My Story —

My story is a holistic one — and it’s not exactly linear. Like many of the women I now support, my relationship with my body, food, and health has been anything but simple.

It started before I was even seven years old. Growing up in a slightly bigger (but still very normal) body in the late 90s skewed my sense of worth and body image from the start. I got my period early, and with it came intense PMS — pain in my thighs that made me want to cry, mood swings, exhaustion — and no one really knew what to do with it. I was also diagnosed with GERD before age 10 and handed a prescription with no context. We didn’t understand how processed food, stress, and environment impacted the gut — we just did what we were told.

By my teens, I was living with gut issues, a dysregulated appetite, problematic mental health issues and behaviors, emotional eating, extreme PMS, and deep disconnection from my body.

I turned to coping strategies like self-harm, binge eating, and substance use to numb myself. It was my way of surviving — of regulating emotions I didn’t have the tools or support to face.

In my 20s, things began to shift. I found strength training, became curious about wellness, worked in supplement stores, and dabbled in plant-based diets — pescatarian, vegetarian, vegan. I looked healthy on the outside but underneath, my nervous system was still in overdrive. I was constantly trying to fix myself with “health,” but never really slowing down to listen. I was disconnected from my cycle, my cravings, my intuition.

And eventually, I crashed.