Hi, I'm Isabella Meneses-Furuseth, a Certified Nutrition Specialist (CNS) and the founder of Root Healing. I opened this practice because I believe women deserve more than a prescription, a "your labs are normal," or “you just have to live with pain.”

My story: I didn't come to this work by accident. For most of my life, I lived with heavy, nine-day periods every twenty days, IBS-C since childhood, constant stomach pain and bloating, and fatigue so severe I could barely function. I saw doctor after doctor with the same complaints, and the answer was always the same: birth control, because "your labs are normal." In college, I finally got a diagnosis — fibromyalgia — along with the same message in a different form: “this is just something you'll have to live with.”

That was the moment I decided to find my own way. I turned to food, and I started learning — really learning — how what we eat shapes our hormones, our gut, our energy, nearly every system in the body. That journey changed the direction of my life.

P.S. — I now know, ten years later, it was PCOS, adenomyosis, and endometriosis. All those years I was told nothing was wrong, and the whole time there were very real things wrong. They just weren't being looked for. It took a decade to get the answer I deserved and learn to live well with my conditions. My mission is to make sure you don't have to wait that long.

That is why Root Healing exists: to help women get to the root cause of their symptoms, manage chronic conditions, and feel better a whole lot faster than I did. My approach blends clinical nutrition therapy with food relationship coaching and realistic, livable changes — because true healing isn't just about what's on your plate. It's about understanding your body, your history, and your relationship with food, all at once. That relationship is the foundation everything else is built on.