Welcome to my coaching practice, where compassionate, science-informed care supports sugar freedom, metabolic and mental health, and a deeper sense of feeling at home in your body, while honoring your body’s innate wisdom.
I specialize in helping adults break free from sugar addiction, restore metabolic balance, and support mental health through personalized, evidence-based, and deeply compassionate care.
I help people create peace with food, restore energy and emotional balance, and experience sustainable healing that supports the whole person. Many of the individuals I work with are successful, thoughtful, and deeply motivated, yet find themselves struggling with cravings, mood changes, fatigue, or chronic health concerns that feel difficult to untangle on their own.I
My approach is shaped by both professional training and lived experience. After decades of struggling with sugar and ultra-processed food addiction, I found lasting recovery through evidence-based nutrition, mindset change, and deep emotional healing. Along the way, I put type 2 diabetes into remission, maintained a 60-pound weight loss, and healed from depression, anxiety, migraines, chronic pain, and longstanding digestive challenges. This experience allows me to support clients with empathy, realism, and hope.
If any of this feels familiar, you are not alone. My goal is to help you experience freedom of mind and lasting peace with food while strengthening metabolic and mental health.
True healing begins when body, mind, and spirit are supported together. If you are ready to break free from sugar and emotional eating, calm your nervous system, restore your energy, and feel more at ease in your body, you are in the right place. My approach weaves together sugar addiction recovery, metabolic nutritional therapies, and lifestyle and mindset practices that support brain health and align with your body’s natural rhythms.
Heart-led, science informed coaching for whole person healing
Personalized compassionate care for sugar freedom, metabolic and mental well-being
Healing Is Possible
Healing is possible, no matter how long you’ve struggled or how many times you’ve tried. Lasting change doesn’t come from willpower alone—it comes from the right support, thoughtful guidance, and compassionate care. You don’t have to do this alone.
At its core, this work is about nourishment as an act of love. By learning to listen to your body and honor its wisdom, trust begins to return—along with a sense of steadiness, strength, and peace.
With compassion and curiosity, we walk this path together, creating a way of living that supports resilience, deep healing, and lasting change.
Start with a Conversation
Choosing support is a personal decision. A free discovery call gives us space to connect, talk about what you’re facing, and explore whether my approach is the right fit for you. This call is especially helpful if you are seeking support for sugar addiction recovery, metabolic healing, or mental health concerns rooted in nutrition and lifestyle.
There is no pressure and no commitment, just a grounded, compassionate conversation focused on your needs, goals, and next steps. If we decide to move forward together, we will discuss the options that best support your path toward sugar freedom, metabolic balance, and mental well-being.
Let’s talk about what you’re facing right now and how I can support you.
👉 Book a Free Discovery Call
Not sure where to begin? That’s okay. We’ll take it one step at a time.
My work is informed by evidence-based metabolic psychiatry, nutritional therapy, and collaborative care alongside primary care and mental health providers. (put as footer)
Heart-led, science informed coaching for whole person healing
Personalized compassionate care for sugar freedom, metabolic and mental well-being
Our journey together begins with a no pressure free discovery call to explore your goals, challenges and learn if coaching with me is the right fit for you. Once we reach an agreement, we proceed to an in-depth initial consultation session, and begin to develop your personalized plan. Choose a 30 day engagement, with weekly one hour calls, or a 90 day “go deeper” commitment. Along the way we evaluate your progress, and modify your plan as needed.
-

Discovery
Begin our journey together with a free 40 minute discovery call.
-

Consultation
Focus on what is most important to you and create a personalized coaching plan.
-

Action
Personalized weekly sessions in your 30 Day Sugar Freedom Journey or 90 Day Commitment.
-

Support
Evaluate progress, modify your coaching plan as needed, and follow-up check-ins.
Sugar Addiction Detox & Beyond
30-Day Sugar Freedom Journey
4 weekly one-on-one coaching sessions
Tools to reduce cravings, stabilize mood, and regain energy
90-Day Commitment
12 weekly one-hour sessions
Deeper accountability, mindset work, and root cause healing
Group Coaching, 6-8 people, is Coming Soon!
Book a Free Consultation
Discover if coaching is right for you.
Client Testimonials
“I have had the good fortune to work with MaryDonna for over two years. She is a true leader in the health and wellness space, providing her clients with her expertise, experience, wisdom and intuition. In addition to being certified in multiple health modalities, MaryDonna is a leading coach in the sugar addiction field. She coaches her clients with a full heart, providing a sacred place, where she connects to people on a deep spiritual level that fosters trust and motivation. MaryDonna truly listens and cares and responds in a way that people feel heard and validated. She also has an array of effective skills at her fingertips, and instinctively knows what can be most effective for each client.
Above all, MaryDonna’s tireless passion, compassion, and commitment to her clients is unwavering.”
— Beth Brill
"MaryDonna has always shown the perfect combination of sincerity, inquisitiveness, and intuition that I think is so critical in a coach. As metabolic health has come to the forefront for many, she has made this a primary objective for her clients as well. She is a valued and cherished colleague."
— Katrina Jong
“Coach MaryDonna is a superb coach. she facilities extremely helpful group sessions on zoom. She listens astutely and reflects back in a caring and constructive way. MaryDonna is highly skilled and knowledgable. Based on her own personal struggles with sugar addiction over the years, she is able to provide empathy and understanding from her own journey. I particularly appreciate her sensitivity and her ability to be non-judgmental and not push her particular area of success on others. She recognizes that this journey is personal for each of us and helps us move forward in a way that is helpful to each of us. She cares so deeply for each of us and often sends a message of support to me after the meetings and checks in to see how I am doing with my challenges. Coach MaryDonna is a treasure!”
— Miriam Gerstenblith
“MaryDonna is a gifted coach and her wisdom and knowledge have helped me so much. Over 2 years ago, I had fallen back into the food, and my weight and metabolic health were in terrible shape. I was class 2 obese, pre-diabetic, PCOS, and my anxiety was killing me. Getting back on track was hard, but with MaryDonna's guidance on how to use my CGM, notice how what I eat affects my blood sugar and mood, and taking small steps every day to move forward in a positive way, I got there. She is a loving, gentle spirit, but knew when I needed a push. I can't recommend her enough. Get help. You won't regret it.”
— Nicki L.
“Healing and growth are often found when you allow yourself to be drawn to the right path. What you seek is seeking you.”
— Rumi