Heal your body. Fill your spirit. Breathe your purpose.

Helping you lead with purpose—while nurturing your well-being.

Welcome to Essential~Wholeness…

A holistic framework to nurture your health, renew your spirit, and strengthen your sense of purpose—empowering you to lead with clarity, resilience, and authentic impact.

Through synergistic methods, you will be guided to refocus on what matters most—cultivating balance, presence, and well-being, and empowering a clear path to thrive, all with the support of celebrated author, wellness coach, and transformation guide Samantha Anderson.

My approach emphasizes essential, vital practices that are fundamental to your healing journey. We’ll focus on fostering wholeness, helping you achieve a complete and sound sense of well-being.

The Essential~Wholeness Framework

  • Health Coaching

    Health coaching for midlife women, corporate professionals, nonprofit leaders, and more through a nourishing ecosystem of healing. Offering personalized and holistic solutions, this is your invitation to live your fullest life with energy, health, and purpose.

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  • Leadership Coaching

    Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience, a revolutionary leadership framework that empowers us to reclaim our balance, well-being, and success. Build a world where leadership means living authentically, and success means health and harmony with ourselves and our planet.

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  • Movement

    Qoya Inspired Movement classes that allow us to tap into our essence through movement, offering a map to open mind, heart, and soul. By getting out of our heads and into our bodies, we build trust with our inner world and utilize those instincts to guide our future.

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  • Philanthropy

    Advising and consulting for individuals, families, and foundations to bolster their philanthropic endeavors. Clarify your values, define your goals, and craft a strategy that invites and accelerates catalytic change in the areas that matter most.

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About Samantha

Samantha Anderson is a celebrated health coach, speaker, author, philanthropy advisor, and transformation guide. 

She is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach (NBC-HWC) and certified as a Functional Medicine Health Coach. She has decades of experience as a nonprofit and philanthropy consultant and is the co-author of Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience: A Revolutionary Women’s Leadership Framework for Balance, Well-being and Success (The Unbound Press, 2024), as well as the co-editor of Generating and Sustaining Nonprofit Earned Income: A Guide to Successful Enterprise Strategies (Jossey-Bass, 2004). 

Samantha received a B.A. from Tufts University and earned an M.A. in U.S. Women’s History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a Qoya Inspired Movement teacher, Usui Ryoho Reiki Master, certified in Functional Nutrition from the Integrative Women’s Health Institute, certified as a ReCODE Coach to reverse cognitive decline, and is a SHE RECOVERS coach working with women on all forms of addiction.

Go Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience

Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience: A Revolutionary Women’s Leadership Framework for Balance, Well-being and Success empowers women leaders to reclaim balance and well-being by decoding the language of our body, behavior, and mind. Our body shows us when we’ve been stretched beyond our limits and knocked out of balance. But what can we do about it, and how can we recognize those first signs?

Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience shows us how.

Click the link below for information about our book, our courses, workshops, and retreats.

What I’ve Been Up To

  • I worked with Samantha while experiencing some difficult life changes and trauma. In addition to offering a caring, listening ear, she always offered ideas gently, allowing me to drive the direction taken. It was clear she didn't have an agenda and treated me as an individual as she listened and provided help. She also remembered session to session what had occurred prior, which not only made me feel cared for, but also illuminated changes I was making.

    ~ Joan

  • Samantha's practice embodies essential-wholeness through her practice of achieving individual well-being. By highlighting the importance of the mind, body, and spirit, her thoughtful feedback encompasses how each element interacts, communicates, and connects with one another for an individual's best outcome.

    ~ Adeline

  • I was fortunate to find Samantha during the COVID-19 pandemic and her insightful guidance has helped me find clarity in this confusing time. Her ability to hone in on underlying patterns and behaviors with a gentle touch has been extremely beneficial.

    ~ Margot

  • Samantha was able to calm my anxious heart with her peaceful, serene guidance and experience. She compassionately navigated the ReCODE Bredesen Program with me. Her services then evolved into supportive care which encompassed all aspects of my wellbeing, not just the protocol. She enlightened my soul, and I am filled with gratitude for all of her encouragement.

    ~ Sheri

  • I started working with Samantha in the midst of a health crisis, during which time I was bombarded with medical information. Our sessions helped me to process and organize this information, and create a plan for how to most efficiently apply it towards healing. Samantha was incredibly supportive throughout our work, and was an essential sounding board. I highly recommend working with her if you're looking for wisdom and direction along your health journey.

    ~ Lucie