Health & Human Performance Coaching
for Functional Medicine Evidence Informed
Custom Lifestyle Design based treatment plans
by Dr. Andrea Renee, DACM, LAc. an
International Coaching Federation (ICF)
Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
“I had the pleasure of being coached by Dr. Andrea Renee Rivera, whom I met through the Masters in Health and Science Program during a major transition in my life and career. Her guidance was invaluable in helping me navigate this challenging period. Dr. Rivera provided me with a clear perspective on what was realistic and what was not, enabling me to set achievable goals. With her support, I implemented sustainable lifestyle changes that significantly smoothed my transition. Her expertise and compassionate approach made a profound impact on my personal and professional growth. I am incredibly grateful for her coaching and highly recommend her services to anyone seeking meaningful and lasting change.” – Margo G.
“I had the pleasure of being coached by Dr. Andrea Renee Rivera, whom I met through the Masters in Health and Science Program during a major transition in my life and career. Her guidance was invaluable in helping me navigate this challenging period. Dr. Rivera provided me with a clear perspective on what was realistic and what was not, enabling me to set achievable goals. With her support, I implemented sustainable lifestyle changes that significantly smoothed my transition. Her expertise and compassionate approach made a profound impact on my personal and professional growth. I am incredibly grateful for her coaching and highly recommend her services to anyone seeking meaningful and lasting change.” – Margo G.
What can coaching do for you?
1. Clarify your vision, purpose, & strategy for ultimate fulfillment in your life and work
2. Maximize your personal and professional potential
3. Improve your performance at work, home, and in sports
4. Grow your teamwork & leadership skills
5. Effectively manage your stress and holistic health
“Coaching is partnership (defined as an alliance, not a legal business partnership) between the Coach and the Client
in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires the client to maximize personal, professional or business goals and to
develop and carry out a strategy/plan for achieving those goals.” – International Coaching Federation (ICF) https://coachingfederation.org/
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“After four full months of hard work…Thank you again for all your hard work helping me attain that goal. I appreciate your extra overtime, taking notes, giving advice and referrals. Your support was invaluable. I am tempted to say I could not have done it without you. The reality is it would have taken me much, much longer and would have caused me a whole lot of unbearable anxiety. Thank you so much.” – Paul D.
Stress has been shown to be 70% of the cause of disease.
“..it is well documented that up to 70% of serious diseased populations are believed to be effected by chronic stress.” – https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4791152/
Managing our stress is vital to our health.
Chronic workplace stress functions as a direct physiological pathway connecting the disengagement documented in employee satisfaction research conducted by Gallup since 2012 and Achievers since 2015 to long-term health decline: Gallup’s Power of Purpose (GBD) findings show that employees with low work purpose report frequent burnout at nearly four times the rate of high-purpose employees (52% versus 13%) and frequent stress at roughly three times the rate (32% versus 11%), while the Achievers 2015 data showing 51% of employees unhappy at work and 61% unaware of their company’s values describes the same chronic, unresolved workplace stress state that clinical research links to disease.
Evidence has shown that chronic stress is associated with a substantial share of physical illness — reviews estimate chronic psychological stress as a contributing risk factor in roughly 75–90% of clinical visits and disease processes, largely through HPA-axis dysregulation, chronic inflammation, and elevated cardiovascular risk (people with work-related chronic stress carry a documented 50% increased risk of cardiovascular disease).
Center for Disease Control (CDC) data shows at least 80% of adults 60 and older have one or more chronic conditions.
Recent Global Burden of Disease research shows U.S. life expectancy reached a record 79 years in 2024, but a 2026 GBD analysis found the U.S. has the widest healthspan-lifespan gap in the world at roughly 14 years, meaning Americans live nearly a decade and a half in declining health and this gap is not concentrated only at the very end of life but spreads disability and chronic illness across more of adult life than in prior generations.
This means chronic occupational stress isn’t a peripheral wellbeing concern but a plausible contributor to the compressed, expensive, and prolonged morbidity period the GBD data describes, which reinforces Gagné and Hewett’s argument that agency-theory management — monitoring, control, and unmet psychological needs — carries costs that extend well beyond disengagement metrics into employees’ long-term physical health, giving the case for self-determination-informed, purpose-driven organizational design (autonomy, competence, relatedness) a health-economic as well as a business-performance rationale.
Stress can be managed with self-care mind-body practices anyone can do at home and as needed throughout the day
such as meditation and Emotional Freedom Technique acupressure shown in the videos at the bottom of this page.
to create permanent better quality of life and relationships results.
through leading clients through a variety of evidence based
self-assessment, goal setting, strategic action planning, stress management and self-care tools.
for clarity on core values and ideal life/work vision combined
with doable action plans as a complimentary effective tool for managing stress and anxiety.
Lasting confidence and happiness can come from making daily progress in consistently managing stress
through gaining clarity on core values, taking action toward accomplishing life goals
while at the same time practicing essential self-care
with your own custom designed lifestyle practices.
