Today we’d like to introduce you to Amira Puravida.
Hi Amira, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to start by introducing yourself.
From Debilitated to Devoted: How Healing My Migraines Led Me to My Life’s Work
For over 30 years, my life ran on the schedule of my migraines, not my own. I never knew when the next one would hit, only that when it did, everything else stopped. Work, plans, relationships — all of it paused while I waited out the pain in a dark room, hoping it would pass quickly this time. I tried everything I could find. Medications, acupuncture, massage, chiropractic care, herbs and supplements, elimination diets, wearable devices like TENS units, homeopathy, biofeedback, talk therapy, prayer — and more. Some things helped a little. Nothing healed it. After a while, I stopped expecting a cure and started just managing — bracing for the next flare, structuring my life around avoidance rather than living.
The turning point wasn’t a new pill or protocol. It came from an unexpected place — hearing Dr. Joe Dispenza speak on a podcast. Something inside me lit up. I can’t fully explain why that moment hit differently than everything else I’d tried, but it did. For the first time, I was hearing about a way to understand my migraines — and myself — from the inside. I threw myself into it. I studied his material, watched the lectures, read the books, and started meditating twice a day, using his methods. But it wasn’t just the meditation — I began applying the principles I had learned from him (and other teachers in the space) to my daily life, paying attention to my thought patterns and adjusting them, and changing my actions to match the person I was trying to become rather than the person stuck in pain. After one year of consistent work, the migraines that had shaped my entire adult life were gone, and never returned.
I want to be honest about how strange that was. After years of believing my migraines were simply something I’d have to live with, healing them completely felt almost unbelievable. It also changed how I saw everything else in my life — if my mind had that much power over something as physical as a migraine, what else was possible? That question became the seed of my coaching practice. I’d always dreamed of doing this work, but I don’t think I could have built it with real conviction before I’d lived through my own transformation. Now, when I sit with a client who feels stuck — in their health, their habits, their sense of what’s possible for them — I’m not coaching from theory. I’m coaching from the other side of something I once thought was permanent.
My practice today focuses on getting to the root of a health issue — whether that’s chronic pain, gut dysfunction, or anything else that hasn’t responded to other treatments or protocols. I have a soft spot for the chronic illness community, since I lived in it myself for most of my life. I also work with a lot of perimenopausal and menopausal women, who feel overwhelmed and confused by how quickly their health and quality of life seem to be changing, with no clear answers in sight. There’s so much conflicting information out there. My goal is to simplify and streamline all of it, so together we can build a plan my clients can implement — and actually see results from.
If you’re reading this and you’re in the thick of your own chronic pain or illness, I want you to know two things. First, I see you, And I know how isolating and exhausting that daily uncertainty is. Second — healing may not look like what you expect. It didn’t for me. It wasn’t a treatment I found; it was a way of understanding myself that I finally learned.
Can you talk to us a bit about the challenges and lessons you’ve learned along the way. Looking back would you say it’s been easy or smooth in retrospect?
Not at all. As you read above, healing wasn’t quick or simple for me – it took years of searching, a lot of dead ends, and finally letting go of the belief that “managing” was as good as it would ever get. The turning point wasn’t something I expected or went looking for, but once it happened, it reshaped everything about how I approach health, healing, and now my work with clients.
Great, so let’s talk business. Can you tell our readers more about what you do and what you think sets you apart from others?
About My Practice
My coaching practice specializes in one-to-one, mind-body coaching and nutritional coaching for people facing chronic health issues and weight challenges. I work with clients both virtually and in-person.
What Sets Me Apart
What sets me apart is simple: I’ve lived what I coach. My own healing story — 30 years of debilitating migraines, healed entirely through the mind-body connection — isn’t a marketing angle. It’s the reason I do this work, and it’s why my clients trust that I understand what it actually feels like to be stuck, dismissed, or out of answers.
I’m a certified life coach and health coach, with an additional background in teaching and counseling and a master’s degree supporting that work. That combination means I bring both the lived experience of healing and the professional training to guide others through their own process — not just cheerleading, but real structure and accountability.
What I want readers to know most is this: I believe anyone can heal from anything. That’s not a slogan — it’s the philosophy my entire practice is built on, and it’s exactly what I once needed to hear myself. Healing isn’t one-size-fits-all, and it isn’t always what you’d expect. My work is about helping people find their root cause and their path forward, using both the mind and the body as tools, not just the body alone.
What I’m Most Proud Of
What I’m proudest of isn’t a credential or a client number — it’s the self-empowerment and faith it took to heal myself, and then to build a business from scratch around that healing. I never thought either would be possible for me. I want the people I work with to know they can do the exact same thing — that the impossible is more possible than they’ve been led to believe.
What I Want Readers to Know About My Offerings
I work with people in chronic pain or chronic illness, people with weight management issues, and with women in midlife navigating confusing, fast-changing health shifts. In a space full of conflicting information, my goal is to simplify it — building a plan that’s actually implementable and actually produces results, not just more protocols to manage.
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 believe mind-body medicine is going to become the medicine of the next decade — not an alternative on the fringe, but a recognized, central part of how we approach health. We’re already seeing the early signs of this shift: nervous system regulation has become a mainstream conversation, mindfulness has moved from niche practice to everyday vocabulary, and more people are starting to ask what role their mind and emotional state play in their physical symptoms.
I think that shift will only deepen. As more people have the kind of experience I had — hitting a wall with conventional treatment and discovering healing somewhere conventional medicine doesn’t yet look — the demand for this approach will keep growing. My hope is that in five to ten years, mind-body work won’t be something people find by accident, the way I did. It’ll be one of the first places people turn.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.amirapuravida.com
- Instagram: @amira.puravida
