My Health Journey

The Beginning

In 1993 I graduated Cum Laude from Xavier University-Cincinnati, Ohio. I was a single mom of a 5yr old and ready to help people get better. According to my professor, I knew everything I needed to, in order to get people on the right path to HEALing and WELLness. I firmly believed I learned everything I needed to, like my professor said, and whatever I didn't know, was in the reference books we were taught about.

The Buildup

Having worked in Home Health most of my career (with an 8 month stint at Childrens' Hospital Dayton, Ohio) for 15 years, I felt like all I was doing was putting band aids on major issues. I had to stop working in pediatrics when I suffered a back injury discharging a large 11yo from the hospital and almost gave up my nursing career. After 4 years of failed attempted solutions to my back injury, I decided to go into adult home health care. I. Loved. It.

I worked my way up to a Manager of Clinical Services position with a company in Dayton, Ohio, where I supervised Greene and Clark Counties. One year into my new position, a few days after my one year review where I received the largest raise I could, I got sick.

The Impact

Hospitalized for something they couldn't figure out, I asked my Primary Doc to refer me to a GI. Exploratory surgery didn't sound like the way to go with trying to figure out what was going on with my GI tract. Three weeks after I was discharged, I ended up being rushed back to the hospital. That 2nd hospitalization is where I started learning what it's like to be inside the bed vs standing next to it. I was diagnosed with C-diff and, through capsule endoscopy, Moderate to Severe Crohns Disease. My boss called me the 3rd day I was hospitalized and informed me they couldn't wait for me to come back, gotta love FMLA. I was replaced with the nurse who was hired for the job that was created because of a loophole I identified when I started working there (the company grew 33% after rectifying this loophole). Who says God doesn't have a sense of humor?

The Transition

In getting sick, and trusting the modern medical institution to help me "get better", I started realizing, "getting better" was not the focus of their ways. It took years for God to help me see what their primary focus is....getting and keeping life long customers.

Long story short, I couldn't work more than 15 hours a week without ending up being hospitalized again. I ended up very sick, unable to find a medication protocol that helped me feel better and ended up throwing a "hail Mary" to stumble into my "remission".
Two and a half years after throwing that "hail Mary", the labs, biopsies, EGD and Colonoscopy helped to diagnose me in remission, it was 2015. I was off almost all of the 26 daily pills, 2 inhalers and as needed medications I was on for years, I knew I was missing some information.

The Enlightenment

Sitting in the parking lot of the doctors office after being diagnosed in remission, off all that medication, I looked in the rear view mirror and asked myself what the heck just happened. My "pHARMa company" educated Nursing brain couldn't figure out why nutrition did for me, what medication and 7 years of medical interventions couldn't. I decided, right then, to try to understand this. Years later, learning more and more with each passing year, I understand why what worked for me, did.

I have spent the Covid years helping people deal with that and other HEALing challenges naturally, helping them understand their bodies language when it starts getting sick. The mission God has given me, is to pass these tools and knowledge onto others to help them do the same. Let's Journey together!

Let me be your guide to a better, more "body friendly" way.