Life & Health Coach

  • NASM Certified Personal Trainer CPT

  • NASM Nutrition Coach CNC

  • ProNatal Certified Pre/Post Natal

  • Balanced Pilates NYC Comprehensive Pilates Instructor

  • Certified Comprehensive Feng Shui Consultant -Sept 2025

Ariel Trzaskos, Founder

My Story

What led me to start BeWell:

After 15 years in fitness as a personal trainer and Pilates instructor, I realized there are many gapping holes in the health and wellness industry. Health has always been important to me, but through my own recent health struggles, I found that even as a fitness professional, my understanding was limited for the first 30 years of my life. Emotional stress, trauma, boundaries, healthy relationships, self-talk, body image, self-esteem, gut health, sleep, and work-life balance were often overlooked. I believed that just eating well and exercising meant I was healthy and while that’s a big head start it’s only part of the puzzle.

My upbringing and background as a dancer instilled a strong work ethic that helped me succeed in many areas but also nearly took me out. I never learned or valued the importance of rest and recovery, which I mistakenly viewed as laziness. After moving to NYC, I worked 12-14hr days 7 days a week, made poor financial and relationship choices, barely slept, exercised excessively without proper fuel, skipped meals due to time constraints, and neglected my own needs physically and emotionally. This led to severe burnout, impacting my physical and mental health. The peak of this 8 year period culminated in competing in my first bodybuilding contest while in an emotionally abusive relationship and caring for my ailing grandmother. I thought I could handle everything, pushing through despite my lack of self-worth and boundaries.

Sadly, I know my story is far from unique. I share this not to victimize myself but to highlight how the choices I made for many years out of fear and lack, led to my own demise and to highlight how the most well intended over achievers can actually end up sabotaging their own health and in turn, their success.

After visiting my doctor three times in eight months and going to urgent care and the emergency room multiple times, all tests returned 'normal.' I was desperate for answers. I was experiencing severe fatigue, dizziness, nausea, digestive problems, body tremors, weakness, and aches. Nothing I typically did to feel better—like eating, resting, drinking water, or exercising—helped. I felt terrified, realizing western medicine wouldn’t provide the solutions I sought. Feeling defeated and scared, I turned to chiropractors, acupuncturists, and somatic healers, eventually finding a Naturopathic Physician who recognized immediately adrenal fatigue and dysautonomia—conditions often dismissed by western medicine for a healthy 32-year-old fitness professional.

A healing protocol was put into place and a decided to take a month long health sabbatical. After extensive research, choosing to put my health first, and prioritize my care, my entire life transformed. This is what inspired me to establish BeWell. My goal is to help others—whether they appear healthy or know they’re not—recover from burnout and fatigue or, ideally, prevent such issues to transform their health and lives.I have comprised a wealth of knowledge and wisdom from the top professionals in their respective fields on health and vitality, and developed a comprehensive plan for all those who seek healing, vibrance, well-being, and balance in their lives. The truth is there’s no one quick fix. It’s a journey of consistent learning and unlearning, conscious daily choices, hard work -but maybe not the kind you’re familiar with- reconnecting to the parts of you that have gone astray and lots of support which I will provide for you every step of the way.

It’s truly my honor to be on this journey with you and I’m so excited for what you will uncover and the new vibrant life that’s just on the other side waiting for you to discover. Because when you transform your health, you change your life.

-Ariel

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