About Us
Janis “Jay” Rowe, BSN, RN
Andrea “Dre” Miller, BSN, RN
Hey, we're Jay and Dre!
We met in nursing school during the COVID-19 pandemic. Two people thrown into one of the hardest moments in modern healthcare history and somehow, that's where a friendship and a shared vision were born.
We went out into the world full of hope. Ready to help. Ready to really be there for people. And then reality hit.
We watched the healthcare system move too fast to actually listen. We saw patients treated as a collection of symptoms rather than whole human beings. We felt the pressure to check the box and move on, even when every instinct told us to stay, to ask one more question, to actually care.
We kept arriving at the same conclusion: there has to be a better way. So we created it.
At Root and Wing, we believe that lasting wellness already lives within you. It simply needs time, space, and the right presence to be uncovered. We built this practice to offer exactly that: unhurried, compassionate coaching rooted in lived experience and traditional nursing education, meeting each person exactly where they are.
Together, we meet you wherever you are: in the fog, in the grief, in the question mark. We don't rush the process. We trust it. And we trust you.
We left the system that wouldn't let us truly help you. This is us, finally getting to do that.
We can't wait to meet you.
About Jay
I am a registered nurse. I am a steady presence and I am here to walk alongside you.
My clinical nursing background is rooted in women’s health across every season of life from the first steps into womanhood, through the valleys of infertility, pregnancy, birth and childrearing, to the quiet shifts of perimenopause and menopause. I have sat with women inside hospital rooms and clinic walls through all of these transitions, offering a grounded, unwavering space when life feels heaviest.
Before expanding into coaching, I spent years learning caregiver burnout from the inside out. I know what it costs to keep showing up for everyone else while your own quiet request for rest goes unheard. I know how easy it is to let that silence convince you that something inside you is broken. It isn't. Nothing is wrong with you.
While women's health is where my clinical experience runs deepest, my coaching is open to anyone ready to tune back in to themselves. If you have a desire to get clear about what you want for your life and are ready to take the steps to get there, you belong here.
Through Root and Wing, I am here to help you slow down, listen to your own wisdom, and reclaim your space.
One conversation at a time.
About Dre
I am a mother. I am a registered nurse. And I am here to serve.
My clinical nursing background stems from some time on a trauma nursing unit and then a number of years at an eye surgery center.
Before becoming a nurse in 2021, I was a massage therapist for twenty years.
In my years as a massage therapist, I discovered I have an affinity for meeting folks where they are and understanding when a small amount of pressure can make a world of difference.
I find joy in building ways to work with and to relate to any human being.
As a clinical nurse, I learned how much I enjoy working with older adults and what a gift it is to be with another when they are scared and oh so uncomfortable. Sharing a few genuine words, a look of understanding, or a gentle squeeze of a hand in a poignant moment can make a substantial impact.
As I navigated the healthcare system from within, sometimes clumsily, sometimes with flying colors, it became clear to me over and over and then over again - we human beings are meant for much much more than we understand. We have a lot to discover about ourselves.
Through Root and Wing I have found my life’s work. My dearest aim is to help hold up a lantern to illuminate the path you’re discovering, growing and learning to understand.
Though, we won’t stop there - unless you want to, because yes, my friend, YOU are in control of what we speak about and work on.
I will help you to root down in understanding and then take flight in clarity in whatever aspects of your life you are working on, including but not limited to mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, etc.
One conversation at a time.