Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Brigid Tebaldi. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.

Brigid, looking forward to hearing all of your stories today. We’d love to hear about how you went about setting up your own practice and if you have any advice for professionals who might be considering starting their own?

It was back in 2018 and I was an aspiring fertility awareness educator. I was taking the certification courses and exams and thought that when I finished and put myself on the directory list, that people would just flock to me to help them. They didn’t. I had to figure out how to get in front of people and it was a tough 4 years where I worked far too many times for free. I couldn’t explain my elation when someone sent me a $50 venmo as a thank you for teaching them. Then, in 2022, I decided I needed to do something differently and I found health coaching. I loved it as soon as I learned more about it and enrolled in a program that would allow me to become board certified, which was important to me, as the field is very saturated. I joined the program, went through the long process of becoming a health coach and Functional Nutrition Coach, and then taking the NBHWC exam. I was sure that I failed the exam because the questions were so vague and you never knew what they wanted to hear, but imagine my surprise when I got that email that I had passed!! Once again, I put the NPI number and logo showing that I passed and was now board certified on my website and expected people to just flock to me for my services. Wrong again. Since going all into my health coaching business 4 years ago, I have learned that many people say that they want change, but then they are actually too afraid to make a change. Now that I have immersed myself with nervous system regulation and understand why we do the things we do on a biological and subconscious level, it makes sense why someone can desire something, but then not take the steps to get themselves there. So, now, instead of trying to convince people to invest in my services, I simply embody the type of person who is calm, peaceful, successful, and hard working, and those potential clients see that it is possible and they actually reach out to me to get support. I would say that if someone is wanting to start their own practice, don’t give up. Some people may be an instant success, but more often than not, you have to put in those reps for a reason. You have to show up and be the person now who you want to be in 10 years. Don’t quit…keep going and eventually, it will all pay off. Remember everything is working on you or it’s working for you, but all work works.

Brigid, before we move on to more of these sorts of questions, can you take some time to bring our readers up to speed on you and what you do?

I am Brigid Tebaldi, a board-certified health coach and the founder of Loreto Wellness. I homeschool our 5 young children and live on a farm.

I work with women whose lives look functional, even fruitful, but whose bodies are struggling and their family life is quietly paying the price of her nervous system dysfunction0. These are women who pray, lead, mother, build, and give, yet live braced against their own lives. Their nervous systems learned, at some point, typically early childhood, that safety required vigilance.

I did not enter this work as a career choice. I was led here by necessity. I lived the experience of doing everything “right” while my body refused to settle. Eventually, I understood what many women are never taught: the body does not respond to effort or intention alone. It responds to memory. Until that memory is addressed, peace remains fragile, no matter how sincere the desire for it.

Loreto Wellness exists because symptom management is not enough. I help women uncover the original story their nervous system learned through stress, loss, trauma, medical experiences, or prolonged responsibility, and then rebuild the foundation so the body no longer has to protect them at the cost of clarity, presence, or peace. This work is not about calming down, but is about restoring the capacity to live without constant internal resistance. We actually heal those wounds that our body has learned so that they no longer function from that place.

My services include private coaching, group programs, education, and community spaces centered on nervous system restoration, women’s health, and embodied healing. Many of the women I work with are mothers, business owners, and leaders who cannot afford to collapse, yet cannot continue living in survival without consequence. When the nervous system remains dysregulated, it shapes everything: relationships, decision-making, physical health, spiritual life, and the ability to trust oneself. Left unaddressed, it does not resolve on its own. It hardens.

What sets my work apart is that I do not treat the nervous system as a problem to be fixed or controlled. I treat it as faithful. I integrate physiology, identity, and faith because healing does not happen in isolation. Regulation is not a tool, but is a state of readiness. A body that feels safe enough to breathe deeply, think clearly, and respond instead of react is the foundation for leadership, motherhood, vocation, and discernment.

I am most proud of the women who tell me they no longer feel at war with themselves. They are no longer the “mean mom.” Women who stop living as though one wrong decision will undo everything, they regain trust in their bodies, their judgment, and their calling. I am also proud that Loreto Wellness is built in alignment with real life. I am a wife, a mother of five, and a homeschooler. My work is not designed to escape ordinary life; it is designed to make it livable again.

What I want people to understand is this: healing is not self-improvement. It is essential. When the nervous system is restored, everything built on top of it becomes possible again.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

I showed up, even when no one was watching. I stayed consistent, especially when growth felt slow. I reached out to people directly, listened well, and offered real help without an agenda. Over time, that steadiness built trust, and trust became my reputation. People now know that when I say something, I will do it. Even if it’s something as simple as putting out a weekly podcast episode, I am going to do it weekly. I really live by “how you do anything is how you do everything.”

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

I began my work focused almost entirely on birth trauma. I experienced my own and I knew I could help people through theirs. It was the doorway that first revealed how deeply the body remembers, and how profoundly medical experiences, loss of control, and fear can shape a woman’s sense of safety. Over time, though, I noticed a pattern. Many women treated birth trauma as a single event to “get past,” something painful but temporary, yet their bodies were still living in protection long after that story was told and healed.

That realization required a pivot. I saw that birth trauma was not the root. It was one expression of a nervous system that had learned to survive. Without addressing regulation, safety, and capacity at the root and deeper nervous-system level, healing stayed partial. So I widened the work. I began naming the physiology underneath the experience and teaching women how to restore steadiness in their bodies, not just process a moment in their past.

That shift changed everything. Nervous system regulation became the foundation, not the follow-up. Birth trauma still matters, of course, but it now lives within a larger, more honest framework. One that honors the body’s intelligence and offers women a way to heal that does not expire once the memory feels quieter.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.loretowellness.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brigid.tebaldi/?hl=en
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/loretowellness
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigidtebaldi/
• Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@loreto.wellness