Meet Dr. Ryan & Annie DeNome
Where faith meets wellness, and two thousand years of Christian wisdom meets modern health science.
How it all started
Some love stories begin over candlelight. Ours began over a Sunday brunch on the Loveland Bike Trail.
Ryan and Annie met through mutual friends at Franciscan University of Steubenville, a place where conversations about faith are as common as coffee runs. Their first date was a quiet Sunday afternoon: brunch and a picnic along the trail, talking about faith, family, and what they wanted their lives to look like. It was easy. It was natural. It felt like the beginning of something.
Their second date made sure of it.
Annie, a lifelong swimmer and triathlete, suggested a century ride: 100 miles from Wards Corner in Loveland to Xenia, Ohio and back. What she did not anticipate was spending the majority of those miles waiting for Ryan to catch up. Somewhere between mile markers and mounting frustration, something clicked. Here was a man who would show up, push through, and never quit, even if he could not quite keep her pace. She knew then that he would work just as hard at holiness as he would at finishing that ride. And she knew he was a keeper.
From bike trails to wedding bells to building a life together, Ryan and Annie have always shared a conviction that faith is not something you set on a shelf. It shapes how you eat, how you move, how you heal, and how you raise your family. Health in the Spirit is the natural extension of everything they believe: that caring for the body God gave you is not optional. It is an act of love.
Dr. Ryan DeNome
Chiropractor at The Wellness Way Mason
Ryan DeNome is a Cincinnati native whose life was forever changed by a profound encounter with Jesus Christ.
In 2013, a bilateral pars fracture forced him off the baseball field and into three months of uncertainty. Unable to play the sport he loved, he attended a Steubenville Youth Conference where, during Eucharistic Adoration, he experienced the deep and personal love of the Lord in a way he had never known before.
Shortly after coming home from that retreat, Ryan attended a healing service at a local parish. That night, his back was fully healed by the hand of God. The healing was not a feeling. It was a fact. A follow-up MRI showed vertebrae that appeared as if no damage had ever been done. His physician, unaware of what had transpired between visits, looked at the scans and said simply:
"This is the closest thing to a miracle I have ever seen."
That moment set Ryan on a path. He became deeply active in youth ministry, then enrolled at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he majored in Humanities and Catholic Culture. It was at Franciscan that he learned to think carefully about faith and the human person, and where he met a certain swimmer from Kentucky who would change his life in an entirely different way.
After Franciscan, Ryan attended Life University in Marietta, Georgia for chiropractic school, where his passion for the body's God-given capacity to heal itself was refined into a clinical practice. Today, he runs The Wellness Way Mason in Mason, Ohio, where he helps patients restore their health through holistic care rooted in the belief that God designed the body to thrive, not merely survive.
Ryan and Annie are the proud parents of their son, Joachim Giorgio.
Annie DeNome
Theologian and advocate for the poor
Annie DeNome is an Owensboro, Kentucky native who has never been content to sit still, in body, mind, or spirit.
A competitive swimmer and triathlete her entire life, Annie learned early that discipline, endurance, and grit are not just athletic virtues. They are spiritual ones. That conviction led her, straight out of high school, to take a gap year with NET Ministries, the National Evangelization Teams, where she traveled across the United States putting on retreats for middle and high school students, bringing the Gospel to young people in gymnasiums, parish halls, and everywhere in between.
From there, Annie enrolled at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where she double-majored in Theology and Psychology. The combination reflects everything she is: deeply thoughtful about the interior life, rigorously trained in the Christian intellectual tradition, and endlessly curious about what makes people flourish.
Today, Annie works at Cross Catholic Outreach, where she brings integral human development to communities experiencing poverty around the world. Her work sits at the intersection of Catholic Social Teaching and real, tangible impact, helping families access clean water, nutrition, education, and the dignity that every human being deserves.
When she is not working to change the world, you will never catch Annie indoors on a sunny day. Her favorite place is anywhere near the water with her son, Joachim Giorgio, whether that is a beach, a pool, or a creek bed with good rocks for throwing. She brings that same energy to Health in the Spirit: practical, joyful, grounded in faith, and always ready to dive in.
Why Health in the Spirit?
Christians have never separated the soul from the body. St. Paul said your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit and meant it literally. Life and physical health are gifts, and what you do with a gift is a spiritual question. Caring for your body is not vanity. It is stewardship. It is responsibility. It is love.
And yet, somewhere along the way, that got lost.
Health in the Spirit exists to bring it back, one Tuesday at a time.
We put holistic health and Christian theology in the same room, not because they are separate things that need connecting, but because the world has forgotten they were never apart. The healing saints knew it. Hildegard of Bingen prescribed herbal remedies alongside prayer. Cosmas and Damian practiced medicine as ministry, healing bodies while proclaiming the Gospel. Augustine reminded us to care for the body as if we would live forever and the soul as if we would die tomorrow.
This podcast is for the Christian who wants to honor God with how they eat, move, rest, and heal. For the parent trying to raise healthy kids in a world that seems designed to make them sick. For anyone who suspects that ancient wisdom might have something to say about the modern health crisis, and is ready to listen.
A body built to last. A soul on fire. That's Health in the Spirit.
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