About Bethany & Ingrained Living
If you’re weary, overwhelmed, or longing for a gentler path toward healing, I’m so glad you’re here.
Ingrained Living was created to be a grounded, compassionate, faith-rooted space where women can receive thoughtful support for both body and soul—especially during seasons of exhaustion, transition, and quiet unraveling.
I understand that some women carry not only physical symptoms, but also deep emotional or spiritual weariness from places that were meant to nurture them.
Whether you’re navigating hormone shifts, chronic symptoms, emotional fatigue, or simply the sense that you’ve lost connection with yourself somewhere along the way, I want you to know:
there is still hope for healing.
My Story
Hello, I’m Bethany—a registered dietitian nutritionist with a functional medicine perspective and a compassionate, faith-rooted approach to health and healing.
Prior to launching my private practice in 2016, I spent years working in clinical nutrition at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Since then, I have pursued advanced training in functional nutrition, food sensitivity work, coaching, and soul care so I can continue serving women and families with greater depth and compassion.
That journey deepened my understanding that healing is rarely just physical. Often, it touches stress, rhythms, relationships, nourishment, and the ways women have learned to hold it all together while also holding everyone else.
But my work is deeply personal, too.
There was a season when I looked healthy on paper, yet privately struggled with constant exhaustion, breathlessness, brain fog, energy crashes, and the feeling that I could barely drag myself through the day while caring for four young children. No matter how hard I tried to push through, I never felt fully rested or able to catch my breath.
I sought answers, tried protocols, and visited specialists—only to repeatedly hear that everything looked “normal.”
I sought answers, tried protocols, and visited specialists—only to repeatedly hear that everything looked “normal.”But I didn’t feel well.
Over time, I began to realize my body was not betraying me—it was communicating with me.
As I discovered more personalized and root-cause approaches to healing, my symptoms began to improve. But even more importantly, I began learning how to slow down, listen differently, and care for myself with greater gentleness and attunement instead of simply pushing harder.
That journey reshaped not only my health, but the way I now care for women.
As a wife, mother of five, and caregiver myself, I understand how easy it is for women to spend years caring for everyone else while quietly disconnecting from their own bodies and needs.
Like many of the women I serve, I’m still walking the midlife journey too—learning, growing, and continuing to tend to my own health with grace and wisdom.
I’m also creative at heart and a lover of natural beauty, timeless stories, long walks, and hot tea. The artwork and photography woven throughout this space were created during meaningful seasons of reflection and healing here on our Tennessee farm and reflect the heart behind Ingrained Living: beauty, nourishment, rest, and hope.
How My Faith Shapes My Nutrition Care
My faith in Jesus Christ deeply shapes the way I understand health, healing, and the care I provide to women.
I believe every person is created with dignity, worth, and intentional design, and that our bodies deserve to be cared for with compassion, curiosity, and respect—not shame, fear, or constant striving.
Rather than trying to control or “fix” our bodies, I believe we are invited to steward them with gentleness, wisdom, nourishment, and grace.
My work is rooted in biblical truth, prayerful discernment, and a deep respect for the whole person—body and soul.
While I do not believe healing is always linear or complete on this side of heaven, I do believe women deserve to be cared for with compassion, wisdom, and hope.
And while my faith deeply shapes my perspective and approach to care, women do not need to share my beliefs to feel welcomed, respected, and thoughtfully supported here.
Formation & Credentials
- Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN, LDN)
- Degree in Nutrition & Dietetics from Samford University
- Clinical nutrition experience at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Dietetic Internship at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Graduate coursework in Human Nutrition at the University of Alabama
- Certified LEAP Therapist (CLT)
- Advanced training in food sensitivity and functional nutrition
- Certified Christian Coach through an ICF-accredited program
- Full Focus Certified Pro
- Ongoing study in integrative nutrition, trauma-informed care, spiritual formation, and story work
A Gentle Place to Begin
You don’t have to have everything figured out before you begin.
If you’re longing for clarity, nourishment, compassionate support, and a gentler way forward, I would be honored to walk alongside you.
There is space for you here.