Nourishing Women’s Brain Health, Hormonal Wellness, and Whole-Body Aging
Where Brain Health, Menopause, and Nutrition Come Together
I’m a Registered Holistic Nutritional Consultant, and like many women in midlife, I’ve traveled through more seasons than I can count. Menopause is one chapter, but it never arrives alone. Life brings pregnancies, stress, grief, joy, reinvention, and the kind of curveballs that leave a permanent imprint on both physical and mental health.
And here’s the part women tell me all the time, the part I’ve lived through myself. The old strategies stop working. Pushing harder stops working. Strict dieting stops working. Pretending you are fine stops working. Instead, you start dealing with menopause brain fog, memory lapses, low mood, anxiety spikes, and that creeping feeling of “am I losing my mind or what.”
I understand this on a personal level because I have lived through menopause, and I have also lived with a brain injury after 2 strokes. I know what it feels like when your brain does not behave the way it used to, you feel it in every corner of your life. That experience fuels the way I support women today.
Here’s the truth I’ve come to believe. Your brain and body are not failing. They are responding to hormonal changes that directly affect cognitive function. Estrogen plays a major role in memory, focus, and mental clarity, and when levels shift, your brain shifts too. Research shows that around 70 percent of women experience cognitive changes during perimenopause and menopause, including forgetfulness, trouble concentrating, slow processing, and overall mental fatigue.
Your body is asking for a new kind of support. Support that recognizes the connection between hormones, women’s brain health, emotional wellbeing, metabolic changes, stress levels, past health events, and yes, the lived reality of midlife cognitive changes. When we address all of it, women finally feel like themselves again.
What I Believe
- Your body isn’t broken. It’s wiser than you’ve been taught to believe.
- Aging isn’t decline. It’s evolution, and you get to decide how you meet it.
- Food, movement, and mindset are medicine. They nourish not just your cells but your
energy, clarity, and joy. - There’s no one-size-fits-all. You’ve lived too much life for cookie-cutter advice.
Credentials & Expertise - Why You Can Trust My Approach
This isn’t guesswork or Google searches. My work is grounded in years of education, specialized training, and hundreds of client transformations.
You deserve guidance from someone who doesn’t just understand what you’re going through but has the expertise to help you navigate it.
Here’s how my background equips me to support you:
Registered Holistic Nutritional Consultant (RHN) – I earned my designation from the Canadian School of Holistic Nutrition in 2017, specializing in women’s hormonal health, metabolism, and natural weight balance.
Certified in Adult Education (Dalhousie University) – Not all learning styles are the same. My background in adult education allows me to tailor my approach to your unique needs, ensuring that the strategies I share are easy to understand and apply.
Certified in David Wolfe’s Raw Nutrition – Bringing a deep understanding of nutrient-dense, plant-based foods, I help women nourish their bodies in a way that supports hormones, digestion, and long-term vitality.
Certified Reiki Master – Because true health isn’t just about food, I integrate energetic balance and stress management techniques to support your overall well-being, if you’re open to exploring the mind-body connection.
Extensive Experience in Holistic Wellness Clinics – I’ve had hundreds of meaningful conversations with women just like you, women who felt exhausted, disconnected from their health, and frustrated by weight that wouldn’t budge. These experiences have deepened my commitment to providing realistic, effective solutions that truly work.
Why I Do This Work
I’ve seen what happens when women try to push their way through menopause and midlife with outdated advice.
They end up exhausted, defeated, and struggling with menopause brain fog, memory lapses, and other midlife cognitive changes that leave them feeling disconnected from themselves.
I’ve lived it too. Like many of the women I support, I’ve faced major health challenges and significant hormonal shifts that forced me to rethink my approach to nutrition, energy, and women’s brain health. Those experiences changed how I work. When we address the full picture of what is happening in the body and the mind, including hormones, metabolism, stress, personal history, and cognitive function, women experience real and lasting transformation.
My Philosophy
Your body is not broken. The solution is not to “try harder”, it’s to work smarter with your biology, your history, and your life.
I believe in a whole-person approach that goes beyond “eat less, move more.” Together, we address:
- The hormonal shifts shaping your metabolism
- The physical impact of stress, injury, and past diets
- The emotional weight of life’s demands
- And the lifestyle patterns that either drain or restore your energy
What's Possible For You
When we address your body as the complex, adaptive system it is and support it with the right nutrition, movement, and restorative practices, everything starts to shift:
Your mornings stop feeling like a marathon. You wake up rested, alert, and ready to take on the day. No more dragging yourself out of bed or mainlining caffeine just to function.
The fog lifts. Your thoughts are sharper, your focus lasts longer, and you can finally trust your memory again instead of second-guessing yourself.
Your weight starts to respond without restriction. No more punishing workouts or tiny portions. Instead, you’ll watch your body recalibrate as your metabolism and hormones find their natural balance.
Movement feels good again. Your joints feel supported, your strength returns, and exercise becomes a source of energy not exhaustion.
Your mood steadies and your confidence grows. Emotional ups and downs soften, your resilience builds, and you feel grounded and in control instead of reactive and depleted.
You feel at home in your body again. Instead of fighting it, you trust it. You listen to what it’s telling you and it responds with vitality, clarity, and strength you may not have felt in years.
This isn’t about chasing who you used to be: it’s about building the health, energy, and confidence you need to thrive right now and in the years ahead.
Coach, Author, Survivor.
Kathleen knows first-hand the challenges of overcoming conventional medicine beliefs. After experiencing life-altering events, Kathleen became a Registered Holistic Nutritional Consultant in her province of Nova Scotia, Canada. As a past counsellor she is no stranger to dealing with external factors beyond our control and internal beliefs that hold us back.
Through her career Kathleen has discussed health concerns with over 20,000 people. She knows that optimal health is different from one person to the next.
“Her knowledge is vast. Her empathy is herculean.”, NGallant