Where did your story start? Before you discovered that self-love was important.

I grew up in a very family business-oriented family entered Nero family, my dad was a second-generation business owner and his family and my mom stayed home with myself and then my three younger siblings, probably in high school, I kinda took some left turns, when he and I were not saying I do. I, about a lot of things as you do when you start creating your independence.

I went to college, I went to school to be a stage manager, in New York, and then realized I did not want to work with actors.

What I actually wanted to do was help people moving through the emotional transition of things. So after a couple of years, I got my BS degree in Family Studies, and then instead of going into social work, I thought I would I actually ended up going entrepreneurship myself, I started with a direct sales company.

II started listening to  personal development speakers it and I just, I was a sponge. Give me more, give me more! obsessively listening to the next one, the next one, this is when we had CDs, in the car, we are listening to CDs that you had to plug in and pull back out. And I really became obsessed with being more productive, more efficient, more valuable, to the people around me.

It wasn't until 2014 that I really started to look around. Go okay. I love what I'm doing to a degree, I don't love selling products, but I love working with people in the capacity in working with that was a sexual health and wellness educator for those 13 years in direct sales.

It's helping women talk about their bodies on a regular basis and helping them break down some of the rules, they've had handed to them from generation after generation about what's okay, what's not okay, what body parts are okay, or body parts, are not okay, what should they all be who likes them, and how much and all of these things that come with physical intimacy. But we are having a lot of emotional conversations about this. Well, so I was well-versed in loving your body and being aware and edge the clinical side of things, all of that.

In 2014, when I started getting these days of flu-like symptoms, but no actual fever nobody could tell us what was going on. I was going to doctor after doctor, 'cause it would happen for 10 days and I'd be okay for a couple of days and then it would happen again.

And so it was just this weird cycle and I, I was canceling party presentations that I was making money for my family, I was not able to do meetings for my team, and now I was getting distraught because this is something that my entire families household income was based on this, and I'd spent 13 years building this and I realized I wanted to start coaching outside of the team. And outside of the consultants or the clients I had and so, residing in that direction, but it was too late and my body was just shutting down.

The first thing was a food sensitivity test, I figured out that soy was mine, archons. If it had even a drop of soy was laid out for a week to sometimes two weeks, sometimes a month. And so I started developing this really huge fear of food.

We had to cook all my meals at home, and I was traveling a lot 'cause I was a corporate trainer, for the corporate office, as well. taking big, huge coolers with me everywhere I go because I was so scared that someone would not take this seriously 'cause it wasn't technically an allergy I wasn't gonna have an anyplace reaction and my reaction took 72 hours to kick in, so that's why it took so long for us to figure out what it was because I couldn't I was tracking things, but nothing in this 24 hours was consistent, it was three days later. So, anyway, through that process, I started developing the teeter around, food, and then when the symptoms started kicking in again, about six months later, I was like, What is going on. I'm not eating any soil I'm making my own food