Why I wrote this book..

My own healing didn’t come from one diet, one protocol, or one practitioner telling me what to do, or what I couldn't do...

Ulcerative Colitis shaped my life for years.

I tried the eliminations.

The meds.

The supplements.

The “miracle” approaches.

The constant fixing and controlling.

And like so many people living with autoimmunity, I wasn’t just searching for information.

I was searching for someone who had actually been through it.

All I wanted was to find a guide who understood what it was like to live inside a body you couldn’t fully trust.

Someone who knew the fear of flares.
The hyper-vigilance.

The exhaustion of managing every choice.

Instead, what I kept finding were experts who knew the disease, but not the experience of living with it.

When I finally did find someone who had been through autoimmunity themselves, their view was still fixed.

Just like the medical system.
One lens.
One explanation.
One sentence.

And it didn’t work for me.

Because no one body is the same.
No one story is the same.

And healing is never one-size-fits-all.

Nothing truly changed until I stopped treating my body like a problem to solve and started seeing it as a whole system asking for different conditions.

When I studied integrative health and functional medicine, everything finally connected.

But knowledge alone wasn’t enough.

So I spent the next 15 years experimenting, integrating, and living this work.

Exploring different modalities.

Testing what created safety and what created more stress.
Learning what supported healing and what actually kept my body in survival.

Through that process, I learned something essential.

Healing doesn’t come from forcing the body to comply.
It comes from creating the conditions where the body feels safe enough to change.

Once I understood the pattern, my body healed.

I’ve lived over 10 years symptom-free.

Not because I found the perfect protocol.
And not because I followed one approach.

But because I finally had a framework.
An integrative way of understanding the whole system.
One that honors biology, emotions, nervous system, environment, and lived experience.

This book exists because I didn’t want you to have to spend 15 years searching the way I did.

It’s the foundation I wish I’d been given at the beginning.
The clarity that helps everything else finally make sense.
And the kind of guidance I once needed so badly, not from someone who only studied the condition, but from someone who had lived it.