spiritual health

physical health

Energetic health

mental health

My approach to health and well-being

True healing, I've come to understand, is not one-dimensional. Research increasingly supports what ancient healing traditions have long known — that optimal health requires an integrated approach, one that addresses the mind, body, and spirit in equal measure. This is the philosophy at the heart of everything I do, and it is one I arrived at not through theory, but through lived experience.

My story begins with the two people who shaped me most, my parents. While I was studying at UC Berkeley, my father was diagnosed with Stage 4 liver cancer. He fought with extraordinary courage, but ultimately lost a painful battle. Just two months later, my mother received a diagnosis of her own: a rare and highly aggressive form of ovarian cancer. Before our family had even begun to process our grief, we found ourselves in another fight for survival, this time for a woman who was simultaneously mourning her soulmate and confronting her own mortality. Through a combination of experimental treatment, unwavering determination, and what I deeply believe was my father watching over her, my mother is still with us today.

That experience fundamentally reordered my priorities. Health, the health and happiness of the people I loved, became everything. I threw myself into the role of caretaker, driven by a passion for healing that would go on to define my life's work. What I didn't recognize at the time was that in pouring everything into others, I had completely neglected myself. The grief, the trauma, the sustained emotional weight of what our family had endured, I hadn't processed any of it. And the body, as science confirms, keeps the score.

Chronic stress and unresolved trauma have measurable physiological consequences: disrupted cortisol rhythms, impaired immune function, systemic inflammation. My body eventually made that impossible to ignore. Following a surgery, I contracted MRSA, a serious bacterial infection, directly in the operating room, and found myself fighting for my own health for the first time.

That crisis became a turning point.

I began working with a healer and made a commitment to my own recovery with the same discipline I would apply to physical training or nutritional therapy, consistently, intentionally, and with a long-term view. Inspired by what I was learning, I pursued formal study in Reiki, one of the oldest documented systems of energy medicine. What emerged was a synthesis I had not anticipated: the nutritional science and culinary expertise I had spent years developing, fused with the principles of energetic healing. I began to understand food not just as macronutrients and micronutrients, but as energetic information, and I saw how that framework could be used to support the body's systems wholistically, bringing the spiritual and physical into alignment.

Over the course of seven years, eight surgeries, and two near-death experiences, that understanding became the foundation of my practice. Healing, I learned, is not a passive process, and it cannot be sustained when you are running on empty.

As my own recovery deepened, my work evolved. What had begun as private chef and catering services expanded into a full wellness practice. I developed Culinary Alchemy®, a proprietary framework integrating nutrition, energy medicine, and holistic lifestyle design, and continued to advance my training across nutritional medicine, integrative health, bioenergetics, bioelectronic medicine, and biophysical medicine.

Over time, I recognized that the reach of this work could extend far beyond one-on-one client relationships. By sharing my own story, alongside the insights of leading experts in integrative health, longevity science, and holistic wellness, and through the platform of the Serena Loves brand, I have been able to connect with a global community of people committed to living better.
Every day, I wake up grateful for that community and honored to walk alongside you in your journey toward optimal health and longevity.

My goal is to inspire a shift in the way people think about healing and aging. 

As I began to heal, my business evolved to include more than just private chef and catering services. I developed Culinary Alchemy® and Wholistic Lifestyle Medicine™ an evidence-based framework integrating biopersonalized functional nutrition, bioenergetics, longevity science, and aligned lifestyle practices, and became a wellness expert, coach, Reiki practitioner and counselor to my clients. 

As I became aware of my influence within my own community, I realized that I could effectively educate and optimize the lives and longevity of so many more people by expanding my platform. I started Serena Loves as a way to bring everything I learned to a broader audience through products, educational content, and resources designed to make Wholistic Lifestyle Medicine™ accessible beyond my private practice. By sharing my story, and the lessons I’ve learned from experts in the health and wellness world....