WELCOME TO ROOTED HOLISTIC HEALTH COACHING

My Journey Became My Purpose. My Purpose Became My Mission.

I never imagined that some of the most difficult years of my life would ultimately lead me to discover my greatest purpose.

Despite being a Registered Nurse with years of clinical experience, I found myself struggling with debilitating health challenges that left me exhausted, frustrated, and searching for answers.

For five years, I visited eight different specialists, collected multiple diagnoses, and spent tens of thousands of dollars on treatments, generic programs, and quick fixes that promised results but delivered little lasting change.

I knew there had to be a better way.

Refusing to accept that this was simply how I had to live, I began looking beyond symptoms and exploring the deeper connections between nutrition, gut health, stress, mindset, nervous system regulation, and the many factors influencing our health.

That decision changed everything.

As I began addressing the underlying factors contributing to my health challenges, I finally started experiencing the improvements I had spent years desperately searching for. I regained my energy, reclaimed my health, and, most importantly, rediscovered hope.

But something even more meaningful emerged from that experience.

I knew I couldn’t keep what I had learned to myself.

I thought about the countless people who were still struggling, including the many patients I had cared for throughout my nursing career who left appointments with another prescription or treatment plan focused primarily on managing symptoms, but little guidance on addressing the underlying factors contributing to their health challenges.

I thought about those spending their hard-earned money on programs and quick fixes that failed to deliver lasting results, feeling frustrated, defeated, and wondering if they would ever feel like themselves again.

I wanted to create something different.

A trusted place where people felt heard, understood, and supported. Where they could stop guessing, begin understanding their bodies, and receive personalized guidance grounded in clinical experience, holistic health principles, and sustainable behavior change.

I wanted to help others find their way back to health and wholeness without having to endure the same years of frustration and suffering that I had experienced.

And that is how Rooted Holistic Health Coaching was born.

From Transforming Individual Lives to Strengthening Organizations

As I began working with individuals, I witnessed incredible transformations. Clients were improving their metabolic health, losing stubborn weight, restoring their energy, and developing healthier habits that finally delivered the results they had been searching for.

But I began noticing something important.

While individuals were making remarkable progress, many were returning each day to environments that made maintaining those changes incredibly difficult.

Long hours, chronic stress, demanding workloads, limited opportunities for movement, and workplace cultures that often rewarded pushing through exhaustion were working against the very habits we were trying to build.

I recognized this pattern because I had lived it.

During my nursing career, I watched nearly an entire hospital department experience turnover as dedicated healthcare professionals struggled under the weight of increasing demands. Looking back, burnout was a significant driving force. We were expected to care for everyone else, yet rarely given the tools, education, or support to care for ourselves.

Throughout my nursing career, I also witnessed the devastating impact of chronic disease on individuals, families, and our healthcare system. What troubled me most was knowing that many of these conditions could be prevented, significantly improved, or, in some cases, put into remission through sustainable lifestyle changes.

I realized that helping people change their habits was only part of the solution. We also needed to address the environments influencing those habits every single day.

That realization inspired me to expand Rooted into corporate wellness.

Today, my mission is twofold: to empower individuals to take ownership of their health and to partner with organizations to create healthier, more resilient workplaces where people have the knowledge, tools, and support to thrive.

By combining nearly 30 years of clinical experience with advanced training in holistic health, neuroscience, nutrition, and behavioral change, I bring a whole-person approach to wellness that goes beyond temporary fixes.

Because true wellness isn’t simply about helping people get healthier. It’s about creating the conditions that allow them to stay healthier.

What began as my personal journey to reclaim my health has grown into a mission to transform the way we approach health and well-being—one individual, one team, and one organization at a time.

And at the heart of it all is the same promise that inspired me to begin:

To help others find the answers, guidance, and support I once desperately needed, so they can spend less time struggling and more time truly living.

Jennifer Jenkins, RN, CHC, FNS, RYT, NLP-C
Founder, Rooted Holistic Health Coaching