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Real Functional Healing, Denver, CO (2026)

05/29/2026

She came to me with anxiety, chronic acid reflux, weight loss resistance, and inflammation. Doctors had checked everywhere 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘨𝘶𝘵 🤦‍♀️

She had been diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis, sinusitis, and gastritis ("itis" literally means inflammation).

Every system was on fire, including her brain - which is why she was feeling so anxious. And she had been to multiple providers, with no clear answers connecting any of it 🚫

When we ran her GI Map to test her gut, this is what we found:

☑️𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐄𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐚: this bacteria produces serotonin and supplies tryptophan (which turns into serotonin in the brain). At undetectable levels, her gut's ability to make serotonin was significantly impaired.

☑️𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐀𝐤𝐤𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐚: Akkermansia supports a healthy gut environment and serotonin manufacturing centers.

☑️ 𝐋𝐨𝐰 𝐁𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐝𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐮𝐦: these bacteria help you make more serotonin and support other serotonin-producing cells in the gut lining.

☑️ 𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐦𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 + 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬: high levels of these species are linked to weight loss resistance and systemic inflammation.

𝗪𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐮𝐬: her gut was not producing enough serotonin, her gut-brain connection was seriously compromised, and the resulting inflammation had lit a fire across multiple body systems 🔥

Using the GI map data alongside functional bloodwork, we built her a bio-individual plan.

Fast forward to today:

🙌 Over 40 pounds lost.
🙌 Chronic GI symptoms resolved.
🙌 Pain levels under control.
🙌 Anxiety well-managed without medication.

The data was there. 𝘐𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘵.

05/27/2026

My childhood gut issues led to chronic depression and anxiety. Doctors and therapists never connected the dots...

For most of my adult life, I struggled with mental health challenges. I tried therapy, and I tried medication. While some of it helped, none of it explained 𝘸𝘩𝘺 I felt the way I felt 😔

I also struggled with chronic digestive problems that started in childhood. When puberty hit, I struggled with hormone imbalances and skin issues that persisted into my 30s. And to top it all off, chronic fatigue and brain fog that medications didn't touch.

When I started studying the gut brain connection in school, things finally started to click. And when I started addressing the gut, my mental health shifted in ways nothing else had touched.

Then, years into my career, I got another piece of the puzzle: a late ADHD diagnosis 🧠

I finally understood what had been underneath so much of what I had labeled as anxiety or a personal failing.

This is why I specialize in the 𝐠𝐮𝐭-𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.

And why I work with women who are exhausted, anxious, and tired of being told their labs are normal 😵‍💫

I've been there, stuck in that endless loop of searching for answers. And I know the answers are there, once you know where to look.

05/27/2026

Your anxiety might not be a mental health problem... It might be a gut problem 🤯

Every week, I talk to women who have been handed an anxiety diagnosis and a prescription. And while I'm not saying medication is never appropriate, what I am saying is this: We are missing an enormous piece of the picture.

𝟗𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐢𝐧 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐮𝐭.

Not your brain, your gut. That means when the gut isn't healthy, serotonin production drops.

And low serotonin leads to symptoms like anxiety, irritability, mood swings, and frequent feelings of sadness. It can also affect focus, concentration, and memory.

I see women who have been in therapy for years, tried multiple medications, and still can't shake the anxiety or the brain fog. And many tell me they believe the anxiety is a 𝘣𝘺𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 of their symptoms, not the 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 of them.

I'm not anti-medication. I'm 𝘱𝘳𝘰-𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. I believe every woman has the right to be educated on what's happening in her body, so she can make informed choices about her own physical and mental well being.

And when we run comprehensive GI testing, we can see it in their results:

🦠Hidden infections.
🦠Gut inflammation.
🦠Lack of healthy bacterial species that directly influence serotonin production.

If your anxiety has never fully resolved despite "doing all the right things," it may be time to look at what's happening underneath.

PS. I help driven women find real answers through functional lab testing and targeted nutrition + lifestyle changes. If you've been managing symptoms without ever getting to the WHY, I'd love to have a conversation.

05/26/2026

Funny how this kitchen transformation ended up feeling a lot like my own ✨

I started planning this update years ago, before this house became a rental and before life pulled me through some of the deepest seasons of growth and change.

Now, in a very temporary chapter of living here again while preparing to sell, I finally finished it.

And honestly… it feels sort of symbolic.

Looking at these before and after photos, I can’t help but see myself in them too. "Before" feels darker, chaotic, where pieces don't quite fit together. "After" feels lighter, more cohesive, more in flow.

