I am deeply passionate about health and wellness.  My interest in "food as medicine" began when I first left home and began experiencing low energy and bouts of depression.  I found that I was lacking in certain vitamins due to new, and not so great, eating habits.  I found that a dose of vitamin B+ helped me recharge after reading Earl Mendell's Vitamin Bible, discovered at the airport gift shop on my way back home to Chicago to visit my family. 

This began my journey toward learning about how vitamins can support moods and how all of nature’s resources contain these and other nutrients.  I quickly understood that nature has supplied us with an abundance of everything we need to stay healthy.
This knowledge, along with my studies in Psychology and Sociology,  which provided education on basic human nature skills, and my three certifications at Institute of Integrative Nutrition, steered me toward primary food, things that nourish and fulfill people beyond what's on their plate,  taught me how the two go hand in hand.
I am a certified Integrative Nutritional Health Coach; Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2017, Integrative Nutritional Health Coach II, 2024, specializing in primary food and Gut Health; 2019. 
I am also certified in Nutritional Therapy 2012, and Growing and Understanding Natural Herbs 2010, Health Sciences Academy.