It started with a girl and a pool. No but really.

I swam VERY competitively through high school (and by swam I mean lived and breathed chlorine for hours a day) — and thus earned a full scholarship to NC State University. It was there that I grew into an impressive athlete and led my women’s team, broke manny school records (some still standing, hey!), and became a 5-time NCAA All-American. I also was a member of the U.S. National Team, both in the pool and for Open Water. I traveled the world competing in 10km racing (which is also known as “Marathon Swimming”)— just barely missing out on qualifying for the Olympic Team in 2020, but going on to receive a World Championship medal in the 5k in South Korea in 2019 (and discovered my love of fermented foods). One of my proudest moments and the pinnacle of my endurance swimming career.

But here's what no medal could teach me: discipline alone doesn’t equal vitality. Oof.
Swimming definitely forged my inner masculine. I was all grit, power, drive. But I was without a menstrual cycle for years and years with wicked insomnia and anxiety patterns. And it took me years after this to learn that-healing demanded that I reclaim the feminine. I had to unlearn so much. I lacked the soft, the cyclical, the earthy, the restorative.

Everything shifted when I started to learn about real food and natural medicine.

I earned my Bachelor’s in Human Nutrition and went on to complete a Master’s in Human Physiology at NC State while I was still swimming professionally for the United States National Team. But I knew the real education wouldn’t come from textbooks, it would come from nature.

So I began my doctoral studies in natural medicine, where I received my ND degree from the National University of Natural Medicine in Portland, Oregon in June 2025. This included four long years of classroom and clinical education, and many grueling hours spent learning anatomy and physiology and which herbs, foods, homeopathic remedies, or bodywork techniques suited healing it.

After much study, I find myself here with you. And even now, with years of “science” behind me, I still feel like I have so much to learn.

The decentralized and nature-based schools of thought I found along the way really shaped my vast interest in learning about energy beyond what even “modern medicine” teaches us. And now I take a Venusian approach to healing, especially for women. We must nourish ourselves, learn how to eat, learn how to gently detox, and fix our environments….these are the pillars of restoring the beauty that is within you.

I believe we heal when we realign with nature. Sunlight before screens, real raw foods over medications.

And I’m still deep in it. Still going inward. Still peeling back the layers. The work isn’t linear. I don’t think I’ll ever stop learning. That’s why working with me will probably always look DIFFERENT.

I pull from a wild, inspired toolkit: nutrition is huge (what are you eating?), circadian biology, home environment, herbalism, terrain theory, homeopathy, somatic dialogue, minerals, Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda. I see the body as a vessel for spirit, the symptoms as messages, and nature as the original physician.

I’m not here to “fix” you.
I’m here to help you remember.

Come walk with me.

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