Watch Dr. Leslie Smith, M.D.’s testimonial about her Passion Test for Business coaching experience with Dr. Andrea Renee Rivera.
The Dali Lama was asked what surprised him most about man?
-His response was-
“Man. Because he sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.”
Dr. Andrea Renee herself and her clients have found that when effective evidence based daily self-care is combined with neuroscience and positive psychology tools like the Passion Test life and business coaching process our mission vision clarity and love for living can be reawakened and make our ideal lives a reality.
“Our passions are the bread crumbs that lead us to our destiny…What we want in life will manifest only to the extent that we are clear.” – The Passion Test by Chris and Janet Atwood
Do you feel burnt out and stuck on a treadmill of responsibilities that are dragging you down?
Are you having trouble breaking through to a new level of peak performance and accomplishing your goals?
Do you want to get your fire back and feel that your heart is in your life and work again?
You can become a more passionate, on fire person!
You can be clearer, more confident, better able to communicate effectively at work and at home!
You can stop second-guessing your life decisions and actions and be powerful living full out in total integrity!
When we are clear on what matters most to us we can live powerfully, making all our life decisions in integrity according to our top 5 core values (passions).
Dr. Andrea Renee, DACM has been a Passion Test for Life, Youth and Business Facilitator since 2011.
She loves working with the heart centered, like you can see in the testimonial videos below,
helping them live their into highest potential and make a lasting positive impact on humanity.
They got clear and turned their passion back on and so can you!
Dr. Andrea Renee, MSHHP, ICF PCC
Master’s of Science in Health and Human Performance Coaching (MSHHP)
& International Coaching Federation (ICF) Professional Certified (PCC) Coach Certificate
Andrea Renee’s journey to become a holistic whole person life and business coach and Dr. of Chinese Medicine and Acupuncturist began when she was run over by a taxi in New York City in 1994 and became a life-long chronic pain patient.
Since then she’s has been overcoming her physical challenges and maintaining her ability to work as a entrepreneur working for herself in her first business designing and creating jewelry with a celebrity following, coaching solo-entrepreneurs, small businesses and non-profits as a business consultant in her second business and helping real people overcome their own health challenges as a yoga instructor, energy worker and acupuncturist in her third business.
Along the way, she realized she & her peers can often lack vital clarity on their mission and vision for their lives as a whole and work in addition to proper support and business acumen to help them succeed, and more importantly, thrive doing what they love while at the same time enjoying actual work-life balance and ideal quality of life health and well being.
Andrea Renee has also seen that clarity on the purpose & meaning of our lives and work & having passion for what we do and how we are living with respect to our holistic health and relationships can be sorely missing from our lives as we reach new stages of life. Coaching with custom lifestyle design can reawaken our spirit and get us back in the drivers seat on our hero’s journey toward our destiny in ways that do not compromise our holistic health, well being, relationship, and career goals.
Grounded Starbath Guided Imagery Meditation
Guided imagery meditation is an enjoyable, simple yet very effective Mind-Body practice tool that can help calm the mind, reduce pain and boost immunity, energy and overall better health by bringing the body back into it’s ideal homeostasis Parasympathetic nervous system response where the body rests, digests and repairs itself. Guided imagery meditation is one of the easiest and most accessible ways to start and enjoy a regular daily meditation practice. The guidance during the meditation gives us an enjoyable experience to focus on and a break from thinking the same 80,000 habitual often stressful thoughts we think a day that can keep us in a constant fight or flight Sympathetic nervous system response that shuts down our immune and digestive systems causing the inflammation that is the root cause of all the top 5 diseases like heart disease, diabetes and chronic pain that can ruin our quality of life and ultimately kill us.
Boosting our immunity, reducing pain and promoting our long-term health, longevity and quality of life can be as simple as learning effective stress management tools like meditation. Taking a meditation break for just minutes once or twice a day regularly has been shown in many meditation clinical research studies over several decades to improve all health conditions. Search Meditation Research Study Benefits NIH (National Institute of health) on PubMed to see the published peer reviewed clinical evidence for yourself. Most of all enjoy this 10 minute meditation and experience the de-stressing, greater mental clarity and creativity for yourself that can be enjoyed for many hours after your meditation break.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) Acupressure
You can stop stress and pain in less than 15 minutes at will as needed any time of day any where you are. It can be as simple as taking a break for 10-15 minutes to practice this EFT tapping acupressure practice with affirmation statements that release mental, emotional and physical tension and pain. EFT: Emotional Freedom Technique was created by an acupuncturist and is a practice of using your fingers to tap specific acupuncture points that stimulate our nervous system and muscles to relax promoting better blood flow and lymphatic drainage as well as stimulating endorphin (natural pain killers and mood lifters) release in the body.
After practicing EFT as shown in this simple video in just 13.5 minutes you can feel more relaxed, happy and pain free. Once you learn this practice you can practice anywhere at any time throughout the day to manage your stress and pain and increase your quality of life, energy and mood. When you build your self-care tool box with tools such as EFT you can stay in the drivers seat of your life and health and help yourself whenever you face daily challenges.