After graduating from engineering school and working full time building my career in engineering for the past four years, I've decided to follow my intuition and burning desire to...start another career as a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. This career much more aligned with who I am at my core. I'm a lover of health, learning, and understanding how things work (hence why engineering first piqued my interest). I get so much pleasure educating others about our food system, listening to podcasts on the power of functional medicine, and creating recipes on the foundation of whole foods. The thought of guiding people through the seemingly confusing world of nutrition literally lights me up.

My roots for health and wellness go deep and started when I was just a curly-haired-blonde-little girl with mighty but scrawny legs. Before my family moved to Colorado, we lived in the Pacific Northwest in Washington state where rain was just another day, wild berries grew rampant, and the landscape heavily forested with evergreen trees and moss. My mom is blessed with a green thumb and has always had an appreciation for gardening and plants. I have very vivid memories of her tending to her lettuce patches, squash vines, and raspberry bushes. Those memories play a significant role of why I'm so fond of every vegetable and fruit that has ever grown on this planet. Food isn't just a thing my family sees as a means to survival. We value eating and enjoying food as a means to connect with each other and those around us. We enjoy family dinners, host dinners with friends and family, and love to put on a good apres ski happy hour. We’re also very active souls, so we depend on the food we put into our bodies to fuel us through all our endeavors. We find joy in seeking out the most natural, whole, nutritious, and unique foods.

I thoroughly enjoy grocery shopping, cooking, trying new food, and I’m anything but a picky eater. I always have eaten whatever I wanted, even the more indulgent foods like ice cream, cookies, and carrot cake (my fave!). I never had any dietary restrictions or food allergies, until my senior year of college. After battling some major digestive issues, weight loss, and lack of energy for about a year, I was finally diagnosed with Small Bacterial Intestinal Overgrowth (SIBO). However, SIBO was not the root cause of all my symptoms despite what many doctors told me for years. Six years later and I was diagnosed with Chronic Late Stage Lyme Disease in December 2020. Although I'm still on the path to reaching remission, I've learned so many useful things to feel better. Lyme disease is a very misunderstood and insidious disease that affects everyone so differently. I surmise this is likely why it took me six years to get a diagnosis despite all the pain, anxiety and fatigue I was experiencing on a daily basis.

With my Lyme diagnosis came a host of food sensitivities and food allergies due to my overactive immune system that was evaded by Lyme. Basically, my body and my gut was completely unhappy with me and needed some tender loving care. Through ample self-research, I turned to food to help me heal. I’m a firm believer that food is medicine, especially after experiencing first-hand how much of a positive impact it’s had on my recovery process. My love and passion for nutrition has grown exponentially after my Lyme diagnosis, so I had to turn it into a career!