About
“Health is a crown, worn on the brow of the healthy, that only the sick can see.”
Two years, every test under the sun, and a savings account later - I had a diagnosis.
I started working the problem by figuring out what the people who were supposed to help me were being taught. I became Functional Medicine Certified and then Board-Certified in Health and Wellness.
Looking back, my lived experience is 100x what made me a pro, not the credentials I get to put after my name.
It took me two years of near-perfect health routines just to feel (and outwardly seem) “normal.”
Constantly designing, executing, and refining those routines was a crucible, especially when the simplest tasks already felt difficult.
Fortunately I didn’t have to do it alone. I have an amazing mom that supported me every step of the way. If you’re in this fight, it’s isolating enough - find people to lean on and don’t take them for granted.
In 2017 I contracted Lyme disease with 3 co-infections: Babesia, Bartonella, and Ehrlichia. No bullseye rash, no immediate sickness, no indication of where the constellation of symptoms was gradually coming from.
I also didn’t know that for three years prior I’d been living in a mold-ridden home that had compromised my immune system.
Begin nightmare.
Day by day I stacked small wins, built momentum, and eventually that momentum brought me back to a manageable place.
10 years later I’m not cured and those routines are still there, but my quality of life is night and day better. Enough so to consider myself both lucky and healthy. If you’ve been through this hell, you’ll understand the quote at the top of the page.
This is a very simplified version of my story. If you or a loved one are in the same situation, reach out. I work with a small number of clients 1:1.
