Dr. Shannon Windsor. DNM, Ph.D
Doctor of Natural Medicine

Thanks for letting me share my online world with you! 

If you follow me on any of my social media platforms, you may know that I speak the truth, call a spade a spade, and believe in being authentically and unapologetically me. I wish I could share my whole life story with you here, but I will stick with the Coles notes on how I got started on THIS amazing journey in my life! 

 

I haven’t always lived a healthy lifestyle and I wasn’t always confident in myself. Growing up, I struggled with my weight. Even though I was always active and involved in sports, I struggled with being a chubby kid, which followed me into my teenage years. Like many adolescents, I was really hard on myself and struggled with self-image, self-confidence, and finding the truly great qualities about myself. Instead, I played the comparison game, which took me down the road of having an eating disorder soon followed by digestive complications and food sensitivities. Post high school graduation, I went straight into College and University where weekend alcohol consumption was a regular activity.  

 

It wasn’t until I hit my mid 20’s finishing up the two University degrees that I started to realize that I needed to find out what was going on with my body and the digestive melodies that remained. This is where my journey with health, wellness, nutrition, and fitness began. The more I dove into health and wellness, the more I wanted to know. I loved learning about medicine, which took me down my first avenue career path as a primary care paramedic. I learned not only that I loved medicine, but I loved helping other people. I wanted to know more and I wanted to help people on a new, more advanced level. I quickly began a journey of a 3-year education and training program to become an Advanced Care Paramedic. Over the next several years, 12-14 hour shift work, endless over time, in conjunction with seeing constant trauma, started to leave me feeling mentally and physically drained. 

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All of the signs of PTSD started to become apparent. Not just apparent to myself, but to everyone around me, including my Fiancé (now husband) and the rest of my family. As time went on, I slowly began seeing a transformation in my personality. I wasn’t me anymore. I knew deep down that the answers lay in making a shift in my career. 

 

I began to dig deep and followed my own spiritual journey, which lead me down the path of becoming a certified yoga instructor (YTT 200). At the same time, I had begun to pursue my love and passion for health and wellness. The two things went hand in hand for me. With all of the digestive melodies that I had experienced, I decided to further educate myself and pursue my passion in becoming a certified health coach through the number one health and wellness school in the world, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. I started off by helping myself and then post-graduation began sharing my journey and helping others who began reaching out to me and looking for help in getting started on their journey!

 

I realized that I found my true calling! I began sharing my newfound solution to living a healthy lifestyle without it being difficult! I had previously spent years chasing diets, going to the gym, hiking, swimming, you name it, and never getting the results I was looking for! 

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My combination of 30-minute workouts that I can do at home, simple nutrition plans that focus on portion control, superfoods that give me the fuel I need to run my busy life, and above all, a community that is in my back pocket ready to teach, encourage, laugh, struggle and celebrate each other on this path. I am putting out less effort and time and getting WAY better results but most importantly, I'm free! Free of dieting, free from weight loss gimmicks free from hours at the gym, and free from searching for my career which allows me to express my true passion! Now, I help empower others to live their best lives and encourage them to be their best selves.

 

If my journey speaks to you, I would love to connect! I hope that you will be the next one to join me on this amazing journey! 

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 Shannon