Exploring Life & Business with Trina Winner of The Nest: Holistic Wellness

Today we’d like to introduce you to Trina Winner.

Hi Trina, so excited to have you with us today. What can you tell us about your story? 
I have always had a desire for natural health with a faith in God’s perfect design of our body. I initially started my journey in a busy outpatient orthopedic setting as a physical therapist. Fast forward to the pregnancy and birth of our first child, I quickly realized the lack of support for women in healthcare. I knew I wanted a natural childbirth and to breastfeed. I felt no support from my family because no one talked about birth or breastfeeding. I understood the effects of interventions on not only myself but also my baby. However, through the process, I felt like I did not have a voice and followed what my doctors were telling me and recommending. Yes, the end result was a healthy mom and healthy baby, but something deep down was missing, but I could not figure it out at the time. In the meantime, I reached out to a friend asking about what it looked like to enter the pelvic health world as a PT. She urged me to open that door, so I took my first pelvic health course, and my eyes were opened, which spiraled into my thirst for more in the women’s health arena, more specifically in preconception health and pregnancy/postpartum and lactation. I then became a Certified Lactation Counselor when my second baby was only 3 weeks old, and continued on taking more advanced women’s health courses, including functional nutrition, doula training, fertility specialty, and craniosacral fascial therapy. My husband told me I was a pinball machine just taking a bunch of random courses. However, deep down I had a vision and mission I did not at the time fully understand. It has taken my own health experiences, struggles, & a road down a healing journey leaning into my faith in God. Several times, I have heard that sharing our story is important: it can not only help you process, but your story can be a light for others. I encourage all of my clients to share their stories in whatever way feels right for them. 

Recently a long-time vision is shedding more light as it has turned into a God-sized dream, the development of a space called The Nest: Holistic Wellness. 

To some a nest may mean a bird’s nest, nesting as we welcome a baby, emptying nesting as kids leave, nesting blocks. 

Nest can mean so much more: a place for rest and retreat, a place where women can come to feel supported, a place to gain protection. We have biological instincts to prepare our homes. Where most think of our lived in homes, but home can mean the uterus, our pelvic cavity. In times were living in situations that can make us feel unsettled, The Nest can offer support to turn your space into a place of comfort, belonging, and physical & emotional stability. Home looks different for everyone, but the ultimate value is universal. 

At The Nest… 

-learn how to stop waiting & start living a great life 

-thoughtfully weed out clutter to make more space 

-find small things that can make a great impact 

-be nurtured to flourish 

We don’t want to miss valuable opportunities. We don’t want to wait until we are “ready.” Consider this an investment to gain true happiness, short-term gains, and most importantly long-term vitality. Research shows ”nesting” is necessary for your well-being. Invest in your health, your fertility, your spiritual life. It’s never too early and never too late. There’s no perfect time, but now! A holistic approach combines traditional therapy with whole-body wellness for not only long-term health but also prevention and improved healing and recovery. 

My goal with my vision is to help better support gentle natural conception & help couples know they have other options, to better support the birthing mama, to better support maternal & infant health and wellness all around, and most importantly to cultivate an unconditional supportive community for families. Together, we can turn ripples to waves. 

Would you say it’s been a smooth road, and if not, what are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced along the way?
Creating this vision has not been a smooth road. Is anything ever a smooth road? Everyone has struggles, obstacles, bumps, and turns along their way. Some may be small and barely visible, and some may be smacking them right in the face. We are not here to judge or compare. 

