Hi! I’m Jen

I'm the founder of POTS Warriors and a Holistic Health Coach in Texas. I've worked in fitness since 1994. Over those years I've trained clients, owned my own studio, and helped gyms and studios grow. I lived with POTS for decades before I was diagnosed in 2017. Today I coach adults with POTS, EDS, and MCAS online through the RISE Method, a framework I built from my own recovery and years of training.

The short version of my story

For more than 20 years, fitness was my business. On the outside I was the healthy one, working 60-hour weeks, training clients, raising a family. Behind the scenes I was the sickest I'd ever been. Racing heart, crashing blood pressure, constant nausea, migraines, temperature swings, GI chaos, adrenaline dumps that left me shaking. It ended with me passed out on the floor and a revolving door of hospital visits and heart monitors.

I saw eight specialists. One told me I just worked too much and should drink more energy drinks. (Yes, to a heart patient.) It was a coworker, not a doctor, who first said the word POTS. In 2017 a cardiologist confirmed it: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.

The treatment plan was "eat more salt and drink more water." Nobody mentioned the conditions that often travel with POTS, like EDS and MCAS, both of which I was later diagnosed with. Nobody explained how nutrition affects flares, how to pace energy, or how any of this would change my daily life. I figured it out alone.

What I do now

I've spent the years since turning that into a method. Certifications, workshops, research, and a lot of trial and error on my own body. The result is the RISE Method: Rebuild, Innerwork, Strengthen, Evolve. It's the plan I wish someone had handed me in 2017.