Grateful Life Health
Finding Your Rhythm Through Life's Transitions
Ayurvedic Health Coaching for Parents of Tweens & Teens
Parenting tweens and teens is one of the biggest transitions in family life.
As your child grows into who they're becoming, you're often becoming someone new, too.
While your teen is navigating changing hormones, growing independence, and an evolving identity, you may be experiencing changing hormones, shifting energy, changing relationships, or simply wondering who you're becoming in this next chapter.
These aren't separate stories.
They're happening at the same time.
I help parents move through this season with greater steadiness by creating simple daily rhythms that support the body, mind, and nervous system. Together, we build the capacity to respond instead of react, recover more quickly from stressful moments, and care for ourselves with the same compassion we offer everyone else.
Because when a parent feels supported, the whole family benefits.
Find steadiness through your own season of change.
Hi, I'm Shannon.
I'm an Ayurvedic Health Counselor, yoga teacher, and fellow parent raising a tween and teen.
Living this season alongside the families I support, I've noticed something that isn't talked about nearly enough.
When we're raising adolescents, it's not just our children who are changing. We're changing, too.
One transition belongs to our children.
One belongs to us.
We tend to notice theirs.
We often overlook our own.
I've experienced how easy it is to pour everything into caring for your family while quietly setting yourself aside. Over time, I realized that supporting myself wasn't taking anything away from my family - it was one of the greatest gifts I could offer them.
Through Ayurveda, I discovered a way to support myself that felt sustainable, compassionate, and grounded in the reality that life is always changing.
Our children change. Our bodies change. Our relationships change. Our roles evolve. Our needs shift with each season of life. Rather than asking us to push through these transitions, Ayurveda invites us to create simple rhythms that support who we are in this season.
That's the perspective I bring to my work with parents.
Because when you feel more grounded, your family feels it too.
Maybe This Season Feels Familiar...
You're supporting a child who's changing in big ways...
...while quietly realizing you're changing, too.
Perhaps...
You're giving so much of yourself to everyone else that your own needs keep slipping to the bottom of the list.
You're carrying the emotional weight of parenting through adolescence while trying to navigate your own changing body, energy, or identity.
You find yourself reacting more than responding—not because you're failing, but because you're running on empty.
You're trying to support your child's growing independence while learning what your own next season looks like.
You miss feeling calm, steady, and connected to yourself.
You want to care for your family without losing yourself in the process.
Your child's transition deserves support.
So does yours.
What Changes When You're Supported
When your body, mind, and nervous system feel more supported, the challenges of parenting don't disappear—but your capacity to meet them begins to change.
Together, we can work toward:
Feeling steadier during stressful seasons instead of constantly running on empty.
Responding with greater patience instead of reacting from overwhelm.
Supporting your energy, sleep, digestion, and nervous system through simple daily rhythms.
Creating habits that feel sustainable for this season of life—not another impossible routine to maintain.
Caring for yourself without feeling guilty or believing you have to earn rest.
Feeling more present, connected, and at home in your own life.
Find your balance thru Ayurveda
The ancient science of Ayurveda is a holistic lifestyle practice that nourishes the body, mind and spirit, and can help bring you back to your natural state of health and harmony.
Meet Shannon
Hi, I’m Shannon! I’m an Ayurveda Health Counselor, Yoga Teacher, and Retreat Facilitator navigating the wild ride of motherhood with a tween and teen in Lakewood, Ohio.
I focus on whole-family wellness and support overstimulated, over scheduled, and overwhelmed parents of tweens and teens—guiding them to realize that the best way to care for their children is by starting with themselves.
I believe that the home environment plays a powerful role in a child’s health and well-being. When parents prioritize their own self-care, they not only feel more balanced and resilient—they also model for their children what it looks like to live with intention, compassion, and calm. Parents have the opportunity to show their kids that taking care of yourself is not selfish, but essential.
Through holistic diet and lifestyle tools, I help shift parents from busyness to balanced rhythms, burnout to brave body-listening, and boredom to everyday moments of bliss. I believe in bringing sacredness into daily life through greater awareness, presence, and self-love.
Ayurveda has profoundly influenced my life, giving me many tools and practices to enhance mindfulness, fluidity, and creativity. With a grateful and passionate heart, I am now called to share these tools and practices with others, and eager to empower clients by helping guide them to their natural state of wholeness and wellness.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I am not a nutritionist, dietitian, or therapist (although working together can be very therapeutic). I am a lifestyle coach and offer education, support and accountability. I will hold you to the flame and help you move past what’s uncomfortable, but be your biggest cheerleader at the same time. I help you hold gentleness and discipline at the same time. Ayurveda is very gentle, loving and adaptable to your modern life.
What clients are saying…
Give yourself some love.
Let’s face it: it’s hard to take care of ourselves. Not only is it hard to find the time, it’s often hard to let go of the guilt we feel when we put ourselves first. But remember, you can’t pour from an empty cup. The best gift you can share with the people you love is your own best self.
—John B