Hello + Welcome!
Midlife is about being energetic and resilient in a whole new way.
If your body feels unfamiliar in perimenopause or menopause, you’re not alone.
As a Board-Certified Holistic Nutritionist and Transformational Coach, I’ll guide you through a transformative journey so you can feel strong, radiant, and vibrant for years to come.
Midlife can change a lot. Your metabolism, sleep, digestion, stress levels, hormones, and body composition may all start to feel different—and the things that worked for you in your 20s and 30s may not work the same way now.
The Midlife Vitality Method takes a whole-body approach to helping you feel better, get stronger, and stay healthy as you move through midlife.
Here’s what we focus on:
Creating sustainable nutrition, movement, sleep, and stress-management habits
Stabilizing blood sugar for consistent, all-day energy
Supporting adrenal and thyroid health
Preserving muscle and protecting bone
Calming inflammation
Optimizing gut health
Supporting estrogen and progesterone balance
Using herbs, targeted supplements when appropriate
We look deeper to understand what’s behind the symptoms.
And we build a body that can handle stress, sleep deeply, think clearly, and stay strong long-term.
Life is about finding a little balance—and enjoying both the chia and the chocolate.
Hello!
I’m Stephanie. I specialize in midlife women’s health, especially perimenopause and menopause, and I’ve spent over two decades helping women rebuild strength, clarity, and confidence in their bodies.
I’m a Board Certified Functional & Holistic Nutritionist, Transformational Coach, and longtime mind-body fitness instructor. I understand how essential muscle, proper nourishment, resilience, and hormone balance are in this stage of life.
But this work is personal, too!
Like many women, I’ve navigated digestive struggles, hormone shifts, and the confusing season of “why doesn’t what used to work… work anymore?”
Midlife doesn’t require restriction or exhaustion.
It requires strategy, support, and sustainable shifts.
I blend evidence-based nutrition, functional testing when appropriate, targeted supplementation, and strength-forward movement so you can feel vibrant, energetic, and resilient — not just for now, but for the decades ahead.
This chapter can be powerful.
“Stephanie helped bring me from sleeping 15 hours a day to being able to teach fitness classes! I so appreciate her supportive listening and digging in deep to figure out what was actually happening.”
—Lyn Lyndbergh
“I feel amazing, which has caused a ripple effect in my personal and professional life. Stephanie gave me the tools I needed to look and feel my very best (I've lost 30 lbs!), which as I've learned, starts from the inside. Thank you Stephanie, really truly!”
—Sherry
“Working with Stephanie has been miraculous. I have had trouble with my digestive system for many years – nausea, diarrhea, almost instant allergic type symptoms that caused great distress, shaking that would go on for hours. One of my worried daughters suggested I speak to Stephanie. Now I’ve not only changed my diet, I've changed my attitude toward the food I eat. I feel healthier, more confident, and rarely have any of my previous symptoms and can sleep without sleeping pills. A sincere and heartfelt thank you for taking on my deeply entrenched food issues, and my psychological issues around food, and helping me overcome them. A gift beyond price."
-Leslie
"I've lost weight, I have won my battle with acid reflux disease, my stomach issues are gone (no dairy anymore!) and believe it or not-my vision has improved! Since I'm the "cook" in my family, my whole family has seen the benefits-especially my husband who has lost weight and whose cholesterol levels have lowered. Stephanie has worked so closely with me to help me develop an individualized food plan that works for me and my family. I highly recommend her!”
—Lisa
“All of my many results include: a healthy digestive system, a stronger and leaner body, steady energy without ups and downs, and losing 7 pounds. And the most important result: I feel great.
It's the best investment in my health and wellbeing I have ever made. Thank you, Stephanie.”
—Elizabeth
“My body feels free of aches and my joints are free of pain. Often when I would sit and then get up my joints would be stiff and painful. This is gone. I feel lighter and lithe. I can pick my grandsons up and throw them around. I feel clear headed and more in touch with my intuition. I have lost the fat around my middle. I weighed 135.5 before and I am at 125.5 now. In the past I have had some IBS symptoms but those are all clear. In short I simply feel better and happier."
—Lydia
“I have never been a fan of the "quick fix" - You have given me real tools that I can use to change myself and my family. I am your huge fan!”
—Erin
One of the biggest predictors of whether we stay healthy, strong, and independent as we age has to do with muscle mass.
Along with declining bone density, muscle loss becomes one of the biggest drivers of metabolic disease, frailty, falls, and poor health later in life.
I want to share something important many don’t know: After 50, the body stops responding to force the way it once did.
The years you may have spent counting calories, doing extreme workouts (or any workout), following trendy health fads have stopped working. No matter what you try, it can feel like nothing makes a difference.
Social media is an onslaught of information that's so overwhelming! The truth is, studies show that protein intake does, indeed, need to increase during these years, and here are the reasons why:
1. Muscle Preservation in Hormonal Transition
With declining estrogen levels, our bodies become less efficient at building and maintaining muscle. Higher protein intake helps combat this, preserving our strength and vitality….
