My personal health journey
Like most teenagers and young adults, I abused my body with the wrong foods, toxin exposure and poor lifestyle choices. While my health slowly deteriorated, I continued to push my symptoms to the background and it wasn’t until I started to suffer from serious gut health and skin conditions that I received the wake-up call I needed.
While I struggled with acne for most my life, bandaid solutions like the oral contraceptive pill, pharmaceuticals and repeated antibiotic scripts left my body depleted and my gut health on a downward spiral. I started to struggle with constipation, I was bloated constantly, my brain was in a permanent fog, I had no appetite, and even experienced histamine flares, reflux and abdominal pain.
Eating became so uncomfortable and painful that I just didn’t want to do it. I was a foodie who fell out of love with food.
It is here my health journey (and entire life overhaul) began. At first I sought professional help using conventional approaches but was repeatedly left with only temporary relief, or none at all. I was deeply unsatisfied with the information I was given and felt the continued ‘bandaid approach’ prescribed was neither sustainable nor effective. This frustrating and disheartening experience inspired me to start my own research and lead me down the path of studying Nutritional Medicine.
As I continued to learn and experiment on myself, I eventually came across Bella and the amazing work she was doing at The Functional Gut Health Clinic. This is when I took my first SIBO and Microbiome Mapping tests and the pieces of the puzzle started to fall into place. I had hydrogen-dominant SIBO that literally went ‘off the charts’, parasites, H.pylori, bacterial dysbiosis and yeast overgrowth - finally root causes that explained so much of what I was struggling with daily.
I used all natural protocols to address each of these imbalances in a systematic way, many of the exact same protocols I use with clients. While my own health journey has been challenging, it has given me so much inspiration and motivation to support clients going through many of the same experiences.
Through my own personal health journey (and those of my clients), as well as my studies and continuing professional development, I firmly believe the key to long-term sustainable healing is uncovering root cause imbalances through proper testing and using tailored natural protocols specific to each and every client.
I look forward to helping you overcome your current health challenges and being a part of your healing journey.
