ANDREA GAUDREAULT
GUEST WRITER
Holistic Nutritionist. Speaker. Wellness coach. Women’s Health Expert.
Annie had three different careers before coming to holistic nutrition and wellness in her early forties. Beginning in childhood, Annie experienced numerous health issues, including living with Cystic Fibrosis, a genetic disease that affects the pancreas and lungs, which prevented her from being as active as other children. Losing her mom to cancer and her brother to suicide in her early twenties caused her to retreat into what she considered a “safe world’; one where she found herself overly obsessed with her career. While she worked in public relations, design and branding for some of the top Fortune 500 companies, like Nestlé, Molson and McCain Foods, by the time she was in her mid-thirties she was depleted, out of shape and just burnt out.
That’s when she discovered running, or perhaps, running found her. Requiring no skills and no gym schedule, Annie soon found her joy again and became an endurance athlete in her late thirties, completing over 10 marathons and three long distance triathlon Ironman competitions, all while running her business. As she became more active, other areas began to change too; she was eating well, taking time to rest and rejuvenate, and feeling both energized and emotionally calm.
Armed with this new energy, she began to coach women to run their first marathons and she soon discovered that coaching them was the most extraordinary and fulfilling experience of her life. She had found her calling!
She went back to school to get her degree in Holistic Nutrition, gaining a basis in science to help her understand fundamental health principles and is now a certified holistic nutritionist and founder of VEEV Health & Wellness. She helps women in midlife make sense of all the health and wellness information so they can make informed decisions and establish habits and systems that support their best health and best life. She helps them to realize that aging well is possible and that some of their best years are yet to come.
As she says,
“You deserve to age better and stronger. Let’s make it happen.”
