03/18/2022
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Hi friends, okay this is a super sweaty thing to post, primarily because we live in a society with very f*cked up views of women and femmes bodies and a very harmful diet culture. I want to say that first because this could look like a before and after photo. Itโs not that for me. I am an ever evolving human and this is a reflection of deep healing and an ongoing personal journey. I am writing to share a resource.
There is only one reason I am posting this here, because it might help someone else. I donโt need it for myself personally. And I recently had the experience of naming my journey inside another post about my year reflection and 3 people in my community have been able to heal as a result. You three know who you are, thank you for helping me to be brave again and for inspiring me with your courage too.
My friend took the picture of me on the right in June 2021. One week before I began the healing process I have been in ever since. The picture on the left is me yesterday, March 12, 2022 having fun getting new jeans and loving them. The main difference I see in myself between the two pictures is confidence. On the right I am hiding, and I can see that I want to hide even more. My friend is a huge love and I can tell I just wanted that camera off of me. On the left I can see a shift in my body language + I had the most fun connecting with the woman in the store. I actually let her help me instead of try to hide. Did I love myself, see my beauty, and know I was an incredible person in both photos? Yes, I absolutely did. This was not about that for me, my body was unwell and on the road to increasingly serious illness.
It had been an incredibly difficult 5 years for me, with 2 moves, multiple melanomas, a pandemic, lack of connection, being a trauma therapist when the world is on fire, and elder parent care, to name the highlights.
By Spring of 2021 I was getting scared for my health and did not know what else to do. I knew I needed different support and I began turning toward finding a nutrition coach. I mentioned it to my functional med doctor and to my sister. Two weeks later a friend I have only met on FB posted her results from a program she just did. And bam I had a resource. (Also why I am posting this now, this platform allowed me to find a resource I wouldnโt have even known how to look for otherwise).
Literally the next day I was on a call with Jared McDonald and I joined his program. I was ready. Since I met Jared last June I have watched him continue to evolve his program, do the work to consistently dismantle diet culture, shift languaging, and help us to become who we want to be. Not his vision, our own, finding out what we want. And giving guidance, support, a formalized program, education and coaching, along with his team (shout out to my coach Kenna Bryan). If you know me, I am constantly vetting folks, and Jared is the real deal. A pure generous heart with a lot of wisdom and a deep desire to help people heal. Heโs had his own journey that way too. Eternally grateful for you Jared. ๐๐ป
I wonโt be posting data here about the difference in the scale. I donโt mind sharing on a DM, but itโs not relevant and I am still divesting from it mattering to me as well. So, not posting that data. Itโs not the point. Releasing inflammation and disease from this almost 54 year old body has other things for me to share.
So, what I will share is that I have had zero skin cancers since I began this program. Zero. That is coming from me, someone who up until Spring 2021 had 50+ biopsies and 8 or so melanomas, and handful of basal cell carcinomas and a smattering of other precancerous findings. I was constantly being treated or healing from the last one, with barely any time in between.
I have also had some lab results back, with a more comprehensive panel coming next month. I have already reversed a dangerous metabolic syndrome that was definitely a precursor to heart disease, which my Dad died from.
Jared cannot make these claims as outcomes, so I am sharing these are my personal reflections that line up with my timing here. The organ system healing is still in process too.
I have been able to stay the course during one of the most emotionally difficult times in my life , the death of my father. Having more strength inside for the stamina to be in the dying process with my Dad. I did not regress. I am so supported by Jared and Kenna and the community and this was a missing piece for me before.
So I will leave it here. We do a lot of mental and emotional healing, learning about stress, the nervous system, nourish the body with real food and supplements. Over time Iโm sure Iโll share other parts of my journey.
If my story helps anyone at all to find a resource they have been praying for, wanting to manifest, or not even sure how to ask for then it is worth it to be to be extra sweaty and kind of scared to hit post now. Thanks for witnessing. Sending love.
