My anxiety wasn't always in the forefront of my life. In fact, I enjoyed a childhood free of fears, won awards in public speaking and travelled to 32 countries by the time I was 32.

And then, almost like a switch was flipped, something changed. I started feeling panic rise up in my system for seemly no reason. I had heart palpitations constantly, developed OCD thoughts for the most ridiculous things (like how clean my kitchen counter was, and I was NOT a clean freak), could no longer exercise without panic at night (I used to run 1/2 marathons), had severe gut issues, difficulty sleeping through the night and struggles with memory and focus. Put in a nutshell - I was a hot mess.

My journey to healing led me to many practitioners and I had a lot of dead ends. The therapy techniques I was offering others, didn't seem to work on myself, the diets that the naturopaths put me on only made me feel worse, and the GI specialists didn't find anything wrong with me. 5 naturopaths, 4 functional medicine doctors, and infectious disease doctor and 2 GI specialists later, I finally had answers.

And in finding my root causes, I trained in holistic healing, so that I could offer my clients more then just therapy (which I do still offer), but ALSO have an ability to help them also uncover and heal the biological root causes of their anxiety as well.