I suffered from chronic gut issues for many years after being given multiple courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics at a stressful time in my life. Almost overnight, my stomach began blowing up like a balloon after eating gluten and most other foods. I started gaining weight despite continuing to train normally and suffered from all kinds of symptoms I couldn’t connect: eczema, relentless brain fog, depression, nausea, burnout, and multiple food intolerances.

This was long before gut health was a mainstream trend, and no doctor looked at me and all my symptoms holistically. I felt extremely unseen by the medical establishment, was convinced that my sickness was a personal failing, and felt really alone: why could my body not tolerate the things other people my age seemed to have no problem with?

Eventually, I realized I had a severe candida overgrowth and “Leaky Gut”. I tried following a hyper-restrictive elimination diet and taking one billion supplements and would feel better for a few weeks before my symptoms returned. For years I was trapped in a exhausting cycle of weight fluctuations, periods of depression, stomach pain and self-doubt. I couldn’t see the connection between the physical body and emotional and energetic realities and blamed myself for not feeling better.

My true healing only began when I stopped looking for band-aid fixes and started looking at my life with radical honesty.

I dedicated myself to studying gut health at the Academy of Healing Nutrition, immersing myself in Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, herbalism, and food as medicine. Eastern perspectives completely reframed my worldview: I realized I could never heal my gut without also healing my nervous system and my relationship to myself. I began therapy. I started practicing yoga. I began to notice how much stress impacted my body.

I studied systems and began to connect my individual problems with issues far beyond myself. I saw how capitalism, the frantic urgency of modern society, and our detachment from the natural cycles of nature keep us living in dysregulation and imbalance.

I realized I was not the “victim” of my various ailments—from candida to leaky gut to hormone imbalances to burnout. These symptoms were actually important messages showing me exactly where my life was out of alignment.

Healing emotional blockages, setting fierce energetic boundaries, making self-care a priority, and confronting where I was not being honest with myself became my ultimate act of radical resistance and path to genuine healing. When I began treating the mental, emotional, and physical as one interconnected ecosystem, my reality shifted completely.

Today, my stomach is remarkably strong, my energy is steady, and the periods of depression are gone. I have a sense of freedom with food and my body that I once thought was impossible. I understand the systemic factors that impact my health and no longer shame or blame myself for things that are beyond my control.

I bring my personal experience and training to my coaching work, focusing on a holistic approach that includes work on emotional regulation, the nervous system, and stress; education about the systemic factors impacting our health; and practical guidance on nutrition and using food as medicine.

The Radically Nourished approach views symptoms as important messages and looks at them with curiosity to identify larger patterns. We work to reframe common narratives around food and health and understand the systemic and personal factors contributing to your personal conditions so that we can create a foundation for balance in your body and mind that is sustainable in the long-term.

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