Paula DeFreitas
Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach Serving the Greater Sacramento Area and Beyond!
About The Coach
Paula DeFreitas
Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach
Let me lead you through a client-centered process to support your health.
Phone: (480)650-1074
Email: tandem57@gmail.com
“First, I wrote for a friend’s fortieth...
Age is no respector of persons...
Seniors, babies, teens, middle somethings,
Grasp for things beyond reach,
(I’ll do it myself)
Denying the need for help,
Ignored...
Their whines, cries and yells,
Attitudes from hell,
Obliterate the poise
Their age expects from them.
Acting one’s age needs a director and a script,
And... an audience,
Paying the price of a smash hit,
The actors’ names in lights,
Heralded for whines, cries and yells
Identifying
Everyone.
Then, I thought...
Age is a declaration...
...of infirmities
...of strengths
...of proof of being
Age is a place...
...of restraint
...of restriction
...of restructure
Age is not all at once...
...but acquired
...and rejected
Age is mercurial matter...
...visible mostly to others
...a fluctuating response to needs
...moments
I concluded...
A Lifetime is
The frozen flavor of youth
Puddled at the feet
Of an age’d senior.”
““There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren’t inhibited by traumas and are given half a chance, it shines through.””
Not only does functional medicine get to the root cause, but my personal ‘roots’ of eating, cooking and growing up in an Italian household, came right back at me during the time of my life when I needed and wanted deeper meaning. So, back to school for a rigorous year of study and practical applications at the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy (recognized by the NBCHWC) with additional courses at California State University Sacramento in Nutrition and Wellness, plus ongoing classes at CulinaryMedicine.org and an intense 5-day study with Dr. James Gordon at the Center of Mind Body Medicine, I am ready and willing to do my part if you do yours!
I am a Functional Medicine Health Coach, food and wine consultant, champion cyclist, and quality driven human optimizer! Together, we can create the best road map to YOUR optimal wellness.
My Certifications
My Favorite Reading Materials
By Maria Popova
“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of seeing. To listen takes time, too — to learn to hear and befriend the world within and the world without, to attend to the quiet voice of life and heart alike. “If we were not so single-minded about keeping our lives moving, and for once could do nothing,” Pablo Neruda wrote in his gorgeous ode to quietude, “perhaps a huge silence might interrupt this sadness of never understanding ourselves.”
This inspiriting, sanctifying power of listening is what writer Holly M. McGhee and illustrator Pascal Lemaître explore in the simply titled, sweetly unfolding Listen (public library) — a serenade to the heart-expanding, life-enriching, world-ennobling art of attentiveness as a wellspring of self-understanding, of empathy for others, of reverence for the loveliness of life, evocative of philosopher Simone Weil’s memorable assertion that “attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.”