Meet Carla Abate

We are delighted to introduce you to Carla Abate, a rebel with a cause! Carla is the founder of Rebel Roots Nutrition and she shared her inspiration for this amazing business with us:

“My mission is to bring nutrition into the forefront of health and wellness, to see food as our first line of “medicine,” and get to the root cause of imbalance with the right tools.”

Raised on a small family-operated farm in upstate New York, my nutritional journey began at a very young age, nurtured by a deep-rooted reverence for the origin and value of food.  During my collegiate years, I studied psychology with a minor in health and healing through a diverse assortment of courses such as Chinese medicine, Tibetan medicine, and Ayurvedic medicine.

I eventually embarked on work in the field of early childhood education leading to a career with the Denver Waldorf School. I worked for many years directing their summer program, and this experience combined with my own entry into motherhood led me to pursue a certification as a postpartum doula, where I found fulfillment serving families, especially the mama-baby unit.

After losing two very dear family members to cancer in 2010, I was prompted to step back from my work and study holistic nutrition therapy at the Nutrition Therapy Institute in Arvada, Colorado. I was determined to lay the framework for preventive and proactive health maintenance for my family based on a holistic nutritional model. I continued my studies to earn my board certification in holistic nutrition, and pursued additional training through Restorative Wellness Solutions to apply functional testing for a more targeted approach, one focused on the investigation of root cause.

My practice is both in person with an office at 2 locations, one in Denver, CO alongside the brilliant estheticians at b Theory Aesthetics and the other in Lakewood, CO at Sattva Health and Wellness. I also practice remotely for those that are not local.

I have way too many hobbies that I’m a novice at, but I’m ok with that, including yoga, pottery and playing the guitar. I recently joined a choir full of amazing humans as well. I love watching the various sports my boys play that my husband coaches, and skiing with the pack whenever possible.

My B theory for living is balance…always striving to seek balance within the chaos of the world in body, mind and spirit.”