Diane Greco Allen

I am presently a solo health coach, that focuses on awareness with relationships around food, eating patterns, and daily routines. I come from a large Italian family who value family traditions, and understand the deep attachment to food and family. While working together we will bring awareness to factors around emotional and stress eating, along with food allergens, sensitivities, intolerances that involve healing from life event's and needs. Managing my own acute pancreatitis and caregiver burnout as a Mother of 4 children while coordinating care for 2 parents with cancer, favoring a high carb diet, lack of sleep and self care, helped me understand some of the extremes & pain a client maybe experiencing.  As a carb smart cook, I teach others to invite safer organicflavors, foods, and comfort spices from childhood while embracing new medicinal fresh herbs to encourage more natural carb smart versions with balanced meal choices to prevent the onslaught of hormonal responses that lead to a weakened immune system leading to chronic infections, pain, digestive issues, and fatigue. Working together, we investigate what health obstacles you might be experiencing and goal(s) that you want to accomplish with our time together.The functional medicine approach dives in deeper to explore causes of pain, either from forms of food toxicity, external exposures, hormonal imbalances, or lack of nutritional food sources that may interfere with digestion and adequate absorption. I prefer to introduce the toxicity form prior to the initial meeting to see where you are presently and eventually will have you fill out a comprehensive form to understand what other issues may need addressed. We can develop a plan including short term goals, SMART goals, and a distant goal is set while using tools such as journaling, the 5 Points of Awareness, and 5W's I created, and other resources as we learn what learned habits might be getting in the way of wellness and a fully functional gut. I can also help guide the client and interpret recommendations from tests and lab work from the MD, DO, NP, or NN, or other health care professionals that you may be working with. Our time together is confidential and a judge free zone unless permissions are granted to share your progress.You can find my book It Might Be Your Pancreas: Natural Digestive Recovery & Pancreatitis Awareness on Amazon or on my websitewww.digestivedistresssolutions.com