Ella's Journey
The most significant challenges Ella faced existed within the eating disorder, ultimately forcing her to take a deeper look at her life, and to find a way out of several debilitating behaviors. After failed treatment attempts and ten years of struggling to overcome her eating disorder, and coping with her day to day life through drinking and other unhealthy patterns, Ella was unconventionally blessed with a life changing traumatic event - an accident that changed the trajectory of her life. After breaking both arms while snowboarding in Canada, and being stuck in two casts for eight weeks, Ella was left with no choice but to take a look at her life. This eventually led to the realization that the way she was living could not support the more vibrant life she ultimately saw for herself.
This is where her personal search for meaning and purpose truly began. Near the end of her physical healing, Ella gifted herself by joining a twelve month fitness program. This led to her quitting drinking for a year, making a move to New Zealand, and living out of a van for six months. As it ends up during this time, the only available shower for Ella was at a local gym. So, she had no choice but to join, leading to regular gym attendance. Over time, this would create a steadfast foundation of fitness that has held strong to this day. During this deep period of growth, Ella made a promise to herself to show up and do whatever work was necessary to heal.
While in New Zealand, and back home in Canada, Ella became more and more connected to nature, her physical body, and her own natural abilities to heal herself. This inspired her to go even deeper in her learning and healing journey by reading self-help books, taking on-line courses in personal growth, and hiring a life coach which helped her to recognize her authentic place and purpose in her world. She realized that paving her own path and helping others to heal and transform their lives, was at the core of what she wanted to do with her life.
Ella serendipitously found Breathwork, and decided to dive into an extensive training, which took place over a year, taking her to Peru to facilitate breath during a medicine retreat, and later to Oregon to co-facilitate a training. Having jumped into the world of holistic healing, Ella was inspired to bridge her experience with fitness and nutrition to overall wellness. She hired an entrepreneurial business coach, which resulted in her creating her offering, The Embodiment Blueprint. During the initial 6 month commitment, Ella realized that her life’s journey and professional focus would be self-generated as a wellness entrepreneur, and where she could be of service to others on their personal healing journeys, while continuing to travel the world. Ella is currently creating fitness and nutrition programs, as well as group and corporate offerings.
As a young child, Ella had the good fortune of growing up in a family where ceremony was honored, including Indigenous First Nations traditions, Aboriginal African rituals, practices from Hawai’ian culture, and ceremonial practices from Mexico, Central, and South America, helping to form her earliest spiritual and worldly understanding. She was also encouraged to express her creativity, and did so from an early age, through drawing, painting, and later, photography and writing.
Ella and her family immigrated from Mexico to Canada when she was an infant. This was the beginning of her ongoing journey of international living and world travel. In addition to living in Canada, Ella has lived in the United States - Hawaii and California, New Zealand, and then Mexico again later in her teens. This inspired a thirst for understanding people and cultures around the world, and has taken her to nineteen different countries and counting.
A part of this international journey brought with it many life experiences, some of which forced tremendous growth over time. Anxiety, depression, alcohol abuse, and an eating disorder gave Ella ample healing material to work with, and eventually launched her onto a path of healing.