Today we’d like to introduce you to Beth.
Hi Beth, it’s an honor to have you on the platform. Thanks for taking the time to share your story with us – to start maybe you can share some of your backstory with our readers?
My path to nutrition therapy wasn’t exactly linear, but looking back, it makes perfect sense. I’ve always been fascinated by the human body—how it moves, adapts, heals, and communicates with us. I studied physical education, health, and art education in college and went on to earn my master’s degree in exercise physiology. I loved teaching and helping people understand their bodies, but there was still a piece of the health conversation I hadn’t fully explored.
Then nutrition became personal.
For years, I struggled with digestive issues that I honestly thought were just normal. It wasn’t until I met a nutrition therapist—who is now my mentor—that I began to understand my body in an entirely different way. Instead of simply accepting symptoms or trying to make them go away, I started learning to ask why they were happening. I vividly remember thinking, I need to know what she knows.
That curiosity changed the direction of my career. I pursued advanced training in nutrition therapy, became a Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist, and eventually founded Well Nourished. I built my practice around the belief that people deserve more than a generic list of foods to eat or avoid. They deserve to understand why their body is responding the way it is and to have practical tools that help them feel better in their actual, everyday lives.
Today, my practice focuses largely on women’s health, particularly the changes that happen during perimenopause and menopause, along with digestive health, blood sugar regulation, and building greater resilience through nutrition and lifestyle. One of my favorite parts of what I do is taking complicated physiology and making it understandable—helping someone connect the dots between what is happening inside their body and how they feel every day.
More recently, my work has brought me back to my roots as an educator. I’m developing BodyWise, an educational approach designed to help children build body literacy from an early age—to notice their body’s signals, wonder about how their body works, nourish themselves well, and understand that rest is an essential part of caring for themselves. I’m also writing Raising BodyWise Kids, a guide that brings those ideas to children and the grown-ups who guide them.
In many ways, it feels like my career has come full circle. Teaching, exercise physiology, nutrition therapy, creativity, and my fascination with the human body aren’t separate pieces anymore. They’ve all come together around one idea that has become central to my work: when we understand our bodies better, we’re better equipped to care for them.
We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
Definitely not and I think that’s part of what has shaped both me and my business.
One of the biggest challenges has been building a practice in a space that doesn’t always fit neatly into the traditional healthcare model. Nutrition therapy asks us to slow down and look at the whole person. Food matters, of course, but so do digestion, blood sugar, hormones, stress, sleep, movement, relationships, and what is happening in someone’s everyday life. Learning how to communicate the value of that approach—and, honestly, learning to confidently stand behind what I knew was valuable took time.
I also learned very quickly that being good at nutrition therapy and being good at running a nutrition therapy business are two entirely different things! Suddenly I was not only a nutritionist, but also a marketer, writer, program developer, bookkeeper, website manager, content creator, and decision-maker. There has been a lot of learning as I go, and plenty of things I would do differently if I were starting again.
But some of the harder seasons have come from questioning myself. What am I really here to do? Who do I most want to serve? Where can I make the greatest impact? For a long time, I felt like I needed to choose one lane and stay in it. Over time, I’ve realized that the things that make my work a little harder to put into a box are actually the things that make it mine.
I’m still evolving, and I hope I always am. But I trust myself and the direction of my work much more than I did when I started. Some of the messiest and most uncomfortable parts of building this business have ultimately been the things that helped me get clearer about what I want Well Nourished, and my work as a whole, to become.
Thanks – so what else should our readers know about your work and what you’re currently focused on?
At Well Nourished, I help people understand their bodies through individualized nutrition therapy. I specialize in women’s health, particularly perimenopause and menopause, along with digestive health, blood sugar regulation, and the very real impact that stress and lifestyle have on how we feel.
A huge part of my work is education. I love taking complicated physiology and making it make sense in someone’s actual life. I don’t want a client to leave my office simply knowing what to eat or which supplement to take. I want her to understand why. Why am I exhausted at 3:00 every afternoon? Why has my digestion changed? Why am I suddenly waking up at 2:00 a.m.? Why does my body seem to respond differently to things that never bothered me before? When people understand what their body is communicating, they can make decisions from a completely different place.
That same philosophy eventually led me to ask a question that has become a huge part of the next chapter of my work: What if we taught people to understand their bodies before something went wrong?
I work with so many adults who are learning for the first time how to recognize their own hunger, energy, digestive, stress, and hormonal signals. Women will sit across from me and realize how little they were ever taught about their menstrual cycle or the changes happening during perimenopause. I kept thinking, Why are we waiting until adulthood to have these conversations?
That’s what inspired BodyWise and CycleWise.
BodyWise is designed to begin building body literacy in young children through four simple ideas: Notice, Wonder, Nourish, and Rest. CycleWise grows from that foundation and helps kids and their grown-ups understand puberty, the menstrual cycle, and how food, movement, rest, and self-care can support a changing body.
This is probably the work I’m most proud of right now. I see such a gap between traditional health education and the practical body knowledge kids actually need as they grow. I want to help fill that gap without giving kids another set of rules about what is “healthy” or “unhealthy.” I want them to be curious about their bodies, connected to them, and confident asking questions about them.
And really, that’s the thread running through everything I do. Whether I’m sitting with a woman trying to make sense of perimenopause or teaching a child why their stomach might growl when they’re hungry, my goal is the same: help people understand the language of their own body and give them the confidence to care for it.
Let’s talk about our city – what do you love? What do you not love?
What I love most about Bend is that being outside and being active are simply part of the culture here. You don’t necessarily have to choose between having a full workday and having an adventure, you can mountain bike before work, sneak out for a walk along the river in the middle of the day, or head to the mountains when you’re done. Movement, nature, and taking care of yourself feel woven into everyday life here, and I love that.
I also really value the community I’ve found in Bend. There are so many creative, passionate people building businesses and doing interesting things, and I’ve been surprised by how collaborative that community can be. Some of my favorite professional relationships have grown out of people simply being willing to connect, share ideas, and support each other.
The hardest part for me is watching some of the consequences of Bend’s growth. It has become increasingly difficult for many people to afford to live and build a life here, and I worry about what we lose when a community becomes inaccessible to the people who help make it vibrant.
I love that Bend continues to grow and evolve, I just hope we can hold onto the sense of community, connection, and slightly scrappy mountain-town spirit that made so many of us fall in love with it in the first place.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://wnourished.com
- Instagram: wnourished
- Facebook: Well Nourished Nutrition Therapy
- Youtube: @wnourished
