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. He was combative and angry. He was also experiencing stomach aches, nausea and weight loss. He had no appetite, was barely eating and getting super skinny. Just getting through the school day was a struggle.

High school was unbearable, he wanted nothing to do with friends or family, he became very depressed.

Maybe you have a child that’s struggling and 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 addressing the symptom, not the cause.

He was insistent that many of his friends who were on SSRI’s and other medications for anxiety, depression or ADHD were miserable on them. Ultimately, he refused to take the medications.

This was the pivotal moment.

I had to turn away from what the doctors were telling me, “It was all emotional”

I had to tune out friends and family that said, “it’s bad behavior”

Surly there were elements of these things going on but it didn’t explain Why?

I made it my mission to figure out what the cause was.

I had to become the parent he needed most.

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 focused on healing his gut, which was full of bad bacteria and yeast.

I also had to find a different way of communicating and interacting with him.

Coaching my own mind around excepting my son for the person he is and letting go of my thoughts of who I thought he should be was eye opening.

Truley seeing him and his thoughts with validation.

His thoughts, feelings and experiences are 100% real for him.

We were in the thick of it for a few years and I’m happy to say our relationship is better than ever.

I’m also happy to say he is physically and mentally much better.

He’s no longer trapped by anxiety.

He has stepped into his own life with strength and confidence.