What is it that makes us so successful here at Foundations Wellness? This place is highly unique. It is unlike any other place you have been. Most people coming through our doors have already seen many other medical and alternative providers. Sometimes they have gotten levels of healing in those places, sometimes they feel completely stuck and are looking for something new and different. And they find it here.
In working with people with lyme disease, autoimmune and mystery illness, I have learned that almost always there have been root causes that have been overlooked by the professionals the client saw before they came to me. That Is normally because conventional, and even functional testing can often miss things like mold, parasites, heavy metals, microplastics, herbicides, and or lyme disease. Though I don’t diagnose diseases, the Zyto scanning that I provide can provide highly valuable information that opens up doors of hope that were previously closed. Clients walk out of here with a new game plan that they have not already tried somewhere else. Hope is huge. When you have become hopeless, or have been told by others that “ there is nothing more we can do for you” or “ We simply cannot find anything wrong- your labs are perfect” its easy to lose hope.
So who normally comes here and what success rate do they experience? With my expertise around Lyme and autoimmunity, many who come here have been diagnosed with one or the other. Some come with mystery illnesses for which they have gotten no good answers and no hope for healing.
Lyme disease, when It has gone on for more than 3 months, is considered “ Late stage” or “Chronic lyme disease”. It is at this point that the Borrelia spirochetes have infiltrated many organs and tissues in the body including the brain, nerves, joints, gut, liver and more. Symptoms can range from annoying to completely debilitating. The hard part about diagnosing and treating lyme disease at this point is that people’s clinical pictures can vary vastly. And with the testing being very unreliable, it is a hard thing for most doctors to wrap their minds around. A common misconception is that Lyme is easy to diagnose and easy to treat. But for anyone that ends up in my office, this has not been their experience. When they get here they are discouraged, angry, disillusioned sometimes, confused and often times hopeless. Many have had negative lyme tests and therefore denied care at all. I was that person before I got well. Many have tried antibiotics and or herbal anti microbials to try and eradicate lyme symptoms and yet are still sick. Oftentimes, roadblocks to their healing were never explored. Others did see a really great professional who truly did tease out some of their roadblocks, but did not have many out of the box ideas for how to get past those. Or they didn’t have the time, training, or resources to be able to co-create breakthroughs with their patients. Or, they simply missed a major roadblock.
Something that I do especially well, is to help identify those roadblocks and together with the client, co create a cutting edge plan for addressing them. Having the ability to also create custom effective herbal formulas for my clients is also a great tool for helping their body overcome the obstacles for healing.
Training with Uprooting Lyme’s Hillary Thing in New York was a blessing I was able to access from 2017-2020. Her brilliantly insightful herbal and all natural strategies that she developed have helped thousands of people recover from lyme disease in the Hudson Valley, a hotbed for the illness. It shocked me in those early day of my training when I heard patient after patient coming into the clinic telling us that every member of their family, or every person on their street had lyme disease, or some mysterious illness that was very lyme-like in nature. Once they learned the hard way, that antibiotics alone were not restoring their health, they opened up to holistic healing. What a thrill for me over the years to hear the recovery stories of hundreds of formerly hopeless people. I have remained involved with the growing community of practitioners trained by Hillary, and have become one of her teaching assistants. We constantly sharpen one another and help each other break out of boxes and bring more and more effective and innovative tools to our patients and clients. I know of no other community of holistic lyme practitioners as strong and innovative as ours. WE truly offer cutting edge help to those who seek out help.
Between us, we have seen thousands of people with extreme allergies and sensitivities, mast cell activation syndrome, autoimmune diagnoses, hormonal disruptions, mold illness, immune disregulation, parasites, EMF sensitivities and countless lyme co-infections. People who persist in their work with me/ us will always make progress!
Having worked in various hospitals and community health jobs over the decades of my career as an RN, I have a broad level understanding of many aspects of health. Though my current coaching practice is all holistic in nature, it is comforting to those who come here that I understand their labs in deeper ways, and am aware of the medications that they are on. I suggest advanced lab testing that they may not have ever had before, and help them find appropriate avenues to get those ordered. I have medical professionals I send my client to that I trust to understand what we are doing, and who can offer any advanced medical help they may need.
It is very gratifying to me to be involved in this pioneering work and in my community of pioneer holistic practitioners.
Those who come here without Lyme but with autoimmune diseases and or mystery illness will often be amazed at how after putting in the work, their symptoms improve naturally over time, and their labs will reflect those improvements. They will see Hashimoto’s antibodies coming down, liver and kidney numbers improving, blood pressure and blood sugar numbers improving, multiple allergies improve or disappear, lyme symptoms, or autoimmune symptoms improve or disappear. When you have been told that you have an incurable autoimmune disease that is idiopathic (unexplainable) in nature, you have no clue that you can actually make sustainable improvements and even reverse symptoms as well as lab markers of the disease. This process is not a quick fix of course, as it took years to get into that place to begin with, but the exciting part is that it is POSSIBLE to heal naturally and greatly improve your quality of life. One last exciting thing that I want to share is how so many of my brave clients will find new purpose and meaning in their life as they move through this healing process. Illness can rob us of so much, but when we allow our perspectives to change around it, we see all the GOOD that comes out of it in the end. Combining that with symptom reduction or elimination is so powerful.
