I didn’t know what was happening to me, I thought I was bound to live with suffering & pain forever. Now, of course, I know different.
But it was my reality twice in my life: the first time over 20 years ago when I started showing symptoms of autoimmunity but didn’t realize what it was, nor did I know anything about being a highly sensitive person (HSP) or an empath or why I was always feeling so overwhelmed and anxious.
After trying every medication on the market & doctors telling me it’s hopeless & I’ve got to start learning to live this way, I discovered changing my diet made a huge difference. It was the first step of many on my healing journey.
That experience over 20 years ago set me on the path to becoming a Naturopathic Doctor. I wanted to show others the power of feeling well through making changes to diet, lifestyle, herbs, and natural supplements.
I made a lot of changes in my life since then. But there were corners that I avoided. Issues I didn’t want to touch. I was doing fine, why would I stir the pot? (side note: I wasn’t actually doing fine…I now know and feel the difference!)
My second experience happened after a series of extreme stressors in my life 5 years ago, including the illness & passing of my mother which triggered a flare-up that left me bed-bound for months. Everything I knew to try as a Naturopathic Doctor wasn’t working.
Thankfully I stumbled upon meat-only Carnivore (a completely new concept for me), which got me back on my feet when nothing else would, as it has for many others dealing with autoimmunity & mystery symptoms. But it only got me so far. I reached a plateau.
Even the strictest months delivered results only to a point. And reintroducing foods became an impossible feat. I’d backed myself into a corner that I couldn’t get out of, and my level of improvement was capped.
It was time to go into those untouched corners. Do the emotional healing I had been avoiding and address the unhealed emotions and trauma that I didn’t want to look at.
And really learn about being an HSP and an empath — what this meant for me, how it impacted my health, my choices, and my life, and how to harness these traits as skills and gifts (instead of being confused and overwhelmed by it).
Doing this work cracked me open…in a good way. It changed my perspective on absolutely everything. It got me the rest of the way that Carnivore wasn’t able to deliver. I was even able to reintroduce some foods again — something that was an impossibility before.
It set me on the path to fulfilling my true mission & purpose. I’ve never felt more fulfilled in my whole life and it continues to grow.
And this work has & continues to make me a better practitioner.
Walking the path of inner healing myself allows me to take my own clients further and further towards them stepping into the life they know they were always destined for, but their body & mindset were holding them back.
The difference now as a transformation coach compared to my work even a year ago is astounding, as I continue to heal deeper and deeper layers along my journey.
Leading clients to their own understanding, insights, revelations, truth, answers, and real healing — when nothing else really worked for them, or not to the degree they had expected or desired.
I could never be able to guide my clients to this level of life-changing transformation if I hadn’t taken myself down that path first. This is how we lead by example.
This is how practitioners can deliver more profound results. I wouldn’t have believed it had I not experienced the difference myself.
I continue to do my own inner work, and as I do, the results I see in my clients — the catalyzing transformations that happen in what feels like an instant — still blow my mind, even though I see it all the time. I’m grateful for every single one of those moments.
This goes beyond just managing symptoms and just surviving. This is about thriving. Blossoming into a level of joy, passion, and fulfillment like never before. It’s magic.
Relationships improve, promotions and raises happen, dream jobs appear, everything opens up in beautiful ways.
This is something I would have never experienced nor help my clients experience had I just stuck with diet & supplements.
And this is definitely not what my reality would have looked like had I listened to the doctors & accepted my fate to suffer in pain forever.
This is what healing emotional roots to physical symptoms can deliver. This is what healing your relationship with yourself, and stepping into the life you knew you were always destined for can provide.
It’s possible. I’ve done and do it myself, and help many women who’ve tried every diet, supplement, medication, and treatment finally find their freedom — by diving deeper into emotional healing — helping them truly understand themselves, and find the level of control over their health and life they truly desired.
It was the missing piece of their puzzle. And having someone guide them through the process catalyzes their transformation faster than any of them could have ever done on their own.
If this resonates with you and you don’t want to accept that you’re meant to stay suffering and in pain, even if you’ve tried what seems like everything, I hope you take these words to heart.
It’s possible to find another way. It’s possible to take your power back. I see it all the time. I’ve done it myself.
It takes willingness, but the end result is worth so much more than staying stuck and suffering.
If you resonate with this, you’ve tried all the diets to try to control autoimmune, endometriosis & mystery symptoms, you’ve been on the path of exploring how to dive deeper into emotional healing so you can find better results, and you’re done trying to figure this out on your own, my 6-month intensive, Empowered You, might be just the thing you need to deliver your life-changing transformation to skyrocket you to levels beyond what diet & supplements can deliver.
This unique process not only guides you through a step-by-step process of regulating your nervous system, healing your relationship with yourself, connecting to your inner knowing with confidence, delivering the profound clarity you’ve been searching for, and creating the blueprint for the life you always wanted and stepping into that life of joy and fulfillment with ease and flow, but we also address your physical symptoms and physiology.
I help you put the pieces of your health history together so you understand how things are connected, which helps you understand exactly what choices are best for you. We also work together to help you find exactly which food choices work best for your body and which don’t, which can change over time, and you’ll be equipped with the knowledge of exactly how to evaluate, test, and make appropriate changes at every step of your journey. Because as you heal, you’ll find your tolerance to different foods improves along with your progress.
Click here to send me a private message or email michelle@wellbalance.ca if you’d like to chat about the intensive. I’ll ask you some questions to see if you qualify, and if you do, you can ask me all the questions you need to make sure I’m a fit for you.
I have 2 spots available to start in July. If you know this is what you need to finally set you on your best path, contact me to reserve a spot.
And if you’re a practitioner reading this and you’re interested on how to achieve this level of healing for yourself and your patients, send me a message as well, or go here to get on the waitlist. I’m working on something very special with a colleague that will create deep transformation for us all. I would be happy to keep you in the loop.
Otherwise, I hope this post has given you some insight and inspiration.
