As a dental surgeon, health coach, writer, and painter from France, I have worn a lot of hats, but it is my passion for functional medicine, mental health, integrative nutrition, and self-discovery that truly sets me apart.
About Me
Hi, it's me, Sophie!
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After suffering from eating disorders, bloating, and digestive issues for many years, I left my career in France and moved to the United States. What followed was harder than I expected: hormonal imbalances, depression, and a long stretch of feeling completely lost in a country where my degree meant nothing and I could not legally work. After months of feeling hopeless and frustrated, I decided to stand up for myself. That is when I discovered a new level of health, wellness, and a healthier lifestyle, and it became the starting point of my healing journey.
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I studied medicine and dentistry the Western way and, ironically, found all the answers I needed at this pivotal moment in my life in Ancient Medicines like Ayurveda and Chinese Medicine, before devouring books about Functional Medicine and enrolling at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition to earn my Health Coach degree. I discovered the research about longevity and lifestyle and decided to use what nature has to offer to optimize the "Biohacking" tools I could implement in life to feel better, to be better, to live longer, healthier, and stronger.
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I developed my wisdom, creativity and consciousness by designing and adopting a new way of living and being. I now feel fulfilled by teaching and sharing my passion for life using nutrition and daily health habits as my favorite natural biohacking tools.
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Adopting a healthy, clean, plant-based diet has been life-changing for me. It increased my clarity, balanced my (shaky) moods, gave me more energy, and above all resolved my eating disorders and digestive issues. But my philosophy comes back to bio-individuality and the "you do you" concept. I truly believe we go through different chapters in life, and our bodies need different things in each one. I sometimes add high-quality animal protein to my meals when I feel the need, and that feels good too!
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Somewhere in all of this, I started writing. Every day, for years, because it was the only thing that made sense of what I was going through. That writing became a book: Who The F*** Are You?, fifteen dates with yourself and one new beginning. Fifteen honest appointments with the parts of us we tend to avoid: our fears, our needs, our relationship with money, with food, with our bodies, with the things we reach for when we are uncomfortable. It is the book I needed when I had no idea who I was, and I cannot wait to put it in your hands.
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I see life as a self-experience to bring my own recipe for wellness to life and enjoy sharing what works for me, thinking maybe it could work for you.
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Love, S
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Read One
I called it independence
For years I could not accept help. Someone offering to carry something, pay for dinner, drive me somewhere. I had a reflex answer ready before the sentence was finished, and the answer was always no.
I told myself it was independence. I was proud of it, actually. I thought needing nobody was a strength I had built.
It took me an embarrassingly long time to see it for what it was. If I never accepted anything, I never owed anything. If I never owed anything, nobody could ever hold it over me. I wasn't independent. I was collateralising every relationship I had against a debt I was terrified of carrying.
And the cost was not what I expected. It was that I never let anyone feel useful to me. Which is one of the main ways people love each other, and I had quietly closed it off in every direction.
I'm still not good at this. But I notice the reflex now, and sometimes I let the sentence finish before I answer.
When someone last offered you something, what did you say, and what were you protecting?
This week: Say yes to one thing you'd normally decline. Notice what happens in your body.
Until our next date,
Sophie