Rooted En Wellness Functional Care, LLC
Wellness grows when we nourish the roots - body, mind, and spirit"
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"Focused on Function, foundations, and long-term wellness"
Functional wellness coaching is a partnership rooted in education, stewardship, and respect for the body’s design. Clients are empowered to make informed choices while remaining under the care of their licensed healthcare providers.
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit… Therefore honor God with your bodies.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
“Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit… Therefore honor God with your bodies.” — 1 Corinthians 6:19–20
About Us
Empowering healing beyond conventional care and big pharma to include symptom management, using nutrition, lifestyle, and mind-body strategies to support overall health and wellness. We recognize the following frameworks:
• Health is stewardship, not perfection • Education empowers informed choices • Lifestyle foundations matter • Faith, mindset, and peace are part of wellness • Coaching complements—not replaces—medical care
• Respects the body’s design and individual uniqueness
Our Mission
Advanced practice registered nurse and holistic functional wellness advocate specializing in supporting individuals living with autoimmune disease, chronic pain, persistent inflammation, and microbiota alterations. Through a root-cause, functional approach, I help people improve gut health, restore sleep, and heal from insomnia—so they can feel stronger, clearer, and more at home in their bodies, equaling health optimization and long-term wellness.
Our Goal
To empower our clients to reclaim their vitality through a bridge of clinical expertise and holistic wisdom, moving beyond the constraints of traditional symptom management by uncovering the functional root causes of illness. We are dedicated to educating our clients on the foundational pillars of health—nutrition, movement, rest, hydration, mindset, and prayer/meditation. While utilizing strategies like gut microbiome restoration and hormone optimization. We believe in supporting the body’s innate, God-given ability to heal, providing a sustainable path toward long-term wellness, restored energy, and a life designed to thrive across every lifespan.
Services
Lifestyle - Wellness Coaching
Lifestyle health is built from the ground up. Our coaching is designed to complement, not replace, your medical care. While your doctor focuses on clinical diagnosis and treatment, we focus on the lifestyle foundations that determine how your body functions over time.
We believe that symptoms are often the body's way of communicating that its daily needs aren't being met. By shifting the focus toward education and self-awareness, we empower you to take the driver's seat in your own health journey.
Labs and Genetic Testing
In our approach to wellness, we don't believe in guessing when we can assess. While traditional labs often focus on diagnosing a specific disease, Functional Medicine and Wellness coaching use lab work and genetic testing as a high-definition map of your unique physiology.
Our goal isn't medical decision-making or diagnosing "illness." Instead, we use these insights to identify which of your body’s systems are under the highest stress. By looking at the data, we can move past generalities and prioritize the specific areas of your lifestyle that need the most attention. Testing includes Environmental Toxins, GI Testing, Heavy Metals, Hormones
Lifestyle DNA tests, Nutrient Profiles, Organic Acids, Urine Mycotoxins, etc.
Core Specializations
As a holistic wellness coach, I specialize in supporting individuals navigating autoimmune disease, chronic pain, and persistent inflammation by looking beyond the surface to address the "why" behind symptoms. The practice focuses on a comprehensive, root-cause approach, including gut microbiome restoration to heal the gut-brain axis, hormonal balancing, and the clinical application of peptide therapy to restore metabolic vitality. By combining personalized functional nutrition and targeted supplementation with restorative lifestyle design. Specifically improving restorative sleep and mindset with quieting the immune system and managing flares at their source.
While the provider is a licensed nurse practitioner, all services offered through wellness coaching are provided solely in the role of a health educator and coach. Any discussion is informational only and not a prescription as a treating clinician or medical provider would prescribe.
Celebrate Achievements
In the pursuit of health, we often focus on the 'final destination,' yet functional wellness teaches us that healing is a process rather than an isolated event. Recognizing every milestone—no matter how small—is a vital component of your biological feedback loop. This positive reinforcement isn't just 'feel-good' fluff; it is a clinical tool that lowers cortisol, boosts dopamine, and reinforces the neural pathways required to turn new actions into lifelong habits.
Our Advantages
MEET OUR EXPERT
Stephanie Rapp APRN, AGNP-C, FIM-P
We aim to support you in creating a lifestyle where your health practices, relationships, and deepest values live in harmony.
My Journey: From Survival to Supporting Whole-Person Wellness
There was a season in my life when pain dictated every move. Living with moderate-to-severe rheumatoid arthritis, my daily pain hovered between a 7–9, casting a shadow over my body, mind, and hope. Despite following conventional protocols and multiple pharmaceutical therapies, I remained exhausted and depleted—struggling with chronic pain, swelling, anxiety, brain fog, and digestive distress. When medical professionals suggested disability was my realistic next step, something inside me refused to believe my story ended there.The turning point came when I stopped asking which medication was next and began asking what my body required to function well. I didn’t replace my medical care; instead, I began supporting the body’s God-designed capacity for resilience. By prioritizing nutritional support, restorative sleep, hydration, and nervous system regulation through prayer and meditation, the subtle shifts eventually became undeniable.The results were transformative: I experienced a total restoration of energy, mood, and stamina, alongside the cessation of pain and swelling. Even long-standing abnormal lab markers normalized—a shift I was told was unlikely. This wasn't the result of a single product, but of supporting the whole person rather than chasing individual symptoms. It reshaped my entire philosophy: true wellness isn’t about fighting the body, but supporting its function.If you are living with an autoimmune condition and feeling stuck or discouraged, please know you are not broken. There is profound hope in expanding your health conversation through education and supportive lifestyle strategies. My journey taught me that you don’t have to walk this road alone; I would be honored to guide you as someone who has truly been there."
Cultivate positive habits
In functional wellness, health is the cumulative result of daily repetitions. While lab data provides the roadmap, your habits act as the 'operating system' that dictates long-term vitality and transforms your biology from the inside out. By shifting from temporary fixes to sustainable routines such as integrating movement, nourishing nutrition, and mindful practices, you establish a permanent foundation for a balanced, high-functioning life.
Nurture connections, the heart of Whole-Person vitality
True health does not exist in a vacuum. Nurturing meaningful relationships is as vital to your biology as nutrition or movement, fostering the resilience and sense of belonging needed to navigate seasons of stress or change. As your guide and advocate, I help you explore informed, values-aligned decisions and lifestyle practices promoting long-term balance, vitality, and a high-functioning life.
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Functional Wellness Disclaimer
The information provided through this website, coaching services, programs, written materials, or related content is intended for educational and informational purposes only and is designed to support general wellness, lifestyle education, and health optimization.
Nothing provided is intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease, nor should it be construed as medical advice, nursing care, or the practice of medicine. While the author is a licensed nurse practitioner, all services offered in this capacity are provided solely in the role of a health and wellness educator and coach, not as a primary care provider or treating clinician.
Health and wellness coaching focuses on foundational lifestyle factors, including but not limited to nutrition education, hydration, movement, rest, stress management, mindset, and wellness planning. Recommendations are general in nature and are not a substitute for individualized medical evaluation, diagnosis, or treatment by a licensed physician or other qualified healthcare provider.
Clients are encouraged to consult with their personal healthcare provider regarding any medical condition, symptoms, medications, supplements, or changes to their healthcare plan. Participation in coaching services is voluntary, and clients assume full responsibility for their personal health decisions and outcomes.
The author expressly disclaims any liability for loss, injury, or damage—direct or indirect—that may result from the use or application of the information provided.
This information is intended to support education and wellness awareness and is not medical advice. Individual results vary, and all health decisions should be made in partnership with your licensed healthcare provider.