Katie Goes from Couch-Bound to Pilates (Without Making Healing Her Whole Life) When Katie came to me, she wasn’t just tired. She was done. The kind of bone-deep exhaustion that makes getting dressed feel like climbing a mountain. Her body hurt everywhere. Sleep was a fight. Being present with her two young boys felt out of reach. Four straight years of hell will do that to a person. And here’s what most people miss. Katie wasn’t ignoring her health. She owned a CrossFit gym. She trained people for a living. She had already put her psoriasis into remission once through diet and discipline. She took care of herself. But none of it worked anymore. Her identity fell apart. Her social life vanished. She didn’t trust her body. She didn’t trust practitioners. She felt invisible. She felt like she was failing at something she used to be great at. 🔹 What She Tried Before (And Why It Backfired) She worked with several functional medicine practitioners. They ran labs. Found mold. Found parasites. The protocols made sense on paper, but every single one made her worse. Her nervous system was stuck in danger mode. Everything felt like a threat. Food. Supplements. Noise. Smells. Even her own emotions. Her minerals were depleted. Inflammation everywhere. Blood sugar unstable. Hormones spiraling. Her body didn’t have the capacity for healing yet. It was still bracing. She didn’t need more force or more protocols. She needed safety. 🔹 Month One: Strip It Down and Build Safety We removed almost everything she was doing. Not because she was wrong, but because her system couldn’t handle more input. We focused on basics that tell the body it’s safe. 🔹 Blue blockers after sunset 🔹 Slowly shifting the lighting in her home 🔹 Sunrise in her eyes 🔹 Slow walks 🔹 Red light therapy 🔹 Gentle hydration and minerals she could actually tolerate No detox sprints. No pushing. No pressure. We added simple nervous system and emotion tracking. Not to fix anything. Just to understand the patterns her body was getting stuck in.