I became a doctor in large part because I was trying to heal myself.

For years, I dealt with endometriosis, migraines, gut issues, food sensitivities, acne, daily hives, anxiety, depression, burnout and a list of other symptoms that, at different points, seemed to take over my life. So I did what a lot of women who are really good at figuring things out do: I learned everything I could.

I studied chiropractic. Human nutrition. Functional medicine. Psychology and neuroscience. I ran labs, changed my diet, took the supplements, worked on my gut, supported my hormones, eliminated foods and became incredibly good at understanding the physiology of why someone might be sick.

And a lot of it helped.

But it wasn't until I started addressing the stories underneath my symptoms that my health really began to change.

The beliefs I had about myself. The emotions I had never fully processed. The ways my nervous system had learned to respond to stress, fear, hurt and uncertainty. The subconscious patterns I didn't even realize were running in the background of my life.

That work changed everything for me.

Within about six months, the endometriosis pain I had lived with for years was gone. My migraines stopped. The daily hives virtually disappeared. The burnout lifted. And maybe even more importantly, my life stopped revolving around trying to figure out what was wrong with me and what I needed to do next to fix it.

It completely changed the way I understood healing.

Because we aren't just physical bodies.

We're physical, mental, emotional and energetic beings, and there is a story happening through all four.

I've seen this show up in something as seemingly physical as TMJ, in chronic pain, digestive issues, hormones, autoimmune patterns and in women who have spent years trying to control every variable of their health because somewhere along the way they learned that control was what kept them safe.

The symptom matters. The physiology matters. The labs can matter.

But so does the story.

Today, my work brings together 15+ years in human performance and functional medicine with NLP, neuroscience, subconscious reprogramming, nervous system work and mind body medicine.

And I'm especially interested in working with the woman who already knows a lot about health.

She's done the diets. She's taken the supplements. She's gone through the protocols and practitioners and learned to organize an enormous amount of her life around keeping her body okay.

And she's ready for something different.

Not another increasingly rigid version of "wellness" that makes her world smaller.

Work that helps her understand the stories her body has been carrying, reconnect with herself, trust herself again and begin expanding into a life that is bigger than her health.

Because at some point, healing has to become about actually living.