Welcome to Elevated Living!
Sondra in her element: snow & trees all around, sweater, hat and Sorel snow boots on.
Sondra & and one of her dogs Larry David (aka LD) hiking a trail in Prescott, AZ.
Sondra doing yoga on the rocks in Breckenridge, Colorado.
Hi There!
I am so glad you stopped by to get to know me better so that you can figure out if I am the right coach for YOU.
I am Sondra, Owner and Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach at Elevated Living. I am also a seasoned Occupational Therapist with 15+ years of experience working in various frontline healthcare settings & schools. I have spent my career as an OT working with patients and clients of all ages from various backgrounds; helping them navigate and heal from life changing injuries, illnesses, and traumas.
In that process, I've learned transformational life lessons from my patients; lessons about fear, persistence, determination, acceptance, patience and triumph. One of the most important and reoccurring lessons I have learned in my career, and continue to be reminded of, is about the importance of priorities and values. For example:
What is most important in life?
What actually matters to me?
Am I living my values or am I merely professing them?
Where am I succeeding and where am I missing the mark?
Asking myself the tough questions has opened up a whole new level of being that has allowed me to live my life with clear intention and less out of reaction. These are some of the core philosophies I bring into my coaching practice.
But why work with me?
As a lifelong learner, Nationally Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach and a 200-hour trained Integrated Vinyasa Yoga™ teacher, I have been taught, educated and coached by some amazing powerhouse humans. I have invested thousands of hours into my own personal growth and development through various coaching programs, Yoga Teacher Training through the Colorado School of Yoga and worked with a number of coaches and therapists throughout my life to help me grow through various life transitions and health challenges of my own. I have a wealth of personal experience dealing with food allergies/sensitivities, Anxiety, Depression, Psoriasis, concussions, and a very traumatic miscarriage at 10 weeks that ultimately altered the course of my adult life. I have found numerous ways and modalities to heal and grow from all the health challenges I have faced in my own life and it is my mission to help you do the same!
Malcolm Gladwell, author of 'Outliers,' 'The Tipping Point' and 'Blink', has said, "Researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.” I've certainly invested AT LEAST 10,000 hours into my personal growth and development and who better to become your coach than a devoted student of life?
If you are tired of living life on auto-pilot, feeling energetically depleted and disconnected from joy, peace and ease, then let’s chat. You deserve so much more than living just to work. So if you ready to make the greatest investment of your life, in YOURSELF, then let’s go. Schedule your FREE consultation call today!
“Sondra is a great listener, asks insightful questions, is supportive in an unconditional/non-shaming manner, is honest and open in a genuine and down to earth way that made me feel like we were a really good fit. Sondra’s superpower is asking thoughtful growth questions and making recommendations that are realistic.”