If you opened this page, I assume you are “sick and tired of being sick and tired,” I tell you, friend, you can improve your health. Maybe you wonder, “Why do my joints ache constantly?” “Why am I bloated after every meal?” or “Why doesn’t all the exercise I do shed the extra pounds that seem to appear overnight?” The list of symptoms can go on and on. I want you to know that I have wrestled with my health for several years on my own healing journey and have regained energy, focus, mental clarity and more by using a functional approach to wellness.
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So, what exactly is functional wellness? I use this term because it describes what I aim to do with each client. Functional means discovering the source of a problem. For example, you may take a pill for indigestion, but what is causing that symptom in the first place? Functional nutrition looks for the root cause and then addresses the issue, encouraging the body’s innate ability to heal. Wellness means a comprehensive approach to being well, using food and supplements to help remove impediments to healing and employing strategies to tap into the mind-body connection.

High school chemistry class taught me that some food is actually technology. My teacher was a true chemist before becoming an educator, and she understood how chemical-laden food could affect our bodies. This was in the early 1980s, when convenience food was a relatively new concept and experiment, and no one knew that the ingredients in fast food were toxic. She was way ahead of her time and instructed us to put a piece of bologna on the counter for two weeks and see what happened. Well, nothing happened because the product was full of chemicals and preservatives, preventing mould, odour or change. I can’t call bologna “food” because it is technology explicitly created to stimulate your brain and tickle your tastebuds to entice you to eat it. Fast forward to today, and a MacDonald’s meal will yield the same results. Try it!

I never forgot that lesson, and when my health weakened in my late forties to the point that I had almost no energy, I was open to the idea that food could be a part of my problems. Learning that I was sensitive to gluten was a beginning, but in my training, I have learned much, much more about how to avoid the toxins that are in our food, water, air, ground and airwaves. Staying healthy is much more complicated than it was 50 years ago because we are assaulted daily with stressors that our grandparents did not have. Our bodies are not designed to withstand. We have a limit to how much stress and toxicity our bodies can manage, and when they reach maximum capacity, systems break down. We can end up with health issues of any sort, from chronic pain to sleep disorders to autoimmune diseases.

My mission is to help you rejuvenate your health while empowering you to know how to take charge of your body and achieve wellness. I believe everyone will know that the functional approach is a powerful, viable and effective alternative to mainstream medicine so that each person can determine which method, or blend of techniques, serves them best. I am constantly amazed at the body’s ability to care for us if we provide it with the materials it needs to heal. This is why I love this work. Our bodies are created to be amazing healing machines, and armed with the knowledge to support them, we allow them to be just that.