Meet Natasha Klienbach

I thought I was choosing health. I was also chasing skinny.

I was pescatarian for five years. I thought it made me healthier, but I also believed it would keep me skinnier.

I avoided fast food and processed foods. I thought calories were bad. I paid attention to what I could cut out without understanding whether I was giving my body enough of what it needed.

Then my hemoglobin dropped to 6.

A potential blood transfusion isn't exactly a "fun" experience, or so i'm told.

The lesson was that being pescatarian and avoiding processed foods did not automatically mean I was meeting my nutritional needs. I had mistaken a way of eating for a guarantee that I was nourishing myself.

In my experience, I improved without taking iron pills. What stayed with me was how much I still had to learn about nutrition and my own body.

This is my personal experience, not advice to skip medical care or prescribed treatment for anemia.

I wanted to understand the bigger picture: what I ate, how much I ate, how I prepared it, and how those choices supported my health. That curiosity became a passion, then a purpose.

Today, I help people build that understanding for themselves, so their choices support both the body they want and the life they want to live.

My dad was invincible. Until he wasn’t.

My dad is 6'4", a 1985 All-Marine Corps boxing champion, and a Hall of Famer. So when I say I grew up thinking he was invincible, you can understand why.

Then he was diagnosed with tonsil cancer.

It greatly affected his ability to speak and eat. Things that had always been ordinary became difficult. Watching that happen to the man I had always seen as strong was heartbreaking.

For the first time in my life, my dad looked vulnerable. I was scared of losing him.

Shortly after his diagnosis, I survived a car accident that left people astonished I was alive.

Suddenly, I was confronting my father’s mortality and my own. The future I had assumed would be there felt uncertain.

I wanted to do everything I could to keep my dad here. Helping him change what he ate became one way I could show up, bringing my nutrition knowledge into our kitchen during a time when eating itself was a challenge.

Six months after his diagnosis, he was cancer-free.

I cannot take credit for that outcome or know what would have happened otherwise. But I wholeheartedly believe supporting his nourishment mattered. Being part of his journey deepened my commitment to helping other families care for themselves.

Surviving my own accident gave that commitment a new urgency. If I had neglected my body, would I have come through that experience the same way?

I cannot know. But the question changed how I thought about caring for myself and what I wanted to do with the life I still had.

A personalized plan, and the support to grow into it.

Knowing what to do is only part of the process. You also need to know how to make time for it, adjust when circumstances change, and keep going when motivation disappears.

Through coaching, your personalized wellness plan gives you direction. I help you put it into practice through nutrition guidance, fitness, cooking skills, and accountability, based on the support we choose together.

We also work on the mindset and attitude behind lasting change: discipline, patience, self-respect, and the ability to have an imperfect day without turning it into an abandoned goal.

I want you to understand your choices, recognize your progress, and become more confident caring for yourself.

The goal is to grow from where we start, with skills you keep and habits that become part of how you live.