Meet the Founder

Christina Van Der Hulst, is an Aussie living in Birmingham, Alabama. She has always been a dynamic, driven, passionate, and results-orientated chick. She has broad experience from her athletic and sporting adventures, including collegiate rowing, Ironman triathlons, CrossFit, trail running, and obstacle course racing, 17 years of service in the Australian Regular Army as a Communications Officer and Legal Officer (yes, she was a JAG), and over ten years in the corporate world here in the United States.

While Christina loved working in the corporate world, it was fast-paced and dynamic, she also had an overwhelming passion for fitness and performance which led to burnout. Overtime Christina lost the ability to balance her career and drive for fitness performance which resulted in her crashing. ​She suffered from shingles and chronic fatigue, eliminating her ability to compete in the fitness world. She also lost her capacity and patience at work, stunting my productivity and happiness. ​

It took her some time to recover from this. But from this crash, she founded Wellness Defined.

Christina now knows there is a way to optimize your physical and mental performance without burning out and she wants to share that.

According to Christina "the human body can do so much if we care for it from the inside out. We have to take time to get to know, understand and respect our own body." She firmly believes sustained wellness can be achieved if you become introspective, balancing the mind, body, and soul. By going back to basics, we can optimize our health, happiness and fitness.

​Wellness Defined is her platform to share her experience, knowledge, and passion to help people optimize their wellness to gain and maintain high performance without sacrificing their happiness, health, and longevity. ​

Her goal is to prevent people driven to succeed - in everything they do - from "hitting the wall" and "burning out."