my story

Walking the path of healing is never straight, it can be a long and winding journey that takes you to unexpected places. At some point it is clear that you need someone to help guide you on this path, to help point you in the right direction and to walk beside you in support. This is what a Root Cause Protocol Consultant does and it is why I love to be a Health Coach.

I began my health journey nearly 20 years ago when my husband and I were trying to conceive our first child. Working as a biomedical engineer in Silicon Valley designing high-tech medical devices I was convinced that technology would have the answer. We quickly turned to IVF treatments, but after seeing many fertility doctors and completing multiple unsuccessful rounds of IVF, including one devastating miscarriage, we were ready to look for other solutions. Out of desperation I quit my job to focus full time on getting pregnant. I spent my time researching “better” fertility doctors, as well as learning yoga and meditation.

To our surprise, just a few months after quitting my job we were pregnant — without fertility treatments! Fast forward 17 years and we now have two wonderful boys born only 15 months apart. But our family also had many health concerns that baffled us, no matter how hard we tried to resolve them.   

Since the time the boys were young we had eaten a very clean diet and followed the supplement recommendations of the many alternative doctors that we saw along our health journey. We stopped eating gluten and dairy as well as frequented the farmer’s market where we purchased beautiful produce and pastured meat and eggs. It did not seem possible that I could test positive for multiple auto-immune diseases:  scleroderma, rheumatoid arthritis, Hashimoto’s and vitiligo. I was not the only one in our family that had health challenges, my two sons were diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and chronic Lyme disease. It just didn’t make sense. Little did I know that our diet, lifestyle, medications and supplements would lead to mineral dysregulation and auto-immune disease.

I was extremely fortunate to stumble upon the Root Cause Protocol where after years of searching, the pieces of my puzzle started to fall into place. Through my study I learned how the things that I thought were benefiting me, were actually contributing to my problems:

• Vitamin D is really a hormone and supplementing with it can cause potassium loss and calcium to collect in the soft tissues
• Birth control pills and hormone supplements can lead to mineral dysregulation
• Iron supplements are rarely needed
• You don’t need less copper in the body, you actually need more bound copper so it can be regulated properly and, in turn, control iron

Inspired, I enrolled in the Copernican Institute to train with Morley Robbins, the creator of the Root Cause Protocol (RCP). I learned of the vital importance of minerals in your body and how balancing these might be difficult, but it is critical to putting you on a path towards good health. An unbalanced system will lead to inflammation and a wide range of symptoms. A good resource to explain this is at the website therootcauseprotocol.com where you will find a manual that details the Root Cause Protocol and how it can help you.

I would love to be your guide to help you and your family thrive.