HI, I’M ALISON HENKIN.

My personal health and wellness journey began in 2019.

After a tough year prior, I felt lost and found myself questioning who I was and what it was I needed to be doing. A friend invited me to the gym on a whim, and, it was awesome! I started lifting weights.  I’m talking like dead-lifts and bench press.  For me, it was an outlet.  It helped me lift my spirits through channeling all of my pain and frustrations into the gym. I was hyped, I was learning to love myself again.

 By the next fall, 10 months later, my motivation and passion began fizzling out. I started feeling burnt out, exhausted, and worst of all, I wasn’t seeing the results I expected.  I kept thinking—What’s the point? I am working out at least 5 days a week, why don’t I look like the other women I see on social media?

Something had to be missing and I needed answers.  

I started seeing a health and nutrition coach. WHICH. CHANGED. EVERYTHING.

I know it sounds obvious when I say it but, nutrition. Nutrition. Nutrition. NUTRITION.  

As I look back, it is no wonder why I would crash at 3pm on the couch every day I went to the gym. I did not know how to properly fuel my body. Understanding how and what to really eat was the game changer for me!  Once I learned how to properly, “fill my tank,” I was able to put in the same work at the gym but finally see the results I wanted in the mirror.

 The thing I realized was that I had no clue how to eat.  I based my understanding of eating on, perhaps, the diet culture in America -- low calories is weight loss.  FALSE!

 Along the way, I learned the purpose of every protein, carb or fat that I ate.  I learned to fuel my body. It allowed me to be able to work out harder in the gym and finally achieve my fitness goals.  The best part was that I also started thinking clearer, sleeping better, having more energy and becoming the BEST version of myself.  In just 3 months, I saw more changes than I had in the previous 10 months!

 For me, this “best-version-of-myself” also allowed me get back into hobbies that I once enjoyed, rebuild withering relationships and build new relationships with the people who I wanted to surround myself with.  I created a whole new lifestyle, a new way of being. Don’t get me wrong, I was happy before, but this felt like I was cleaning off a dusty mirror. I could always see myself in it, but now it was shiny and clear. It was a “you don’t know until you know” epiphany.

Nutrition, fitness, ane wellness became my passion. It was who I followed on social media, the books I read and the people I hung out with. I wanted to know and learn everything. This is what propelled me to get my certification in Health and Wellness Coaching and Personal Training.

My goal is to provide YOU the tools to create a lifestyle for YOU to love and feel your BEST. I want to give you that “ahah” moment that will propel you into living YOUR BEST LIFE.