Meet Jackie Rathbun, CFNC
Understand What Your Body Has Been Trying to Tell You
Personalized functional nutrition coaching to explore the connections among chronic symptoms, digestion, energy, mood, nutrition, and daily life—so you can make manageable changes that support lasting health.
Virtual functional nutrition coaching available nationwide.
A personal understanding of chronic health
Hello, I’m Jackie.
I know how discouraging it can be when your body no longer feels like your own—and the usual answers do not explain the whole story.
My own experience managing Hashimoto’s helped me see how nutrition, digestion, stress, hormones, daily habits, and emotional well-being can influence one another. It also taught me that sustainable change is rarely about finding one perfect food, supplement, or routine.
Today, I help clients slow down, understand the patterns within their health story, and turn overwhelming information into practical next steps. My role is to bring functional-nutrition expertise, education, structure, and encouragement. Your role is equally important: you bring the knowledge of your body, your life, and what feels realistic.
Together, we create an individualized path that respects your goals, preferences, capacity, and beliefs.
Could functional nutrition be a fit?
When Symptoms Feel Disconnected, Look for the Patterns
Functional nutrition coaching may be useful when you want practical support understanding how food, digestion, stress, energy, mood, and daily habits may be affecting one another.
You do not need to identify the “right” starting point before reaching out. The discovery call is designed to help clarify what may be most useful next.
More than a meal plan
What Functional Nutrition Coaching Means
Functional nutrition looks beyond isolated food choices to explore underlying and contributing patterns. Jackie considers your symptoms, health history, digestion, routines, stress, sleep, preferences, and goals together.
The aim is not to hand you a generic protocol. It is to help you understand your health more clearly and create individualized nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle recommendations that are realistic enough to use in daily life.
A clear, individualized beginning
What Working With Jackie Looks Like
The process begins by understanding where you are now, what brought you here, and what changes are most important and realistic.
Health-History Intake
Before your first session, you complete an in-depth form. During a 90-minute conversation, Jackie listens to your health story and explores factors affecting your body, mind, and daily life.
Food, Mood & Pattern Review
A short, judgment-free journal captures food, hydration, symptoms, energy, and mood. There is no calorie counting or grading—only useful information that helps reveal patterns.
Your Personalized Protocol
In a 60-minute planning session, you and Jackie create a manageable nutrition and lifestyle protocol focused on the most useful next steps.
Ongoing support may continue through structured follow-up packages or individual check-ins, based on your goals and the level of guidance you want.
Honest support for real change
No Magic Pill. No One-Size-Fits-All Plan.
Lasting change grows from understanding, partnership, and consistent choices—not perfection.
Jackie will not promise a quick fix or hand you a generic protocol. Together, you will shape recommendations around your concerns, physiology, capabilities, and real life.
The process asks for your time and participation, but it should not ask you to become someone else. The goal is to build changes you understand, can practice, and can continue adapting over time.
Connected expertise around your story
Jackie’s Work Within the NuWell Method
Your relationship with Jackie remains personal. The thinking supporting it can draw from NuWell’s broader multidisciplinary perspective.
You Are Heard
Your symptoms, history, routines, concerns, values, and goals are considered together—not reduced to a food list.
Connections Are Explored
Nutrition is considered alongside digestion, energy, stress, mood, lifestyle, and other appropriate care.
Expertise Can Connect
When useful and with appropriate permission, NuWell practitioners can consult internally so your support benefits from a broader view.
Faith-informed and inclusive: Faith, meaning, and spiritual well-being may be included according to your beliefs, preferences, and comfort level. No particular belief is required to receive welcoming, individualized support.
Education and professional role
Practical Guidance Grounded in Functional Nutrition
Jackie combines functional-nutrition principles with a collaborative coaching approach. She helps clients understand contributing patterns and translate information into individualized nutrition and lifestyle choices.
Certification through the Functional Nutrition Alliance
Scope note: Functional nutrition coaching provides education and wellness support. It does not diagnose or treat disease, replace medical or mental-health care, or provide emergency services. Jackie encourages appropriate medical and counseling support when useful.
Questions are welcome
Frequently Asked Questions
Understand the approach before deciding whether functional nutrition coaching feels right for you.
What is functional nutrition coaching?
Functional nutrition coaching explores how food, digestion, lifestyle, stress, sleep, symptoms, and health history may be connected. Jackie provides education and helps you develop individualized nutrition, supplementation, and lifestyle recommendations.
Who may benefit from working with Jackie?
Coaching may be useful for people experiencing chronic or unexplained symptoms, digestive concerns, fatigue, mood changes, hormonal concerns, or confusion about nutrition. A free discovery call can help determine whether Jackie’s services fit your needs.
What happens during the first sessions?
The onboarding process includes an in-depth health-history intake, a brief food-and-symptom journal, and a protocol-creation session. Together, you identify manageable nutrition and lifestyle priorities and decide what ongoing support may be useful.
Does functional nutrition coaching replace medical care or counseling?
No. Functional nutrition coaching is educational wellness support and may complement appropriate medical and mental-health care. It does not diagnose or treat disease and is not emergency care.
Begin with a conversation
You Don’t Have to Sort Through It Alone
Meet with NuWell to share what you are experiencing, learn more about Jackie’s approach, and decide whether functional nutrition coaching may be a useful next step.