About Karen Ann
Founder. Board-Certified Wellness Coach. Nervous System Specialist.
I’m Karen, founder of Karen Ann Wellness, where we help leaders and organizations move from stress and reactivity to calm, clarity, and sustainable success.
With a background in neuroscience, somatic practice, and executive leadership, I teach people to work with their nervous systems, leading with steadiness, communicating with presence, and creating impact that lasts.
After nearly two decades in wellness and corporate leadership, I created Karen Ann Wellness to close the gap between what we know about performance and what we feel in our bodies. Our work blends science and embodiment to build real resilience, not through willpower, but through regulation.
At Karen Ann Wellness, transformation isn’t theory. It’s lived experience that helps people hold success with strength, capacity, and authenticity from the inside out.
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A Journey That Became the Work
This work began long before Karen Ann Wellness — it began with my own healing. Decades ago, I was learning to reconnect with my body after years of disconnection. Recovery from anorexia became my first initiation into embodiment. Yoga taught me presence, breath taught me patience, and slowly I began to understand what safety feels like in the body.
That journey led me to teach others how to move beneath perfectionism and performance and return to themselves. I saw how high-achievers could look strong but feel disconnected — always pushing, rarely at peace.
Later, in leadership roles across Fortune 50, Fortune 200, and startup companies, I saw the same pattern on a larger scale: talented people burning out, teams losing connection, and success built on exhaustion instead of ease.
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Those years changed everything I understood about stress. It wasn’t a mindset issue or a time management problem — it lived in the body, shaping how we think, speak, and lead.
That realization led me deep into the science of resilience — nervous system regulation, somatic psychology, and parts work — and the results were undeniable. Teams communicated better, leaders led with presence, and people felt steadier and more connected.
Resilience isn’t something we think our way into; it’s something we train into the body. At Karen Ann Wellness, we help people rewire their responses, expand their capacity, and sustain success without burnout.
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The Philosophy Behind the Work
Karen Ann Wellness, we believe true transformation doesn’t come from doing more — it comes from feeling safer. When the body feels safe, the mind opens, communication deepens, and clarity follows naturally. This is the foundation of resilience — not just bouncing back, but expanding your capacity to move through life and leadership with steadiness and strength.
Our work is guided by a few simple but powerful principles:
Safety first.
Change can only happen in a regulated system. We create environments — in coaching, training, and leadership development — where people can slow down, exhale, and reconnect with themselves before they rebuild.
Capacity over control.
 We don’t teach people to suppress their stress or emotions. We help them expand their ability to hold more — more pressure, more emotion, more success — without breaking down.
Integration, not information.
 You don’t need more content or mindset hacks. You need practices that help you embody what you already know. Everything we teach is designed to move from theory into lived experience.
Embodied leadership.
 Real leadership starts within. When your nervous system is regulated, you naturally lead with presence, communicate with clarity, and create safety for others.
This is what defines the Karen Ann Wellness approach — a blend of neuroscience, somatic awareness, and leadership development that helps people and organizations not just perform better, but feel better while doing it
The Work Today
Now, I bring together neuroscience, somatic practices, and business strategy to help individuals and teams thrive from the inside out. My clients don’t just learn to handle stress they redefine their relationship with it, discovering that true resilience and clarity arise from a foundation of well-being.
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The Mission and Invitation
At Karen Ann Wellness, our mission is simple, to redefine what it means to thrive. We help leaders, teams, and organizations move beyond survival mode into a way of working and living that is steady, connected, and sustainable.
Our approach isn’t about fixing what’s broken. It’s about helping you remember the intelligence that’s already within you, the body’s natural capacity for safety, resilience, and regulation. When you learn to lead from that place, everything changes.
This work is for those who know there’s more to success than achievement who are ready to lead with clarity, confidence, and calm that lasts.
If that resonates, it’s time to begin.
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