My Reality
Blending science and holistic wisdom to understand health across body, mind, heart, spirit, and energy.
Origins – The Truth Seeker
I am a lifelong seeker of ontological truths—principles that apply universally, not just as self-fulfilling beliefs.
First believed exercise was the ultimate key to health.
Early drive: to understand the body, mind, and energy through both study and experience.
“Flammarion Engraving.” Illustration from Camille Flammarion’s L’atmosphère: météorologie populaire (Paris: Hachette, 1888). Public domain.
Formal Education & Certifications
MBA – Strategic management, innovation, and product leadership with a focus on translating complex problems into practical business solutions.
B.S. in Kinesiology, Minor in Psychology – Scientific foundation in movement, human performance, and mind-body connection.
Associate’s Degree, Physical Therapy Assistant (PTA) – Clinical application of rehabilitation, biomechanics, and patient care.
Nutrition Certification – Principles of diet, digestion, and optimization.
Herbalist Certification (American Herbalist Guild) – Introduction to herbal medicine.
*Throughout this page I will provide books that helped me.
Phase 1 – Body as Foundation
Exercise science and therapy as my core lens.
Built strong grounding in biomechanics, strength training, and patient care.
Believed physical conditioning alone was the solution.
These images are a visual record of my early journey—proof of the discipline it took to achieve a certain physique, but also of the lessons I had yet to learn. At 18, in the forest photo, I believed exercise alone was the answer and pushed myself with little awareness of balance. By 26, I had built a lean, defined body, but underneath I was depleted—my nervous system often stuck in a hyper-activated fight state. At 27, during my blonde phase, I was beginning to see the cracks- I almost constantly was on edge, and by 28, I had started moving toward recovery. In hindsight, these photos show more than physical changes—they reveal the cost of chasing health through discipline alone, and the wisdom I’ve gained in recognizing how much the nervous system and gut health shape true vitality.
Phase 2 – Nutrition & Gut Health
Gut issues → microbiome testing, food combination research.
Consulted gut specialists and nutrition response testing practitioners.
Nutrition became central: realized vitality comes from within, not just movement.
This was a great start but I did not receive much guidance and so I hit the books. For each of these sections I will provide a handful of the books that helped me the most understand more about the human body.
Learned about heavy metals and explored fruit cleanses and detoxes, inspired by books like African Holistic Health. I had my first OligoScan,
I did a 40 day fruit fast
Amazing skin but low energy and libido → taught me balance is essential.
Tried colonics and cleansing protocols as part of experimentation.
Phase 3 – Cleansing & Detox
Phase 4 – Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Studied Chinese herbal texts; saw four Chinese medicine doctors.
Learned about warming/cooling foods, spleen qi, dampness, organ imbalances.
Learned how the tongue tells vital information about the body and organs.
Expanded nutrition knowledge beyond macros → into energetics and balance.
Once I started to actually understand the body and organs and what they needed, now I just had to look at what emotions I was dampening by eating all these wrong foods.
Phase 5 – Somatics & Emotional Release
Discovered how trauma is stored in the body.
Practiced TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises), restorative yoga, ventral vagal regulation, and therapy.
Explored yoga classes of different styles for nervous system health.
While doing my fruit cleanse I met a delightful woman who taught me a technique to release emotions. At the time I did not even know emotions could get stuck in the body or let alone how to release them. I learned how to release them with a simple magnet and then learned how to release deeper stored emotions from a somatic program. After the program I started doing regular restorative yoga (as much as I could- I am not perfect) to maintain my new inner peace.
Now the heavy metals from before made more sense and why people were unable to release them unless they were regularly doing yoga and had a diet change. I speculate that heavy metals that attach onto the tissues are physical manifestations of suppressed emotions.
Phase 6 – Beyond Science Alone
Once obsessed with only scientific research, believing evidence-based methods were the only truth.
Learned that science is reductionist—it isolates single variables, while humans are multivariable beings.
Expanded into multi-perspective exploration:
Cell Salts & Zodiac Cell Salts – Mineral medicine linked to astrology.
