My journey started with a traumatic childhood. This led to me being in childhood anger management, and then later developing an eating disorder. These were some of the darkest and most depressed years of my life.

The darkness continued and pushed me into a career as a competitive bodybuilding athlete. I became very successful very quickly, landing sponsorships and competing nationally.

This naturally led me to start fitness and health coaching online. Fitness was my life, as I was training 6 hours a day, working with coaches, and traveling all over the country to compete.

I was channeling all of my anger and trauma into my workouts. My body looked incredible and I was featured in Cosmopolitan, and growing an incredible community of women online. Nobody knew that at this time, I was also diagnosed with PTSD and put on medications. I was having daily flashbacks to my childhood and panic attacks that were stopping me from going to class and maintaining friendships.

Eventually my body started to feel the effects of all the anger and trauma I had been suppressing. For an entire year , I found myself in the hospital every month. My excruciating pain would come on out of nowhere, and I had no idea what caused it.

Doctors diagnosed me with multiple chronic illnesses. I was diagnosed with painkillers that I became dependent on to function.

I accepted the fact that this would be my life, and wondered if I wanted to continue living. Every day I battled with my reality, and just wished it could be different.

I was spending all of my money trying to find answers.. and I found myself sleeping in my car.

Then the most magical thing happened.

I was gifted a session with a naturopathic doctor.

In that 3 hour session, my life changed forever. I immediately felt better and never took another painkiller. I was so inspired to understand how everything worked. I started researching as much as I could in my free time, and taking classes in whatever peaked my interest.