Guide2Resilience With Meghan Varner

by Charles McGuigan 09.2022

Meghan Varner brings a wealth of science and personal experience to a virtual coaching business she started up last November. It’s called, quite simply, Guide2Resilience.

“I started it out of a passion to still be able to help people in spite of the pandemic,” says Meghan. 

With a clinical doctorate in physical therapy, along with seven years actively working in her chosen profession, Meghan was very selective in how she meets with clients remotely. “I use a secure client portal that’s HIPAA compliant, so it’s totally secure,” she tells me. “With my medical background, that was very appealing to me.”

Meghan works closely with her clients, helping them figure out how to best achieve health goals.  “I call myself a health and wellness coach,” she says. “I help individuals figure out what steps they need to take to improve their own wellness and to achieve whatever personal wellness goals they have.” 

These goals can range from dietary restrictions to weight-loss, and from exercise regimens to stress management. “As a coach I like to focus on the mind-body connection, and the ‘gut’ is a big part of it,” Meghan explains. “I’ve helped a couple clients figure out what’s going on with their gut, and how it’s effecting their mood and their energy levels.”

Meghan has an intimate understanding of what her clients are going through. “I bring a big piece of empathy because I’ve been through quite a bit myself with health challenges,” she says.

Meghan has a form of dysautonomia—a disorder of the autonomic nervous system—called POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome). This disorder effects the body’s ability to regulate autonomic functions such as heart rate, blood pressure, sweating, and body temperature. 

In learning to manage her own health conditions, Meghan discovered things that are beneficial to her clients. “A very important piece of all health conditions is managing our stress,” says Meghan.  “Making sure we’re getting quality sleep, making sure that we’re having quality relationships, and finding that purpose or that spiritual meaning in our own lives, what brings us bliss. For some that’s religious, for some that’s artistic, for others it’s communication with nature.” 

She guides her patients to more healthful, and achievable, practices that improve general well-being. “You tell someone to go one hundred percent vegetarian, and they might do it for a month and then go back,” Meghan says. “It’s just too hard. What’s doable and workable for them? The same thing with movement, and exercise regimens. You don’t have to fit a mold with exercise; you can be fit for what you need.”

Meghan Varner pauses, and then says, “I help people bridge the gap. I’m focused on the health aspects, like what you would be working on with your doctor. So the diet, the exercise, the sleep, the stress levels, and the mind-body connection.  What I’m learning through healing my own self I am able to apply to my clients. I want to help guide others to live their best life.”

Meghan Varner

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