Today we’d like to introduce you to Jen Fiore.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I got started because of my own need! I am the co-founder of Do Life Inspired, LLC. I am the author of a children’s book, Heaven Cent and my memoir, All the Parts of Me: One woman’s detour into fear and trip back to love. I currently am a wellness coach who specializes in more than the body’s wellness but in the spiritual aspect of each of us as well as our mindset. As a health and wellness coach, gluten-free expert, energy worker, author, and artist, I use all of these tools to assist people who are suffering from pain, anxiety, or fear by teaching them how to overcome their limiting beliefs, observe their thoughts, discover the magnificence that they were created to be, and to live the joy-filled life they deserve. Because I was once a person who experienced much of the same disempowering thoughts.
There was a time in my life where I went from being the gal who loved to go out and be with people, laugh and grab hold of every moment of fun despite the immense pain I experienced in the body. I didn’t know I had Celiac disease, nor did the countless doctors I went to since the age of 8. For decades I was uncomfortable and racked up ailment after ailment. At the age of 18, I was hit by a car walking across a street. It left me with even more ailments and pain in the body as the years progressed. A few years later, I experienced another life-threatening issue that was not only horrific but left me in fear and more pain and more thoughts than I had ever known. So began my life of thought about the body, pain, and a mindset of limiting beliefs which I kept hidden from my community and loved ones. After nearly ten surgeries and much sadness, I reached my lowest point where I knew something needed to change in order to live a quality life.
I embarked on a decade-long self-led healing journey. (An Eat-Pray – Love for the House wife of sorts!)
Part of my own healing was learning about mindset. Reading a Course in Miracles and being a student, and treating not only my form but who I am as a spiritual being and knowing about this lovely thing called our mind! Along with my bachelor’s degree in marketing from Hofstra University years before, I began a completely different kind of study. I became certified as a health coach by the Dr. Sears Wellness Institute. I studied energy and became a Reiki Master. I learned about inflammation and anti-inflammatory foods. I research several eating modalities. I learned about energy medicine. I earned certificates of study in herbal studies and Biochemic tissue salts-Level 3. I studied and became a Psych-K® facilitator. I became comfortable with the connection to spirit, in which we all are, as spiritual beings. I found that each of us knowing a bit of this part of ourselves we can see beyond the pain and mindset that tends to block our brilliance at times.
I realized that I can have power of my life experience. That with some effort, I could see things, and MYSELF, differently. In doing this work with myself, I lessened my pain! I went from being a person in so much pain that walking wasn’t easy to someone who walks daily and even hikes! I went from 17 migraines a month to less than one. Sometimes even ZERO a month!
I took my serial entrepreneurial nature and used it to help others DO their lives inspired by seeing that they have the power to step into the life experience they desire. I not only wrote the book about the journey, but I speak about the power to change the way we see just about everything that may be a block standing in your way.
I offer a program, the Mastery of Joy.
I hold a monthly LIVE zoom class where I talk and mentor others with Mindful Practices and A Course in Miracles for REAL LIFE.
I live (and LOVE) each day sharing my joy through gluten-free food & wellness on Instagram ( on IG @glutenfreesince03) and on my YouTube channel: GlutenFree and Me
I offer 1:1 sessions for wellness and mindset.
I travel over Georgia and many states to find gluten-free restaurants, do reviews and offer to help restaurants tweak their menus to embrace the gluten-free nation!
I paint because I love it and I sell some pieces as well.
I’m sure you wouldn’t say it’s been obstacle free, but so far would you say the journey have been a fairly smooth road?
It was a struggle for a long while with pain in the body. I was a mother of three children. We started a gluten-free diet in 2003 when we all discovered we had celiac disease! That was WAY before gluten-free was known or in the grocery store. I tackled that for my kiddos and myself to begin healing. Unfortunately, I had many more ailments that continued. As I raised our kids, worked, volunteered, and tried to be present for my family, I struggled to feel better. It was always one pain or another. Even with a gluten-free lifestyle(which helped a great many things in my life and the health of all three of my children) I still was unwell. I embarked on the healing journey I mentioned. For a decade of learning, researching, and even studying various studies, I would creep forward in healing. At times I would take greater leaps. I called this my learning and unlearning time. At the root of all the struggles was needing to know more about the mind and how it can affect the body, my own little world, and how I saw the world at large. Part of that struggle was understanding who and what I was! Which was more than “just Jen”!
