Ana Ruiz
Bipolar Healing Coach for women with bipolar
I healed from bipolar disorder. Medicine told me that wasn't possible. I did it anyway.
I am Ana Ruiz, and I know how that sentence lands. I know the small, careful voice inside you that is bracing for the catch, the asterisk, the "well, actually." I felt that too. For years I softened the claim because the world kept pushing back.
But it's true. I healed. And I’ve spent the years since helping other women do the same.
Here is what makes this different.
I am not a therapist who studied bipolar. I am not a coach who helps you manage or recover from bipolar. I am the only coach in the world who healed from bipolar disorder herself, and now helps women leave behind the permanent diagnosis story and reclaim a life that medicine told them was impossible.
I sat in a hospital bed, groggy, dizzy and nauseated, while remembering what a lifetime of untreated bipolar disorder had done to my mother. And I made a decision. I was not going to end up there. That decision cost me something real, I had to dismantle an entire belief system that medicine had instilled in me, grieve the life and the dreams I had, and rebuild from the inside out. And it worked.
I am not asking you to take my word for it. I am asking you to take one conversation with me.
The method behind the healing.
My lived experience is the foundation. But it is not the whole building.
To understand what happened to me — and to create a repeatable path for my clients — I spent years studying the science of how the brain and nervous system actually change. What I use with every client is grounded in:
Neuroplasticity — the brain’s capacity to rewire which is the biological basis for everything I believe healing makes possible, and mainly memory strengthening and the ability to adapt to new situations, environments and experiences
Neuroscience — understanding how mood, thought, and behavior are shaped by the brain, and how that can shift
Polyvagal theory — how the nervous system drives our emotional states, and how to work with it rather than against it
Attachment theory — how we create an unconcious blueprint for trust, safety, intimacy, and self-worth that shapes how we relate to ourselves and with others as adults, and how those patterns can be updated
Trauma — the internal psychological and physical wound that develops as. result of distressing experiences, often causing disconnection form oneself
IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Somatic therapy — building a relationship with the parts of yourself that formed around the pain, and helping them find safety so healing becomes possible
This is not coaching that asks you to think differently. It is work that changes the body and mind
You don't have to figure this out alone.
If you are ready to stop organizing your life around your diagnosis and start building the one you actually want, let's talk. The first conversation is free. No pressure, no pitch, just an honest look at where you are and what's possible for you.