I’m Holly, a board-certified Functional Medicine health coach (NBHWC), clinical herbalist, and certified fasting coach with Dr. Mindy Pelz. I’m also a midlife woman who’s actually been there.
For most of my adult life, I practiced food as medicine, followed the rules, and did everything “right” only to find myself still edging into prediabetes. That moment broke something in me. It showed me the answer wasn’t just to be “better” with food. In fact, what I needed wasn’t about food at all. My midlife metabolism needed a completely different kind of care.
I started experimenting on myself first: using therapeutic fasting, and feasting with Functional Medicine food precepts, and somatic tools to restore my metabolic flexibility with the least possible symptoms. Over time, I brought those same frameworks to my private coaching work, refining them with real women’s bodies and real midlife lives. The program that became Ember is the one I wish had existed for me.
Inside The Ember Reset, we blend the science of fasting with blood sugar literacy, GLP-1 informed principles, and nervous system informed coaching. We use structure and tools—clear fasting “bumper lanes,” symptom-guided hacks, and food frameworks that honor feasting while also slowing things down, listening to the body, and rebuilding your metabolism in a way that honors your lived experience.
My work is shaped by years in wellness, bodywork, and functional health, along with time living and studying across different cultures. It sits at the intersection of modern metabolic research, somatic awareness, and contemplative traditions. More than anything, I built Ember to help midlife women feel at home in their skin again, steady their energy and moods, and reconnect with the spark they thought they’d lost.
If Ember speaks to where you are now, I invite you to complete the form below and take the next step.
