Heather Cooan · deep nourishment practitioner™, Educator, & Lived-Experience Mentor
food is love • real food is medicine • nourish yourself deeply
I take a data-driven, bio-individual approach that starts where most plans skip ahead: nutrition and nervous system regulation. When stress has been running in the background for years, whether from a diagnosis, a demanding life, old patterns, or experiences the body never fully processed, it reroutes everything toward survival, and even the best plan cannot fully do its job. So we start there, and work outward across the whole of a life… mind, body, heart, and soul, taking inventory of what has accumulated and clearing the obstacles that keep the body from returning to itself. I call that Deep Nourishment™.
I don't teach from the other side of healing. I teach from inside of it. My own ongoing journey through vulvar cancer, Hashimoto's, lichen sclerosus, and complex PTSD hasn't just shaped my approach; it has given me the willingness to sit with people in the hard, unglamorous work that real change demands. No polished recovery story. No highlight reel. Just someone who knows what this work actually costs and isn't afraid to walk beside you while you do yours.
I am a Deep Nourishment Practitioner™, educator, and lived-experience mentor. The common thread is mentorship, in every direction this work runs. With the people my team and I support one-on-one at Soil to Soul Nutrition™. With the practitioners my partner Jen and I train to do it well through the Terrain Mentorship Collective™. With everyone listening to the Beyond the Prognosis Podcast™ teaching themselves to eat and live in a way that builds their terrain instead of depleting it. This site brings it all together in one place. All centered around Deep Nourishment.
ONE-ON-ONE SUPPORT
One-on-one work happens through my clinical practice, Soil to Soul Nutrition. If you are navigating cancer, autoimmunity, or complex chronic illness and want individual support alongside your medical team, that is where my clinical team and I work with you directly.
FOR PRACTITIONERS
If you are a non-prescribing practitioner trying to do this work well, you already know how little real training exists for supporting people with cancer and complex chronic illness. That is the gap we help close through peer clinical advising on complex cases and the Terrain Mentorship Collective, co-led with Jen Harbour.
BEYOND THE PROGNOSIS
The podcast is where the unedited side of this lives. Honest conversations about what it actually takes to navigate cancer, autoimmunity, and complex chronic illness, without the highlight reel.
Client Success Stories
Every client story is different. Every terrain is different. Read what people are experiencing as they work toward living well alongside their diagnosis.
Book Your Intro
Book a 45-minute Intro Consultation with Heather. Bring your questions, your history, and what you've already tried. You'll leave knowing whether we're the right fit and what working together would look like. Service FAQs
LATEST RECIPES
Every recipe here starts from two ideas I apply to every body.
What Goes In
Quality Inputs™
Whole food, nutrient density, and how it's sourced and prepared.
Whether Your Body Can Use It
Usage Capacity™
Stress, sleep, and repair time shape what nourishment does after you eat it.
Recipes cover the first. The second is personal, so follow the recipe and adjust as you need. How This Shapes My Recipes →
LATEST INFORMATIONAL GUIDES
Each guide covers a topic people bring to me most often, like exogenous ketones, sauna, or food safety during cancer care. It lays out what the research says, where it falls short, and what to ask your care team before you try it.
LATEST ARTICLES
Not everyone can afford one-on-one work, and that shouldn't decide who gets good information. So I give a hell of a lot of it away here. These articles connect the dots between stress, blood sugar, hormones, and what's on your plate, in plain English, so you walk into your next appointment with better questions.
