I Became a Healer Because I Needed One

I didn't plan this career. I didn't grow up dreaming of being a nutritional therapist or a reiki practitioner. I got here the way a lot of women in this field get here. Through my own body breaking down and no one being able to tell me why.

The version I was told

For years, I lived with endometriosis. The pain was real and relentless and it shaped everything. My days. My relationships. My sense of what my body was capable of. I went to doctors. I had surgeries. I was given medications that managed the symptoms but never once touched the cause.

And at every turn, the message was some version of the same thing: this is just how your body is. We can manage it, but we can't explain it. Here's a prescription. Come back if it gets worse.

It always got worse.

No one asked about my diet. No one looked at my digestion. No one asked about my stress, my history, my nervous system, what I was carrying emotionally. The appointments were short, the questions were narrow, and the solutions were always pharmaceutical. I don't say that with bitterness. Those providers were working within a system designed for acute problems, not chronic ones. They were doing what they were trained to do. It just wasn't enough for what I needed.

The turn

At some point I started looking for answers on my own. Not because I wanted to. Because I was out of options within the system I'd been told to trust.

I started reading about nutrition. Not diet culture nutrition. Functional nutrition. The kind that asks what the body actually needs at a cellular level and whether it's getting it. I started learning about digestion, about blood sugar, about how mineral depletion and fatty acid imbalance and chronic stress create the conditions for disease to take root.

And something clicked.

For the first time, the question wasn't "what's wrong with you" but "what does your body need that it isn't getting." That reframe changed everything. This is what I mean by root cause care.

I enrolled in a nutritional therapy program. I studied the body as a whole system, not a collection of parts. I learned to listen differently. To ask the kind of questions no one had ever asked me.

And then I found reiki. Which opened a whole other door. Because as much as nutrition helped me rebuild physically, there was a layer underneath that food and supplements couldn't reach. Tension I'd been carrying for decades. Patterns of holding that lived in my body, not my mind. Grief and guarding and a nervous system that had been running on high alert for as long as I could remember.

Reiki taught me that the body holds more than nutrients. It holds stories. And some of those stories need to be felt and released before the physical rebuilding can fully land. This is why I practice both nutrition and energy work.

Why I do this work

I built this practice for the woman I used to be. The one sitting in the waiting room being told she's fine. The one Googling her symptoms at 2am. The one who knows something is off but can't get anyone to take it seriously.

I know what it feels like to be dismissed. I know what it feels like to doubt your own body because everyone around you says the labs look normal. I know what it feels like to carry symptoms for years without understanding why, and to slowly start wondering if maybe it really is all in your head.

It's not in your head. Your body is talking. And my job is to help you hear what it's saying.

What this practice looks like now

I live on two acres in rural Oregon with my husband and our two small boys. There are chickens in the yard and fruit trees we planted last year and dried herbs hanging in the kitchen. My life looks very different from the one I was living when I was sick.

And my practice reflects how I live. It's slow. It's rooted. It doesn't rush. I start with the foundations because that's what my own body taught me. Fix what's underneath first. Trust the process. Give the body what it needs and get out of its way.

I'm not here to tell you what to do. I'm here to help you understand what your body is already trying to tell you. And if no one has said this to you yet: I believe you. Your symptoms are real. And you deserve care that takes the time to figure out why.

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