Whole Body Health Solutions

My Story

Allow me to introduce myself. I am a Certified Holisitc Health Coach, Board Certified Natural Health Practitioner, homeschooling momma, military veteran and lifetime learner. I became passionate about natural health after being debilitated by 7 different autoimmune illness for nearly 10 years. Those illnesses, along with my struggle with non-combat related PTSD from living with substance/emotional abuse in my childhood, and physical/emotional abuse in my early adulthood had destroyed my life, my finances, my sense of self and quite nearly my marriage. I lost all faith in doctors because all they wanted to do is give me more prescriptions. I was in my early 30's and already on 13 daily medications just to get through the day! I just wanted to know what was causing all this! In early 2014, my husband, with the help of a VA liaison that frequently chatted with him at work, convinced me to go back to the VA to redo my disability claim. I felt guilty going back when there were so many other veterans who had much worse problems than myself, but reluctantly I did. I was shocked that in just a couple months they came back and said they were increasing it to 90%!!! I felt so incredibly thankful because our finances were beyond bad, and we were at the point that we had to accept help from family to help us pay our rent. So, it certainly was a blessing to have the increase. But at the same time I was incredibly sad. I knew how sick I was, but to have an organization like that validate that it was that bad, scared me to death! I did not want to BE sick. I wanted to enjoy life and enjoy my family and be a fun mom. Not just the mom who was sick all the time and sat back and collected disability. I wanted a different life!

So, it was then and there that I decided that I was going to go back to school with some of that money and learn how I could help my body. Even if I could just lessen some of the symptoms to the point that I might not need as many prescriptions, I would be happy! While in school, at the world's largest nutrition school, The Institute for Integrative Nutrition, I was fascinated with all the detailed information I was learning from some of the experts I had idolized. Experts like Dr. Mark Hyman, Dr. Andrew Weil, Dr. Mehmet Oz, Andrea Beaman, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, Dr. Frank Lipman, Gabrielle Bernstein and so many more. But honestly I was angered too! There are many things that I realized our doctors should be informing us about, but are not!!! It's actually really sad when I think about it. Our medical system is severely flawed. Did you know that doctors are not taught about nutrition in medical school? How can we expect to be even remotely healthy if we do not know anything about proper nutrition!?! That was when I realized that I was not only going to use this knowledge to help my body, but take what I learned and be a voice for those who are struggling like I was. Those who were praying for answers at night and NEEDED to know that there is a way to help themselves! I remember laying in bed, crying and thinking, I wish there was someone out there who cared enough to tell me more about what I can do to figure this all out, without relying on more prescriptions and getting nowhere. Well....I AM that person.

As of 2015, I was completely symptom free from those illness, off all pharmaceutical drugs and equipped with many tools that I use to constantly work on my mindset and continue to heal from the emotional abuse that has plagued me since childhood.

Since 2020, things had been extra interesting! While I had tackled those autoimmune diseases, that was really just scratching the surface of the damage that was done in my military days. I was not aware at the time that I also had a homozygous (2 copies) MTHFR mutation that meant that my body only detoxes at about 40%. That explained why I started getting sick IN bootcamp and why things only went downhill with my health from there.

In February of 2020 I got the scariest news of my life. I don't care how much you think you know about the body, when you hear your name in the same sentence as "cancer" for the first time, it brings you to your knees. After taking some time to find my way out of the intense fog it created, I collected myself and got to work. I partnered with a great team who I knew would support me in treating it completely naturally and always remind me of my own philosophy, that the body always has the ability to heal when we give it the right tools. It was a rough 4 years that included countless hours of natural treatment modalities, seven surgeries in 3 years, including a subsequent brain surgery due to the finding of a meningioma brain tumor. Thankfully that was benign and not related to the stage 2B breast cancer that I was trying to reclaim my life from.

I have since re-entered the world of coaching with additional education in the areas of Nutrition Response Testing with Applied Clinical Kinesiology, Orthomolecular Facial Analysis, Phototherapy Consulting and Auriculotherapy.  I look forward to helping you gain a little more insight to what is affecting your health and give you some hope that you too, can take control and have better health if you really want it. It's time to give the power back to the amazing machines that our bodies really are.