This home held so many versions of me. And I’m deeply grateful for all of them 💕

So until this place sells, I’m going to fully enjoy the beauty of what I built.

Here’s to honoring the chapters that shaped us… and to having the courage to let them close ✨

05/20/2026

I was told my hormones looked like a "post-menopausal woman's"... I was in my 𝘮𝘪𝘥-𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴.

My periods had always been brutal 😭

Cramps that took me out of work or school. Heavy bleeding. Severe mood swings.
The type of exhaustion that I could feel in my bones.

I pushed to get my hormones tested. And the results came back showing levels so low that my OBGYN told me they looked like "the hormones of a woman who had already gone through menopause." Her words.

And her recommendations? Stress less, sleep more, and consider going back on hormonal birth control 😡My internal response was: 𝘈𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘬𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦?

I was in grad school and working full time and somehow still managing to sleep eight hours a night, because I couldn't not🫩And I had spent years working hard to get off the pill because of how it made me feel.

I went to multiple specialists. MDs, functional providers, holistic practitioners. People who were supposed to dig deeper and look for root causes.

Not ONE of them asked what I was eating. Not a single one asked how often I was eating, or whether I was eating enough.

They handed me elimination diets, stacks of supplements, and stress reduction techniques. None of them addressed what was actually happening underneath.

I had spent years under eating and over exercising. My blood sugar was chronically low. My ADHD brain was running on fumes.

And my body, doing exactly what bodies do when they're starving at a cellular level, was not making hormones. It couldn't. It didn't have the raw materials or the fuel⛽

The first thing that actually moved the needle for me wasn't a hormone protocol. 𝐈𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲. Stabilizing blood sugar. Giving my body a reason to believe it was safe enough to produce hormones again.

I share this because I know firsthand how exhausting it is to go looking for answers and keep coming home empty handed.

And because blood sugar is almost never part of the hormonal conversation in conventional or integrative care, and it 𝘢𝘣𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦.

05/19/2026

𝐘𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐫 𝐢𝐬 𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 (and probably not in the right direction 😵‍💫).

Women spend years chasing hormonal symptoms with supplements and protocols, when what they needed first was a stable, consistent fuel supply.

Unstable blood sugar (𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐦𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐮𝐞𝐥 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐲) is one of the main drivers of hormonal chaos. And most women with irregular cycles, low libido, painful periods, or energy issues are being treated at the hormonal level, when the real problem is happening much earlier in the chain.

𝗪𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠:

When blood sugar spikes repeatedly from refined carbs, sugar, or lack of exercise, your body pumps out more and more insulin to manage it.

Over time, that excess insulin tells your ovaries to produce more androgens, the testosterone-like hormones that drive symptoms like acne, irregular cycles, and the hormonal pattern seen in PMOS (formerly know as PCOS).

It also throws off communication between your brain and your ovaries. When that signal gets disrupted, ovulation becomes irregular, progesterone drops, and estrogen dominance creeps in.

On the other end, chronically low blood sugar is just as damaging. When your body is running on empty, it activates cortisol to pull your blood sugar back up. Cortisol and progesterone are made from the same raw materials.

𝗪𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥:

Anxiety.
Poor sleep.
Irregular, heavy, and/or more painful periods.
Mood swings you can't explain.

Blood sugar is not just a diabetes conversation. It is a foundational hormone conversation, and it should be one of the first things ANY trained provider discusses with women in their practice.

Want to learn more? 🗓️ We'll be talking all about foundational blood sugar balancing practices in my 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 this Wednesday 5/20 @ 12 MST. Link to sign up: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/19ZB3mnQg7d_UUP4OZ5hKSfQ7DLvEO6Rh4HPODPzrqW0/edit

05/18/2026

Running on caffeine and willpower is not a business strategy 🚫

And yet 𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦. Most high-performing women I know are doing exactly that, and wondering why their focus is shot by noon, their energy crashes before the workday is done, and their brain refuses to cooperate no matter how hard they try, or how much coffee they drink ☕

This is not a hustle problem. It is a 𝘣𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘨𝘺 problem.

Want to learn more? I'm hosting the second round of this 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 on 5/20 at 12 pm MST specifically for female entrepreneurs, executives, and business owners who are ready for a different conversation about what's keeping them stuck.

If you're ready to optimize your mental performance, energy, and focus, and gain that "edge" you've been searching for, this is for you!

