I've been where you are

I've always been fascinated by the body. I grew up a dancer, focused on ballet, then found volleyball in middle school and fell in love with the team, competitive side of it. Freshman year of high school, a foot injury needed surgery — and that recovery became my first real introduction to sports medicine. I was hooked.

I pursued a Bachelor of Science in Physiology at the University of Arizona, working as an athletic training tech through undergrad — helping athletes rehab and perform their best. I knew I wanted to be a doctor. But the idea that my only tools to help people would be drugs or surgery never sat right with me.

I started applying to med school anyway — until I noticed something strange. Every time I worked on my applications, I got physically ill. I was disconnected from my body enough at the time that it never occurred to me: my body was steering me away from the wrong choice. A friend a year ahead of me in chiropractic school encouraged me to look into it. I visited a school and felt an intuitive pull I didn't have words for yet — and ended up at Life Chiropractic College West in the Bay Area, CA.

That's where everything changed. Philosophy was a pillar of the curriculum there — something I thought was "so lame" at the time, and now I'm endlessly grateful for. It's what woke me up to the fact that I'd only ever been told part of the story about our bodies. The missing piece: 



We're always tending toward health. Under the right conditions, we can do things that look impossible.

The longer I was in that environment, the more I started unlearning the framework that had kept my own body in constant pain — back and leg pain, migraines, food sensitivities, cystic acne, ADHD, brain fog, anxiety, insomnia. I finally asked myself: why is my body screaming at me? And I stopped ignoring the answer.