About Shanti Pappas
How I support you
Whether it’s healing your digestion, managing weight, or feeling more energetic, I’ve worked through it all. And I’ve helped hundreds and hundreds of others finally get results that stick.
- Customized Support: I listen, ask the right questions, and give you tailored support because I care.
- Root Cause Analysis: I address the root causes of what’s holding you back from feeling fantastic.
- Long-Term Solutions: My goal is to help you not worry about your diet ever again.
- Direct and Supportive Style: I value our time. I’m sensitive to what’s unsaid, as well as direct, with what needs to be said.
Getting Started
Qualifications that Matter
Functional Medicine Advanced Certifications:
I hold advanced certifications from The School of Applied Functional Medicine®, which I renew every two years. Since 2010, I’ve been using this expertise to identify root causes and provide tailored solutions.Certified Quantum Coach®:
This certification allows me to help you break through blocks and create lasting change.National Board Certified Health Coach:
With up-to-date coaching methods, I guide you in implementing practical changes that work for you in the long run. You drive the transformation—I’m here to support you.
Are you ready to achieve your health goals?
The Happy Belly Health® team takes a holistic approach to health and wellness. We look at each area of your life and how that connects to your symptoms, challenges and concerns. We then put together a specific plan for you to make the lasting food and lifestyle shifts that will help improve your energy, restore your balance and enhance your health!
Let the Happy Belly Health® team of certified experts help YOU maximize what’s helpful and minimize what’s not to achieve results that are lasting AND rewarding.
Personalized Wellness
Our program doesn’t dwell on calories, carbs, fats, or proteins… Instead, we look at your unique lifestyle and symptoms to create an action plan based on your individual needs with personalized support along the way.
Three main principles guide our approach to health and wellness.
Nutrition is unique and preferences are plenty. What works for one person could be another person’s problem. That’s why fad diets most often lead to failure. At Happy Belly Health® we get to know you and your specific symptoms, experiences and preferences to put together a plan that is as unique as you are.
It’s easy to overlook the little things that contribute to our sense of nourishment and fulfillment, like the amount of water we drink in a day, our stress levels or even how we experience joy. Who doesn’t want more JOY!?! When our many parts are better balanced, healthy habits become second nature. We support you in living a healthy, inspired life that supports healthy choices.
Our bodies know exactly what we need to thrive, and they tell us each day. If we can understand how to listen to our body intuitively, we can clue-in to key details on what’s best. As part of the Happy Belly Health® program, we teach you how to listen to the clues from your body to know what’s good for you and what your body is trying to caution you to avoid.
At Happy Belly Health®, we work with clients on improving digestion, reaching optimal weight, amplifying energy levels, and solving particular health issues.
Our coaching style is balanced in a number of ways to best support you.
We balance things like:
We encourage you to have lab work done so that we can assess your current state of health and pinpoint any areas of concern. Lab work measures things like your hormone levels, lipid profile, blood sugar markers, and levels of iron, Vitamin A, Vitamin D, and other important nutrients. We also stay up to date on the latest research, science, and coaching techniques. We separate trend from fact so you don’t have to spend your time doing endless researching and Googling.
Using systems and methods that really work, we keep things simple and organized for you so that you can integrate new eating habits into your lifestyle without feeling overwhelmed. Our programs are broken down into logical sequences and include regular check-ins, emails, and lots of supplemental materials so you are optimally informed and supported.
There are certain truths about nutrition that we encourage most of our clients to adhere to: for instance, reducing or eliminating sugar is generally important to feeling better and losing weight. We can help you figure out which rules apply to you and how best to follow them.
A lot of people seek coaching because they feel overwhelmed with options and advice about how to optimize weight and health. Or, they’ve tried everything and can’t seem to get results. We work with you to make lasting changes to your eating habits and lifestyle — not fad diets — to promote optimal health over the long-term. We empower you with hands-on coaching.
But we also listen to your personal point of view on what’s going on with your health so that we can make informed decisions born from both data and the wisdom that comes with human experience. Every session starts with a check-in, where we find out what’s going on with you right now, and ends with new strategies and goal-setting to help keep you accountable. We believe empathy is just as important as data when it comes to helping people improve their health.
We create the structure so you can relax within it and help you personalize your program so it’s not just a cookie-cutter experience. It’s about you. Our approach is very individualized within any of our programs. We help you create lasting lifestyle changes that work even when you’re very busy, under stress, or traveling—even over the holidays!
We strongly believe in the intuitive aspect of the investigative process. We’ll teach you to tune in and listen to your body in order to figure out what needs to change for you and how to create the right environment for healing to happen. If given the right tools, the body is powerful at healing itself.
At the same time, we’re never about shaming you for “falling off the wagon” or failing to meet your health or weight-loss goals immediately. If something isn’t working, we will reevaluate and find a better way. Our clients never feel judged. Our singular goal is for you to be successful!