The Marcella Method

I help women achieve their potential through movement, nutrition and lifestyle programming. I’m a mom to my two beautiful kids, a wife, entrepreneur, founder of The Marcella Method, coach and certified in Integrative Nutrition. And thriving on my own special diet and lifestyle. I find writing “My Story” page to be one of the most challenging things for me to do because it brings up a lot of things that have always been hard for me to talk about. But I wouldn’t be where I am now without sharing this piece of myself with everyone. My life wasn’t always as pretty as it may seem online, but if I didn’t live it the way I did, today I wouldn’t be here. I moved from Italy to Brussels because after many year studies I felt wasted in a land that would have never offered me many highly successful professional opportunities. Well before leaving Italy my mother was diagnosed with a bad disease and this is how, among the various heavy treatments to which she was subjected, I became more and more interested in nutrition, anti-inflammatory diets, health-related plants and supplements, and I realized that time is sacred and should be spent as best as possible. At the beginning of 2000, my mother seemed to be incredibly cured of her illness and therefore with a lighter heart I could make the decision to leave. So, despite coming from a well-known and wealthy family and a comfortable life I decided to be a perfect stranger in another country and start my life from scratch. I got hired in a well-known international company and over time I reached an incredibly good corporate position. However, for a couple of years, I suffered from loneliness. Until the day I met a man with whom I lived for more than 3 years. We had a beautiful house outside Brussels, and I was living again a genuinely nice life. Unfortunately due to very conflicting expectations our story ended badly. In the meantime, my mother's illness resumed and this time with a violence that there was no treatment that could save her, and she died. I found myself devastated, very lonely again, without my own place where to live (I asked a good friend of my father if I could stay at his place for a while), I started suffering from severe anxiety and eating disorders. I lost many kilos in a few days. Luckily I still had a good job but it required me more energy than I could give at that moment…Luckily I also had good friends whom I could talk to and one of them made me rediscover the benefits of fitness. I gradually got out of this malaise and I realized that nothing made me feel better than taking great care of myself! When you get in touch with who you are and what is really going on beneath the surface, I believe that is where the ultimate shift begins. It is the starting point for true transformation to take place. In this moment of transformation, I met a man (a stranger in Brussels just like me) who soon became my husband and the father of my 2 children. Our life has not always been easy as he is a very busy entrepreneur travelling abroad and we have no family in Belgium to help us out. After leaving my full-time corporate job to dedicate time and love to my 2 babies I realized that my health, my freedom and my time belong to me and that I wanted to master them myself. This ultimately led me to enroll at IIN, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York, and completing my health coaching certification, which was just the beginning of building an incredible community. Today I’m a IIN Ambassador and I’m also working with a very successful health-related products multinational as a business owner and team leader! Certain events in life have led me to realize that nothing made me feel better than taking great care of myself and being able to share the practices I loved so that other people could take great care of themselves too. The premature death of my mother, my 15 extra kilos which was hard to lose after my childbirth and two back operations due to a herniated disc, the fear of depending financially of someone else, the fear of not finding my status back, the fear of falling ill, not finding my silhouette anymore, my dynamism and my enthusiasm, made my passion my mission. I changed my profession, the way I eat, the way I cook, I changed my sport, I changed my beauty products, I added good supplements to my diet and I got very good results ... the results I wanted. My mission today is to pass on my experience to like-minded women and help them to be healthy, to feel beautiful in their body and to age beautifully! I am a living proof that when you dedicate time to becoming the best version of yourself, you’ll experience lasting shifts beyond anything you could have ever imagined. My job here is not to transform you, it is to give you tools and guide you to a place so that you can transform yourself.