Let’s start from the beginning…

Before I found a plant-based, sober, and healthy lifestyle, my life was much different.

As a teen I battled mental health trials and a negative body image. I lived through suicide attempts, binging, purging, and an obsession with anorexia. I was caught up with the wrong group of people to say the least.
I now know that a lot of that was a coping mechanism for other events in my life.

All throughout my teens, I watched my mother battle some kind of cancer. Her first cancer diagnosis was skin cancer.

I was in elementary school I think and I remember her having surgery to remove around half of her thigh. She ended up needing no other treatment but surgery. We were lucky.

At that age I really didn’t understand what the extent of a cancer diagnosis meant. I didn’t realize that if it had been worse I could have lost her much earlier in life than I actually did.

When I was around 15 or 16 my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. I watched her battle breast cancer for over six years.

She ebbed and flowed between fighter mode and being at peace with the life she lived. A lot of people may call that giving up, but I don’t.

You see, when mothers are staring cancer in the face they don’t just think about their lives, they think of ours, the daughters, the sons. That’s when they put on their fighter hat, and they fight with everything they have.

A Mom’s soul never gives up.

But sometimes their bodies do.

It was towards the end of her battle that I began to understand the magnitude of what cancer actually was.

Through her battle, my mom introduced me to true clean distilled water, she introduced me to therapeutic touch (a healing energy similar to reiki), she introduced me to why we should exceed the recommended amount of daily fruits and vegetables.

My eyes started to open and I began to learn about how our diet can actually impact our disease risks, our emotions, our energy levels, or skin, our hair, our fertility, how we feel every single day, and much more.
My mother left earthside when I was 22.

It was after a long night of my sister and I telling her (for what seemed like hours) that it was okay for her to let go and that we were going to be okay. Something no daughter should ever have to do, but we did.

Shortly after my mother passed away I was hospitalized for two weeks with a kidney infection that went septic and tried to kill me.

I quickly came to the realization that even though I was somewhat health conscious I was still consuming excessive amounts of energy drinks, protein shakes, and alcohol.
I was running daily too.

Which I didn’t know at the time can be REALLY hard on your kidneys if you’re not hydrating or eating well (which I wasn’t).

A few years after my stint in the hospital, my grandmother was diagnosed with breast cancer and passed away within just a few weeks after her diagnosis.

After my mom and grandma ascended to the next life, I truly began to wake up.

I began to crave a healthier life.

I had been battling most of my life with chronic constipation. I was raised on a diet of dairy and carbs both of which can be extremely inflammatory.

After seeing answers to long standing health issues I had always swept under the rug, I was diagnosed with IBS (irritable bowel syndrome), Celiac Disease, Interstitial Cystitis and Panic Disorder with bouts of Agoraphobia, all before I was 24.

I knew I had to change my diet.

It was around that time I stopped eating fast food and made home cooked meals as much as possible.

I spent my 20’s creating a career in Corporate Marketing.

I received weekly comments about how I ate. It seemed to blow my coworker’s minds that I meal planned weekly (I planned out mine and my husband’s meals and snacks for every day). I was known as the little 4’10” girl who carried giant growlers of water into work to stay hydrated. Because I surely wasn’t going to face another kidney infection ever again!

People would often say to me “wow you’re so healthy, I could never do that” or “I don’t know how you have that kind of dedication” …
To me it was never about being dedicated, it was about living the way that made my body feel more energized, have better digestion, and a create a more stable mental state.

I let these comments go on for SIX years before I finally took it as a sign that I was heading in the wrong direction with my career.

So that’s how I ended up here.

I traded in my career in Corporate Marketing to be an Integrative Nutritionist and Health Coach.

In many ways I feel that CANCER SAVED MY LIFE.
Without my mother and grandmother’s cancer I would have continued down an unhealthy path of drugs, alcohol, and horrible eating.

It’s unfortunate that it took something so serious for me to have love and compassion for my body and my healing.

I vowed to turn my LOSS into a LEGACY.

While I cannot change my genetic risks, there is a lot that I can change and be proactive about. I knew I had to do everything in my power to prevent myself from being the next generation diagnosed.

Now I honor my mother by helping women navigate their mother’s cancer diagnosis and journey. Helping them turn their pain into purpose.

In addition, I also work with families to teach them about how our diet and lifestyle impacts our disease risks while teaching them how to make healthier shopping decisions without sacrificing convenience or taste.

We work together to help you BREAK FREE from your old ways and STOP passing down unhealthy habits for generations to come.