With most major changes in our lives, it takes something drastic to happen (good or bad) to yourself or a loved one to push you to an unknown territory or even discovering a new passion you wouldn't have known otherwise - maybe you can relate?! For me, it was in 2013, I was in my last year of college & felt as if I had nothing in me to get out of bed or attend class. I went from one doctor to the next who couldn't figure out my chronic pain, fatigue/brain fog & gut issues. It took going out of network for a doctor to finally test me for something I already knew I had but finally acknowledged it - Ehrlichia (form of Lymes disease). It didn't end with the medications I was prescribed, it continued whenever I would eat certain foods which led me to change my whole lifestyle & the way I look at food. One of my most rewarding journeys thus far was becoming a mom & a co-parent with my husband in 2016 after the birth of our oldest son. Like any new mom, your world forever changes & you try to do the best you can with what you know at the time. Because of a few health scares with him, my gut told me something was off (due to the constant referrals with no answers, just money being poured into the system) & I dug deep into researching our pharmaceutical industry, aka "big pharma." I realized more than ever how much the industry is keeping us into a "sick care" system and not true HEALTHcare.
*Note: I truly believe there is a time & place when we need our current healthcare system, especially in emergency medicine. Whenever I question treatments, procedures, or prescriptions, I refer back to following the money, research peer reviewed studies, & ultimately the known fact that a healthy, but most of all thriving, patient is a lost customer.*
I found more than ever that (the majority) of our healthcare system focuses on treating the symptoms (or as I like to put it, "put a bandaid on it") & not finding the root cause to our chronic health issues. Symptoms & dis-ease are our body's cry for help & and when you don't find the root cause, it's just a downward spiral for other symptoms & illnesses to arise. In the last 10+ years of research & having a better understanding how the body works, I have found a whole new love for self-care, but most of all trusting our God-given immune systems.

My love of self-care when becoming a mom was so important on my own health journey that when after my oldest was born, I taught myself infant massage therapy. This was an amazing way for us to bond & relax him when he was restless or in pain from not feeling well. I loved continuing using these techniques on our second child & since then, I kept getting signs that this is what I needed to pursue in not only my career but life's purpose. At the end of 2020, I enrolled into a massage therapy program & spend every free moment I can learning new techniques to share with clients. As a CMT, I have bodywork training in relaxation, deep tissue, reflexology, hot/cold stone, cupping, prenatal/postnatal, acupressure, & myofacial techniques - & the list keeps growing! 🙌

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🖤 - Denae