Grateful Life Health
Whole Family Wellness Begins with You
An Ayurvedic Path for Parents Who Want to Support Their
Tweens & Teens—By Starting With Themselves
Hey there, I’m Shannon!
I’m an Ayurveda Health Counselor, yoga teacher, nature lover, and fellow parent in the messy middle years of motherhood with a tween and teen. If you’ve landed here, there’s a good chance you’re in this season of parenting too.
I help busy parents of tweens and teens create more sustainable rhythms in daily life so they can feel calmer, more grounded, and more present — even in the midst of parenting’s emotional roller coaster.
Through Ayurveda, I help parents build supportive routines and regulate their nervous systems so they can move through parenting with greater steadiness and self-awareness.
As both an Ayurvedic practitioner and a parent, I know how easy it is to care for everyone else first. I also know that when parents feel nourished and supported, the whole family benefits.
You deserve support, nourishment, and steadiness in this season too — and you don’t have to do it alone.
Parenting tweens and teens is beautiful, exhausting, emotional, hilarious… and a lot.
You’re holding space for anxiety, attitude, hormones, heartbreak, social media, and growing independence — while trying to stay grounded yourself.
How is it possible that they want independence but also need you constantly?
No one warns you that this stage of parenting requires so much emotional resilience.
The diaper bags and nap schedules are long gone.
Now you’re:
navigating fiery tempers and slammed doors
decoding one-word answers
enforcing screen limits while being dramatically informed that “everyone else gets more time”
spending half your life reminding people to charge their devices and drink water
wondering why no one closes cabinets
somehow functioning as your family’s unpaid Uber service
“To put the world right in order we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.” - Confucius
Benefits of an Ayurvedic Lifestyle for Parents (and Their Teens)
Benefits of an Ayurvedic Lifestyle for Parents (and Their Teens)
Promotes Emotional Balance
Regular routines, grounding practices, and diet based on individual constitution (mind/body type) help stabilize emotions and reduce reactivity—beneficial for parents and tweens & teens alike.Encourages Self-Awareness
Ayurveda teaches mindfulness of body, mind, and spirit, helping parents reconnect with themselves and model emotional intelligence to their tween & teens.Builds a Calm, Grounded Presence
Daily self-care rituals (like abhyanga, meditation, and breathwork) cultivate inner calm, creating a ripple effect of peace in the home.Improves Sleep and Energy
Ayurvedic routines align with natural circadian rhythms, enhancing rest and vitality, which improves patience and presence with children.Reduces Stress and Anxiety
Natural tools like herbs, diet, and lifestyle practices help reduce chronic stress—essential when navigating tween & teenage years with more grace.Teaches the Power of Consistency and Rhythm
Kids thrive on structure even if they resist it! A parent who follows daily rhythms models the safety and stability that tweens & teens often need but don’t know how to ask for.Connects Family to Nature and Simplicity
Ayurveda encourages seasonal living, time in nature, and simplifying life—all of which can help the whole family feel more grounded and connected.Fosters Compassion and Empathy
Understanding one's own mind-body type (mind/body type) increases empathy—for yourself and your child’s unique constitution and emotional patterns.Prevents Burnout
Ayurveda views self-care as a necessity, not a luxury. Parents who fill their own cup have more to offer and are less likely to burn out in their caregiving role.Creates a Harmonious Home Environment
When parents feel balanced and nourished, they naturally create an atmosphere of calm, safety, and trust—key ingredients for tween & teen emotional health.
Find out how Ayurveda Health Coaching can help YOU!
Schedule a FREE
30-minute Clarity Call
How I Work With Parents
In my 6-month 1:1 Ayurvedic coaching program, I guide you away from an exhausting focus on your tween/teen’s symptoms—and toward your own inner rhythm.
Together, we’ll build sustainable habits that help you:
Restore your nervous system
Deepen your mind-body connection
Improve sleep, digestion, and energy
Reduce stress and overwhelm
Prevent burnout with simple daily self-care
Become a calm, clear, emotionally resilient guide for your child
Ready to Begin?
This work is deep, gentle, and transformative. It’s not about perfection—it’s about presence. When you start tending to your own wellness, you change the entire emotional ecosystem your teen grows in.
Let’s create a grounded, nourishing foundation—starting with you.
Coaching that can change your life.
I offer customized, one-on-one coaching that is tailored to YOU!
Ayurveda is over 5,000 years old, and there's a lot to learn! I offer a 6-month health coaching program that focuses on gradual, sustainable lifestyle changes, not quick fixes. Ayurveda is about identifying unhelpful patterns and making lasting shifts for overall well-being. The goal is to help you reconnect with your true nature and better understand how to care for your physical, mental, emotional, energetic, and spiritual needs.
My six-month Ayurveda Health Coaching Program provides a loving framework to explore and support your individual needs and goals. The program is structured enough to provide accountability and measurable progress, and also spacious enough to organically unfold and adapt. It is a lived experience of customized self care, and can help you find balance amidst the chaos of modern life. Ayurveda offers guidelines for supporting digestion (of food AND life!), regulating the nervous system, and supporting mental wellness. It taps into your own body’s wisdom, focusing on ritual and routine to help you move more calmly and mindfully through life.
Find your balance thru Ayurveda
The ancient science of Ayurveda is a holistic lifestyle practice that nourishes the body, mind and spirit, and can help bring you back to your natural state of health and harmony.
Meet Shannon
Hi, I’m Shannon! I’m an Ayurveda Health Counselor, Yoga Teacher, and Retreat Facilitator navigating the wild ride of motherhood with a tween and teen in Lakewood, Ohio.
I focus on whole-family wellness and support overstimulated, over scheduled, and overwhelmed parents of tweens and teens—guiding them to realize that the best way to care for their children is by starting with themselves.
I believe that the home environment plays a powerful role in a child’s health and well-being. When parents prioritize their own self-care, they not only feel more balanced and resilient—they also model for their children what it looks like to live with intention, compassion, and calm. Parents have the opportunity to show their kids that taking care of yourself is not selfish, but essential.
Through holistic diet and lifestyle tools, I help shift parents from busyness to balanced rhythms, burnout to brave body-listening, and boredom to everyday moments of bliss. I believe in bringing sacredness into daily life through greater awareness, presence, and self-love.
Ayurveda has profoundly influenced my life, giving me many tools and practices to enhance mindfulness, fluidity, and creativity. With a grateful and passionate heart, I am now called to share these tools and practices with others, and eager to empower clients by helping guide them to their natural state of wholeness and wellness.
Disclaimer: I am not a medical professional. I am not a nutritionist, dietitian, or therapist (although working together can be very therapeutic). I am a lifestyle coach and offer education, support and accountability. I will hold you to the flame and help you move past what’s uncomfortable, but be your biggest cheerleader at the same time. I help you hold gentleness and discipline at the same time. Ayurveda is very gentle, loving and adaptable to your modern life.
What clients are saying…
Give yourself some love.
Let’s face it: it’s hard to take care of ourselves. Not only is it hard to find the time, it’s often hard to let go of the guilt we feel when we put ourselves first. But remember, you can’t pour from an empty cup. The best gift you can share with the people you love is your own best self.
—John B