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You're ready to resolve root causes.
Holistic Wellness School offers far more than health & life coaching.
You're getting evidence-backed strategies, a thoughtfully structured program, and an experienced, reliable daily partner for achieving your mental, emotional, spiritual and physical health goals.
Is this you?
➤ You know what changes to make—and why—but you can't make yourself do them.
➤ You're tired of making promises to yourself then breaking them a few days or weeks later.
➤ You've gone down all the information rabbit holes. You see your doctor. You're in therapy. But you're still stuck in old patterns.
The Problem
Everyone is teaching you what and why, and no one is supporting you through how and when.
That's how "I'm going to get healthier" goes for most of us.
Chances are you don't have anyone looking at your BIG PICTURE, either.
Only 40% of American women grow up learning self-supporting responses to life's ups and downs.*
If you were raised in a dysfunctional environment or by emotionally disconnected adults, you may have some or more of these symptoms:
Chronic stress — not self-regulation.
People-pleasing — not boundaries.
Self-shaming and blaming — not self-compassion or encouragement.
Survival mode — not calm confidence.
Unhealthy food choices — not body stewardship.
Superficial relationships — not meaningful connections.
Codependence — not healthy interdependence.
Lacking faith or purpose — not inner trust and guidance.
A habit you didn't choose doesn't have to be permanent.
It's what you were taught—or how you survived.
And you can unlearn it.
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 under-met and unmet essential needs.➤ Option to incorporate goals from your healthcare providers and preferred experts.➤ Get a custom strategy for interrupting each pattern you want to change, plus visual prompts.
Accountability
➤ Community forum to share your wins & ask for ideas.➤ 30-second morning intention and 10-minute nightly journal prompts.➤ Weekly quiet co-working sessions you can drop in on, so you know you'll get your plan done.➤ 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 lab series that teaches 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 life around recovery.➤ Micro-group of just 8 female 'Pattern Breakers'.➤ Email up to 4 questions a month to your coach.➤ 24/7 interactive support from Phineas, our custom AI coaching assistant.
Hey! I'm Zena Bardonnay, founder & lead coach.
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 health journey (more here).
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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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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.
How it works
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Enroll today
📝Try our free 5-minute Holistic Wellness Guidebuilder and become eligible for the online mini-course.💌We'll email you a PDF of your personalized Holistic Wellness Guide and a link to verify eligibility.🔗Once verified, Google will send you an invitation to join our classroom.
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Complete the course at your own pace and attend up to 4 live 'Pattern Breaker' Q&A sessions hosted by Zena.NO COST, NO COMMITMENT02
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 goals and aspirations in all four areas.
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Attend up to 12 live quiet co-working sessions with Zena.🔥
Attend up to 12 live 'Pattern Breaker' goal-setting labs run by Zena.💌We'll email your detailed, 100% personalized Living Wellness Plan—your unique goals, habits and one-time actions—to you as an editable Google Doc.LOW COST, NO COMMITMENT03
Apply for coaching
📝Once you've received your plan, you can submit your application.📱If accepted, schedule your 1.5-hr plan review call with Zena.She'll get to know you. You'll go over your plan together and talk about what you’ve tried before, what’s worked…what hasn’t. She'll also ask about the challenges you think we’ll run into. If your plan doesn’t match the realities of your life or it's too strict, it won’t work—and our goal is to set you up for success from the start. You and Zena will tweak your plan until you feel totally comfortable with it. LOW COST, NO COMMITMENT
SESSION FEE CREDITED TOWARD TUITION
SESSION FEE CREDITED TOWARD TUITION
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Take action
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Attend a 1.5-hr onboarding session.🫶
Get to know your 8-woman 'Pattern Breaker' working group.🌬
Get daily personal support from your coach, plus weekly skill labs and 1:1 or group coaching.🛫
Implement your chosen skills in your life—little by little, over time.🏆Post wins and questions in your class forum.🎓Attend an online graduation and celebrate how much you've grown!TUITION + 1-YEAR COMMITMENT05
Get results!
G+With Google's suite of easy-to-use mobile and web apps, you have personal support in your palm every day until you hit your goals.
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Your coach will challenge you to stay on track and give you encouragement to stick with it.📆You’ll have accountability and support from your coach every day to help you make consistent progress.🤟
You’ll soon find it’s your relationships with a dedicated coach and seven other women that make all the difference.Testimonials
★★★★★
"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
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.
Are therapy and coaching different?
Yes. 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 nutrition, movement, stress management, and sleep quality. Sometimes sexual health and personal and interpersonal boundaries are included too. A 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 can health coaching support a licensed medical provider?
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.
What's your refund policy?
Because the paid parts of our program involve limited seating and custom digital assets, our policy is as follows:We encourage you to explore our social media and complete the free mini-course first to ensure our style is a good fit for you.The plan creation fee is non-refundable.There's a fee for your plan review, but it's credited toward your tuition if you're accepted. Enrollment in high-touch support is by application only, and limited to just 8 spots. Once your tuition is paid, your seat is secure and non-refundable.
Are there any additional costs?
It really depends on you.Books
This is the most likely extra expense, because we recommend books that provide greater depth and research on a certain topic. There are many free or low-cost resources like your local library, the Libby app (free home access to your library's digital resources), thrift stores, and used book sellers.Gym
If you want to join one, you can. But there are hundreds of ways to get enough movement every day. Ultimately it depends on your location, finances and fitness goals.Food & Supplements
We have extensive experience eating nutritious food cheaply and finding deals on high-quality supplements. If you want to change how you eat and/or start taking supplements and you're on a budget or just careful with money, note that as a priority when you're working on your Living Wellness Plan.Apps
All the apps we use to run our program are from Google, i.e., free. Outside of the Google-verse, you're welcome to use or not use whatever apps you prefer. We may recommend helpful paid apps or additional services, but they won't be required and we'll secure a discount for you when possible.Etc.
If it turns out you want different shoes for a new activity, to restock your pantry, or go on a retreat, for example, then yes those are technically additional costs that fall in your court.
This is the most likely extra expense, because we recommend books that provide greater depth and research on a certain topic. There are many free or low-cost resources like your local library, the Libby app (free home access to your library's digital resources), thrift stores, and used book sellers.Gym
If you want to join one, you can. But there are hundreds of ways to get enough movement every day. Ultimately it depends on your location, finances and fitness goals.Food & Supplements
We have extensive experience eating nutritious food cheaply and finding deals on high-quality supplements. If you want to change how you eat and/or start taking supplements and you're on a budget or just careful with money, note that as a priority when you're working on your Living Wellness Plan.Apps
All the apps we use to run our program are from Google, i.e., free. Outside of the Google-verse, you're welcome to use or not use whatever apps you prefer. We may recommend helpful paid apps or additional services, but they won't be required and we'll secure a discount for you when possible.Etc.
If it turns out you want different shoes for a new activity, to restock your pantry, or go on a retreat, for example, then yes those are technically additional costs that fall in your court.
Is Holistic Wellness School available internationally?
Yes, and we love helping people all around the world!Just be aware that we're focused on American women, so please review our program page to ensure we're a good fit for you.If you're wondering about the time zone differences, we ask for time zones on our application so we can customize session days and times for each cohort.We use Google Meet, but WhatsApp is an option if Meet isn't available in your country. Just let us know.So don't let location hold you back; we're here to help no matter where you are.
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'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
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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* Oana Dumitru, "What do Americans think about different parenting styles, and which style did they grow up with?", YouGov.com, 2023.
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