I’m Wendy Spencer; a Vibrancy Coach specializing in Health and Wellness with certification as a Jungian Life Coach.
It has taken a lifetime to cultivate my own Total Body Wellness.
For many years, I struggled with feelings of hopelessness and despair. In my teens, I was first prescribed psychiatric medications fraught with side effects of sleeplessness, nausea, and minimal change in mood resulting in a further unhappy life.
It was only once I received guidance from a beloved psychiatric nurse that my life began to change. She taught me the importance of self-care: supplementation, rest/sleep, proper nourishment, and exercise.
Once I began taking care of myself, this led to joining Weight Watchers. Not because I was “super overweight,” but because I knew it was time to learn habits for life.
Weight Watchers was my place to transform. The weekly meetings, the people and leaders I met who were challenging themselves, inspired me. To set higher and further goals; possibilities I hadn’t seen for myself.
There was also a downside to this for me: a restrictive way of living.
I began obsessing about everything I ate.
After only a year in the program, I began to question if I really wanted to be “counting points at 80” and how feasible that was to a life of freedom.
I wanted to find my own path.
Which led me to read books on “not dieting.”
This was an awakening for me: there are other perspectives. I can eat “like a normal person” and eat intuitively. One size does not fit all. I can break free from hating my body and wishing it were thinner; the teen in me who idolized those fantasized about (sometimes at the expense of their own health).
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My life started to take shape as “The Things I Leave Behind.”
First, it was my job; a job I cherished for nearly ten years and gained an incredible base in as a professional woman.
Then, it was church.
And ultimately, my marriage. A loving marriage. One of nearly twenty-six years.
Yet…I needed to find Wendy. Who was she? Who did she want to become?
As painful as it was to say goodbye to the parts of “me” I had become, I knew the only way forward was out.
The more I took care of myself, the more aware I became. Aware of how disconnected I felt.
My Wellness Path began in early 2008, when I started to practice the real meaning of full-body self-care.
Freedom came from listening to myself.
I am here to help you remember the sound of your own soul.
