Your Nourishing Roots Coaching Team
Renee Williams
Biochemist &
Certified Health Coach
It's my belief that "health coaching" isn't about convincing you to commit to one diet, treatment, or one way of living. Instead, I acknowledge that bio-individuality (the concept that each person has a unique set of emotional, physical, and lifestyle needs) can work synergistically with a person's biochemistry to achieve greater vitality.
I spend time getting to know my clients to determine what information is needed to elucidate the biochemical dysregulation in their bodies. By doing additional investigation that the physicians do not always have time for, I can help my clients make connections that lead to a better understanding of why they are suffering.
I can work with physicians along with clients to take the steps to alleviate what is causing their pain. Through lifestyle changes, emotional awareness, balancing the microbiome, restoring digestive function and addressing nutritional deficiencies, my clients are able to alter their trajectory from slow physical decline to one of repair, regeneration, and healing.
The answers to healing are found within the individual. By asking the right questions, clients find those answers and identify the obstacles that need to be addressed. This information combined with lab data helps the client and me to develop a plan for regeneration and repair for their body and their wellbeing. I am passionate about finding better answers that bring true understanding. The result of this combination brings hope, which is essential in any healing process.
Juli Larsen
Certified Meditation &
Mindfulness Facilitator
I specialize in women’s small group meditation classes, but also work with private clients. I currently offer in-person and online meditation opportunities. I deeply believe that, if you “quiet your mind, your soul will speak”(- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati). I believe that each of us has a well of wisdom within us that, if consulted, can offer us guidance and direction.
I took my first Mindfulness and Relaxation at Brigham Young University, where I earned my B.A. in Health Promotions. Though college feels like a lifetime ago, I continue to learn and pursue my passions in wellness and emotional/spiritual development.
I have developed meditations for noted Marriage and Sexuality Therapist Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife’s women’s retreats. I have also crafted and recorded meditations based on shared experiences for a collaborative book project called: Narratives in the Clinic.
I work primarily with women who are looking to find more stillness and purpose in their life. These women are amazingly resilient. They have huge hearts that are capable of holding a lot of pain, as well as joy. It has been my deepest honor to sit with women in both pain and joy, to feel their nobility, as they continue to strive to become a stronger, more capable and compassionate version of themselves. I am their biggest cheerleader because it’s a path that I have also walked. I know this path, and I’m still learning to walk it with humility and gratitude everyday.
Meredith Gardner
Holistic Master Certified Life Coach
In 2018, I found myself caring for both of my parents—my dad with Parkinson’s and my mom with pancreatic cancer. It was a tender, overwhelming season, and I needed more than just strength to get through it.
The tools I discovered through The Life Coach School and Better Than Happy podcasts helped me navigate that time with more calm, clarity, and compassion—for them and for myself.
For most of my life, my inner critic had been loud and relentless, constantly analyzing and second-guessing everything I did. It was exhausting.
When I caught myself criticizing how I showed up even in my mom’s final moments, I knew something had to change.
I stopped trying to silence that voice and learned to meet it with understanding instead. That shift changed everything.
I certified as a Life Coach in 2019 with The Life Coach School. In 2024 I began a certification with Molly Claire Coaching to become a Holistic Master Coach. This helped me become trauma-informed and use knowledge about the autonomic nervous system to serve clients in a powerful way.
The use of mindset work, nervous system regulation, emotional processing (including EFT/Tapping), and identifying effective action assures that, together, we will find the approach that is most beneficial for you.
Leslie Merrell
Certified Life Coach
Just a few short years ago, I did not like my life and I did not like myself. I found parenting incredibly challenging, stressful, and unrewarding. I was exhausted, and full of resentment and self-loathing. My most important relationships felt like withering house plants--neglected, needing nourishment and sunshine, and I felt inadequate and ill-equipped to do anything about it.
Life coaching changed the way I view and approach my relationships. I learned why I was so tired and resentful, and what to do about it. I learned a better way to love and care for myself and others.
Returning to the house plant analogy, I had figured out how to get the care and nourishment I needed to truly thrive. As I learned and applied truth, you might say I breathed out cleaner oxygen for the benefit of those I love.
I love my relationships now! They aren't perfect, but I wouldn't trade them for anything.
I love and trust my ability to navigate relationship challenges now. Not perfectly, but honestly, perfection is over-rated. I would rather embrace the full, fantastic, and flawed reality of me and my life.
I specialize in helping my clients learn better ways to love and care for themselves and their relationships, as they learn to trust their own inner wisdom and strength to create the life they want.