My Story

I enjoyed many different sports from high school on – women’s football, tennis, co-ed and women’s ice hockey, running and strength training at the gym. I started riding a road bike to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and fell in love with cycling!

It was on one of the training rides in 2009 preparing for a 100 mile ride in Moab that my life and health would change significantly. My teammates found me unconscious and tangled in my bike with a significant head injury – despite wearing a helmet. I sustained other broken bones and trauma, but it is the head injury or traumatic brain injury (TBI) that changed the way I lived my life.

I broke my right eye orbit and left TMJ when I Landed on my face. The impact left me with amnesia of the incident and some lasting long and short term memory issues. At first, the memory issues were extensive and I was really scared. Despite being in the best physical shape of my life (which my doctor told me probably saved my life) I had balance issues from both the head injury and muscle loss due to having my jaw wired for many months.

TBI wasn’t known to have long term consequences back in 2009, but there wasn’t much being offered to help. I was a single mom raising two daughters and decided I wasn’t going to accept what I was told would be my fate – an injured brain and body that probably wouldn’t get much better.

My healing journey began with learning Tai Chi for both improvement to my brain and balance.  I started doing post rehab on my right arm which had several surgeries due to a broken elbow – and was left partially bent (no more lifting weights or sports I was told).

I innately knew I could improve my brain, health and fitness and after attending seminars and getting educated/certified on brain health, concussions, TBI, longevity, exercise correction, nutrition, lifestyle and stress management – I started to get better! To this day – I keep getting better or at least at my age – of 63 worse.

My journey has helped many of my clients who also have had to manage the challenges of illness – Parkinson’s, breast, prostate and leukemia/lymphoma cancer survivorship, Cerebral Palsy, Autism, joint replacement, Diabetes, injury/surgery recovery and aging.

Life can be hard at times – but we get to choose “how hard” and “which hard” by our daily habits. Creating muscle and doing cardio not only prevents many diseases, but helps us survive them and recover quicker. Eating for health also helps prevent many diseases and can help us recover from illness and injury. Daily habits like quality sleep and stress management are the perfect side dishes to our exercise and nutrition choices.

Whatever your challenges are – I  can help with compassion and guidance to get you started on a path that will not only make you feel better the day you start – but serve you the rest of your life – even when it gets really hard.

~ Let’s start this journey together. 💖Peggy
~ Do something today your future self will thank you for. Anon