April Wellness: Understanding Yourself with Tami Schiltz

Presented as part of the April Wellness Series with Waunakee Community Cares Coalition.

Most of us don’t struggle because we lack discipline, information, or willpower. We struggle because we’re responding to life from patterns that were formed long before we were aware of them.

In this thought-provoking and refreshingly honest talk, Registered Dietician and certified personal trainer Tami Schiltz explores how stress, early conditioning, and the body’s survival responses quietly shape our behavior, reactions, and choices -- often without us realizing it. This isn’t a self-help seminar or a motivational pep talk. It’s a conversation that helps things finally make sense.

Participants will leave with:

• A clearer understanding of why certain patterns repeat under stress
• Insight into how the body often “remembers” before the mind understands
• Language for experiences many people feel but rarely know how to explain
• A new way of relating to themselves with less judgment and more clarity
• Practical awareness tools that support real, sustainable change

This talk is for men and women who are curious, self-reflective, and ready for a deeper conversation -- one that doesn’t ask you to fix yourself, but invites you to understand yourself.

Speaker Bio:

Tami Schiltz, RD, CPT, is a wellness educator, speaker, and community leader who helps people understand why change feels hard -- even when motivation is high and intentions are good.

A Registered Dietitian, certified personal trainer, podcast host of Tami Talks: Unscripted Healing, and co-owner of F45 Training Madison West, Tami blends science, lived experience, and honest conversation to explore the deeper drivers behind stress, habits, and burnout.

Rather than offering surface-level motivation or quick fixes, her work focuses on awareness, nervous system safety, and the patterns we develop early in life that continue to influence how we show up at work, in relationships, and in our health. Her approach is practical, relatable, and grounded -- designed to help people reconnect with themselves in a way that actually sticks.