WELCOME TO
POMONA WELLNESS
We envision our clients enjoying rich and full lives, in spite of chronic illness
About US
We help individuals struggling with chronic illness, find healing, while learning to advocate for themselves. We people thrive beyond their diagnoses and enjoy life to the fullest, in spite of chronic illness.
MY STORY
Welcome to Pomona Wellness. I’m Cathy, Pomona’s CEO and founder. I consciously started my wellness journey in 2012. In my attempts to get pregnant, I was diagnosed with multiple auto-immune diseases, but that only gave me more questions than answers. I struggled with crushing fatigue, menopause at 32, and inexplicable and sudden weight gain. I went through 10 doctors, experiencing gaslighting, dismissal and general lack of care around how I was suffering, before I took my health into my own hands and started uncovering my own answers.
I learned to advocate for myself, and completely changed my lifestyle, inviting healing and well-being into my life...
While the journey has not been easy, I am grateful for all I have learned over the last decade, because it changed my life and revealed my calling.
You are not alone and I see you.
I see how hard you are fighting and my team and I want to help you feel good again and live a life you love, in spite of chronic illness. I personally invite you to step into wellness with us.
From our Clients…
I have been living with Hashimoto's Thyroiditis for years now, and have had major blocks with accepting the drastic lifestyle changes I'd need to make in order to feel at my optimum again. I had a call with Cathy, and that call changed everything for me. After just one session, I was able to see my blocks better, and was finally able to make the needed changes to my diet and lifestyle. Two months later, and I feel (and look) better than I have in years and even lost more than 20 pounds. Thank you, Cathy!
Working with Cathy was a transformational experience. Following a devastating medical diagnosis and year of barbaric treatment and surgery, Cathy helped me work through emotional and physical trauma, and transition into a place of love, acceptance and excitement for this new version of me.
Cathy carefully crafted a program blending traditional coaching with a spectrum of other, more integrative techniques including breathing, movement and Reiki, that supercharged the impact of the sessions and ultimately, my ability to heal. I feel 10 times more confident after working with Cathy and always felt very safe being vulnerable with her.
I made the decision to work with Cathy because of her integrity, her ability to blend both spirituality and pragmatism into the same conversation, and her willingness to challenge my own faulty thinking. I never questioned her motive, which for me, contributed to such a high level of trust in the relationship, I was actually able to reframe and put to rest some long held limiting beliefs.
Cathy Kading is an excellent coach, truth teller, advocate for her client’s success and most importantly, forever evolving human.
After just one session with Cathy, I felt heard, seen, and understood, but most important encouraged to take the next baby steps to pursue my dreams. She guided me through a visualization that allowed me to actually feel my dream alive. I highly recommend Cathy if you are in need of someone to see you through accomplishing your goals.
Cultural Appropriation Statement
The health and wellness space has experienced quite the transformation over the past few years. In many spaces, it has become a fast track to dangerous and violent practices. With a White and Latinx, able-bodied, and cisgender woman founder, in the health and wellness space, we wanted to take a moment to acknowledge that our founder enjoys the privileges of the dominant culture and proximity to power. As many anti-racism educators echo, including Ibram X. Kendi, Bell Hooks, Roxane Gay, Audre Lourde, Michelle Cassandra Johnson, this is not about personal power, but rather proximity to power, and “the ability to define reality for those who have less proximity to power,” as stated by Michelle Cassandra Johnson.
Cultural appropriation is about power and when members of a traditionally colonizing culture take or adopt practices, customs, traditions, garb, materials and other elements, including ideas and inspiration, from other cultures or from less dominant groups, without acknowledgment, payment or permission. It is this act that is violent and not only causes harm but continues to perpetuate harm and violence to members of less dominant groups.
We acknowledge that intention does not equal impact, and regardless of intention, impacts can still be felt and well-intentioned actions can cause harm. This is why we commit our practices, tools and approaches to honor the teachers, ancestors and educators from whom we’ve learned.
It is our duty to continue to decolonize the wellness space, our minds, our language and our actions. We dedicate our practices to those that have come before us and often died to share and practice the work they do, honor their spirit, bravery, and the gifts to the planet they have provided.
We are honored to be able to carry on traditional practices from Andean Medicine Peoples, specifically the Qanchis Ylla Rainbow Lineage of Chinchero, practices of the Amazonian Shipibo people, Usui Reiki traditions from Japan, and other native traditions, including the ancestral practices of Mexican Curanderismo, from within our founder’s own family lineage, and other First Peoples of the present day land called the United States.
We currently reside on colonized Huetar land, in the country presently called Costa Rica. We will not always get things right, but we’re dedicated to unlearning, re-learning and owning our mistakes, along with honoring those that have come before us, and the tremendous healing practices we are so fortunate to be able to share, continue to learn, and participate in.
“At Pomona Wellness, we will continue to elevate and credit the voices that go unheard wherever we can, while staying committed to our own personal anti-racism work, and continue to do what we can to take down the systemic racists power structures that exist where we live, along with the industry and space where we work and operate.” – Cathy Kading