I Built a Thriving Career. Then My Body Forced Me to Stop.

Hi, I'm Anna, founder of CoachаVida Wellness — certified holistic health coach, still a corporate girlie, and living proof that your body will shut you down if you don't slow down on purpose.

For 20 years, I’ve been crushing it in sales. I am really good at my job. I check all the boxes for "success." But deep down? I always known that this wasn't what I was put on this earth to do.

Still, I kept pushing. I did everything the world told me would make me successful—focused on external validation, said yes to everything, powered through exhaustion, ignored every warning sign my body gave me.

Until one day, it stopped whispering and started screaming.

At 42, I was diagnosed with severe ulcerative colitis and severe anemia.

Not just tired. Not just stressed. My body was literally breaking down.

The diagnosis was my body's way of saying: "You need to stop. Now."

And here's the thing—I didn't even realize how badly I needed to stop until my body forced me to. My brain was still in hustle mode, but my body? It was done.

That was my wake-up call.

I realized I had built a life that looked impressive on the outside...but was destroying me on the inside. No amount of hustle, clean eating, or positive thinking could fix the fact that I was living completely out of alignment with myself—and my body was paying the price.

So I Got Certified. And I Redesigned Everything.

I enrolled in the Institute for Integrative Nutrition to become a holistic health & wellness coach—not just to help others, but to heal myself.

I fell in love with the process.

I didn't just change what I ate. I redesigned everything:

• How I worked

• How I rested

• How I moved

• How I thought

• How I showed up in my life

I stopped living by everyone else's rules and started designing a life that worked FOR me, not against me.

And here's what happened:

Six months later: Clinical remission.
One year later: Endoscopic remission.
Today: No flares. Thriving, not just surviving.

That journey became The Coachа Vida Method™.

Now I Help Other Ambitious Women Do the Same—Before Their Bodies Force Them To.

I created Coachа Vida for the woman who gets it—the one who's always been the capable one, the strong one, the one everyone turns to...until she realizes no one's been checking in on her.

The woman whose body is starting to break down. Autoimmune flares. Chronic exhaustion. Mystery symptoms her doctors can't fully solve.

The woman who's tired of choosing between her ambition and her health.

This work is for women who don't want to settle for burnout as the price of success.

For the ones who are ambitious and intuitive. Driven and exhausted. Ready for more—but not like this.

The Coachа Vida Method™ is the strategic wellness approach I wish I had 20 years ago.

It blends:

• Evidence-based coaching (neuroscience, behavior change, functional health)

• Holistic wellness (gut health, hormone health, energy optimization)

• Soulful alignment (manifestation, human design, deep inner work)

• Mindset repatterning that changes not just what you do, but how you live

This isn't self-care fluff. This is high-performance living, reimagined.

I won't tell you to hustle harder or add more to your plate.

I'll help you clear the noise, redesign your life from the ground up, and lead from a place of power, not pressure—so your body can heal and your ambition can thrive.