I remember like it was yesterday... several chronic autoimmune and neurological disorders plagued my 20s. Seizures, low blood pressure spells causing random fainting, strokes, muscle weakness, chronic migraines, confusion, depression, and anxiety. My health took a very sudden turn for the worse that caused me to lose my military career, most of my friendships, my relationships, and my self-identity. 

I spent nearly a decade wishing for death. After seeing 32 different specialists at a variety of veterans hospitals all over the US, the consensus was to enjoy what little limited abilities I had because I wouldn't live to see 30. The final straw for me was sitting in the emergency room with a failing liver and pancreas, listening to my neurologist scream at me to stop seeking help because no one would be able to help me, and I needed to just hurry up and die. 

Sounds dramatic, but it was just what I needed to give myself permission to do something drastic. I changed my eating habits, gardening most of my produce myself. I witnessed such massive success just by changing my food, noticing my seizures decrease from an average of 6 each day to 2 in a week. That made me wonder... if so much yuck is in our food preventing our bodies from healing, what about the products in our home? 

And that is where I learned how your skin absorbs everything put on it. And whatever you put on your skin ends up in your blood stream in under 30 seconds. Plus, what you breathe in ends up in your blood stream even faster. I always thought our household products were tested and approved by some sort of regulation... but I was wrong. This sent me on a mission to use my military-trained research skills and conduct a deep dive into finding the truth about what products are available in stores to find out whether or not they were truly healthy... and the results were mind-boggling.

The result: I trashed over $500 worth of products (which was painful considering that was more than half of my monthly income), and replaced them with healthy options. 3 months later, on September 19, 2013 I had my very last seizure. Subsequently, I've regained strength, my blood pressure improved, my fainting stopped, I started walking again without needing assistance, my migraines stopped, and I started on a journey to healing my mental wellness.

Since then, I've coached over 200 families through the process of making healthy lifestyle shifts and replacing harmful products in their homes, and seeing very similar results to my own.