Why We Exist
Wellness should feel like belonging — not pressure.
For too long, fitness professionals, nutrition programs, and even healthcare systems have dismissed people’s bodies, identities, symptoms, and lived experiences.
Here:
You don’t have to earn your place.
You don’t have to explain your pain or your past.
You don’t have to shrink, toughen up, or fit in.
You don’t have to pretend you’re “fine.”
We meet you exactly where you are — with strength coaching and mental health therapy that honor the realities of your life, your body, and your capacity.
You deserve a wellness space that recognizes your story, not one that erases it.
Two Paths. One Mission.
Support built for real bodies, real emotions, and real lives.
Start With Something That’s Just for You
Most women have been handed workouts, meal plans, or “fixes” that never considered their pain, their history, or their real life.
This guide is different.
Strong From Within: Free Beginner Strength Guide for Women
A gentle, zero‑pressure starting point to help you reconnect with your body, understand your capacity, and build strength in a way that actually fits your life.
Strength & Nutrition Coaching
with Bethany Busch, MS, CSCS, ACSM-EP
Exercise Physiologist • Strength & Conditioning Specialist • Nutrition Coach
You’ve been told your body is a problem to fix.
You’ve been dismissed, judged, or pushed past your limits.
You’ve been handed programs that never considered your pain, your history, your identity, or your actual life.
My work is for the women and LGBTQIA+ adults who were never given a space that felt like theirs.
I support people navigating chronic pain, chronic illness, injury history, fatigue, burnout, or complicated relationships with movement or food. Your sessions are paced to your energy, shaped around your capacity, and grounded in dignity — never pressure, never performance, never pretending.
Strength that feels possible.
Movement that respects your story.
Nourishment that fits your real life.
You deserve a coaching space that sees your whole self — not just your body.
Mental Health Therapy
with Auria Zahed, MS, LMFT
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist • Culturally Competent • LGBTQIA+ Affirming
You don’t have to carry everything alone — especially the things you’ve been told to “push through,” “get over,” or “stop being so sensitive about.”
Auria works with women and LGBTQIA+ adults who are navigating stress, anxiety, emotional exhaustion, perfectionism, people‑pleasing, negative self‑talk, and relationship patterns that feel familiar but heavy.
She helps you understand where these patterns came from — culturally, relationally, and historically — and how to finally loosen their grip.
As a therapist and a woman of color, Auria brings culturally competent, identity‑aware care to every session. She understands the complexity of balancing multiple cultures, expectations, and identities, and she creates a space where you don’t have to translate your experience or minimize your story.
Your sessions with Auria are grounding, validating, and focused on building emotional steadiness and self‑trust. Together, you’ll explore the past without getting stuck in it, understand the beliefs you’ve inherited, and set small, doable steps toward feeling more confident, more connected, and more like yourself.
Therapy that creates clarity.
Therapy that builds self‑worth.
Therapy that helps you feel at home in your own life.
Meet Your Team
meet Auria zahed, MS, LMFT
Licensed Therapist | Culturally Competent | LGBTQ+ Affirming
Auria helps adults untangle emotional chaos, build inner steadiness, and reconnect with their sense of self.
She supports people who have spent years carrying invisible weight — and are finally ready to feel understood.
meet bethany busch, ms, cscs, ep-c
Exercise Physiologist & Strength Coach | Chronic Illness-Informed | Emotionally Intelligent Coaching
Bethany coaches women who have been miscoached, misdiagnosed, or misunderstood by traditional fitness culture.
Her method blends strength, mobility, nourishment, pacing, and respect for your lived experience.
Every session adapts to your body that day — not the other way around.
Client Voices
Real Stories. Real Strength. Real Care
Support the Head 2 Toe Strength Movement
Donations don’t just keep the lights on — they help us reach and stand with communities that traditional providers dismiss as “irrelevant.”
We are actively fighting a multi‑billion‑dollar fitness and wellness industry that continues to forget:
Women of color
Women in bodies they don’t find valuable
LGBTQ+ adults who don’t fit their mold
Every dollar fuels workshops, events, and outreach that remind these communities: you belong here.
This isn’t charity. It’s resistance. It’s rewriting the rules of strength and care.
Not tax deductible — just impact deductible.
