Improving Life Balance Through Evidence-Based Coaching
The marketing wordage:
Through individualized strategies and measurable milestones, coaching guides individuals toward sustainable vitality and a more balanced lifestyle.
Founded on integrative health science, the methodology addresses root causes rather than superficial symptoms. Clients benefit from structured progress tracking, confidential support, and proven frameworks that facilitate consistent improvement across all dimensions of wellbeing.
The tech focused markety wordage:
Folk in tech spend their days optimizing, improving performance, debugging, visualizing, taking meetings that should be an email, pitching, and looking for ways to offer the next big fad in technology. (And about a million other things).
While every day at work may present new challenges and problems to be solved - which we often use creativity, best practices, and exploratory methods to address - we rarely take those approaches home with us.
When it comes to our wellbeing, not only do we not prioritize it (one of my former colleagues used to frequently say, “I’ll sleep when I’m dead.” - sound familiar?), we don’t allow ourselves the creativity and grace we need to make real progress - that same creativity we use at work. We get frustrated when our own bugs aren’t resolved with a few days work. When it feels like a nonstop, uphill battle. (Sisyphus, anyone?)
So why make the effort when the list of bugs and errors is longer than our arm and we can distract ourselves by solving actual problems that people pay us to solve?
Because our quality of life is suffering.
Our relationships are suffering.
Our focus is about as high quality as a hamster’s.
And our performance at work is being affected - even if we don’t realize it.
Picture what your life would look like if you weren’t constantly being pulled in a million directions. If you didn’t feel so overwhelmed that your health - you know, that thing that keeps you upright and breathing and all that - wasn’t always back-burnered. If you didn’t feel so stressed out that you have to put up walls so you can function. If you stopped carrying the shame of the limitations that you have, and instead saw them as opportunities to be worked with.
While I do not claim to have a miracle drug, I have worked with dozens of people who started their journey feeling a lot like you. Stuck, annoyed, “too busy,” feeling like they can’t. And what’s most amazing to me is that they changed all of that. By making incremental progress and establishing a foundation of what matters, a foundation of wellbeing in a simple, yet impactful way, my clients have changed their lives. They have went from “I can’t” to “I can.”
You can too.
Our Coach
Amanda Nystrom
The Short, Professional Bio
With almost two decades in the technology field, Amanda brings together a special blend of professionalism and passion. She worked her way up the corporate ladder, only to discover that what really matters is our health. She has spent the last half decade devoting herself to self improvement and medical training in order to be a resource for others.
When she is not running a company or learning new fun things about how the brain and body work, you will find her living off grid in Montana with her partner and frenchtons - attempting to live a simpler life.
My Story
From technology to health and wellbeing. What a shift.
After many years of dedicating my life to screen time and doubling my company’s revenue, my body started talking at me like one of those people who want to tell you every story in their arsenal just as you’re trying to leave the party. (You know the type.) I say “at me” because I didn’t really listen. I had a job to do - my body would deal.
Until it wouldn’t.
Multiple “chronic” diagnoses later, I was faced with a conundrum: keep ignoring my health, or suffer a variety of delightful symptoms - physically, mentally, emotionally - until I die. Which I found out recently would likely happen sooner than expected because of the damage I have done to my telomeres by having constant chronic stress. (Google Telomeres and how they work - it’s mind blowing).
As a “take the high road” leaning person, I started educating myself on how to manage the bundle of diagnoses I had been given. Some things worked, some didn’t. Mostly I felt plagued by my own body and what it was putting me through. Traditional methods of treatment usually didn’t work, or they involved a handful of brain altering prescriptions every day, which I wasn’t interested in. I felt like my body was already betraying me - I didn’t need to lose what I had left of myself.
I spent years chasing down ways to improve my quality of life. The first really impactful things (which I didn’t expect): realizing perfection doesn’t exist, reducing the negative and shaming self talk, and accepting that every day is going to look different and that’s ok. These mindset changes opened a new world for me, and allowed me to look at my conditions for the first time as opportunities, not just limitations.
I applied for Duke’s Health and Wellbeing Coaching Program as a way to improve my own wellbeing foundation. During that process, I realized how many of the people I know and love - in and out of technology - need a partner in their wellbeing. Trying to make sustainable changes on our own feels impossible a lot of the time. And even if you’re one of the lucky ones who has no problem setting a goal and achieving it (congratulations), the more you invest in your own wellbeing, the more you usually find you want to work on. It’s like rolling out a MVP; there’s always the next version. Which can be downright defeating sometimes.
But.
The updated version is usually better.
It often just takes a partner and the willingness to put the effort in.
Today I am still a work in progress. I have days where I hit all my marks, and I have days where I have jaw surgery because my jaw joints have deteriorated from severe arthritis (partially due to stress). I have uprooted my entire life after re-evaluating what really matters and what I truly need to be fulfilled and healthy. But like I just said, I am still a work in progress and every day is different.
And, call me crazy, but I think those are the best type of people to work with when it comes to our wellbeing. The type who don’t pretend to be something they’re not. The type that doesn’t promise a miracle drug, and instead promises authenticity, non-judgment, and kindness. And because I’m biased: the type that reframes our self-defeating term “limited” to “Unlimited with Exceptions” so that we can start to believe in ourselves and the power we hold again.
Reach out to Amanda
She would love to hear from you!