Like most people in this field, I found it because I needed it. My health challenges began years ago with a series of unfortunate circumstances that led me to getting sick. Circumstances such as mold toxicity, an unbalanced relationship with food, chronic stress, several forms of birth control and multiple rounds of antibiotics. Over time, these factors led me to experience extreme fatigue and gut disturbances, most significantly. No matter the amount of research I did, foods I eliminated, or money I spent on fad supplements, I still couldn’t connect the dots as to WHY this was happening and HOW to fix it.
I was desperate for answers and nobody, not even top medical experts, could give me any. To be completely honest, I felt like something was wrong with me, like my body was broken and unfixable. I felt crazy because I was told it was all in my head when I KNEW there was something deeper going on. Doctor after doctor, and I often left in tears at the thought that I would have to feel this way forever.
That’s when I thankfully found functional medicine. Still desperate for answers, but this time there were real, tangible solutions. I was shown that I am not broken and my body isn’t working against me, but rather FOR me.
Now, after healing these symptoms, I look back on this time in my life with compassion and gratitude, because it brought me here: to help others in the way functional medicine saved me. So no one else has to be made to feel alone, broken and afraid of their own body.
