Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my page! I honor your curiosity today.

 

I am an Applied Functional Medicine Practitioner,  Internationally Certified Health & Nutrition Consultant, Best Selling Author of "Thriving with Autoimmune Diseases" and Health Advocate.

 

But that's not all I am... I am also a Warrior of 4 Autoimmune Diseases, Type 2 Diabetes and cancer.

 

I'd like to share a bit about myself and why I am so passionate about my journey to Functional Medicine.

 

In my teens, I began seeing doctors for "minor" health concerns like mild depression and constipation. As time went on over the next six years of my life, I gradually just got sicker and sicker. Constant gas, constipation then diarrhea, headaches, extreme depression and fatigue, 80-pound weight gain in 8 months, passing 15+ kidney stones and so much more. I was basically in the Emergency Room once a month for a really long time. I was so scared and I was so sick all the time. At times, I really thought I was dying because I had no clue what was going on with my body. Then the surgeries began. My illness finally crept into my appendix and it burst; leaving me rushing to the hospital for an Appendectomy. But even then, the other pains did not subside. Over the next six months, I had to put college on hold because I was in so much pain and despair every day. FINALLY, on one of the ER visit nights, my family carried me into a Hospital I had not been to before, and immediately they sent me to get emergency surgery. My intestines had been closed for so long that they burst inside me. That scary day in May of 2008 has now forever changed my life!

 

But I got answers! I was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. I felt a sigh of relief that there was an answer but then the prescriptions of pills began. I immediately knew in my gut that there had to be a better way. I didn't want to take medication. 

 

I began seeing practitioners of Homeopathy & Functional Medicine to being my healing journey, learning about the body and what makes us sick. I amusingly obsessed over Food Network to teach myself how to cook healthy and nutritious foods! At that time, I had a severe leaky gut and had developed allergies and sensitivities to over 55 foods. I was diabetic, diagnosed with Hashimotos Thyroiditis, Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis, and then Cancer, and had gained over 80 pounds from being so sick and struggling with the yo-yo dieting and immense stress. 

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