About Dana Ferguson
The coach who's certified in life, not laminated paper.
Hi,
I'm Dana — the heart, humor, and occasional chaos behind Living Wellthy LLC.
Let's get this out of the way up front:
- No, I'm not certified by 27 institutions.
- I don't have letters behind my name unless you count "WTF" and "IDK."
- What I am certified in? Life. Real life. The kind that humbles you, wrecks you, rebuilds you, and then hands you a punchline.
My Story
I grew up fast, carried weight (emotionally and literally), survived childhood trauma, betrayed-by-your-own-family-level heartbreak, toxic relationships, abandonment wounds, emotional eating cycles, and enough plot twists to get my own true-crime documentary.
For years, I was the strong one — the fixer, the emotional firefighter, the one everyone called when they needed help. Meanwhile, I was quietly drowning. Pouring into everyone else and leaving myself with emotional crumbs.
And then I hit that moment:
"I was helping everybody… except me."
So I did the hardest, most rebellious thing a lifelong people-pleaser can do — I took my power back. I stopped abandoning myself for everyone else's comfort. I put myself first. And because of that, I healed emotionally, I rebuilt my life, and I lost a ton of weight — not from punishment, crash diets, or self-hate, but because I finally stopped carrying the emotional weight that wasn't mine.
It was never just weight on my body. It was weight on my heart.
What I DO
I help you figure out:
→ Why you repeat the same relationship patterns (even when you swear you won't).
→ Why food became comfort, control, and coping all at once.
→ Why your worth feels tied to how much you give.
→ Why your healing keeps stopping right before the breakthrough.
And then we untangle all of it — honestly, humorously, and without pretending it's supposed to be easy.
My Philosophy
I don’t believe in quick fixes or pretty quotes.
I believe in healing — the kind that comes from choosing yourself again and again.
You are not your past.
You are not what happened to you.
You are shaped by what you choose to do next.
I don't coach from textbooks. I coach from experience — from the scars, the lessons, the late-night breakdowns, and the glow-ups that came after them.
I'm not here to sugar-coat. I'm here to tell the truth you already know — and help you finally live it.
My Approach
- Trauma-informed without clinical jargon — I speak human, not "graduate program."
- Direct + honest — If you want sugar-coating, go to a bakery.
- Funny + real — We're going to laugh while we heal. Sometimes at life. Sometimes at ourselves.
- Safe but not soft in the wrong ways — I'm gentle with your wounds but firm with your excuses.
- Rooted in real life, not theories — I don't teach anything I haven't lived and tested on my own healing journey.
- Designed for actual transformation — Not "feel good for 2 hours and forget everything tomorrow."
Why Living Wellthy Exists
Because healing shouldn't feel clinical or complicated. It should feel human. It should feel possible. It should feel like coming home to yourself.
Living Wellthy is the place where your story is safe, your voice matters, your healing is valid, and your transformation becomes real — one choice at a time.
In Short.
I'm not your typical coach. I'm the coach who lived the chaos, walked through the fire, stopped saving everyone else, saved herself instead, changed her entire life, lost the emotional and physical weight, and came back to guide you through yours.