I was also put on and off different birth controls a handful of times, the last straw being when I was prescribed a new brand that was so “helpful for clearing skin”, this was a point when my acne had turned from annoying but manageable to such extreme DESPERATION with new deep embarrassing and painful breakouts occurring all over my face and strange new locations on my body.

2 weeks after being put on the new birth control, my hair and eyelashes began falling OUT!

It was at that point my FRUSTRATION and being so tired of SUFFERING with a host of new symptoms from hastily prescribed meds, feeling ALONE, CONFUSED and DISMISSED drove me to start seeking alternative approaches to address my debilitating acne.

I remember the immense RELIEF I felt when I finally heard to first piece of wise truth shared with my when I started working with a Naturopath.

She explained to me in a consult, that MY SKIN WAS A REFLECTION OF WHAT WAS GOING ON INSIDE OF ME.

She then went on to give me the sage advice that Skin is complex, that for some it can take a few changes so transform and for others can take years of healing different facets before seeing it change but that it’s really about understanding and addressing the root causes!

It wasn’t until then that I gained the understanding that my MIA periods = missing ovulation (fertility) and hormonal disharmony/imbalanced hormones. And finally learned that there is a connection between skin, hormones, diet and inner well-being.

The first major shift was my period becoming REGULAR FOR THE FIRST TIME I MY ENTIRE LIFE at age 26 after just 2 months of seed cycling ! It was incredible to experience first hand the power of food as medicine!

I then began an anti-inflammatory diet and some different herbs & supplements to support flushing out the toxins of my liver.

I was still getting acne, but no longer the extreme painful strange place breakouts.

And as I began focussing more on my well-being I began to realize other symptoms that I had been been failing to see as they are often so normalized!

I was experiencing reoccurring head aches, brain fog, low energy, stress and anxiety. I finally recognized I was nearing BURNOUT and decided to stop working to fully devote to healing and received a diagnosis of PCOS when I was 28.

I spent over half a decade and thousands of hours diving into Integrative, Alternative, Natural, Traditional, Functional, Eastern, Food & Energy Medicine approaches: working with specialists and practitioners on hormonal balancing, listening to podcasts and experts, trying various modalities, devouring books; articles and research, doing intensive inner-work and implementing new practices and habits into my daily life.

I quickly learned how the wellness space is riddled with an overwhelming amount of approaches, contradictions, trends, herbs & supplements, therapies, tools, techniques…. that can be extremely time consuming, confusing and expensive… and while I made incremental strides in discovering aligning lifestyle changes and transformational shifts I also had many moments of getting caught up in harmful trends and spent the first couple of years feeling stressed and weighed down by trying to fix and solve my symptoms through legalistic and perfectionistic pressure.

I had gotten to a point where it seemed I had tried everything out there shared about hormonal wellness (spent thousands of dollars on herbs and supplements and hormone testing, different diets and trends of keto, intermittent fasting, bone broth, cycled eating, going gluten-free, sugar-free, dairy-free… learning to blood sugar levels, reducing toxin in products, practicing yoga, ensuring enough Vit.D, getting 9 + hours of sleep…) but I was still struggling with symptoms.

It wasn’t until I began connecting WITHIN when I was becoming certified as an Inner Voice Facilitator that I began to truly heal and transform!

The inner presence and emotional releasing from sessions allowed me to connect to my deepest self for guidance, advice and healing, prompted my body to detox, skin cleared,  alignments to effortlessly flow into my life, all my remaining PCOS symptoms dissolved and fertility amplified!

Two months after becoming an Inner Voice Facilitator I conceived effortlessly and naturally!

I had a magically delightful pregnancy and an enchanting fear-free, complication-free natural unmedicated 2.5 hour home birth experience!

And my inner voice guided me in starting off the gift of motherhood with rejuvenating quick post-natal healing and my body and hormones thriving again just after two months.

And 3 years after getting my ovaries scanned confirming my PCOS diagnosis, I got a new ultra-sound scan done that showed my ovaries had transformed to normal and my PCOS completely reversed!

And what I learned most of all is that- there more Internal Alignment, there more External Alignment AND there are many paths to healing.

I now find joy integrating the wealth of knowledge I gained around the external and internal facets of well-being over my 5+ years studying hormonal balancing and holistic wellness with the modality of Inner-Voice Facilitation to guide clients in healing and navigating the confusing and overwhelming decisions and choices around their hormonal, wellness and motherhood journeys.

I get so much aligning joy doing inner-voice sessions around these topics. I am able to hold deep- loving, compassionate space for clients because I relate to and resonate with the emotional distress and know the heavy, frustrating and confusing mental stories around these topics, allowing me to utilize the gift of my own hormonal balancing journey and years enthusiastically understanding what influences our fertility, ovulation, menstruation and hormones over the years had given me deep insight and understanding of the various facets, root causes and puzzle pieces that contribute to hormonal disharmony, to know which questions to ask and topics to bring up along with potential recommendations to bring to the client’s inner-voice to help them gain deep peace, clarity, soulful advice, guidance and healing!

I feel so enriched by getting to be a part of guiding, uplifting, supporting and enriching fellow females on their hormonal and motherhood journeys towards more harmony and alignment with-IN and with-OUT!

I especially love facilitating sessions around supporting women on their pre-pregnancy journeys, during pregnancy and preparing for a health-giving intuitive birth and post-natal recovery! I understood very well how the pre-pregnancy, pregnancy-care and birth-prep space can be a sea of stressful, confusing, terrifying recommendations, information overload and contradictions be just as stressful, overwhelming, confusing, terrifying but with my background and the foundation of healing and health I had from the years of work of investing and pouring into myself, I had an enjoyable symptom-free pregnancy, and was able to navigate the most serving and health-giving resources and recommendations around pregnancy care.

Connecting within for healing and the guidance on what is aligning in these areas along with awareness of what is possible, has so much power to prevent or at least minimize the severity of the confusion, distress, heavy hardships and life-long struggles, pain, suffering and despair women go through when there is disconnection and disharmony during their motherhood journeys. Inner-alignment allows and fosters our Pre-conception, Pregnancy, Birth, Postpartum and New Mamahood experiences to overflow with divine wisdom, radiance, connection, beauty, delight, growth, strength, grace and joy!