When I was a teenager, I suffered a vaccine injury, and things just got worse from there. For years I struggled with very painful conditions.  I later found myself over-giving in an abusive marriage with an alcoholic husband that resulted in my health taking a downturn.   As time progressed, I experienced  irregular and painful periods and many miscarriages and a stillbirth, which was chalked up to PCOS and “treated” with birth control pills that sent my hormones into a tailspin.  

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That marriage ended and a new one began.  Soon after, l was diagnosed with relapsing Epstein Barr Virus which prevented me from working on and off for a few years.  Several years later, after experimenting with food elimination, I was diagnosed with Celiac Disease by a Naturopathic doctor.  During this period of time, I gave birth to two beautiful children, one of which who is on the Autism spectrum, finished a Bachelor and Master’s degree, started a business, and then co-founded another business (a holistic mental health practice), and went back to school to become a Naturopath. Oh, did I mention that I took care of our home, homeschooled our children, cooked meals everyday from scratch, and basically bent over backwards to do *everything*? 

 

In 2019 I became extremely ill to the point where I had to use a wheelchair.  All of this was set in motion by a black mold infestation in my family’s home.  I was soon diagnosed with a long list of ailments such  as vertigo, POTS, a heart murmer, Hashimotos Thyroiditis with thyroid nodules, Hemiplegic Migraine, an adrenal tumor, Cervical Dysplasia, and Catemenial Seizures.  At the same time, my marriage of well over a decade began deteriorating. I struggled to care for my two young girls.  I spent extended time and multiple trips to the hospital. Consequently, I began suffering from the worst panic attacks I’ve ever experienced in my life. I was so ill that as I went to sleep one night, I felt certain that I would not live to see the morning.  But by some divine intervention, I did. And things began to change. 

 

I was diagnosed with Estrogren Dominance and was prescribed bioidentical progresterone.  This, alone, was a major game-changer for me, as it allowed me to get enought mental and physical strength back to fight for my health! 

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The other major component to my healing has been my spiritual growth and divine healing provided by my Higher Power, which I choose to call God.  I began attending a spiritually-based support group for people who have been living with abusive/addicted friends or family members and got down to the hard work of changing my overacheiving, codependent, Type-A, perfectionist habits. 

 

So as I look back over my life, I can see that there are three main areas that got me through the storm:  fixing the underlying hormonal problem that was a DEEP root issue for me all along, learning to say “no” to over-giving to the point of burnout, and letting go and letting God take the wheel on everything that is out of my control.