I don’t share this often. But I think this community deserves to know where I came from and why I show up the way I do. When I was 15 years old my world fell apart in ways I couldn’t have imagined. I lost friendships I thought were forever. I got sick from the stress of it all — viral meningitis — and missed nearly an entire semester of school. And before I had even fully recovered I experienced something traumatic that left me changed in ways I didn’t fully understand for years. I spent a long time after that living small. Guarded. Untrusting. Waiting for the next thing to go wrong. I thought that was just who I was now. It wasn’t. It was unhealed trauma living in my body. And there is a big difference. It wasn’t until my early twenties that someone introduced me to energy work and showed me that what I had been carrying didn’t have to be permanent. That my nervous system could learn to feel safe again. That confidence wasn’t something you either had or you didn’t — it was something you could rebuild from the inside out. That experience changed everything for me. My confidence came back. My trust came back. I started showing up in the world again. But here’s the part I don’t talk about enough. Even after all of that healing — even after doing the deep inner work, regulating my nervous system, releasing the trauma — I still struggled with my weight my entire life. I ate clean. I stayed active. I did everything right. And nothing moved. For years I thought something was just broken in me. It wasn’t brokenness. It was my metabolism. And nobody had ever looked at it that way. That’s when I went deep into metabolic health and peptides. I became certified as a GLP-1 Metabolic Health Specialist along with Nutrition and Wellness. I stopped guessing and started understanding what was actually happening inside my body at a physiological level. And then something shifted that had never shifted before. In 9 months I lost 69 pounds. Not because I finally found the willpower I had been missing. Not because I worked harder or ate less. But because I finally addressed all of it — the metabolic piece, the lifestyle, and the inner work — at the same time. Together. The way it was always meant to be done.

Hi all here is a link with the class and all the information I shared today! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UylnFd8dvJ5D1m4jnK9l1p3pJ9gm0uvGSAqChzl7PhI/edit?usp=drivesdk