Serena is married to her best friend and husband Israel. They have 5 kids. She is a busy mom trying to keep up with everybody, while also volunteering at her kids’ school, volunteering at church, and cooking, baking, dancing, and singing to her heart’s content.
Serena graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Spanish. She is a certified Zumba and Zumba Tone instructor.
Serena began the Lifehouse Body and Soul course as a participant in the Pilot Program in 2021. The concepts of making peace with her body, finding respite from perfectionism and anxiety, and connecting more deeply with God spoke to her soul, and she knew it was a program for which she was hungry and ready. After a lifetime of conscious and subconscious influences of what “beautiful” is, she spent her adult life swinging on the pendulum of diet and exercise. In 2019, she finally came to the conclusion that there must be a better way and that she needed to find how to live well with her body, mind, and food. This quest led her to Lifehouse Body and Soul, and she couldn’t be more grateful. Her consistent participation in Daily Practice, evening Course Community Meetings, and imperfectly applying course principles in her day-to-day life has led to an increased peace, lightness, freedom, hope, calm, steadiness, and self-awareness that years previous would have seemed impossible.