My work is rooted in whole health — caring for life as a system.
Weaving together self-awareness, daily practices, environment, purpose, and community into practical tools for sustainable change.

For nearly 30 years, I’ve been part of many people’s food and health journeys. I’ve supported clients through dietary challenges, habit change, life transitions, and periods of significant health transformation. Over time, I’ve come to see how positive change happens not through force or rigid perfection, but through sustainable rhythms and supportive systems that fit real life.

Earlier in my life/work, I held a more dogmatic view of health and nutrition. I believed strongly that plant-based and raw vegan approaches were the best path for everyone, and I witnessed many people experience profound improvements in their health, energy, weight, and vitality through those changes. At the same time, I also observed how rigid identification with any single approach — especially when tied to external factors or group identity — could become limiting, and sometimes harmful to long-term well-being.

My understanding of health has always been shaped by my lived experience. From a young age, health and illness were present in my family life. My father lived with lupus for decades, navigating chronic illness and long-term medication while also relying on meditation, mindfulness, yoga, and holistic approaches to healing. My mother worked in public health and recreation, further influencing my understanding of health as something shaped by systems, environment, and access — not just individual choice.

Growing up on the Canadian prairies, surrounded by large-scale industrial agriculture, also influenced how I think about health. Seeing the widespread use of chemical herbicides and pesticides led me to question the relationship between environmental practices, food systems, and human well-being.

Over the years, my studies and work have spanned natural health, nutrition, yoga, permaculture, organic farming, soil science, mental health, and holistic coaching. What emerged from that path is not a single method, but an integrated perspective.

Synthesizing Wholeness is the umbrella for this work — an approach to bringing together the many dimensions of health into something practical and livable. Coming Home to Health grew naturally from this synthesis, shaped by both professional experience and lived practice, including the work my wife Lisa and I do at Coming Home Farm, where health, art, land stewardship, and community meet.