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My Story

Never feeling like yourself, because you're struggling with chronic or long-term illness, mental or physical, is horrific. I've been struggling with seemingly chronic illnesses since 2015.

---> How Illness Changed My Life

I had always been exceptionally healthy. Always. 

My life changed in one day, in the summer of 2015, with a bad stomach ache, diarrhea, interrupted and light sleep, low energy, and dizziness.

That was just the beginning. For years, I faced:

  • Regular & terrifying, unexpected vertigo episodes

  • Daily dizziness and lack of balance

  • Daily intense neck and shoulder pain & tension 

  • Nightly abysmal sleep quality 

  • Daily extreme fatigue and low energy

  • Daily persistent brain fog 

  • Daily increased light & sound sensitivity 

  • Daily excruciating abdominal pain & bowel movements

  • Recurrent SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth)

  • Lyme Disease

  • Recurrent yeast infections

  • Dandruff and eczema 

  • Anxiety 

  • Panic attacks 

  • Depression

I became worse with time, consistently developing additional health issues, while dealing with normal life challenges that compounded them, namely:

 - draining, unfulfilling, & inflexible jobs

- feeling lost and directionless, personally & professionally

Altogether, I was experiencing a different kind of life than I ever had before; a chronically debilitating, holistically unhealthy one.

--> It was physically and psychologically devastating. For the first time in my life, I had no idea what to do and where to go for help.

 ---> I visited every doctor and specialist I could, and spent thousands on medical bills, with little to no actual improvement. 

Nobody knew what was wrong with me - worse; top doctors told me I “looked fine” and told me to “get a good night’s sleep and feel better tomorrow” … after YEARS of sleeping, and feeling, terribly. 

… can you imagine? I felt unbelievably  frustrated,  unseen,  scared, &  alone. 

---> What I Did to Feel Better

 -> I read books, articles, journals, online forums - anything to identify the cause of my health problems; something my doctors didn’t have an interest in, or didn’t have the means to pursue.    

 --> I advocated to be tested, by yet another GI specialist who had no answers for me, for something I’d read about called SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth). Based on the symptoms & medical histories described, I thought I had it; I was right. 

Unwilling to accept this, I pursued my own answer, and focused on what I could do, instead of everything I couldn’t. 

 -> I read books, articles, journals, online forums - anything to identify the cause of my  

health problems; something my doctors didn’t have an interest in, or didn’t have  

the means to pursue.

 --> I advocated to be tested, by yet another GI specialist who had no answers for me,             for something I’d read about called SIBO (small intestinal bacterial overgrowth).                  Based on the symptoms & medical histories described, I thought I had it;

                    I was right. 

 I continued to trust myself and my bodily intuition. 

With a growing understanding of how my ill-functioning body worked,

I adopted healthier habits & lifestyle changes,

 specific to

me,

 my body,

& my needs:

        1. My symptoms became more manageable, and I minimized derailing flare-ups, by sleeping closer to my natural rhythm, and eating, exercising, and meditating, more regularly and effectively. 

           2. I chose a home environment, inherently supportive of my lifestyle and health goals, by moving out of the place I shared with wonderful, but unfortunately, also depressed, unwell roommates, and into a home with a supportive, personal trainer boyfriend and health-conscious roommates. 

                  3. I made lifestyle changes, and did fulfilling work, which energized me further to pursue answers, by changing jobs, and careers.

                       4. I began building a healthier mental framework, conducive to realistically achieving goals (like choosing a next career step v. my "perfect" career, forever - I did!; Health Coaching!), by exploring my own self-limiting thoughts and behaviors standing in the way of progress towards my goals (like pursuing perfection, or NADA).

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