The starting point of this journey was the rebuilding of my then broken body.  It had previously brought me such accolades but was now in dire need of nourishment and restoration.  I travelled to New York and enrolled in Columbia's Institute for Integrative Nutrition where I learned the fundamentals of replenishing the body through proper diet and supplementation.   I excelled in the program, applying a competitor's drive to learning everything I could about improving my physical self, but I quickly realized there was still much more work to be done. 

   Under the highly stressful years of competition and illness my mental and emotional wellbeing had been mostly ignored.  I had buried everything deep inside and was in desperate need of a different kind of healing.  This need led directly to my discovery of the complimentary field of Energy Medicine where I was lucky enough to study under Donna Eden, Tapas Flemming and Carol Look.  It was only then that I learned how  to address the chronic limiting beliefs and negative emotional patterns that had been haunting my inner realms.  My road to recovery has been a cobblestoned mosaic of workshops and retreats; yoga, meditation and mindfulness;  supplement protocols, E.F.T. and TAT.