Hi! I’m Lindsay…
I'm a nutrition nerd, passionate about eating.
For as long as I can remember, I have been curious about health and healing. In kindergarten, I told my teacher that I wanted to be a nurse when I grew up. I started reading nutrition labels at the age of eight. By ninth grade, I wanted to become a Naturopathic doctor and received my first copy of “Prescriptions for Nutritional Healing” for Christmas. By the time I graduated high school, I wanted to be a nurse again… and off I went on my unfolding journey.
Nursing taught me a lot about how bodies function and heal, how they break down, and what is missing in our current health care paradigm. I remember sitting with a young woman who was dying of cancer, coaxing her to drink the meal replacement beverage prescribed by her doctor. I read the ingredients “Water, [GMO]Corn Maltodextrin, [GMO]Sugar, Milk Protein Concentrate, Blend of [GMO]Vegetable Oils (Canola, Corn), [GMO]Soy Protein Isolate, Cocoa Powder (Processed with Alkali)” and wondered if we were trying to help her, or trying to kill her. There had to be a better way. A better system.
For most of my life, I’ve struggled with intense fatigue. I’m certain this was part of my draw to the healthcare profession from an early age. Throughout the decades, I accumulated additional diagnoses: iron deficiency, chronic gastritis, food sensitivities, environmental allergies, idiopathic urticaria [that’s medical speak for “your allergic to your own blood and we don’t know why”], depression, anxiety disorder, and chronic fatigue syndrome. There were years where I spent a lot of time going to doctors, begging them to run more tests, praying for a diagnosis that actually made sense, seeking validation for the suffering I felt. But the resounding answer I got was: “Your blood work is normal. We can’t find anything wrong. Take these medications (indefinitely).” I knew something was amiss, but I couldn’t connect the dots. Neither could they.
I spent thousands of dollars trying supplements, acupuncture, NAET, psychotherapy, and meditation classes. I embarked on year-long elimination diets that left me eating white rice and iceberg lettuce, completely starving but scared to eat because my symptoms would return. My life, my relationships, my job, and my health were becoming increasingly stressful and I needed to make some radical (read: scary) changes.
I left my nursing career after 12 years to explore other avenues of healing. I began teaching yoga, studying holistic nutrition, practicing reiki, and learning about metaphysical healing. Then I found Functional Diagnostic Nutrition, which bridges the gap between mainstream medicine and self-care modalities. Using myself as a test subject, I ran functional lab tests, formulated holistic healing protocols, and accelerated my own healing in ways that continue to amaze me.
It’s obvious to me now how the symptoms I suffered so greatly with for so many years are intimately entangled. I can clearly see why I was baffling doctors: they weren’t looking in the right places! And furthermore, though I believe health is a lifetime’s work, I feel better now than I ever have. I wish for everyone to believe in their own healing ability.
I’m so excited to share this work and walk together on the journey toward optimal, radiant wellness.