Body • Mind • Spirit
I have stood where you are now.
Healing is possible.
Welcome to the beginning of your healing journey.
Health and Wellness Coaching
You don’t have to keep pushing through exhaustion or navigating complex health challenges alone. Wheel of Wellness Coaching specializes in health and wellness coaching for individuals facing health challenges, including but not limited to chronic pain, autoimmunity, environmental illness, and cancer. Together, we’ll focus on nervous system regulation, implementing physical, emotional, and lifestyle practices, and rebuilding trust with your body to support lasting healing.
I understand the overwhelm of extensive treatment protocols—and the uncertainty of wondering if you’re doing enough. With six out of ten adults in the US living with at least one chronic condition and four out of ten facing two or more, illness is an ever-growing burden with limited places to turn for whole-person support. Through Wheel of Wellness Coaching, I work with individuals like you to ensure your healing supports every part of your life—body, mind, spirit, and beyond.
From Diagnosis to Wholeness: Coaching with Depth
Just as a sports coach trains athletes to perform at their best, I, as a certified health and wellness coach, help individuals navigate challenges and move toward their best life—even in the face of chronic or complex medical conditions. Evidence-based studies have shown that coaching is highly effective for building resilience, staying motivated, and meeting treatment goals.
My work is more than strategy or accountability. I believe that when illness or injury enters our lives, we are often being called not only to heal the body, but to awaken to a deeper relationship with ourselves. Illness can become an invitation to rediscover our strength, our intuition, and our wholeness. I help clients meet their treatment goals while honoring the rest of their lives, bringing much-needed clarity and inspiration.
My work is built on the truth that illness touches everything, identity, work, relationships, finances, home, emotional safety and spiritual connection. I honor the emotional and spiritual nature of healing while acknowledging the grief, anger, and limitations many individuals navigate as they reclaim their wholeness. In a world that profits from chronic illness, endless prescriptions, and external authority, my work stands for root-cause awareness and embodied sovereignty.
Through Wheel of Wellness Coaching, my role is to walk beside you—offering guidance, structure, and encouragement as you move from diagnosis toward wholeness.
About Me
Originally from California, I have worked with the National Arthritis Foundation, the Women’s Cancer Resource Center, and Kaiser Permanente. I have also contributed to UCSF research projects and facilitated numerous support groups for people living with chronic conditions in the San Francisco Bay Area. I now split my time between Sedona and the Valley of the Sun in Arizona, drawing strength from the rhythms of nature.
I am experience-informed, not theory-led. Many wellness sites speak about healing, but I speak from inside it. I don’t offer abstract advice or borrowed protocols—instead, I bring lived wisdom from decades within the medical system—navigating long-term treatment, complex health challenges, and the clarity that emerged from moving beyond symptom management into true root-cause healing.
My approach to coaching is deeply informed by my own healing journey. In my thirties, I was diagnosed with a painful autoimmune disease, followed by breast cancer in my forties. For years I searched for answers before discovering whole-body approaches that helped me see the body as an interconnected system rather than a collection of separate parts.
Eventually, I came to understand that environmental illnesses specifically mold toxicity and heavy metal exposure—were negatively impacting every system in my body.
Like so many people living with chronic illness, I experienced the heartbreak, frustration, and deep isolation that often accompany complex and misunderstood conditions.
At my lowest point, I was confined to a wheelchair, weighed over 200 pounds, and was trying to care for two young children while feeling completely disconnected from hope. That moment became a turning point. I began focusing on healing my whole self—body, mind, and spirit.
Through that process I became the advocate I once needed and Wheel of Wellness Coaching was born—created to support others navigating complex health challenges and to help them reconnect with their strength, resilience, and possibility.
Work with Me
Hi, I’m Ronda Downey. I’m a certified health and wellness coach, educator, and guide for those living with complex health challenges. My coaching style draws from a variety of evidence-informed modalities designed to support whole-wellbeing.
Approaches used in sessions may include:
Motivational Interviewing
Behavior Change & Habit Formation Science
Mindfulness and Breath Awareness
Stress-Regulation Techniques
Somatic / Body Awareness
Cognitive Behavioral Tools
Positive Psychology
Lifestyle Medicine Principles
Values Clarification and Goal Setting
Sessions are collaborative, practical, and tailored to support your individual journey. I support clients alongside all medical therapies and modalities – conventional, functional, naturopathic, and holistic. My role is not to replace your care, but to help you navigate your medical treatment with greater clarity and connection to your body. I work with the body, mind, and spirit, creating space where all religions, spiritual traditions, and faiths are welcomed.
What I offer
For me, coaching is more than just about managing illness; it is about remembering your wholeness and answering the deeper call to be your greatest self. My coaching style is conversational and collaborative.
I have a strong intuitive awareness that allows me to recognize what clients may be experiencing beneath the surface. My work combines practical guidance with deep emotional and spiritual insight, helping individuals gain clarity, restore balance, and reconnect with their authentic selves.
Together, we’ll:
Prioritize your
needs
Restore balance
across all areas of your life
Begin living from your
highest values
Using evidence-based tools, positive psychology, and a compassionate coaching presence, I help clients reconnect with their inner strength and create meaningful, lasting change. Through practical guidance and thoughtful reflection, clients gain clarity, restore balance, and move forward with greater confidence.
