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Food, Rest & Nervous System Care for Healthcare Workers

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    Simple practices. Easeful moments. Joyful presence.

    Sound familiar?….

    • Your days look like a whirlwind of activity and no rest.

    • Your body feels wired, overstimulated, or stuck in “doing mode.”

    • You're tired of just feeling tired — even your days off don't feel restful.

    • You’re carrying compassion fatigue like a 50 pound weight.

    Over time, this isn't just acute exhaustion. It's a deep disconnection from your own body.

    Sitting on the bridge

    Western science meets Ancient wisdom.

    I’m Grace O’Connor — a non-diet Registered Dietitian, Yoga Instructor, and Ayurveda Health Coach with over 20 years of experience in healthcare.

    I speak the language of your world. I understand the clinical demands, emotional weight, and constant output that healthcare work requires. My approach honors the realities of modern medicine without losing the human spirit of care.

    So much of conventional wellness misses what Ayurveda has understood for thousands of years: exhaustion is not simply a lack of motivation or discipline. Burnout is depletion — a nervous system stretched beyond its limits. In Ayurveda, this is often understood as excess Vata: too much movement, stimulation, and output without enough grounding support.

    Healing does not come from pushing harder or overriding yourself.

    It comes through consistency. Nourishment. Rest. Stillness. Warmth. Safety.

    And it also comes from rebuilding trust with yourself!

    Part of this work is helping you reconnect with your own inner wisdom — the signals, needs, intuition, and rhythms that are so often drowned out in fast-paced caregiving environments. Rather than following rigid wellness rules, I believe in supporting self-agency: helping you deeply listen to your body and create sustainable practices that genuinely work for your life.

    Together, we rebuild your foundation through simple, supportive practices that nourish the nervous system, restore resilience, and help you feel more rooted in yourself — physically, mentally, and emotionally.

    This work is not about perfection.
    It is about returning to what sustains you.

    Ayurveda - the science of life

    Ayurveda is a system of medicine from India, over 5,000 years old, still practiced today. At its core, it asks one simple question: what does this body, in this season, in this life, actually need right now?

    It’s not a diet, or a trend. The system is multi-layered in complexity, but so, so simple at its roots.

    Here's the shift that changed everything for me, and the one I most want other healthcare workers to hear: Western medicine, which I continue to practice and believe in, is largely built to ask what's wrong, and how do we fix it. Ayurveda asks something a little different: what's out of balance, and what would bring it back? We need both.

    The 5 Pillars

    How we bring it back together

    Real self-care isn't a spa day you don't have time for, and it isn't something you're meant to do alone. It's five small, sustainable shifts — some solo, some shared — that add up to a nervous system that can actually hold you.

    • Food & Digestion (Agni)

      This is not just the digestion of food, but the digestion of everything you take in thru your senses. If life is not processed, your metabolic fire weakens, stagnancy builds, burnout ensues.

    • Reset and Cleansing (Ama)

      When the digestive fire is low, ama accumulates. This is the residue left over when you've taken in more than you can process, physically and emotionally. It’s the fog, the fatigue, the heaviness that sleep alone doesn't fix.

    • Rest & Nervous System (Ojas)

      This is your deep energy reserve. It’s your vital essence (think slow buring candle flame) and what your body calls upon when things get really hard. Without rest and proper nervous system support, this is almost impossible to cultivate.

    • Movement & Embodiment (Prana)

      The flow of our life force! Healthcare workers often only breathe into the chest, perpetuating anxiety and exhaustion. We are so tired, yet have not moved our bodies well. We’re giving out more than we are taking back in.

    • Connection & Self-Worth (Svastha)

      This is the binding agent to it all. When we are not connected to ourselves, efforts of self-care can be fleeting and short-lived at best. Holding everyone else’s needs and not our own leaves us feeling under-appreciated and depleted.

    Work with me

    • The Cleanse

      $97

      A 10-day seasonal reset to clear what's built up: sugar cravings, brain fog, that heavy, groggy feeling. Runs each spring and fall.

      Fall Cleanse 2026

    • Care that Carries You

      Group program - $997

      Individual 1:1 program - $2297

      A 12-week nervous system recovery experience. This is all about self-care thru multiple layers of support- food, rest, movement, and connection. A guidebook is included with extensive support from me. For the group program there is a community that actually understands the weight of caregiving work. Click below for more information.

      Care that Carries You

    • Yoga Classes/Events

      I teach in-person yoga classes in the Spokane/CDA area at various locations throughout the year. I also offer private classes. Click on my schedule below to find local public classes.

      Yoga Schedule