Meet Your Coach

Meet Your Coach...

Hi, I'm Dr Jenny Connor and I'm a health and lifestyle coach.

After a successful medical career of 40 years and running a dance school for 10 years, I retired from the NHS and became a farmer, rewilder, fruit grower, food producer, sustainability educator, and wellness practitioner.

I went on to study whole food plant based nutrition coaching, vegan nutrition, and root cause organ-mind-brain-anatomy lifestyle medicine coaching, including tools such as EFT Tapping, and EMDR.

Now I'm a lifestyle medicine and whole-food-plant-based nutrition coach who partners with people who are seeking to feel happier and healthier, and who are ready to start making better lifestyle choices.

With my diverse knowledge and experience of healing in all its forms, and my own personal lived experience including oh so many challenges, I'm very well placed to understand your situation and to support you to move into the better future you dream of.

Challenges at Home or Work

If you are facing life or work challenges such as burnout, loss of direction, uncertainty about career choice, career development, moving home or location, relationship challenges, in fact facing any change or challenge, I can help.

We often underestimate the stresses that life changes bring for us and we are not always aware of how these stresses affect our behaviours and limit our possibilities.

I work with you to help you to overcome fears and uncertainties, and to choose new life habits that empower you to enjoy a happier and healthier lifestyle aligned with your true beliefs.

Health Challenges

If you are struggling with poor health, low energy, poor sleep, and either over- or under-weight, and wish to improve nutritional health and wellbeing, I will support you to transition towards Whole Food Plant Based eating.

The old adage of "We are what we Eat" is 100% true.

The food we eat is central to how we feel and fundamentally important to our long term health and longevity.

Transitioning towards a Whole Food Plant-Based diet can unlock the doors to better mood, better sleep, better concentration, better relationships, increased energy, improved weight control, and better control or reversal of chronic illness.

The science is very clear. Eat only Plants, and Lots of Them.

Whatever we try to do around our exercise, our mental and emotional wellbeing, our social connections, if we don't eat the right foods for our bodies and minds to thrive rather than survive, we will always only get a temporary fix, that is quickly unraveled when we stop doing the 'thing', be that a weight loss programme or going to the gym.

Whatever your reason for changing to a Whole Food Plant Based diet - to overcome personal health challenges, to make a contribution to ecological sustainability, or by concerns for animal welfare and wishing to follow a vegan lifestyle - I will help you easily make the transition, learning everything you need to know to stay healthy and fit.

I'm here to support you through these changes to restore your good health and your optimism for the future.

The Power of Plants

I experienced first hand the transformative Power of Plants, transitioning to vegan myself from 2016 for the animals, discovering as an unexpected bonus that I lost some excess weight and felt much healthier eating only plants. I subsequently discovered the impacts our food choices have on the environment and the survival of our species or its demise. Extensive research into the Power of Plants led me to study and gain a Diploma in Vegan Nutrition, followed by a certificate in Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition Coaching, from the Food Revolution Network in North America, then further study into Root Cause Lifestyle Medicine and Organ Mind Brain Anatomy, joining all the dots of Health and Wellbeing.

With my previous career as a doctor, now vegan farmer, forager, whole food plant-based nutrition coach, and Lifestyle Medicine Coach, I really understand how Root Cause Lifestyle Medicine and the Power of Plants combine for Healing and Well-being. I know how to get behind the reasons you are where you are now and to unlock the obstacles and barriers you have put in your own way that prevent you from already living your best life.

As someone who has been that staff member who is under pressure at work and at home, too busy to eat the right food, grabbing snacks at the desk, or cakes, biscuits, chocolates and sweets brought in by colleagues to share, eating without really noticing, eating to relieve stress, eating for comfort to numb emotions, caught in that addictive loop of craving and reward, no time to exercise properly, gaining weight, paying no attention to my wellbeing, and ignoring my physical health, work and stress eating up my home life, trying my best to hold it all together, but ultimately burning out, I understand first hand the challenges many of us face every day. And I have come through all that and much more since, feeling happier and healthier than ever by changing habits, especially around eating and thinking. I wish I had known sooner the secrets to how to live a happier and healthier life, and I am passionate about sharing that positive experience and learning to help others.

Experience

I have helped a number of people and their families to make a successful journey to wellness and improved physical health, by embracing the journey to a whole food plant-based diet with all the joyful flavours and discoveries that brings. At the same time, helping to restore hope, and to resolve niggling physical symptoms and many rather challenging health issues, such as tired-all-the-time, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, pre-diabetes, type 2 diabetes, overweight, arthritis, and improving control of type 1 diabetes.

I have supported people facing work or life challenges such as burnout, loss of direction, career choice, career development, relationships, communications, and moving home.

I can support you through any challenge or change, helping to uncover and explore your limiting beliefs and underlying traumas, overcoming barriers to progress, and forming new helpful and empowering habits

If you have a challenge that you don’t know how to overcome or don't want to face alone, I can be there to support you along the journey to your desired outcome.

Qualifications.

MB.ChB. FRCR. MA(Leading Innovation & Change).

Vegan Nutrition Diploma - Centre of Excellence Quality Licence Scheme.

Certificate in Whole Food Plant Based Nutrition Coaching – Food Revolution Network

RHS Horticulture. Forest School Leader, CEVAS (farming and education)

Root Cause Lifestyle Medicine - Lifestyle Prescriptions University - current study

Other Life Experience

Medicine, Animal Care, Horticulture, Farmer, Teacher, Trainer, Mentor, Coach, Speaker, Leader, Innovator, Change Maker, Team Builder, Crafter, Designer, Builder, Dancer,, Postie, Taxi Driver, Computer Game Quality Assurance, Governance & Audit, Performance Assessor, Forager, Health & Nutrition, Vegan, Detective

Outside of my passion for coaching, I enjoy being outdoors in Nature, spending time with my husband and my dogs, and crafting with natural materials such as willow.

My Other Businesses

Dalton Moor Farm – The Vegan Fruit Farm – regenerating the land and producing vegan drinks and preserves,

The School of Sustainable Living & Wellbeing CIC – rewilding humans, learning in Nature,

Nature’s Embrace Ltd – events, celebrations and retreats in the embrace of Nature.

Sun City Salsa Dance School - (2004-2013)

Heart Centred

The core themes in all that I do are kindness to all kinds and connectedness to Nature and to each other.

Holding people up to be their best and most authentic, healthiest and happiest selves.

Recognising that we all know our own solutions but sometimes need a little help to find them.