Why I do What I do

I never seemed to have enough energy to get through the day. I was juggling too many responsibilities, didn’t know how to say “no’ to some of them, and felt guilty to put myself first and suffered from some major consequences, as a result.  

My story in a nutshell…

25 YEARS AGO I was a single mom working hard, putting in long hours and not knowing how not stopping to take care of myself was affecting my health. But, life has a funny way of giving us wake up calls.

My priorities took a crazy turn when my doctor told me there were cancerous cells growing in my uterus. This wakeup call dropped me to my knees. I was scared of not being around to see my son grow up. I got to my car and just started sobbing. I felt so frustrated, so confused, lost and so alone.

 I just wanted to learn everything I could to get my health back. I wanted to be around for my son. I wanted to know what I did wrong that got me to this point. 

For many years, I kept asking my doctor to run labs to find out why I felt so exhausted and why I cried myself to sleep with so much pain all over my body every night and all I kept getting  was, “Your labs show that there’s nothing wrong with you, you’re as healthy as they come” and then to end up receiving these unexpected results. The doctor told me to do a procedure that would burn the cancerous cells off and that just didn’t feel right to me. I asked my doctor to give me 6 months before doing anything.

After asking for 6 months,  I ran to my car in tears after my appointment, feeling so discouraged. I prayed for guidance and to get answers. As I drove away, I played with the radio stations trying to distract myself. I landed on a station I never listened to before, but something told me to leave it on. There was a nutritionist talking about… how food what you eat matters, it’s information for your body.  The more I listened the more I realized… God is answering my prayers, he is sending me the answer. I didn’t know anything about nutrition and how we are feeding or fighting disease with our food choices until I started listening to this station religiously. After that, I practically lived in the library reading every natural health food book I could get my hands on (there was no social media or google back then). This wake up call changed my priorities. My focus shifted from the hustle, and putting everything and everyone else before me to putting myself first and to the incredible power of food , that I was learning from all these books.

I quit all the processed foods cold turkey. I quit my daily 5 cups of coffee. My weekly 2 liter sodas and all the refined sugar, gluten, dairy, all the junk! It was so hard but I stuck to it because I wanted so badly to get my health back.

People teased me about not eating sugar, about going gluten-free, about the foods I’ve given up with comments like “oh one is not going to hurt you”  and about “my weird green drinks”. I started juicing everyday, this was before juicing was popular or known. It was hard to make these changes and once again, I felt so alone. Here I was trying to get my health back and the people around me instead of supporting me isolated me and teased me for not eating like they did.

This taught me that if I really wanted to get my health back I had to learn to be ok with putting myself first and not care about what others think. As I learned how to do things differently, I went back to my doctor and my doctor said, ‘What did you do? The cancer cells are gone!”

The more I soaked up the knowledge the more I realized I wanted everyone to know about this food is information for your body and cells revelation and I wanted to help others who were struggling with their health.  Later, my friends and family started coming to me for advice on how they too can get healthy and get energy and improve their mood and weight, so they nicknamed me “Nutrition Goddess.”

Years later, I realized that I could get certified and start an online business as a health coach – which would allow me to do work I’m passionate about and serve other women struggling like I was!

By 2014, I enrolled in the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and continued my education not just in one other but 4 other certifications which allowed me to include Functional Labs testing, habit changing and life coaching in my services.

As I began to touch the lives of hundreds and helping them to Bring Healthy & Happy Back. I realized that all the women I was guiding and mentoring in my programs were experiencing very similar symptoms that I began to experience in my 40’s, that is low thyroid symptoms. so, I decided to make low thyroid my main focus in my practice.

Why? Because I knew deep down my purpose had shifted and was determined to make a massive impact in the world.

Through my programs, we’ve made some incredible transformations happen. As my clients began to run an at-home Functional Lab Test, they discovered they had hormonal imbalances, low thyroid, toxic heavy metals and nutritional deficiencies, something their doctors never told them. 

After diligently balancing and detoxing their body, and calming the stress response in the body they have been able to correct the imbalances and feel vibrant and full of energy again. I am so happy I followed my purpose.

I am now contributing to something bigger than me, helping high achieving women over the age of 40 with low thyroid Bring Healthy and Happy Back

If you’d like to apply to work with me, let’s see if we’re a good fit to work together. I’d love to support you on your health journey back to a healthy life filled with energy and joy!