Our Story

About Emerge Together

Emerge Together was born from the belief that true healing isn’t just about what we eat or how we move—it’s about how we’re held, how we’re seen, and how we reconnect to ourselves and each other.

Originally founded as Emerge Nutrition, this work began with a focus on holistic, trauma-informed care for femmes and empaths navigating chronic symptoms, burnout, and the long shadows of lived trauma. As a survivor and practitioner, I (Margot Najkolli) know that to emerge into a new way of living, we need more than information—we need frameworks, support, and community.

Over time, it became clear that nutrition alone wasn’t enough. My clients were navigating stress, care-giving, medical gaslighting, and a world that makes it hard to rest—let alone heal. They didn’t just need a meal plan. They needed real tools, honest support, and space to make sense of what was happening in their bodies and lives. And so did I. Thanks to the support and inspiration of my elders and community,

Emerge Together now includes:

  • Functional Nutrition & Lifestyle Support

  • Seasonal Circles for Shared Care & Ritual

  • A Business Cohort for System-Disrupting Entrepreneurs

  • The EmT Mobile Refillery—bringing nourishment and essentials to our community

Our approach is values-based, root-cause focused, and deeply relational. We support each other through what we can control—food, rhythm, rest, mindset—and we name what we can’t control alone. Together, we build something new. I hope to honor all the people who have supported me through this work.

You have power. Let’s remember how to use it—together.

#EmergeTogether

At Emerge Together, our approach is functional, integrative, and values-based. We work to identify and address the root causes of physical, mental, and social symptoms—not just manage them.

We use a whole-self lens that respects the influence of your body, mind, environment, and history. Our strategies are personalized and adaptive, built around what matters most to you.

We focus on:

  • Creating sustainable motivation by aligning change with your values, so you're not forcing willpower—you’re following clarity.

  • Conserving energy by using targeted, effective interventions instead of overwhelming protocols.

  • Making healing feel possible, even in the midst of real-life demands and systemic pressures.

    This is thoughtful, strategic support designed for real people with real lives. Whether you're navigating chronic illness, caregiver stress, burnout, or simply seeking reconnection—you deserve tools that meet you where you are.

  • Nutrition and Hydration

    Proper nutrition is critical for health and development. But we aren’t just what we eat, we are what our bodies CAN DO with what we eat. The cleanest “diet” in the world means nothing if our body can’t digest, absorb, or transport those nutrients.

  • Sleep and Relaxation

    Sufficient sleep and prioritizing rest is key for proper digestion, immune function, hormone stability, mood stability. Everything is connected.

  • Movement & Flow

    All our systems benefit from movement and flow.
    We explore what we can learn about ourselves and our environment through accessible intentional movement.

  • Stress and Resilience

    The body can’t distinguish between physical and mental stress. When we are in a state of stress, the body focuses on immediate survival functions, conserving energy by tightening muscles or storing it in fat cells, and our immune and other systems begin to run on a skeleton crew of resources. We practice and teach stress management and resilience techniques to build resilience in the body and mind.

  • Relationships and Networks

    Health is so social. From social factors to interpersonal relationships and support, we need to pay attention to our social nutrition as well. Oftentimes, our lack of boundaries with ourselves and others can cause issues with our motivation, energy levels, and being able to reach our goals. Building healthy relationships and networks is essential to our clients’ health strategies.

Our Soapbox

  • Health is Dynamic

    We often think of illness as a mountain to climb, then when we get to the other side we’ll be healthy. This is not the case, our health is always changing so building resiliency is the key to long-term health. We think of health as slowly moving a river so it effortlessly flows towards you, so you don’t have to work so hard to get the resources you need.

  • Health is Physical, Mental and Social

    You might also say spiritual. All of these aspects of our whole selves affect one another, they cannot be separated, especially in the realm of your health.

    We help our clients get closer to total health by exploring the connections between all of these and finding strategies that include the whole picture.

  • The Current Health Care System

    You might expect a holistic health practitioner to dog on the traditional health care system, but that is not doing it justice. Western healthcare is set up to alleviate symptoms, not address root causes, and has great success rates in emergencies. However, it was not designed to provide, nor does it benefit from preventative strategies - which is part of why burnout rates are so high in medical professionals. There is a gap that holistic health practitioners can fill, and it is our responsibility as consumers to invest in systems and companies that provide proper care in these areas and yield efficient long-term results.

  • Health is never a 1:1 cause and effect

    There is always one or many roots and one or many downstream effects. When we chase symptoms, it can feel like we are mopping up the floor. We want to take the time to find the root causes so we can turn off the faucet.

    This strategy is so much more efficient because we can focus on the essential few modifications needed for the most impact, as opposed to the trivial many options we have. Those often cause us to feel like we have to do everything, then we get overwhelmed and often give up and do nothing. We want to use our frameworks to toss our clients a life-preserver so they don’t spend their lives treading water. We want you to float peacefully.

  • Our Bodies are Magic

    They have this incredible ability to heal themselves if we give them everything they need. They also are very good at communicating what those needs are, we only need to learn how to pay attention.

    After someone experiences trauma or loss, the mind-body connection often loses bandwidth. At the same time, both are connected to the world in a different way than before. When they can’t rely on each other through a strong connection, there can be anxiety or depression that comes out of not being able to filter and establish boundaries with this new world connection - and our health suffers.

    Re-establishing that connection can be a huge piece of creating a state of healing and resilience within the body.

  • We Need Connection

    If there is all the information that we need available to us, why are we not seeing a decrease in chronic illnesses and an increase in mental illnesses and symptoms? Watching a YouTube video isn’t going to give us the context or the resources to health ourselves long term. We need strategic partnerships with key health practitioners and a network of people to support us. We also need to be able to find ways to support others to feel whole and with purpose. Emerge aims to create a space for lifestyle nutrition in communities so we can all #emergetogether.

Deeper Look

What is a Functional Approach?

At its core, Functional Nutrition is about asking why. Why is this symptom happening? Why now? And what systems—within the body and beyond it—are contributing?

It’s a whole-person, root-cause approach to wellness that honors your physical, mental, emotional, and social health as deeply interconnected. We don’t chase symptoms. We investigate patterns. We look upstream. We consider the terrain.

A functional lens views the body as a web of systems in constant conversation: your gut and your brain, your stress response and your immune system, your trauma history and your inflammation. No piece exists in isolation—and that’s true for our communities, too.

“As above, so below, as within, so without” - Hermes Trismegistus

Just like in the body, breakdowns in our collective systems—healthcare, food access, labor, community—lead to chronic dysfunction. That’s why a functional approach isn’t just a personal wellness model. It’s a framework for imagining a more resilient, equitable world.

 

Our Functional Approach Includes:

  • Root-cause exploration of physical, emotional, and social symptoms

  • Personalized food and lifestyle strategies based on your needs, rhythms, and values

  • Nervous system regulation and mind-body connection support

  • Trauma-informed, sustainable practices

  • Education and shared tools for individual and collective resilience

We believe Functional Nutrition isn’t a luxury. It’s a pathway to long-term health that should be accessible.

At Emerge Together, we’re exploring what expanding functional care can look like through:

  • 1:1 Nutrition & Strategic Wellness Planning

  • Group Support, Seasonal Circles & Memberships

  • Educational Workshops, Online Courses & Local Events

  • Community-Based Resources & Our Mobile Refillery

We’re not just treating symptoms. We’re building new systems—starting with your body, your kitchen, your community. Because healing the whole means seeing the whole. And because no one should have to figure it out alone.

Functional isn’t a trend. It’s a return to what makes sense.

Let’s make it accessible, together.