I've struggled with my weight for most of my life. But after building our house, I was in the best shape of my life. I was thin, I was fit and I felt beautiful.

Then it happened. My once clear and beautiful skin was no longer clear. All of a sudden, completely out of the blue, I started to break out.

I felt so hideous and ugly that I wanted to crawl into a hole and never come out. In fact, I did once. I hid out in my room for a whole weekend after the dermatologist told me there was no hope - while Anth entertained our guest.

I've been so flipping exhausted and stressed out with my health challenges that I wanted to give up. Call it quits. And say F*ck It!!

I was so tired of putting so much effort into my health and not getting the results I expected in return.

Believe me when I tell you that I've tried just about everything to get healthy ... most of which left me chasing symptoms and struggling to pay my bills.

BUT ... I didn't give up and neither should you!!

Like most people, I didn't get into health because I wanted to. I was thrown in, feet first, and thankfully my intuition guided me along the way.  

My interest in health started with me trying to heal severe cystic acne.

Growing up I had perfect, beautiful skin, then suddenly, shortly after I turned 30, I began to break out, which turned into totally embarrassing facial eruptions.

Like most people, my first instinct was to visit the doctor. It was at that visit that everything changed. My doctor wanted to put me on birth control to help control the breakouts, but my intuition spoke to me loud and clear. “Birth control won’t solve this issue, you need to get to the root cause as to why it’s happening in the first place!”

I left the doctor’s office, empty-handed and with no other choice but to start searching for the reason, why now? I didn’t have acne as a teen, so why was I all of a sudden getting these horrible outbreaks as an adult?

This is where it all began. The research into chemical ingredients I was using on a daily basis in my cosmetics, personal care products, and our household cleaners.

I began realizing that many of the products I was using could have been causing my health to deteriorate. 

I began to understand that my “cup” was overflowing with toxins and they were coming out through my skin. It was pretty clear that my liver and colon were overburdened and my skin was paying the price.

At the time, there was a lack of products available that met my standards for clean ingredients. This lead me to start my first business, UME, an online natural health store where I sold the natural skin and cleaning products that I formulated, along with other truly natural products that I sourced out.

Still suffering from cystic acne I felt like I needed to do more for my health, other than just limiting my toxic exposure and making a few small changes to my diet.

Anthony and I learned about the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center run by Dr. Gabriel Cousens which looked very promising. 

Here we embarked on a mission to radically improve our health by going raw vegan and participating in regular juice fasting and cleansing.

Despite following this extreme lifestyle for close to a year my skin was still not healed and I was unable to sustain that diet.

Seeking more answers, I quickly realized that I wanted more from life and from the work I was doing. The more I began to research and study health and healing, the more I wanted to help others improve their health and I began my certification as a Holistic Health Coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition (IIN).

While attending IIN, I discovered that I had a huge passion for coaching others and signed up for more coaching programs - programs that would allow me to deepen my skills and knowledge with coaching and tapping into intuition. 

Still dealing with cystic acne, I desperately tried every diet that I could think of, and while I had some success eliminating dairy and eating a very clean diet. The most success came when I tapped into my intuition and eliminated all the foods that were causing my skin to react.

It was on a trip to Mexico in May 2013 that I discovered that gluten was a major contributor to the acne I was experiencing. I had eaten so many wheat based products over three days of traveling, that I woke up the first morning with 3 new golf-ball cysts on my face that would end up staying with me for the next 3+ years. Talk about embarrassing and hard to live with!! They were seriously HUGE!!

I WAS BEYOND FRUSTRATED. I WAS WORKING SO HARD AT HEALING MYSELF AND WASN'T GETTING THE RESULTS I EXPECTED.

I was a new health coach and thought I had it all sorted out. I was eating a healthy diet. I was vegan (although I occasionally ate some organic dairy), I was exercising, I had stopped using toxic products on my body and in my home, I was drinking fresh juices and wheatgrass on a daily basis, I was sprouting, and I was working with many natural healers (laser, homeopathy, NAET), but I wasn't getting the level of health I desired or deserved for my hard efforts.

Discovering my gluten sensitivity was a Godsend, but unfortunately, it wasn't the end of the story.

Despite living a gluten-free, vegetarian, super clean, lifestyle, I still had 3 very large cysts on my face, my skin still looked like shit, and I managed to gain over 30 pounds in a few short months.  I was completely devastated!!

Again, my intuition kicked in as I began to seek answers. 

I started to put the pieces of my health puzzle together. I looked at all the symptoms I was experiencing as clues to what was really going on with my health. I saw my body as a whole and all my past health history as a story that was leading me back to the root. 

My intuition had told me for years that my hormones were the source of my health problems.

I had repeatedly approached my doctor about these concerns and they were continuously ignored, despite only having half a thyroid due to a partial thyroidectomy at age 25 because of a goiter. 

It was in this moment of weight gain and desperation, yet again, that I realized that the existing allopathic system was thoroughly flawed. They fail to recognize the body as a whole system and they just don’t have the time to spend putting the pieces together.

I had to take my health back into my own hands. I had to become my own doctor if I wanted to heal.

That's when I found Functional Diagnostic Nutrition (FDN), a school that would help me see my body as a whole system, to stop guessing what was wrong with it, and to learn how to use functional diagnostic testing to get to the root source of my health issues.

What FDN taught me was how to identify, deal with, and manage my hidden and external stressors that were preventing my body from healing.

I finally had the ability to order tests that helped me get to the root cause of my health issues. I was so grateful to be able to order tests and have answers that my doctors couldn't give me. 

Armed with a guide map to optimal health (thanks to FDN), I learned how to eat for my unique composition, and how to manage stress using the tools that I have been trained in - yoga, Reiki, meditation, and breathing exercises. I also learned what supplements would help me restore my body back to optimal health.

I CAN CONFIDENTLY SAY THAT I HAVE NOT HAD A PIMPLE OR BREAKOUT IN OVER A YEAR AND THAT, AT AGE 44, I AM IN THE BEST SHAPE AND HEALTH OF MY LIFE.  

I am so grateful for the experience and opportunities my health struggles have given me. Not only has achieving better health put me on a path that has brought me so much joy, but it has also led me to my truth, as a gifted intuitive health coach. It excites me to be able to share my knowledge of health and the gift of being able to intuitively guide others to a healthier, more bliss-filled life.

If you haven't met my handsome hubby and biz partner extraordinaire yet, check him out here, because the two of us are on a mission to help awaken people, who are struggling with their health, to their true healing potential by teaching them how to use their intuition and science to make appropriate diet and lifestyle choices, allowing them to experience optimal health and a life full of happiness and bliss.  

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