I kept figuring it out.
It started with my gut.
So I started asking better questions.
It started with my gut.
I had “tummy problems” before I was old enough to understand what that meant. By five, enzymes were being put on my food at school.
Years later, a Crohn’s diagnosis finally gave a name to something my body had been trying to tell me for most of my life.
But the diagnosis wasn’t the part that changed everything.
Then I met Summer.
So I started asking better questions.
It started with my gut.
After my Crohn’s diagnosis, I found Summer Lamons in Dallas, Texas.
She was unlike anyone I had worked with before. Caring. Intuitive. Progressive. She looked at the whole person, not just the diagnosis sitting in the chart.
With her support, I changed everything. I moved to a whole-food, plant-based diet and began using targeted supplement
After my Crohn’s diagnosis, I found Summer Lamons in Dallas, Texas.
She was unlike anyone I had worked with before. Caring. Intuitive. Progressive. She looked at the whole person, not just the diagnosis sitting in the chart.
With her support, I changed everything. I moved to a whole-food, plant-based diet and began using targeted supplements based on what my body actually needed.
I got healthier. I joined Team Challenge. I ran my first half marathon, then two more.
Summer showed me what “food is medicine” could look like in real life.
So I started asking better questions.
So I started asking better questions.
So I started asking better questions.
Feeling better wasn’t enough for me.
I wanted to understand why.
Why could one person thrive on a food that made someone else miserable? Why could two people live similarly and have completely different digestion, energy, sleep, inflammation or metabolic health?
The questions became personal as the people I loved got older and as I tried to
Feeling better wasn’t enough for me.
I wanted to understand why.
Why could one person thrive on a food that made someone else miserable? Why could two people live similarly and have completely different digestion, energy, sleep, inflammation or metabolic health?
The questions became personal as the people I loved got older and as I tried to better understand and support Jason and me.
So I went back to school and became a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner.
The more I understand, the better questions I can ask. And I have never stopped asking questions.
Then my body changed the rules.
Feeling better taught me what was possible. But getting older taught me something else.
The body is not static.
Hormones shift. Digestion changes. Sleep changes. Stress lands differently. The things that once worked beautifully can suddenly stop working at all.
Perimenopause brought me back to the same place I had been years before.
Asking questions.
Listening more closely.
Trying to understand what my body was telling me instead of fighting with it.
And once again, I found myself digging deeper.
Because healing was never about finding one perfect answer.
It was about learning how to keep listening as the questions changed.
