Since I’ve been a teenager, I’ve lived with chronic health issues and since then I have accumulated an ever-growing list of diagnoses.

The main ones include Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, bile acid malabsorption (BAM), recurrent small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), histamine intolerance, chronic inflammatory response syndrome (CIRS) from long-term mould exposure, Epstein-Barr, leptin resistance, pre-diabetes, restless leg syndrome…with doctors also suggesting I have endometriosis, fibromyalgia, and ADHD, but by this time I was done collecting adding more diagnoses to my ever-growing list, and decided against further testing.

But my diagnoses were only part of the picture.

In terms of symptoms, I have lived with uncontrollable weight gain, acne, chronic daily headaches, brain fog, sinus pain, digestive distress, bloating, lower back pain, tinnitus, severe sleep disruption, extremely painful and irregular periods, hormonal imbalance, teeth grinding, tooth decay, gum disease, excruciating nerve pain, hair loss, eczema, and most debilitating of all, chronic autoimmune fatigue.

Over time, I reached a breaking point.

Not because I hadn’t tried hard enough but because I had tried everything imaginable:

Pharmaceutical medications.
Naturopaths.
Hundreds of supplements and herbs (literally).
Functional and integrative medicine.

Then there were the colonics, coffee enemas, detoxes, acupuncture, lymphatic drainage, infrared saunas, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, celery juicing…

Of course I tried every diet imaginable - paleo, lectin-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free, nightshade-free.

I gave up alcohol permanently.

And lastly there was the energy work too - over 50 sessions of kinesiology, hypnotherapy, meditation, yoga, Qi Gong.

You name it, I tried it.

And still… I was stuck. Nothing truly changed.

I was exhausted - physically, emotionally, financially.
I felt bitter and resentful.
I was doing everything “right”, I was trying so hard, so why wasn’t I getting better?

Eventually, it became clear to me that there was no way all of these symptoms were separate. They had to be connected. They had to be pointing back to the same underlying root cause.

Please don’t get me wrong - I highly value many of the modalities and approaches I mentioned above and I still use many of them today in a supporting role. But what none of these approaches could give me was a clear why explaining how my body had got into this mess.

That’s when I discovered German New Medicine and everything changed.

For the first time, during a consultation with my GNM practitioner, I broke down and cried - not from despair, but from relief.

It finally made sense.

I realised my body wasn’t broken.
It wasn’t malfunctioning.
It wasn’t betraying me.

My body had been trying to keep me safe.

The symptoms weren’t failures, they were protective mechanisms.
And for years, instead of listening, I had been trying to silence them.

Through this lens, I finally understood why my body was responding the way it was and what it actually needed in order to for me to heal personally. There is no one-size-fits-all remedy. Healing is highly individual.

For the first time in years, I felt hopeful.
I had clarity.
I felt gratitude and compassion for my body instead of fear.

And I knew I couldn’t keep this lifechanging, revolutionary knowledge to myself.

Because I knew there had to be others like me - self-aware, proactive, optimistic people doing everything they were told to do, yet still feeling stuck.

That’s what led me to turn my pain into my purpose and train as a Root-Cause Somatic Practitioner, integrating Somatic Coaching with the principles of German New Medicine to help people identify the emotional conflicts their bodies have adapted around, and supporting real, embodied resolution rather than endless symptom management.