Traci

To truly achieve your goals through nutrition and lifestyle change, a few key ingredients are needed. First, you need a guide to cut through the noise and help you identify what is actually relevant to your body, your symptoms and your goals. Second, any changes we make need to be simple enough to stick. Third, solid accountability is essential when it comes to deep-rooted behavior change. Food is emotional — it's part of our origin story,… and the reasons we eat the way we do can be personal and deeply subconscious. Some of those patterns trace back to the ways we weren't fully met as children. Having a partner who is genuinely in it with you is part of the healing. And finally, enjoyment is non-negotiable. Pleasure and ease aren't rewards for doing the work — they are part of the work. We don't need more rigidity, more to-do's, or more effort without reward. It can take years for the body to lose its footing. Healing doesn't happen overnight — but working methodically means the changes actually hold, because they're built on your direct experience rather than theories or shoulds.

I didn’t originally set out to become a nutritionist. I began as a chef — someone who was captivated by the alchemy of a good meal. Like Babette in Babette’s Feast, I’ve always been fascinated by the way ingredients transform, how a meal can communicate love, creativity, and comfort, and how food can shift the energy in a room. After twenty-five years in the culinary world — as a chef, bakery owner, and caterer — I watched people’s struggles… with food grow more complex. Allergies, intolerances, chronic inflammation, hormone imbalances, digestive issues… things our grandparents rarely dealt with. When an injury ended my cooking career, I finally had the time and space to ask the questions that had been simmering for years: Why can’t most of us eat the way we used to? Why are so many people dealing with autoimmune-like symptoms? Where is all this discomfort coming from? My search for answers led me to Functional Nutrition. For the first time, I found a framework that explained the why, and — more importantly — offered a way to address each person’s unique physiology, lifestyle, and history. These tools changed my own life: I reversed severe seasonal allergies, uncovered the root cause of debilitating cramps, healed persistent skin rashes, transformed my sleep through perimenopause, corrected pre-diabetes blood sugar levels, and learned how to nourish and move my body for the stage of life I’m in now. I’ve guided clients through hormone imbalance, Candida, gut dysbiosis, IBS, interstitial cystitis, chronic migraines, SIBO, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome, persistent inflammation, and more. My work is deeply practical: real food, real habits, realistic change that actually works. But there’s a quieter layer woven through everything I do — one that many of my clients feel but don’t always have words for. My background in embodiment work, nervous system regulation, and spiritual growth shapes the way I guide women. I hold a grounded, attuned presence that helps people slow down enough to hear their own bodies again. The transformation isn’t just nutritional; it’s energetic. It’s a return to aliveness. I believe pleasure is a core part of healing — that food should feel like nourishment and connection, not punishment. My aim is to help you create a relationship with food and your body that is both supportive and deeply enjoyable. I live in West Marin with my husband and two children. I’m fluent in Spanish and have traveled extensively through Latin America — on foot, in the backs of trucks, on river pangas, in cattle cars, and sometimes hitchhiking. One of my greatest adventures was living (and cooking!) on a sailboat with my family for two years. These experiences shape the way I see health, resilience, and the rhythms of a well-fed life.