{"id":63530,"date":"2022-09-02T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=63530"},"modified":"2022-09-02T14:52:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T14:52:01","slug":"melissa-wood-tepperberg-wellness-platform","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/melissa-wood-tepperberg-wellness-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Wood-Tepperberg’s Wellness Platform Is All About Making the Mind, Body and Soul Stronger"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Melissa Wood-Tepperberg. Photographed by Jeff Thibodeau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the last seven years, Melissa Wood-Tepperberg has created a wellness platform, Melissa Wood Health<\/a>, that’s inspiring her legion of fans with daily workouts, meditations, and now, podcast episodes that all center around building a better you \u2014 not just a better body. She has a million Instagram<\/a> followers, a list of celebrity subscribers that includes Keke Palmer, Delilah Belle, Shanina Shaik, and Sara Foster, among others, and her success was even the subject of a case study by Harvard Business School, but before she built her business into what it is today, she was at a very different point in her life.<\/p>\n

“I was modeling and acting in New York and thought without a doubt that was the career I wanted,” Wood-Tepperberg tells GRAZIA Gazette: Hamptons<\/em>. “I remember my feelings changed when I spent a weekend completely by myself doing all the things that made me really happy. By the end of that weekend, I made a list of everything I had done and when I read through it, I realized that there was nothing more important to me than feeling good in my body and taking care of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

She calls the epiphany a \u201cmassive turning point\u201d that led her to sign up for a nutrition program instead of acting classes. \u201cThis decision changed the entire trajectory of my life,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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Melissa Wood-Tepperberg. Photographed by Jeff Thibodeau<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wood-Tepperberg is now a certified health and wellness coach, meditator, and yoga and Pilates teacher, but she didn\u2019t always have the most balanced health and fitness regimen. \u201cIn the past, I had a horrible relationship with myself. I would torture myself in the gym and was extremely restrictive with food. At the time, I thought this approach was the only way for me to achieve results, but in reality, it was just making me incredibly unhappy,\u201d she shares. \u201cOnce I became pregnant with my son, I knew I needed to find another way. I didn\u2019t want to bring a child into the world surrounded by that type of energy.\u201d<\/p>\n

She says she strived to \u201ccreate a new path\u201d for herself by meditating every day and moving her body in ways that felt good mentally \u2014 not just physically.<\/p>\n

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