Your body isn't the ceiling on your practice.
It's the infrastructure it runs on.

Registered Massage Therapist (RMT) · Certified Personal Trainer (PT)

I cleared a high-risk HPV infection myself — the one my doctor wanted to take straight to a LEEP procedure.

Growing up, I was the kid with the "sensitive tummy." I planned camping trips around bathroom access before I could name why. Sushi, too much sugar — it would hit me like a truck, every time. Brain fog and acne followed me through my teens and into my twenties. I got a stool test once. Doctor said everything looked clear. I had no idea what to do with that, so I just lived with it, for years.

Then I went to RMT school and fell in love with the body — neuroanatomy, musculoskeletal anatomy, yoga, nutrition. It cracked something open: if I got out of my body's way, it already knew how to heal. That belief is the actual root of everything I do now, and it started with nervous system work years before I had a name for it.

Working in multidisciplinary clinics, I watched almost every woman who walked through the door check off the same boxes on her intake form — bloating, IBS, migraines. Not occasionally. Almost every single one. That's when it really landed for me how many women are living in this fog, especially the ones building something and carrying more than anyone around them realizes.

Then it got personal in a different way. A high-risk HPV infection, showing up while my immune system was already worn down. My doctor's plan was the LEEP procedure — no real conversation about why my body was vulnerable in the first place. Around the same time, I contracted hemorrhagic dengue fever and nearly died. Both happened because my gut, nervous system, and hormones weren't resilient — they were wide open.

I used the same approach I now call the Triad Method, and I cleared the infection myself. No LEEP. No more bloating, no more constipation — just more freedom in my body and my mind, freedom I've used to keep building something that's going to help hundreds more women feel exactly this.

I launched AlignU in 2023 focused on metabolic coaching. That's where I met Kendall, who was running functional testing for our clients. We clicked instantly, and we built this to close the exact gap we'd both watched conventional and functional medicine leave open, over and over: symptom-chasing, expensive testing, a stack of supplements or prescriptions that never actually gets to the root — until the thing that could have been caught early becomes autoimmune disease, or worse. Roughly 40% of cancers are linked to modifiable lifestyle factors. That number should be a wake-up call, not a footnote.

That's the real power of this work: getting out of your body's way so it can do what it already knows how to do. You cannot out-test your way to healing, and you cannot get there from a prescription or a supplement stack alone.

There's a version of grief nobody prepares you for. It's not the funeral. It's the random Tuesday years later when something good happens and you reach for the phone before you remember.

I built this business in the middle of losing my dad. Twelve-hour days. Total control over everything I could touch — because staying busy was easier than feeling it. I don't think that makes me unique. I think most women building something right now are carrying more than they let on.

I've lived the brain fog. I've lived the inflammation that quietly decides how you show up on a sales call, how much energy you bring to a launch, how a painful period pulls you away from your clients, your family, and the version of yourself who's supposed to be the visionary — not just the woman surviving the day.

You didn't get into business to just survive it. I'm not here to let you.

Functional Health Practitioner · 6 years in functional health, 3 years in somatic practice, built on nearly a decade of personal study

I was diagnosed with lupus a few months before I turned 21.

But that diagnosis wasn't the beginning of my story — it was the end of fifteen years of one. Digestive issues since I was five. Multiple ER visits a year. Endoscopies. "You have IBS" — whatever that meant. Hormonal migraines and mood swings starting at fourteen, treated with antidepressants instead of anyone asking why. By eighteen and nineteen, after some genuinely traumatic years, I'd added anxiety and PTSD to the list, along with the insomnia that came with them.

By the time lupus got a name, my whole life had already been years of conventional medicine throwing pills at symptoms while the baseline kept getting worse. The doctors were honest with me, at least: there's no cure. It might stay the same. It might get worse. You'll probably need more medication, more steroids, more immunosuppressants, over time.

I looked at that trajectory. I looked at the side effects of what I was being offered. And I said no — I have to try something else.

That's when I started paying attention to the mind-body connection, because I'd already seen it happen in my own body: the more stress I carried, the more my symptoms flared. I took time off college — I couldn't have kept going anyway — and went to a meditation and mindfulness retreat in Spain. I surrendered to it completely.

I learned a lot there. But the one thing that actually changed everything was the day we learned about the autonomic nervous system.

I still have the page of that workbook clear in my mind — the list of nervous system dysregulation symptoms: digestive issues, skin issues, anxiety, insomnia, chronic joint pain, hair loss. I remember looking at it and thinking: these are all my symptoms.

Then I understood that the nervous system wasn't fixed. It was something you could actually work with — retrain, rewire, through both brain and body. And for the first time, I had hope. My diagnosis was not my destiny.

That realization propelled me into mindfulness, then neuroscience and somatics. I studied therapeutic and functional breathwork, bodywork — each discipline was a missing piece in fully understanding how to rewire the nervous system. My own method was born from putting those pieces together.

Being in those communities is also where I started learning about naturopathy and nutrition, and I eventually pursued further study in both. It was genuinely helpful and enlightening — but I kept coming back to the same realization, over and over: you can't diet, exercise, or supplement your way out of a dysregulated nervous system, or a body that doesn't feel safe.

That's the piece almost everyone else misses. It's not what I add to a protocol. It's what makes the rest of the protocol actually work.

If there's one thing I'd want you to know before we ever get on a call: nervous system regulation and safety in your body isn't an optional part of healing. It's the foundation — everything else is built on top of it.

Your body was designed to heal itself. When we prioritize regulation first, the healing process stops being an uphill battle. A much deeper, more profound transformation becomes possible.