Thanks for sharing that. So, maybe next you can tell us a bit more about your work?
Although I own a business and I coach, I also embrace All the Parts of Me (yes, a shameless plug on my book, but it fits:) I use all the tools in my toolbox to help people where they are at in their journey. I am a “creative” in the respect that I am an author and an artist; I use this creativity to connect to calm! I help others to use creativity and what I like to call inspiration in my mindful practices. The goal is to create practices so that you can master your own joy, create space from thought…and ultimately HEAL!
Whenever I speak about wellness, I discuss the importance of living from a place of inspiration (hence the name of my company, Do Life Inspired, LLC) and part of that can be in our creative pursuits. A second part of inspiration can be in our thoughts. I used this practice for years and it helped me to heal my body. Yes, things come up, but for the most part I have my inflammation/arthritis under control and live a much different life then I once did.
In my self-led downloadable program, The Mastery of Joy, I talk about connecting to that part of yourself that is peaceful and can inspire you, as well as center you. There is something very healing and beautiful when we remember that we are created in love. When I coach others I help them to connect to that part of themselves.
What sets me apart from others is my own unique experience. I have been through a great deal and I am living proof that things can change in your life. It begins with the willingness to do something and it can grow from there!
We hear about wellness in body and the mind, I believe most healing begins with the body and then progresses from that point. Understanding where your mind is seated, is it in fear or in love, can show you where your body and even life experience will follow. Acknowledging we are more than just a body is the key to healing (again …all the parts of me! HaHa). Each one of us is a spiritual being in the human experience, so what does that mean to you in your own life experience? And then where can you go from that understanding to heal or bring to you the thing you desire to see in your life!? That was my own experience, so of course I am an “expert” on myself and what works for me…so I share from that place. I share to help people have the courage to see themselves as powerful. I share to let them know they have their own light to shine in this world. I don’t believe there is only one way to heal, but I tell my story of who I “was” and who “I AM’ now so that maybe the right person that needs to hear it will be reached.
What I am known for is for being a happy person despite the pain I experienced and also, largely, for the fact that I am a BIG foodie who is dedicated to a gluten-free lifestyle. A large portion of work in promoting my book, my programs and my “brand” is geared toward wellness in the body first. I encourage others to listen to their body’s needs as one of the steps to experience less pain. Wellness for me is healthy eating, for less inflammation in the body, and it’s also GREAT tasting food that happens to be gluten-free. I have 19 years of experience with gluten-free cooking and baking, a restaurant owner for five years, and around 27 years of being a home chef, so I take food’s role in our life very seriously. I think food is meant to be enjoyed, shared with others, and can also be used as another tool to help this body we are using feel good! I began a project last year … I venture out in the world, Atlanta and beyond, and I search for the restaurants that are hidden gems who are excelling at offering fantastic gluten-free dishes! I began filming the food and the restaurant and put it up on Instagram as “Finding Gluten Free Nation”. It is such fun and want to get people excited about the changes they are making in their life. Over 30% of the American population is eating a gluten-free diet for one reason or another, and I LOVE to inspired them to see it as an empowerment, not a punishment. So I am hitting the road and highlighting the places that are serving great food!
Also, I have a YouTube channel, GlutenFree and Me, where I share our family’ recipes and help people to just stay curious with cooking and baking gluten-free and NOT TO JUDGE themselves if the food isn’t Pinterest worthy! It will taste good and be good for you!
Do you have any memories from childhood that you can share with us?
Family and Food! I loved Sunday dinners at my grandparent’s house in Queens, NY where we would all gather around an awesome home-cooked meal. When I was young, it felt like 100 people gathered in their small house. I wrote about it in my book because it will forever be a shining treasure in my childhood memories.
The side table full of Italian pastries, fruit, and nuts. The smells of the sauce cooking and playing outside with my brother and my cousins as we anxiously waited for our early dinner to be done. Each Sunday, without fail, we would attempt to sneak into the kitchen and grab a meatball off the plate, as my grandmother would be hard at work at the stove. And each and every Sunday, she would scold us in Italian telling us to “aspetta”… which meant she was telling us to “WAIT!” But she always had the toothpicks lined up like little soldiers for us to make it easy to grab a meatball and not burn our fingers!
Contact Info:
- Website: www.jenfiore.com
- Instagram: @glutenfreesince03
- Facebook: jen_fiore_dolifeinspired
- Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2ovVSuKMkIq-C58O6PsbcA
