Hey there!

I’m Heather Glenn, your health detective, guide, companion and biggest cheerleader on the road to reclaiming your health!

As a certified Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Holistic Health Coach, it’s my mission to help burnt out professional women and moms like you to get to the root cause of why you aren’t feeling well. Through targeted nutrition and therapeutic wellness protocols, my aim is to help you regain your energy, focus and joy in life.

When conventional medicine left me without answers to my own health concerns, its only solutions were antidepressants and antacids. Unsatisfied with its lack of answers and solutions, I sought an alternate approach to healing.

In the process, I learned about the power of food and nutrients as medicine, and the impacts that chronic emotional stress, environmental toxins, hidden infections, and chronic inflammation can have on our bodies and brain functioning.

My own healing journey led me to pursue a career in functional nutrition and wellness so that I could support myself, my family, and other women who are experiencing the same frustration with regard to the lack of answers and solutions to their health concerns, and who wanted a holistic approach to healing.

Through the lens of my own personal experience in recovering from chronic fatigue, anxiety, heartburn, nausea, bloating, brain fog, blurred vision, dizziness, and chronic inflammation, I know first-hand how impactful targeted therapeutic nutrition and getting to the root cause of symptoms can be in getting your life back.

Back to my story…

My journey into the world of holistic health and functional wellness began with me lying like a zombie on the floor in my one-year old’s bedroom.  He was playing and I was doing everything I could to pretend I was engaging while not falling asleep from exhaustion.  

At the time, I had two kids under 5, was running a million dollar fitness company, and trying to keep up in the rat race of the San Francisco Bay Area.  I had also recently gone through the traumatic loss of my mother to cancer. 

For months I hadn’t been feeling like my old self. There was a time where I had the energy to exercise, be social, take on the demands of my career, and just get sh$t done.  I was happy and had a thirst for life.

I missed that woman.

What was wrong with me?

As I laid there on the floor, I remembered being a child and watching my mother live her life in bouts of sadness and anger. Those memories stirred up tears. I couldn’t help but think that someday soon, my son would remember his mom, tired and sad too. 

I know the impact that my mom’s mood had on myself and my family growing up, and I didn’t want that life for my boys.

I had to do SOMETHING to pull myself out of this.

So I did what most people would do. I made an appointment with my primary care doctor to find out why I wasn’t feeling like my old self. 

I was hoping that a conversation with my doctor or my lab work would provide some insight and actionable answers.  But to my dismay, all of my blood work came back NORMAL.  

Because doctors are only prepared to prescribe medications and surgery, the only solution I was offered was a referral to a psychiatrist who could prescribe me anti-depressants (womp-womp-womp).

Side note: It’s common to receive a prescription for antidepressants as a default when the answers to your health concerns aren’t quickly evident.  It now becomes something that’s “all in your head.”

But I digress.

I decided to be a good patient and go see the psychiatrist. I received my prescription and started to take it daily. 

One week into it, I just felt numb. I knew then that I didn’t want to live my life medicated. Sure I felt less sadness but I also felt less joy.

Something inside me believed that if I didn’t need antidepressants for the first 30 plus years of my life to be happy and feel motivated, why did I need them now?  Couldn’t I get back to that same person I was before somehow?

Thankfully my life coach at the time encouraged me to go see a functional wellness practitioner. She believed something in my body chemistry was off and holding me back.

I went to see the person she recommended. They conducted the most extensive health intake I’d ever experienced, and tested my body physically for how it reacted to various foods. 

I didn’t understand everything we were doing, but I was desperate to try something that would help me feel better and that wouldn’t create more chaos in my body like a medication would.

I left the office with a list of foods to eliminate and some therapeutic supplements to take. At the time, I didn’t understand how this was going to help me. Now, I see that those foods were causing inflammation in my body and brain. This inflammation was impacting the production of my feel good hormones and depleting my body of important nutrients (basically sucking the life out of me). 

The supplements supported me to get back to a more balanced state nutritionally. They were also tackling a yeast (Candida) overgrowth in my gut. A candida overgrowth can lead to all sorts of symptoms including anxiety and depression.

About two months into the protocol, I started to feel more like my old self.

I was sold on this approach to better health!

At the same time that all of this was happening, my oldest son had been dealing with eczema (since he was 9 months old).

His doctor recommended steroid cream… on a 9 month old baby?!?

I knew that steroids created chaos in the body and resulted in a whole host of side effects. My mom had been on them for her health issues and I believe they caused the downturn in her health.

One of my fitness clients at the time was a holistic nutritionist for kids. After sharing what was going on, she invited me to bring my son in for an evaluation.

Through an extensive symptom intake and a few functional labs, we found out that he too was dealing with food reactions as well as dysbiosis in his gut. 

By eliminating his reactive foods and incorporating various healing and gut rebalancing supplements, we were able to make progress. Within 4 months, his skin completely cleared up!

The story doesn’t end here though…

By now you can probably tell that I am passionate about this whole functional approach to nutrition and wellness. I thrive on empowering women in their health, educating them about their bodies, and watching them flourish as they begin to make supportive nutrition and lifestyle changes all while working to eliminate the stressors and toxins in their lives.

Seeing women come alive, and experiencing joy in their life again, is one of the most rewarding things I do in the world.  

My journey has been one of “pain to purpose”. 

Now, I'm here to walk this journey with you and to show you what's possible with your health.

I will help you achieve more energy and focus, help you improve digestive function and detox your body, and through this, you'll begin to feel more comfortable and confident in your body again... maybe for the first time ever!