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for women who know what to do, but struggle to do it.
It’s not a willpower problem. It’s a systems problem.
And systems can be rebuilt.
Holistic Wellness School pairs practical, evidence-based health and relationship skills with functional medicine health coaching to help you create lasting lifestyle change from the ground up.
Is this you?
➤ You know what changes to make—and why—but you can't make yourself do them for long.
➤ You've gone down all the information rabbit holes. You see your doctor. You're in therapy.
It's not your fault, Lovely.
➤ You're tired of making promises to yourself, then breaking them.
➤ You wonder if something deeper is going on with you, but you can't quite explain what.
The root cause of your troubles:
You weren't taught what all your essential human needs are, let alone how to meet them in healthy, sustainable ways.
Willpower and motivation simply aren't enough to rewire decades-old patterns.
Knowing what to do isn’t the same as knowing how and when to do it, or having systems that support doing it consistently—especially on hard days.When change depends on emotions like 'motivated' or 'determined' alone, new habits often break down under stress, fatigue, and competing demands.Sustainable, long-term health is built by carefully designing foundational structures that support your new habits in your real life so that your progress continues even on days when you feel like giving up.
How it works
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Try our FREE 5-minute check-in
Complete the 5-minute check-in to identify likely root causes of many self health habits. short set of questions about the conditions that support healthy habits.Phineas, our custom AI, will generate a personalized Holistic Wellness Guide that helps explain why specific changes are for you to sustain.
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Begin The Five Key Relationships Program™
The first phase is Catalyst, where you spend four weeks learning how to trade the exhaustion of 'just try harder' for research-backed lifestyle-design skills. Learn the neuro-friendly framework for lasting change—a logical system for supporting any healthy new habit, even on your most stressful days.
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Start building sustainable systems
In the three-month Groundwork phase, you can use our proprietary guided online planner to begin turning your aspirations into concrete reality. Choose five practical, evidence-based health or relationship skills to focus on. Phineas, our custom AI, builds a 100% unique Living Wellness Plan for you.
This leads into the 12-month Integration phase, where your daily life becomes the training ground for your new skills. You’ll trade the stress of "starting over" for steady, tech-backed progress—using automated morning map checks and nightly reflections to anchor your goals into your actual schedule. With on-the-spot coaching support and a private community of seven other Pattern Breakers, you’ll have the accountability needed to make these changes permanent.
Why Holistic Wellness School will work for you
Everything we do is designed to get you results and support you through the actions that create them.
NO habit you didn't choose has to be permanent.
It's what you were taught—or how you survived.
And you can unlearn it.
Take a 5 min quiz ⤴ (opens a Google form)
How we solve it
Our program of action is carefully crafted
and personalized from the inside out:
Changes You Want to Make
➤ 100% unique plan of action created with our proprietary guided online planer.➤ Choose from a curated list of skills that you'd like to learn, with a focus on your undermet essential needs.➤ Option to incorporate goals from your healthcare providers and preferred experts.➤ Get a custom strategy for interrupting the patterns you want to change, plus simple visual prompts you can glance at on your phone.
Accountability
➤ Community forum to share your wins & ask for ideas.➤ 2-minute morning 'map checks' and 20-minute nightly journal prompts.➤ Weekly live group goal-setting workshops.
A Whole-Human Approach
➤ Thorough inventory of ALL your mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical essential human needs.➤ Assessment of whether your essential human needs are met, under-met, or unmet currently.➤ A sense of containment from clear structure, slow pace, consistency, community, and respectful co-leadership.
Foundational Education
➤ Self-paced mini-course that explain the science underlying lasting results, i.e., how they happen. (Neuroscience and trauma informed.)➤ Weekly 'Pattern Breaker' live webinars or skill labs for essential skills that many of us are missing simply because we grew up in a dysfunctional environment.
Highly Personal Coaching
➤ 12 months of 1:1 and group coaching from a functional medicine certified health coach who designed her adult life around recovery and prevention.➤ Micro-group of just 8 female 'Pattern Breakers'.➤ Spot support from your coach whenever you're about to slip into an old pattern.➤ 24/7 interactive support from Phineas, our custom AI administrative assistant.Hey! I'm Zena.
