Hello! Whatever your story, I am so glad you are here. I have always been hyper-focused on my body, oftentimes, in not such healthy ways. I mean let’s get real, growing up female is not particularly simple. There are crushing pressures from all directions and I am not always equipped to manage them well, particularly when it comes to my body. Throughout my life, I’ve experienced periods of overeating and periods of undereating. I have used food as a reward, as a comfort, and as a tool of deprivation and control. To put it simply, my historical relationship with food has not been a healthy one, by any means.

Over the last decade, however, I have been on a journey to change this relationship and my perspective on my body. I’m going to be honest, I didn’t begin this journey because I had a moment of enlightenment or any sort of epiphany. Rather, my body reached a breaking point and demanded immediate change.

After the birth of my fourth child in 2016, my life felt out of control. Aside from having four kids 4 years old and under, my hair was falling out, I felt fatigued, irritable, and I couldn’t get control of my weight no matter how little I ate or how much I exercised. At the time, I had too many reasons to explain away my symptoms – sleep deprivation from the newborn stage, the baby blues, late night snacking, poor sleep-quality, etc. But the symptoms persisted for years and I just didn’t feel good.

Eventually, I got curious. What the hell is going on?! After some testing, my doctor and I discovered that my thyroid was not working properly and she diagnosed me with Hypothyroidism. This began my journey to heal my body from the inside out. Read on if you’re on a similar journey!