My Journey

In October, when I was 39 years old, my life irrevocably changed. For years before, I lived with inflammation in different forms, from eczema, migraines, food reactions, but nothing prepared me for the “crash.” That’s what I call the four months when my body suddenly refused almost everything I ate or drank. By the end,

Living with chronic illness often feels like being handed a mystery with missing clues. For years, I kept running into symptoms that seemed unrelated, like migraines, food sensitivities, random bouts of pain, even moments that interfered with bonding with my baby. Only much later did I start to trace the connections back to a single

Chronic illness has a way of leaving its fingerprints everywhere in life. For me, inflammation has been at the center of so many of my struggles, from the pressure of migraines to the foggy heaviness in my head to the persistent stiffness in my neck. But sometimes inflammation showed up in more unexpected places, like

I started my period about a month after turning twelve. At first, it felt like the normal coming-of-age experience; something every girl around me seemed to be going through. But within a few years, my reality shifted. My cycles were irregular and unpredictable. Sometimes three months would go by with nothing, then suddenly I’d be

If you live with chronic illness, you know that symptoms rarely exist in neat little boxes. They overlap, flare, and morph over time.  For me, some of the most frustrating have been the ones affecting my head and neck: migraines, neck pain, and the ever-present cloud of brain fog. These symptoms started in my teens,

Have you ever walked into a freshly cleaned room, only to feel your head pound and your nose sting within minutes?  Or maybe you’ve brushed past someone wearing heavy perfume and suddenly struggled to catch your breath? If that sounds familiar, you may know what it’s like to live with fragrance sensitivity, multiple chemical sensitivity