Astrology & Human Design – Archetypal patterns for self-understanding.
Organ Clock System – Daily rhythms of energy and healing.
Chakras & Acupressure Points – Energy centers and pathways for balance.
Learned that science gives clarity, but holistic systems give context.
Core Understandings
Science is vital, but it is not the whole picture.
Human beings are multidimensional: physical, emotional, spiritual, and energetic.
Healing requires honoring and EMBODYING all levels—body, mind, heart, spirit, and community.
Chinese medicine continues to be the most impactful framework so far.
Across my testing—stool analysis, Oligoscan mineral/vitamin scan, and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) assessment—the same core message emerged through different lenses. The stool test revealed poor enzyme output, dysbiosis, and low immune defense; the Oligoscan showed deficiencies in magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, silicon, and vitamins D, B6, and folate, alongside sluggish detox capacity; and the TCM tongue reading highlighted Qi deficiency, dampness, and kidney yang weakness. Together, they pointed to one cycle: stress and emotional strain weakening digestion, nutrient absorption, and detox pathways, which in turn lowered my energy and resilience.
To break that cycle, I had to rebuild from the ground up. That meant adding warming, mineral-rich foods like chicken, millet, Job’s tears, Chinese yam, and cruciferous vegetables; supplementing with magnesium, selenium, vitamin D3/K2, activated B-vitamins, and liposomal vitamin C; and practicing restorative yoga, breathwork, and somatic release to regulate my nervous system. Each test told the story in its own way, but all converged on the same solution: nourish digestion, restore minerals, and regulate stress to recover balance.
What I’ve Learned
Exercise & Psychology: Kinesiology, PTA training, clinical rehab.
Nutrition: Certification, microbiome testing, food combinations, TCM energetics.
Herbalism: Certification, African holistic health, Chinese herbal texts.
Cleansing: Detoxes, colonics, skin health experimentation.
Somatics: TRE, yoga, therapy, ventral vagal regulation.
Multi-perspective systems: Cell salts, astrology, human design, organ clock, chakras, acupressure, occult knowledge.
Mind-Body Practices: Breathwork, semen retention, meditation.
What I’m Still Learning
Yoga (deepening beyond restorative, pranayama).
Herbal synergy—combining herbs effectively.
Breathwork mastery and energy cultivation.
Somatic trauma integration on a deeper level.
Mudras (understanding when to practice them and for how long)
Acupuncture points
What I’m Still Learning
Magnet therapy and energy modalities.
Ayurveda—doshas, herbs, nutrition.
Qigong & Tai Chi—longevity, flow, grounding.
Advanced herbalism—complex formulations.
Formal Nutrition Response Testing training.
Reiki
Closing Reflections
I’ve come to see allopathic doctors as the exterminators—precise, forceful, and sometimes absolutely necessary. Classical Chinese medicine doctors, by contrast, are the gardeners—nurturing, balancing, and creating conditions for life to thrive. Both roles are essential.
But it took me years to break free from the brainwashing of believing that allopathic medicine alone held the truth. At first, I was fully devoted to the “modern” model—materialistic, Newtonian, reductionist, scarcity-focused, local, and objective. My kinesiology and PTA training were built on this foundation, and for a time I trusted science as the only path.
Yet in practice, I saw its limits. As a PTA, I realized that many patients weren’t just dealing with physical injuries. The true roots of their struggles lay in emotions, diet, self-limiting beliefs, and lack of community. No exercise program or clinical protocol could touch those deeper layers.
That’s what led me to holistic systems like Traditional Chinese Medicine—a framework that views health as energetic, quantum, ecological, abundance-based, non-temporal, and subjective. This perspective finally made sense of what I had been witnessing all along: healing is not linear or mechanical, but dynamic, interconnected, and alive.
True health requires both the exterminator and the gardener—the sharp precision that removes what harms, and the patient care that cultivates what heals. It lives in the balance of action and rest, doing and being. I am still walking my path and still want to learn so much more but more importantly- embody the knowledge so that vitality, connection, and wholeness can flourish.
