Heal Your Body. Fill Your Spirit. Breathe Your Purpose.

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

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

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

  • Leadership Coaching

    Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience, an innovative leadership framework that empowers us to reclaim balance, well-being, and authentic success. Together we shape a world where leadership means living with integrity, and success reflects health, harmony, and sustainability.

  • Philanthropy

    Advising and consulting for individuals, families, and foundations to strengthen their philanthropic initiatives and expand positive impact. Clarify your values, define your vision, and design strategies that invite transformation and accelerate meaningful change in the areas that matter most.

  • Health Coaching

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

  • Movement

    Qoya-Inspired Movement classes that guide us to reconnect with our essence through embodied practice, offering a pathway to open mind, heart, and spirit. By leaving our heads and moving into our bodies, we build trust in inner wisdom and use it to shape our health, growth, and future.

About Samantha

Samantha Anderson is a skilled nonprofit leader and philanthropy advisor, wellness coach, speaker, and author.

She has decades of experience in the nonprofit sector having served in leadership positions at the Yale School of Management, Skoll World Forum, Arabella Advisors, the Jewish Funders Network, and Jewish Women INVEST, in addition to operating her own consulting practice helping nonprofits and funders with their philanthropic missions. She is certified by 21/64 as a philanthropic consultant to multi-generational families.

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 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). 

She is a National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach with certifications from the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy and the Integrative Women’s Health Institute. She is trained as a ReCODE Coach to reverse cognitive decline and is is a designated SHE RECOVERS coach dedicated to helping women increase their recovery capital and heal themselves. She is also a Qoya Inspired Movement teacher and Usui Ryoho Reiki Master.

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, courses, workshops, and retreats.

  • 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

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