Sarah Hays Coomer
I am a health and science journalist, author, and National Board-certified health coach. My work centers on people and organizations breaking ground in health equity, clinical and cultural innovations in healthcare, and the policies, therapies, and environmental factors shaping public health.
Through evidence-based, solutions journalism and more than 20 years of health coaching, I am interested in institutional and individual sources of relief.
Over the years, I have found these resources are rooted in safety, respect, systemic and environmental reinforcements, community, agency, pleasure, and play. The circumstances that support health and offer people a sense of meaning can be both wildly unique and strikingly universal. I am always curious to hear and share people's stories and to unpack how the structures around them sustain or detract from their well-being.
My work has been featured in Forbes Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Public Health Magazine, Psychology Today, Triathlete, HuffPost, Nashville Banner, and HBO MAX, among others. I have authored three books—Physical Disobedience, The Habit Trip, and Lightness of Body and Mind—and I have spoken at organizations and universities nationwide including Google, Vanderbilt University, and the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition.
Interests
Health equity, innovation and entrepreneurship; mental and behavioral health; social and environmental determinants of health; arts and well-being; psychedelic-assisted therapies.