ABOUT

It All Started When...

I became a mother and was caring for the most wonderful and precious little people! I don't need to say to other mothers what a humbling, instructive, and wonderful work being a mother is.

I learned each time I was pregnant (and postpartum) how to care for myself better. If only I knew then what I know now...  It was a journey with deep forays into prairie muffin crunchiness.

I went back to school at age 44 and needless to say it was hard and stressful but every time I doubted, God confirmed my path.

By the time I was completing my Master’s and doing time at clinical locations it was the middle of the covid years and I was doing anything and everything to not get sick so I could finish. I was also absolutely not going to take the poke (filled out paperwork multiple times both for the school and each clinical site) but each day I was expecting to get booted out of my current clinical setting at the whim of the powers-that-be. It was a tremendous amount of stress.

And let's not forget that I was also navigating mid-life hormones.

But Then Everything Changed..

Sometimes we just need to get through something, get to the other side. I had been using every tool I knew to keep myself healthy and sane to finish the nurse-midwifery program. Prayer and worship music carried me to and from my clinical setting the last months. 

I had to keep on pressing through late nights and early mornings finishing school projects, studying for the board exam, then I was free to create my ideal healthy lifestyle (and the health and wellness business I’d been dreaming of for years!).

These years were a long journey in which I learned how the body works in depth, how hormones function within the body, and then applying that knowledge to my own body at every turn. Stress was a big factor in my life and I tried to address that as best I could. [Stay tuned for my work-in-progress book on the topic.]

Once I finished, once I got to the end of the journey through higher education, I could focus more on what my body needed which began with a slower lifestyle for healing.

Now I'm to the point of fine-tuning life for myself, to taking quality of life to higher levels. As certain symptoms arise, I know what to do or where to learn more and then apply it to my daily life.

Have I arrived? No, I'm still on a journey through life. I keep improving the quality of my life with each new hack I learn and I and help others improve their quality of life. 

I sleep deep. I wake with energy and excitement for each day. I love to walk outdoors and do calisthenics. I enjoy soothing and nourishing herbal teas daily. Most days I drink an "adrenal cocktail" in the afternoon. I love to prepare nourishing meals and gather with my family and friends around the table. Gardening and growing our own food is deeply satisfying, as is having my bare feet in the soil.

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