Zena Bardonnay, FMCHC
Holistic Wellness School founder & program director
Knowing what to do is one thing.But doing it consistently—day in and day out, even on hard days—is what everyone struggles with the most—helping professionals most of all.Most programs don't look at the BIG PICTURE or stick with you through the daily ups and downs. This one does. I want to be in this with you, helping you navigate anything and everything that gets in the way of your goals for yourself.What will make Holistic Wellness School work for you is simple: a personalized plan to increase what’s healthy and right for you and reduce or replace what’s harming you, plus close support and accountability from a real person who cares about your holistic health—body, mind and spirit—and who's undertaken her own holistic health journey.
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"I found Zena to be a great health coach. She's collaborative, conscientious, detail-oriented, thorough, focused, and upbeat, with excellent follow-through."
Douglas
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Attend classes
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Learn the science-based process of 'remodeling' your inner and outer environments for maximum support and minimal stress. How to Succeed at Lasting Transformation is a self-paced mini-course in our 'Pattern Breaker' Education Series.👩🏻🏭
Once a week, attend a 'Pattern Breaker' live Q&A hosted by Zena (or watch the recording).03
Map out your plan
📝Use our guided online planner to get clear on your boundaries, values, and strengths; your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical needs; and your unique aspirations.
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Attend 'Pattern Breaker' live goal-setting labs run by Zena.💌We email your detailed, 100% personalized Living Wellness Plan—your chosen holistic health goals, broken down into habits and one-time actions—to you as an editable Google Doc.04
Apply for coaching
🪂Once you've received your plan, you can submit your application.📆If accepted, schedule your plan review call with Zena.📱You go over your plan together and talk about what you’ve tried before, what’s worked, and what hasn’t. She also asks about the challenges you think you'll run into.If your plan doesn’t match the realities of your life or it's too strict, it won’t work—so you and Zena keep tweaking your plan until you feel comfortable with it. It's a living document.
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Take action
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Attend an onboarding session.🫶
Get to know your 8-woman 'Pattern Breaker' working group.You’ll soon find it’s your relationships with a dedicated coach and seven other women that make all the difference.🛫
Start implementing your chosen skills in your life—little by little, over time.G+With Google's suite of easy-to-use apps, you have your Living Wellness Plan and access to support anywhere you are.06
Get results!
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You have accountability and encouragement every day to help you make consistent progress, plus weekly skill labs or wellness coaching sessions.🔫
When you want to quit, your coach will challenge you to stick with it and help you tweak or simplify your approach instead.🏆Post wins and questions in your class forum.🎓Celebrate your achievements with the 7 other women who were there with—and for—you all the way!Testimonials
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"With Zena's coaching, I've been able to improve my life by adopting new tiny habits that have added up to big successes in the areas of nutrition, physical fitness, and stress reduction."
Lori F.
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"Zena is knowledgeable and a great listener. She was able to help me with a plan that works for me. No unrealistic expectations, just positive coaching all the way."
Beverly M.
Frequent questions
Understanding health coaching
A professional health coach is your self-care accountability partner. Our job is to provide the structure and unconditional support you need to:
- Refine wellness goals you have for yourself and help you build a realistic, actionable plan.
- Implement your plan by helping you navigate real-life inner and outer challenges.
- Unlock your own solutions when you feel stuck or face obstacles.
- Maintain your momentum and build your confidence.
What isn't health coaching?
Coaching is not:
- A substitute for medical advice, therapy, or treatment
- A source of diagnoses, prescriptions, advice, or treatment for health conditions
- Able to deliver instant results or 'band-aids' for symptoms
Who would I be coached by?
You’ll have a real coach. Always.Zena Bardonnay, FMCHC, the founder of Holistic Wellness School is a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach. She developed the Five Key Relationships™ method and program and, as lead coach, she conducts all 1:1 and live group-coaching sessions.She believes real change comes from real relationships. You’ll get real coaching, from a real person, who actually cares about your health as much as you do.
Do you coach men too?
