After years of chronic pain and searching for solutions I began my healing journey in 2018. At this time my wife and I had decided to start a family and I knew the years of pushing my body physically and emotionally were going to catch up to me. For over a decade I had been working nights and overnights, multiple jobs with 20 hour days regularly, and trying to keep it all together while carrying around a lifetime of emotional baggage. I began cognitive therapy, which helped open doors to the mind-body connection and allowed me to see that there might be more to my psychical pain. Over the next 4 years I would work with doctors, chiropractors, naturopaths, applied kinesologists, and bodyworkers to unravel the chronic conditions that were ruining my life. 

I was losing weight, I had no energy for daily activities, I could only eat a few foods without getting sick and even then there were many days I only felt okay if I skipped food altogether. I had pain in my body that no amount of stretching, scans, working out, or rest were getting rid of. After 5 years of misdiagnosis I finally discovered I had H-Pyori, a gut infection that’s extremely difficult to treat successfully. After multiple attempts of treatment with allopathic medicine and little to no changes in my symptoms, I found an applied kinesiologist that guided me to the right herbs and supplements to rid the infection for good. I was gaining weight, able to eat without pain and fear, and starting to slowly piece my body back together. 

With my gut finally healing I was able to focus on other parts of my body that needed attention. I began working with some of the top bodyworkers in the state, slowly unraveling the physical deterioration left behind from years of malnutrition and pushing past physical limits. I had pain in my legs so intense at times that every step was painful. After finding a bodyworker who was willing to trust my intuition while we worked, she was able to release my IT band for the first time. In that moment the emotional release that came behind it was more powerful than I could have ever expected. I sobbed the entire way home, because for the first time in my life it felt like there was hope. Hope that I did not have to live in pain. Hope that I could heal. 

Shortly after this I began working with a naturopath who specialized in NET, Neuro Emotional Technique, a mind-body approach to physical symptoms that helps release unprocessed emotions that are stored in the body. By combining multiple modalities of healing I was becoming a whole person again. My body began to heal, my pain subsided, my mind centered. 

By 2023 I realized the endless grind of nightshift as a casino poker dealer was not where I was meant to be. After talking with a bodyworker, I knew it was time for me to step into my role as a healer and begin to give back to others the way that so many had given to me. I graduated from the School of Natural Medicine Massage Therapy program in the spring of 2025. I am continuing my education in the healing arts and am currently a student of acupuncture at the School of Natural Medicine. My long term goal is to add NET to my modality tool belt. As I go deeper into my studies of Traditional Chinese Medicine it is my intention to bring more resources and techniques to my practice as time goes on.