I was given several autoimmune diagnoses. It took fifteen years before anyone found the root cause, and along the way I was told the problem was in my head. I left the classroom I loved because I was too sick to keep teaching.
After the third surgery I finally stopped and asked the question that changed everything. Why do we keep taking body parts out because they are sick? Can't we fix them?
So I went and learned. Food as medicine, sleep as medicine, movement as medicine. It worked, and then everyone I knew started asking me how I did it. That is how this became my work.
I am not interested in talking about being broken. Say you are still mending and you stay someone who is mending. So I treat this as a performance question, not a repair one. Your body is built to be resilient. My job is to hand you the tools.
“A tree grows one leaf at a time. You change your habits, one habit at a time. If you plant good roots in good soil, the tree will flourish. That is where the name came from.”