I personally have struggled with time management, up and down motivation to work toward my vision, imposture syndrome, feelings of unworthiness. Just to name a few. I have struggled with my own nervous system regulation. As this dream was coming alive, I was working 40=60-hour weeks in a healthcare system. that was not serving me well. I was feeling burnt out and knew that my patients needed more. I struggled to come to terms with walking away from a stable, comfortable full-time job, a job that most would be completely happy with doing, a job that you work so hard for after 7 years in college earning a doctor degree. What would people think of me quitting? What would my co-workers and boss say? I had 3 kids at the time, COVID was in full force. Our family felt the stress. My husband wanted to leave his job as well as a manager of the rehab department at a very successful well-known nursing home. We struggled trusting God’s plan. We said we would never work together let alone own a business together. Well, we both ended up quitting and opening Winning Edge Physical Therapy in 2021, right in the middle of COVID. Three small children and both parents quit their full-time jobs?! There have been days I have wanted to throw in the towel, quiet my voice, and stay withing the 4 walls of my home. Other days my passions reignite, and my voice is louder. I pray daily that God will guide me and to use me and the talents he has given me to be the light for just one person. 

Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about The Nest: Holistic Wellness?
My husband (also a physical therapist) and I opened our private practice in small-town Ohio in January 2021. We were feeling the stress of corporate healthcare in all facets of our lives. We knew we had to change, so we trusted God, jumped and both quit our full-time jobs to open Winning Edge Physical Therapy. We started out of our home while our current space was being renovated. He focuses on orthopedic, sports medicine, and geriatric population taking a whole-body approach with emphasis on client-centered one-on-one care. 

I then created The Nest as a branch of Winning Edge to focus more wholly on women’s health. 

Like previously mentioned, I focus on women’s health more specifically preconception/fertility wellness. Pregnancy and birth, postpartum, and the mom/infant dyad. The vision for The Nest is to better support gentle natural conception, helping couples know they have other options, to better support the birthing mama, maternal & infant health and wellness all around, and to cultivate an unconditional supportive community for families. I strive to guide clients to optimize health and allowing them to find their voice to lead their care as well as facilitating a culture of wellness for future generations to come. 

I am a pelvic PT with further specialty and emphasis in fertility, pregnancy/birth, and functional nutrition. I am certified in Mercier Therapy, which utilizes deep pelvic visceral mobilization to improve organ mobility and restore blood flow so optimal pelvic organ function can be optimized. This technique combined with other manual techniques I use not only can assist in natural gentle conception by optimizing the digestive and reproductive organs but also improve menstrual cycle health, digestive health, decrease pelvic pain, and decrease miscarriage risk. I am also a certified Birth With Spirit Doula, Certified Lactation Counselor, certified Women’s Health Functional Nutrition Coach, and trained in both Craniosacral Therapy and Craniosacral Fascial Therapy. I work with primarily with teenagers to help find root cause to menstrual health irregularities without birth control, supporting couples on their fertility journey to optimize reproductive health in a gentle, natural way honoring God’s design. As a homebirth and hospital doula, I support couples both emotionally and as a pelvic PT to prepare for the a true informed care birth they envision. In the postpartum realm, I work with the mothers/babies on optimizing their nervous system for bonding, feeding utilizing lactation education, craniosacral fascial therapy, and postpartum nutrition coaching. 

I strive to practice whole-person listening, helping families peel back onion layers to figure out root cause on their health journey being a blend between the medical and natural worlds taking an integrative holistic approach to optimize health. I support others in thriving verse surviving. My goal is to help women find their voice to optimize their health so they can be a light for others, their spouses, their children or future children, their friends. We need to focus on our own hearts our spiritual walk with Jesus to begin creating ripples out in our communities. 

In terms of your work and the industry, what are some of the changes you are expecting to see over the next five to ten years?
I can see some big shifts happening in the healthcare industry. People are starting the feel the burnout, feeling unheard, and having a sense that there is more to health and vitality. Healthcare workers are beginning to shift in their mindset, unlearning to relearn. Consumers are beginning to see the impact of investing in their health in a more holistic, deeper way. 

We will also have big shiny trendy things dangling ahead of us. We will also see scientific advancements. The important thing to remember sometimes the promised next best thing is not always the solution. We are made very uniquely. There is not a one-size-fits-all approach. The more we value deeper connections individualized care the bigger results we will see and bigger impact we will have on each other and this world. 

Contact Info:

• Website: https://www.winningedgetherapy.com/the-nest-services
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtrina.win/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/winningedgept

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