'd forgotten how to listen to my body.

Eventually, I started asking myself a question I couldn't shake:

If I keep living exactly as I am today, will I be happy when I look back at my life 20 years from now?

And the answer was no.

It wasn't an overnight realization that changed everything. It took months of reflection, learning, and slowly acknowledging how much of my health I'd been willing to sacrifice to keep up with the demands of my life.

My mind kept telling me to work harder. My body was telling me something needed to change.

And for the first time, I started listening.

That discovery sent me deep into studying women's health:

Hormones, menstrual health, digestion, sleep, stress, nutrition, the gut-brain axis, and the nervous system.

I trained as a Women's Hormone Practitioner, became a registered yoga teacher, and immersed myself in functional nutrition and the science of how our bodies respond and adapt to stress.

What fascinated me most was how interconnected these systems are.

My sleep would fall apart in the days leading up to my period. My ability to cope with stress would plummet. My digestion, energy, and emotional resilience seemed to shift alongside my hormones.

I'd spent years trying to manage each symptom individually, without fully appreciating how much they could influence one another.

That experience changed the way I think about women's health.

Rather than asking how we can get our bodies to tolerate more, I think we need to start asking what they need to function and recover well. In other words, resiliency feeds off of your body’s ability to recover.

And that's the philosophy behind The Karuna Movement.

How I work now

Today, I coach women 1:1 who recognize parts of their own story in mine.

Women who used to bounce back after a stressful week or a poor night's sleep but now feel like they're running on empty. Women dealing with changing cycles, unpredictable digestion, restless nights, energy crashes, and a growing sense that their bodies aren't responding the way they used to.

Often, they're doing everything they think they're supposed to be doing, but they're still not feeling better.

My job isn't to hand you another rigid protocol or give you more things to squeeze into an already full day.

It's to help you understand the patterns connecting your hormones, digestion, sleep, stress, and energy, and make meaningful changes that actually fit your life.

What I believe

• Compassion over restriction

• Education over rules

• Science over trends

• Sustainability over quick fixes

Your body has its own story. I help you understand it.

Sophia