At 24 years old I opened my first fitness center. By 28 I had four locations, 16 staff, and what looked like everything figured out. I was 7% body fat. I could walk on my hands better than my feet. I thought I knew what health meant. Then one month after opening my fourth location, everything fell apart. The forest fires across Canada blanketed our city in heavy smoke for 10 days. That was the trigger. One eye went red and infected. Then both. Within two weeks I couldn't go into work anymore — I could barely see. My eyes were so swollen, red, watery and itchy I could barely leave the house. I spent close to $50,000 searching for answers. Medical doctors, ophthalmologists, specialists, naturopaths, functional medicine doctors — you name it, I tried it. I did cleanses, treatments, and protocols of every kind. Nothing worked. Some of it made things worse. What nobody was looking at was what was happening inside me. My father was deep in a crack cocaine addiction and tearing our family apart. I had just ended a 6 year relationship. I was running four businesses under enormous pressure — and I had zero awareness of what that stress was doing to my body. I thought I was strong. I didn't realize I was running on empty. In desperation I started reaching out to anyone who might have answers. One day I messaged a man named Matt Maruca — founder of a blue light blocking eyewear company. He said six words that changed everything: "Change your energy, change your life." He told me to look up Dr. Joe Dispenza. I became obsessed. For the first time I understood the connection between my patterns, my stress, and my sickness. I realized that my unawareness had been slowly destroying me from the inside out. Since then my recovery has been built on four pillars: Dr. Joe Dispenza's meditation work, carnivore nutrition, genetic testing, and daily nervous system reset protocols. My goals in life have completely changed. I finally had to look in the mirror and do the work from the inside out.