What we'll cover:

- What to eat for breakfast that actually sets your brain up to perform
- How to balance blood sugar so your energy is stable, versus spiking and crashing
- Why caffeine on an empty stomach is working against you
- How to pair carbohydrates to maintain focus without the afternoon drop
- Simple, practical daily habits that shift how you feel and how you show up

𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦. It is interactive, tangible, and limited to 8-9 people so it stays a real conversation.

Space is intentionally small. If you want a seat, we have 3 left! Grab your here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdK_K6X2Jx6UJjjOdX9zMwYq_GJtI6nHTJrdsq3qrAQQlJ4Hw/viewform?usp=header

05/14/2026

Doing this 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 will lower your daily stress load and stabilize cortisol levels.

It's not another supplement. Or a detox. Or a daily yoga practice.

It's eating for blood sugar balance🩸It's not fancy, or sexy. It just works.

Here is why it matters more than most people realize:

Every time blood sugar drops, your body treats it as a crisis 🚨 Cortisol and adrenaline are released to pull glucose levels back up. These are the same stress hormones that activate in response to a physical or emotional threat.

This means that skipping breakfast, going too long between meals, or eating a meal that is mostly processed carbs is not just an energy issue. It is a hormonal event.

One that your adrenals have to respond to, every single time.

Do that repeatedly across a day, across a week, across years, and you are asking your stress response system to work overtime on top of everything else it is already managing 😵‍💫

When blood sugar is stable, cortisol has less reason to spike.

✔️Energy becomes more predictable.
✔️The afternoon crash stops.
✔️Mood becomes easier to regulate because the brain has a consistent fuel supply instead of a rollercoaster.
✔️Focus improves because glucose is reaching the brain steadily rather than in peaks and valleys.

Balancing blood sugar is not some big, dramatic health intervention. But the downstream effects are significant.

✔️Protein at every meal.
✔️Fat + fiber alongside your carbohydrates.
✔️Consistent meal timing.

Those three things alone can change the entire trajectory of your day 🫶

05/13/2026

Before I recommend a single supplement or change a single meal, I do a 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐭 😵‍💫

Because stress is not just what's happening in your head. And if I don't understand 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 it's coming from, anything I suggest is guesswork 🤷‍♀️

I look at two categories with every client:

✅ 1- Mental and emotional stress. The business you're running, the relationship that's taking more than it's giving, the to do list that never seems to reach the "done" stage.

✅ 2- Physical stress. Blood sugar that's crashing between meals. An inflammatory diet that's triggering an immune response. Exercise that's too intense for a nervous system already running on empty, or too little to give the body the regulation it needs.

Your body doesn't separate these stressors. A skipped meal lands the same as a hard conversation. A brutal workout hits the same system as a sleepless night.

It all goes into the same bucket 🪣 And that bucket has a limit.

When I understand what's filling 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 bucket, I can actually build something that works. Not a generic "one size fits all" protocol. A starting point that fits the person in front of me, their stressors, their capacity, their real life.

That's what 𝘣𝘪𝘰-𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘶𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦 actually looks like in practice. If you've been doing everything right and still not moving the needle, it might be time to look at the full picture 🖼️

What does your stress load look like right now, physical and mental/emotional?

05/12/2026

Somewhere along the way, women got the message that smaller was better...

Smaller body. Smaller voice. Smaller ambitions.

Diet culture is one of the loudest versions of that message. And it does damage that goes far beyond the relationship with food 💔

Women who have spent years restricting, ignoring hunger, and measuring their worth by a number on a scale carry that in their physiology, not just their mindset.

🚫Chronically elevated cortisol
🚫Disrupted hormones
🚫A brain running on empty
🚫A nervous system that does not feel safe

And a nervous system that does not feel safe cannot heal. It cannot sustain change.

𝘐𝘵 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘰𝘭𝘥, 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.

Dreaming bigger does not start with motivation or a mindset shift. It starts with a body that is nourished enough to support your growth 🌱

When the foundations are in place - stable energy, a regulated nervous system, a nourished brain - clarity returns. Capacity expands. The things that felt impossible start to feel like options.

Taking up space is not a decision you make once. It is something you choose daily. And a big part of that is choosing to support your physical body.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐒𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 is a 3-month group program launching in June for women who are done shrinking and ready to build the biological foundation that supports the life they actually want.

This is not a diet program. It is the opposite of one.

If diet culture has left you confused about what eating well actually looks like for your brain and body, that is exactly what we untangle inside this program. DM me "NOURISHED" and let's talk 🫶

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