Skin & Spirit - A passion for Wholistic Health

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When my body was breaking down in my late teens and early twenties, there was a bigger change than diet that had to be made. Anxiety, depression, sleepless nights, nightmares, and the awful thoughts that plagued me were more than a physical collapse. There was a war on for my mind, a war to destroy me, my marriage. While I turned to healthy foods and dense nutrition for overcoming an endless list of physical ailments, God put it on my heart to turn to Christ. My body needed healing, but not as much as my heart did.

It wasn't mainstream back then, that there is a gut-brain connection. So much of what we eat, what we lack, what's invading us effects more than our digestive system. It effects our immune system, our nervous system and our hormones. At that time all I knew is that the health of our digestive system determined what nutrients we absorbed.

Now I've been in the supplement industry for over a decade, building relationships and witnessing countless people overcome all sorts of chronic diseases. My friends and I were "health coaches" before there was the new demand for this profession. We were wellness warriors, friends helping all the people we could to overcome all kinds of diseases; all under the guidance of a very special man God had used to reveal truth. Truth of disease, truth about our mineral depleted soils, truth about America's corrupted medical system. Over the years the obvious demand to use alternative methods to deal with disease (and often overcome it) outside the guidance of traditional medical doctors emerged. Now I'm graduating as a Certified Health Coach on July 26th, doing exactly what I've been doing for a decade. Except this time, with structure, and not only am I coaching but I have my own coach. I like to think of her as an accountability buddy.

Now when I was first becoming healthy, it started as a spiritual healing. I received Christ. And then came the casting out of spirits in my mirror, in my home and learning to claim my body... as a Temple for Christ. None of this happened over night. And I kept it to myself for the most part. Something intimate to share with my Savior.

A few years and a few incredible experiences has unveiled the power of Christ to me. The power of the Word in affect on Earth. I've seen a rejoicing of tongues, I've been prayed for and a quarter size mass come out of my body. I've witness people praying for healing and seeing miracles... MIRACLES

I've also seen and been in this position... Where someone is crying out, pouring out their heart for healing and what they receive is SILENCE. But a soft whisper comes and reminds us that God is with us through this, that they are loved and that He is at work even when we don't see it, even if it isn't answering our prayer... He is moving.

When my oldest daughter was two years old, our apartment was infested with mold and I was still struggling with spiritual attacks. Thankfully, we weren't at that apartment very long. But this taught me to on guard of the enemy in all it's forms. And while I can be confident that I have been adopted as Christ's child, the enemy is on the move. Even though I can restore my gut, heal my body and gain control of my health, tragedy can come regardless.

This passion of mine for wholistic health didn't come from my childhood hopes and dreams but rather from necessity of sharing the truth that's been shared with me. And really there were health coaches back when I was falling apart, but they functioned quite different than my team does today. Boldly we offer hope and give our clients tools that our bodies need to repair itself. Helping symptoms isn't our priority but our focus is to repair the body. Our God given bodies can do incredible things. The passion doesn't just cover our bodies but for healing our mind and bringing truth to our spirits as God's children.