Change begins with a DECISION!
In 2008 I realized that I had been living like a robot since my son was born in 2003. I got up each morning to get him ready for school and myself ready for work (I was an attorney at that time). I worked all day, picked up my son from school, fixed supper, got my son to bed, watched TV, went to bed and started over again the next morning. Every. Single. Day.....
The brain fog was so thick that I didn't even know all those years just how unhappy I was until one day I hit rock bottom and couldn't quit crying for reasons unknown to me at the time. I was also experiencing my monthly cycle becoming more and more debilitating.
In late 2008 I underwent a partial hysterectomy with the assurance from my doctor that I would be "me" again in no time. Six weeks later I was no better than I had been, and my doctor had no answers for me and seemed to imply my feelings were more in my head than my physical body, and that left me devastated, feeling alone and sinking fast.
THAT is when I woke up and DECIDED that I had to advocate for myself
and find my own answers I needed to change my life!
This decision led me to do a LOT of research. I found a holistic clinic that practices functional medicine (whole body/root cause rather than symptom management) and discovered I had a hormone imbalance that most likely was brought on when my son was born - six years prior! I probably didn't even need the hysterectomy. However, that was water under the bridge and the silver lining for me was that I now had answers and a path to share with others what I learned from my experiences.
My path of living naturally turned into a mission that would indirectly touch over 11,000 people and counting!