autoimmune disease was the beginning of my story. It’s not the whole story.
Why does it feel like your life stops when you’re diagnosed with an autoimmune disease?
autoimmune diagnosis doesn’t just change your health - it changes the life you thought you were going to have.
When you're diagnosed with autoimmune disease, everyone understandably focuses on your health.
You meet with specialists, leave with prescriptions, and learn what feels like a totally new language (aka medical terms that you can only pronounce half of).
Most importantly, you begin figuring out what your body needs - even if that means a bit of trial and error.
There's a whole other part of the experience that rarely gets talked about, the part I find generally missing from the whole experience.
The part where you go from exercising 6 days a week, going out whenever you want, eating whenever you want, and not thinking about whether you can do it all again the next day to something that looks totally different.
The part where you’re recreating your self identity, because the way you’ve been living now looks like ignoring everything your body needs.
I spent too much time trying to answer the question: "How do I get my old life back?"
I should have been trying to answer : "How do I build a life that I love in the one I'm living now?"
That shift changed everything.
It also made me realize how few places existed to have honest conversations about that part of living with chronic illness. Not managing symptoms alone but managing identity & expectations, learning how to trust your body again. Basically figuring out how to build a meaningful life when so much has changed.
I went looking for those conversations. When I couldn't find them, I started building them.
There's No One Right Way Forward
When I first started out on my autoimmune journey, I was trying to solve the wrong problem - and what I do now is help women avoid the same mistakes I made.
The goal isn’t to become who you used to be - it’s figuring out who you are now.
That's not something anyone can hand you. We figure it out over time. Sometimes on our own and sometimes with someone who’s willing to ask different questions, and sit with us while we figure it out.
if this is a conversation you'd like to keep having...
I'd love to continue it with you.
I don't believe there's one right way to navigate life with autoimmune disease. I don't believe your path should look like mine - or anyone else's. I do believe it’s easier to make sense of what you’re going through when you’re not doing it alone.
Let me be that person who shows up for you and together, we’ll:
Explore not only your symptoms but the life you’re trying to build along side them
Uncover expectations you’ve been carrying, whether you realize it or not
Identify patterns that belong to the old version of you & need to be reset for the new version to thrive
Notice what you’ve been too busy living to notice for yourself
We don’t do this because there’s a perfect answer - trust me, there’s not. But! Understanding those things makes it easier to make decisions that actually fit the life you're living now.
My role isn't to tell you who to become - it’s to hold space where you can be honest about where you are, what you're carrying, and where you'd like to go from here.