Hi, I’m Oksana!

I spent over ten years in tech, writing technical content for products I genuinely loved. The work was meaningful, the problems were interesting, the pace was exhilarating, and I thrived in it. What I did not see coming was that the job I loved would eventually wear something down in me, slowly enough that I barely noticed it happening.

It started with alarm. My heart rate crept up, my stomach acted strange, I stopped sleeping the way I used to. I called it a rough patch, a busy season, something I would deal with once things calmed down.

Then came adaptation, and this is where it got sneaky, because I started coping in ways that looked like I was managing just fine. I canceled plans and told myself I just needed quiet time. I procrastinated on things I used to handle easily. Underneath it all was a low hum of anxiety I could not quite explain. I thought I was adapting. My body was still sounding the alarm, just louder, and I had gotten better at not listening.

By the time I reached exhaustion, I could not fall asleep, and when I finally did, I woke up feeling like I had not slept at all. My focus slipped in meetings I used to lead with ease. I was foggy most afternoons, irritable in ways that were not like me, and disconnected from things that used to bring me joy. I was still showing up and still delivering. I was running on empty.

I thought this was just the price of doing work I loved.

Then I realized: I was not broken. My system was running without maintenance.

That insight changed everything, especially in 2020, when the world paused and I had no choice but to pay attention. I started experimenting with different tools and approaches, and eventually realized they were all grounded in something called functional medicine, a root cause, systems thinking approach to health.

So I committed to formalizing that knowledge. I am currently enrolled in a Functional Medicine Health Coaching certification, graduating September 2026, because I want to help people living this exact scenario: people who love their work but are quietly paying for it in degraded sleep, crashed energy, and chronic stress.

Here’s how I think about it

Great products do not happen by accident. They are built with intention, tested with care, and improved continuously. Most of us never bring that same dedication to the most important system we will ever run: our own body.

I think of it like a distributed system.

• Energy is your compute power. Depleted mitochondria are a throttled CPU. No amount of hustle overcomes a hardware constraint.
• Sleep is your deep work window. This is when memory consolidates, tissue repairs, and the brain clears out the noise. It is not downtime, it is the most productive eight hours of your day.
• Nutrition is information. Every meal sends your cells a signal about what to build, how to respond, how much energy to generate.
• Movement is load balancing. Without it, things overheat, and the whole system runs less efficiently over time.
• Burnout is not a personal failure. It is the end state of a system running without maintenance. The warnings were always there. Most of us just never paused to read the logs.

What I’m actually offering

Health coaching is a genuine partnership, not top down instruction. You bring deep knowledge of your own life, your constraints, your values, what has worked before and what has not. I bring expertise in behavior change and root cause thinking. Together, we figure out what is truly doable for you.

I understand tech culture: the obsessive focus, the context switching tax, the energy drain of fragmented attention. My job is to help you see where your health is constraining your performance, not as a personal failing, but as a system design problem worth solving deliberately.

From there, we break the work into steps that actually fit your life, your schedule, your energy. Not someone else’s plan. Yours.

Because the gap was never about knowledge. You already know you should sleep more, move more, eat better. The gap is between knowing and doing, and making it stick. That is exactly what I am trained to help you close.

LET’S CONNECT!