My Story

In 2013 my life completely changed. My mom, who was my rock, my heart, my best friend, was diagnosed with ALS – also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. There is no cure for the disease, no treatment to assuage its debilitating effects – it is literally a death sentence. The doctors gave my mom 2 years – she was gone in 6 months. Every day I would watch her get weaker, to lose a little part of herself. It was soul crushing. I was dealing with so many emotions that ultimately began to express themselves physically – aches, pains, sleeplessness. Working in healthcare, I knew that if I went to see my primary care physician the only thing they would be able to offer me was an antidepressant – yet I wasn’t depressed and that wasn’t what I needed. Suddenly I remembered a friend who had seen a holistic practitioner not far away from me. I reached out and got an appointment the next week.

When I went to see the practitioner, he asked me a bunch of what seemed like random questions, about all the different areas of my life. He looked at my tongue. It didn’t make much sense to me, but I was desperate to find a way to navigate this extremely difficult time in my life. At the end of the session, he explained his findings – all my symptoms were connected, and he explained how using the language of Ayurveda. It was eye opening. He wasn’t treating all my different symptoms separately – like we do in Western medicine – he was treating the root cause, and the whole person all at once.

I went home and immediately implemented his recommendations. Within a couple days, I felt like a new person! I thought “Why aren’t we (western medicine) using this??!?” Ayurveda got me through the most difficult time of my life. I was hooked.