Welcome to balancingautoimmune.com!

The cracks are were the light gets in....

This blog is a passion project, it is a leap for me to share this deeply with an unknown audience. I am traditionally quite private and especially with my health challenges I tend to keep to myself. I have recently had a deep calling from within to share, I am meant to share my journey with the world in hopes of helping anyone out there who is struggling, lost and in that deep dark place that autoimmune/chronic disease can take you. There is a way out, I promise. Throughout the last two years of this pandemic I have been pushed to the absolute limit of my ability to deal with suffering... the mental, emotional and physical anguish I have been through will do one of two things to you... It will break you or make you whole again... the choice is ultimately ours. I live at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains with a forest and river as my backyard, the whisperings of the trees and water have reached the core of my soul during this time and gently asked for me to share... and so I will. The primary reason I feel so called to this, is that I know there are people out there, feeling how I have, that have no tools, no support, are all alone and at the mercy of a system that unfortunately is all but broken when it comes to helping people with chronic autoimmune conditions. I am not against allopathic medicine, it has helped me with acute conditions in the past but it truly does not have anything to offer other than a bandaid approach (which is sometimes needed) of symptom management. It does not get to the root cause at all and therefore does not help anyone reach true healing from autoimmune disease. Sometimes a combination is needed, meaning some people will need to be on a medication as well as living a healing lifestyle and working on the root cause, and that is ok! Its just not the sole answer. I have many, many tools in my toolbox and I had moments when I didn't know if I could survive, so I feel greatly for those who are lost and alone. So I am here, holding out an olive branch and offering some light on your journey. I do not have all the answers, we are all individuals and our healing paths look different sometimes even with the same disease process happening.

My background is in Chinese Medicine (Acupunctur and Herbology), Holistic Nutrition and Yoga. I am also an artist at heart... which is also an immense source of healing in my life.