Hi, I’m Stella Wilson
When you feel better in your 50’s than you ever have, you want to share that magic!
I believe in a science-based, yet natural approach to wellness, vitality, and overall happiness! I help you plant your own healthy roots, and map your health journey, and yes, I believe in keeping it simple!
Suffering silently for years, I spent most of my days off bouncing from doctor to doctor. It took peeling away the years of education (what I thought I knew) coupled with learning I could heal, (and yes, so can you). Our bodies are an interconnected hot mess of biochemical activity, but that activity needs simple, natural solutions to thrive and that is not complicated.
Here are the basics:
Pharmacy Doctorate, Graduating class of 2002, University of Florida, Gainesville campus
Owner of Ormond Beach, Central Florida's BeBalanced Natural Weight Loss Centers since 2017
Functional Blood Work Specialist
Wellcoach Certified Health Coach
School of Applied Functional Medicine Enrolled 2022
20+ Years working as a clinical pharmacist in large hospital systems in MO and FL
I get it … I struggled for decades.
At the age of 46 I found the answers that were the key to living my best life, giving me the power (and finally the energy) to say, “I can help others!”
I was starting to heal, getting better day by day, and that’s when it hit me – we all have this healing capacity. We just need to find what works and lean into it!
Why I Get It
- Being an overweight child, adolescent, and adult (But of course, you’ll only find pictures from my skinny months, undoubtedly coming off yet another diet!) Can you relate!?!
- I was in tow with Mom and Grandma’s from a young age attending Weight Watchers and TOPS classes (yes, I could recite and knew it all, but that never translated into living a healthy life)
- Lifelong insomnia (even as young as early grade school)
- PCOS
- Migraines
- Anemia
- Hypoglycemia (hospitalized twice when blood sugar crashed)
- Debilitating TMJ pain
- Painful Cystic Breast
- Fibroids and the kind of periods that disrupt your life!
- Chronic fatigue (surprise, can’t sleep, can’t feel rested!)
- Chronic Pain
- And eventually a Fibromyalgia diagnosis
Behind the Smile
For more than 20 years, I worked in healthcare alongside dedicated professionals. I showed up every day, ready to do my part. Few knew the secret suffering behind my smile.
I knew Western medicine inside and out. I had the clinical training. I sought help from doctors and specialists, trusting the system I worked in.
The result?
- Diagnosis after diagnosis (or label after label)
- Medication after medication
- Band-aid after band-aid
- Never a resolution
- Never hope of actually getting better
Worse yet, I was made to feel like the problem was me—I left doctors’ offices in tears, losing hope with each visit.
So I did what many of us do: I pushed harder. Extreme exercise. Strict eating restrictions. Punishing a body crying out for nourishment and love, not punishment.
Sound familiar?
Many times, I was made to feel I just wasn’t doing enough or worse, made to feel that I just didn’t want to get better.
When “Functioning” Isn’t Living
My struggles began early in life. I had a hormone-related issue every decade of my life starting in my teens—but honestly, it started even earlier. I was in the hospital for 12 days when I was 9 years old, spending my 9th birthday there (though I got the most epic slumber party with over 20 screaming 9-year-olds when I got out, so there’s that!).
Looking back now, that was probably related to a tick-borne illness that was never diagnosed. But even before that, I was never a kid with tons of energy. Remember, it’s been a lifelong problem with sleep—and the food I was fed? That was mostly poison, not medicine.
So the decade-by-decade recap:
- Ovarian cyst at 14 (they continued to come and go from my teens to thirties)
- Cystic and painful breasts in my twenties
- Uterine fibroids in my thirties
- Hysterectomy
- Eventually, multiple diagnoses of fibromyalgia, chronic pain, and chronic fatigue in my 40s
I was a walking, talking, chemical drug-induced zombie—but I didn’t know that. I could get up, crawl out of bed, put on a smile (mask), make it to work, do my job, and pay my taxes.
But that was it. Seriously, that was it. There was rarely any energy or motivation for excitement, fun, family, or friends.
Trust me, for me, and for YOU, that IS NOT ENOUGH!
Don’t Worry, It Starts Getting Better
At 46, after a failed attempt with a functional medicine provider, I experienced weight gain, hair loss, return of painful cystic breasts, and even less energy.
He claimed to have ‘cured’ me because my lab values were now ‘optimal.’
Have you ever wanted to scream “this isn’t cured, normal, or optimal” at a healthcare provider? Nope, just me? Okay, well I wanted to scream. Instead, I left in tears and never went back.
Right around that same time, a close friend introduced me to a non-medical health and weight loss solution, and my entire life began to change. So much so that I left the security of my 20-year hospital career and opened BeBalanced Natural Hormone Weight Loss, creating a team of amazing coaches to help women who felt unheard and dismissed—just like I had been, and maybe like you are right now.
The Call to Do More
Although BeBalanced was a great start, I felt called to learn more. So I began additional training: Certified Coach through Wellcoaches, School of Applied Functional Medicine, Functional Blood Work Specialist, and most recently, Certified Trauma-Informed Leadership Coach.
From the time I graduated from the University of Florida College of Pharmacy, I knew I wanted to help others get off medications and reduce the burden of healthcare on their time and finances. Unfortunately, our traditional medical model doesn’t allow the time needed to bring in lifestyle and foundational help.
I never envisioned my journey would take the twists, turns, and detours that it did. But I’m grateful to be here now, ready to serve others who—like me—just need that helping hand and a fresh start.
You don’t have to just go through the motions of life. I see you, I believe you, and I know that you deserve the life that is your wellness vision.
This is the bridge between your health care team and your health.