I help women trust their bodies again.

You've tried the protocols, the supplements, the trends. You've done everything right and still feel off. What you need isn't another plan. It's someone to walk alongside you while you come back to yourself.

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You Are Already Whole.
You just haven't been taught to listen.

You're drowning in advice. Eat this, don't eat this. Take the supplement, don't take the supplement. Try the protocol, the fast, the trend.

You've been ping-ponging from one fix to the next for months, maybe years, and underneath all of it, you're exhausted and lonely.

You don't need another plan. You need someone to walk alongside you while you find your way back to yourself.

Work With Me.

I'm a certified Functional Medicine health coach with a background in yoga and traditional Chinese medicine.

I don't hand you a protocol. I walk alongside you while you slowly, gently, honestly come back to your body, through food, somatic practice, journaling, and the kind of steady, week after week support healing actually requires.

The 3-Month Arc

A clear path through
the messy middle.

Phase One

Slow Down

Weeks 1–2

Listening. Your story, what you've already tried, what your body is doing on a normal Tuesday. No protocols yet. We're building a clear picture together.

Phase Two

Build the Foundations

Weeks 3–6

Nervous system first, always. From there: sleep, food, breath, movement. Small steps, picked carefully, built to actually stick.

Phase Three

Rebuild Trust

Weeks 7–10

Once your body is more regulated, you start being able to hear it again. Journaling, somatic practice, and self-inquiry deepen. You stop outsourcing your answers.

Phase Four

Integrate

Weeks 11–12

You leave with a flexible, nourishing routine that fits your real life. Tools for when life gets messy. Inner trust that holds even when I'm not there.

My Story

The Long Way Home.

Welcome! I'm Penina, a Functional Medicine health coach for women learning to trust their bodies again. What follows is the long way I got here.

Early Years

I grew up with a stomach ache I couldn't explain. The kind that doesn't show up on any test, doesn't fit on any chart, the kind you eventually just learn to live with.

I was a young child with tremendous anxiety, who didn't have the tools. My loving parents come from the Western medicine world, and I was put on medication to address the anxiety and the attention issues at school. I took many medications for my stomach too. Antibiotics. MiraLAX.

These were bandaid fixes. I was still struggling. The medication turned the volume down without addressing the root of my issues.

For a long time, that felt like medicine. Looking back, I was just numbing.

The Search

By college, something began stirring in me. The medicine wasn't "fixing" me. I was over accepting my symptoms. I was ready to get to the root.

I started getting curious. I wanted to understand what was actually happening in my body. I wanted to know what was underneath the symptoms I'd been told to live with.

There was an intuition pulling me. I couldn't always name it, but I could feel it. It was asking me to go deeper. To get closer to myself, instead of further away. To stop outsourcing the answers and start looking for them myself.

That intuitive voice pulled me to acupuncture, where the wisdom just made sense. Then a GI scope finally named what my body had been screaming about all along: eosinophilic esophagitis. Bleeding ulcers. My body had been telling the truth the whole time. Nobody had been listening. Including me.

I cut gluten and felt better. For a few months I thought that was it. Then COVID hit, I moved to Los Angeles, and a new wave came in. Food sensitivities I'd never had. Acne where there had never been acne. Anxiety that had nothing to do with anything I could name. I came off birth control. The wave got bigger.

The next several years were not pretty. I peeled back the layers slowly and messily. Low FODMAP. Cleaner eating. Cooking my way through every restriction I'd ever been given. Yoga. Somatic movement. Breath work. Journaling. Cycle tracking. Therapy. A partner who held the plan when I couldn't. Two years of acupuncture school.

I walked myself off the anti-anxiety meds. Off Adderall. Off birth control. Off weed. Off everything. None of it was linear. Most of it was harder than I want to admit, even now.

I went through the hard middle. And I came out the other side.

Coming Home

Functional Medicine and root-cause medicine were what finally clicked. I trained through the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy. I completed a 500-hour yoga teacher training. I started seeing my own clients. And somewhere in the middle of all of that, the truest thing I would ever learn finally landed:

My body was never broken. I just hadn't been taught how to listen to it.

I am whole. I am resilient. I can do hard things. I am enough, without any medication, no matter what I'm going through.

And so are you.

I do this work because I didn't have a coach when I needed one. If someone had walked alongside me, reassured me, educated me, held the plan when I couldn't, my healing would have been less lonely and less long. I don't want another woman to figure this out as alone as I did.

That's the work. That's why I'm here.

Walking Together

Three ways in.

If you're tired of figuring it out alone, here's where we begin together.

The Listening Session

60 minutes · one-time

For when you feel dismissed, overwhelmed, or stuck. I listen. I reflect what your body has been telling you. I help you see what kind of support you actually need next. No commitment beyond the session.

The Walk-Alongside Package

3-month 1:1 coaching partnership

My signature offering. I walk alongside you while you navigate gut symptoms, food sensitivities, post-pill recovery, hormonal shifts, or nervous-system overwhelm, at your body's pace, not a protocol's pace. When you're ready to stop chasing fixes, slow down, and finally have someone hold the plan when you can't, this is where you land.

This isn't a protocol. It's a partnership designed to walk you through the messy middle and back to yourself. Weekly or biweekly 1:1 sessions, WhatsApp messaging support between calls, and a companion who stays.

Foundations Month

4 weeks · weekly sessions

A shorter way in. Four weekly 1-hour sessions plus messaging support, focused on getting you grounded: nervous system, sleep, and one or two foundational shifts you can actually feel. A way to feel out how we work together before committing to the full program.

The first step.

"You're perfect the way you are. I'm here to support the next move."

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coachingwithpenina@gmail.com @penina.g Venice, CA · working virtually with women everywhere