When Aubrie came to me, she was exhausted and inflamed, dealing with stress-related anxiety, and crashing every afternoon. She couldn’t lose the baby weight, and her body just didn’t feel like hers anymore.

She was a former athlete, and she thought the thing I’d be most proud of was how hard she was working out. Her labs showed a thyroid under stress from overtraining and low vitamin D, even though she was outside a lot with her kids. She was also worried she wasn’t ovulating.

Our first step wasn’t food. It was me telling her to stop working out so hard! Then we worked on her stress and her mindset.

Cheri was 54 when we started working together. She was tired and unmotivated by 2 or 3 in the afternoon, her brain fog frustrated her, and she wanted deep, restful sleep again. She wanted energy to enjoy her grandchildren, and she didn’t want to go on hormones. In her words, “I just felt defeated… pressed down.”

Her labs confirmed menopause, and they also showed a thyroid under stress, inflammation, and prediabetes. We started with a lot of mindset work, because she was carrying burdens that were affecting her health. She was skeptical, but she did what I suggested.

At 32, she badly wanted a baby. She had been through several rounds of fertility treatment and was being steered toward IVF. She came to me wanting help with infertility, digestive issues, and chronic fatigue. She also had a long list of health problems going back to childhood, debilitating cramps and PMS, and panic attacks. She had tried diet programs and wasn’t getting the results she felt she should.

When we looked deeper, she likely wasn’t ovulating, she was living in fight-or-flight mode, and she was prediabetic with significant insulin resistance. Her vitamin D was critically low, and her LDL and triglycerides were critically high.