Welcome to Healing Plate
Feeling off, exhausted, or stuck with bloating and digestive discomfort?
Your body is talking. Your gut, your energy, even the Earth beneath your food — it's all one conversation. Let's learn to listen. I help women reconnect with their body's signals — and the living systems that feed it — to move from exhaustion and digestive discomfort into lasting vitality.
Trust your gut. It's trying to tell you something.
Let's figure out what it needs.
The Inner Compass
A personalized journey through self-awareness, nourishment, and sustainable health.
The Inner Compass is a high-touch coaching journey designed for driven women ready to move beyond exhaustion, extreme fitness fads, and rigid diets. Together, we decode your body’s unique bio-individual signals—pairing deep, restorative nourishment with nervous system regulation and functional strength. Step into a grounded, safe space where you learn to trust your inner wisdom, protect your energy, and build an enduring foundation of health that supports both your leadership and your life.
The Inner Compass Framework: From Survival Mode to Sustainable Vitality 1. Self-Awareness & Nervous System Reset: Slow down the chronic daily rush. Learn to listen to your body’s baseline signals, release chronic stress, and create the cognitive white space needed for restorative sleep and clear decision-making. 2. Bio-Individual Nourishment (Food as Medicine): End the cycle of deprivation and metabolic confusion. We replace restrictive dieting with anti-inflammatory, whole-food nourishment tailored to your specific hormonal balance, daily rhythm, and lifestyle. 3. Functional Strength & Sustainable Health: Cultivate physical capacity without burnout. Implement efficient, body-honoring movement and grounding daily rituals that rebuild metabolic vitality, tone, and lasting stamina for the decades ahead.
From Gut to Wholeness
The Path to a Balanced Life
The gut is often called the "second brain" for a good reason. It's in constant communication with your mood, energy, sleep, and immune system, which means healing it can change far more than just digestion. This holistic coaching program works at that root level, guiding you back to balance across every part of your life. If you are ready to feel lighter from the inside-out, this is the program for you.
From Gut to Wholeness True health begins at the cellular level. From Gut to Wholeness is a science-backed, bio-individual framework that connects living nutrition, gut health, and nervous system regulation to help you reclaim lasting vitality and ease. 1. Ground: Soil Health & Microbial Reset Reconnect your plate to the Earth. We work together to eliminate inflammatory stressors and introduce living, nutrient-dense foods to stabilize your digestive foundation and soothe chronic bloating. 2. Nourish: Food as Medicine Heal from the inside out. By feeding beneficial gut microbes with bio-individual fibers and restorative whole foods, we support the gut lining and quiet systemic inflammation for steady, crash-free energy. 3. Harmonize: The Gut-Brain & Mind Connection Calm the mind by caring for the gut, and calm the gut through conscious awareness. By pairing vagus nerve support and microbiome balance with grounding mindfulness and breathwork techniques, we lift mental fog, deepen restorative sleep, and shift your nervous system out of chronic fight-or-flight into lasting physiological calm. 4. Integrate: Sustainable Strength & Wholeness Bring vitality into your everyday rhythm. We incorporate restorative, body-honoring movement, functional strength, and protective daily boundaries around your time and energy—creating an intuitive, balanced lifestyle built to last. Disclaimer: The information and coaching provided through Healing Plate and the From Gut to Wholeness framework are for educational and lifestyle support purposes only. I am an integrative health coach, not a licensed physician or medical provider. This program does not diagnose, treat, prevent, or cure any medical condition. Coaching is designed to help you implement sustainable lifestyle and nutritional changes that work in tandem with, and never as a replacement for, professional medical care. Always consult your physician or qualified healthcare provider regarding any health condition, diagnosis, or changes to your treatment plan.
Where Science Meets Soul
Meet Marielsie Avila
My path to holistic health coaching runs through two deeply personal transformations. The first was external — as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal and later through my husband's heart attack when he was 48. I witnessed firsthand how food and environment can heal the body in ways medicine alone cannot.
The second was internal — a lifelong spiritual search that led me, after 50, through meditation, self-energy healing, and the quiet discovery that fulfillment is not a destination but a moment-to-moment practice.
For years, I lived with chronic gas and bloating and accepted it as normal — it was common in my own family, so I never questioned it or realized it could be a sign of something deeper. It wasn't until I discovered Ayurveda and began truly listening to my body's signals that I understood healing was possible. That shift, from ignoring my body to trusting it, changed everything.
Today, I bring both journeys into my work: the science of nourishment and the soul of healing, held together in a whole-life approach. Because the plate holds more than food — it holds every dimension of who you are.
That belief was reinforced by over 16 years working in global food systems and agricultural policy — work that took me across the Americas, Africa, and the Middle East, and showed me how deeply our food systems shape our health, long before food ever reaches the plate. I'm a Certified Integrative Nutritional Health Coach through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and the founder of Healing Plate — where my role isn't to hand you a fix, but to hold space for you to reconnect with your own inner wisdom. Because you hold the key that makes transformation truly sustainable.
Disclaimer: I am a certified integrative nutritional health coach, not a physician. Healing Plate content, including the blog, is intended to share general information and my personal experience. It is not medical advice and does not create a provider-patient relationship. Health coaching complements, and does not replace, care from your medical team. Never ignore or delay professional medical advice because of something you read here.