For most of history, men have provided us with homes, infrastructure, technology, businesses, healthcare, energy and other natural resources, government, prosperous companies, spiritual guidance, and much more—and they fertilize new life.Healthy men provide safety, responsibility, strength, encouragement, stability, logic, perspective, and much more.We believe men who are protective of innocence, threatening to evil, and respectful of each other until given reason are invaluable and indispensable.We also believe women need to handle our challenges in our own spaces, so, we respect and appreciate men, but we don't admit them at this time.
How coaching and medical care work together
How are therapy and coaching different?
In a nutshell, therapy explores your history; experts teach the why. We teach how to practice expert-validated skills in daily life.
A therapist is highly trained and licensed to diagnose and treat mental and behavioral health conditions. Therapy also typically encourages reflection on the past. The right therapist and approach for your diagnosis can be life-changing.
Health coaching focuses on current habits and future results. Specialities typically fall within the areas of eating styles, movement, stress management, sleep quality, sexual health, and personal and interpersonal boundaries. A health coach helps clients achieve general wellness goals through awareness, education, personalized planning, positive mindset, and accountability.
Functional medicine certified health coaches are trained to support individualized, measurable, realistic mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical (holistic/integrative) health behavior plans.
What is functional medicine?
It’s helpful to see functional medicine as one of two essential halves of a modern healthcare system.
- Allopathic (Western) medicine excels at identifying and treating acute issues like infections, broken bones, and life-threatening medical emergencies—i.e., crucial, life-saving care.
- Functional medicine excels at identifying and treating the root causes of chronic illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, and autoimmune disorders.
Can I use my health insurance?
No, but uploading a Letter of Medical Necessity (LMN) from your doctor to your HSA or FSA administrator would allow you to use funds from either of those accounts, if you have one.Some HSA/FSA companies provide a form for your provider to fill out, or you can use our Google Docs template.
How do we support medical providers?
Certified health coaches increase patient follow-through. The result is decreased workload for licensed care providers and skilled support staff.
Patient follow-through also reduces provider burnout — a negative modern trend that's physically and emotionally harmful to some of the most essential, deeply caring human beings in our society, and their families, and that's reducing access to quality care for all Americans.
Additionally, like most humans, even highly trained medical professionals sometimes struggle to achieve their own health goals due to juggling extensive responsibilities.
Common concerns
I'd prefer to do this on my own.
We completely encourage self-study!Our Catalyst students continue into the Groundwork and Integration phases because they’ve finally realized that knowledge alone isn't enough for transformation.That’s why our programs offers three things you can't get from research alone:
- Accountability with a coach who's invested in your success
- A structured process that’s proven to build momentum for change.
- A dedicated holistic wellness community of 'Pattern Breaker' moms cheering each others' progress
Is this too good to be true?
It's totally natural to have some doubts, especially if you've had a bad experience in the past.Zena has. Back in 2020 she bought 'coaching' from an untrained YouTuber. The person changed the terms of service after sign-up, and Zena lost her credit. Here are a few things to know about HWS:
- We help you address your BIG PICTURE—we teach and use research-backed tools and strategies like meditation, mindfulness, glycemic load, resting metabolic rate, character strengths, the 12 Steps, and more.
- A lot of people and programs promise instant results, but those don't exist. We help you focus on small, sustainable changes that support all of who you are. We personalize 100% of the what, when, why, how, and how much to you.
- Willpower and motivation are emotional, so they come and go, which is why we focus on changing your mindset from 'failure' to 'experimenting,' getting you clear on your BIG WHY, and updating your daily habits. When you take that approach, chipping away at your Living Wellness Plan gets easier and easier—because that's what happens when you stop relying just on how you feel today.
I can just ask an AI for help.
You absolutely can!We love AI as a tool—in fact, students in our second and third phases have access to Phineas, our tuned AI coaching assistant, if they need help after hours or between sessions.One other thing to remember is that most AI models only respond to user prompts—they're dependent on you knowing what to ask. At Holistic Wellness School, you'll learn what to ask so that AI becomes a powerful 24/7 tool for you going forward.
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