A Holistic Approach to healing.
I’m so grateful to have found a holistic alternative to traditional medicine.
Have you ever had something come into your life at just the right time?
My son was really struggling with his mental health during high school. He started having anxiety, depression, and panic attacks and was combative and angry. He was also experiencing stomach aches, nausea and weight loss. He was barely eating, never hungry and getting super skinny. He was barely getting through the school day.
High school was unbearable, he wanted nothing to do with friends or family, he became very depressed.
Maybe you too have a child that is struggling, you can understand how helpless that feels.
We went to doctors and therapist. We had tests run with no answers. I was being told that they couldn’t find anything physically wrong with him, his bloodwork and tests were “normal”
We were given stomach medications and offered SSRI’s but that was just a Band-Aid approach and not addressing what was causing it.
He was insistent that many of his friends that were on SSRI’s and other medications for anxiety, depression or attention disorders were miserable on them. Ultimately, he refused to take the medications.
This was the pivotal moment.
It was like a lightbulb going on
We took a deep dive into his nutrition and gut health. To his credit, he fully participated in making diet changes. He really wanted to feel better. We worked hard to clean up his diet focusing on healing his gut, which was full of bad bacteria and yeast.
Slowly he began to get his appetite back, the nausea stopped and what was even more amazing was that his mental health started to improve. He started engaging in life again.
The body has the amazing ability to heal!
Update - Years later and my son has moved out of the house and taken a job that includes sales.
This is a child that lived in his bedroom, depressed and disconnected from life. He wouldn’t engage at school or even with friends and family. He is now engaging with others and not have anxiety around it. He has plans for his future, I love this for him.
I knew I wanted to share it with others.
This started my journey to becoming a Holistic Health Coach certified in Functional Nutrition
Getting the body to a healing state and balanced is the key. I would love to help you on your healing journey.
This is my story, it brought me to a place of being able to help others that are struggling with their health. I firmly believe that a holistic approach to health and wellness allows for true healing to happen.