My journey into wellness started when I was young. I loved playing outside, riding my bike, climbing trees, skating. You know what other kids like to do. When I got older I started working out at the gym and eating healthy, or what I thought was healthy. I was never really over weight but I was not a super skinny person either. When I was 25 years old I started having digestive issues. My body did not like what I was feeding it. I was going through a lot of stress at time as well. Which I know now helped contribute to my new found issues with food and stress. I went through all the testing and was diagnosed with IBS (Irritable Bowel Disease).
This was the true start to my journey into wellness. I’ve searched, read, seen, and listened to many people on what I should do to heal my body. Some have worked and some have not. I never gave up though. I may have fallen off at times and splurged on certain foods I knew I should not have, but I always knew that I could not let that be the end to my search. So I straightened up and ate better and felt better. That was my yoyo diet. When I had kids it was a wake up call that I needed to work even harder to eat clean, fix my thoughts, and find spirituality in some way, shape, or form. I saw that my kids guts were similar to mine. They did not tolerate certain foods. So we ate the best way we knew how at the time and I continued to learn about REAL nutrition and practiced that with my family.
Its been almost 20 years since my diagnoses of IBS and I can say It has been a wild road with lots of ups and downs. The thing that always keeps me striving forward is that I know it’s the right thing to do for me and my family, that we will be healthy, we will be able to live long healthy lives because I have persevered. I am also very lucky to have such a wonderful husband that has been understanding and willing to try new things even when he was not sure he always agreed with the changes.
We taught our kids from an early age that they could not eat certain things and we educated them on why. They fortunately would ask about the ingredients of everything they eat when it was outside the house. As they have gotten older they now read the ingredients. I’ve taught them a lot on what to look for, the wording that is used to hide certain ingredients that they don’t want you to know about such as Natural Flavors. I tell them if it’s not listed its not worth having because they are hiding something that is most likely not good for our bodies.
I won’t lie, it has its challenges to eating clean. But I think the benefits outweigh the challenges. It only makes us stronger right. I also work in health care and see people with a long list of ailments that help remind me that I Never want to end up that way. Don’t get me wrong, I know we are all going to die sometime. I will die at a ripe old age feeling younger than my peers WITHOUT that long list of ailments because I choose a different lifestyle than most.
The reason I choose to start this blog is because I would like to assist people in changing the way they show up for themselves. Whether that be changing the thought patterns that poison our minds or food choices that poison our bodies or both. I know how hard making lifestyle changes can be. I see so many people out there trying to make the right choices but floundering. We are in an overloaded informational age where there are so many people calling out facts (or what they think or want to believe are facts) and I would like to help offer real solutions that I have learned over my journey through paid education, reading scientific information, & reading other blogs from people I trust, ect. I would like to help individuals, like yourself, Get to the next level of your journey to grow yourself into a better you.
Over time I will be offering information and advice on things that I feel are important for a life of positive change. If you would like me to talk more about certain things please drop me an email and I would be happy to blog my thoughts and help you achieve a higher better self. It gives me great joy to help other like minded people get from zerotohero in no time.
Creating A Healthy Mind, Body, & Soul 