I want to thank all of the speakers for sharing their touching and vulnerable stories. These stories are from those who have participated in our health transformation programs. Listen as they share their struggles, their health goals and their results!
Transformation story; Acne, anxiety, depression, menstrual cycle, conception + joint pain with Allie Sarratos~
“I'm Allie. I'm a little bit nervous. But I just wanted to share one of my stories. So I suffered from depression and anxiety. I had anxiety my whole life. But the the Depression started and became all consuming after I had a miscarriage.
I was so stuck in my pain and in my grief that I had excessive weight gain. I hated my body. My self hatred exploded I was having just super toxic thoughts. I wasn't sleeping I was having insomnia. With the weight gain came pain in my joints and inflammation just all over my body. But the main places that I saw it were my hands and my feet and my face. And the acne just it didn't help anything. And I was I was aging I was aging so fast, like I was getting wrinkles on my face. And I knew that this wasn't right, that I shouldn't be feeling like this, but I just kept suffering and kept going with it.
I was also dealing with some endocrine issues. One of the main ones being I lost my monthly cycle. So my acupuncturist recommended A 30 Day reset. And on day four, I got my cycle. And right then I knew that, it was magic. So with the continued months that I kept on going with it, I felt better, and I felt happier and I felt healthier. And four months later, my son was conceived.
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For so long, I thought I was broken, and I'm not. So I have my beautiful baby, and the depression lifted. I'm sleeping. My acne went away. And I'm just, it's magic. I continue with it every single day. And I feel better. I feel like myself, I feel happy. I wouldn't change it for the world. So thank you for having me. And thanks for listening.”
transformation story; migraines, back pain, brain fog + building community with Katie Brown~
“Thanks for having me. My name is Katie. I am a mom of three kiddos. I jumped in and did a health reset when my youngest was ten months old. So last February's when I started, and I really, so I'm a nurse by trade, but I came in out of my own need. And so I've had migraines for 25 years back pain, I couldn't lay flat on my back, just fatigue, I would be up in the middle of the night for one to two hours at a time, my mind would just race. Digestion was terrible. If you can think of all the maybe common normal things, I had those. And I decided to give myself 90 days because I wanted to give it a shot. I've done other things. I've done elimination diets, I've done the whole 30, I've done things on my own where I didn't have the support. And secondly, things didn't work for me. And so I gave myself 90 days; I wanted to see hormone improvement, everything.
And I will tell you so ten months later; my migraines are down 90%. I've continued to incorporate these superfoods every day. Brain fog is gone, sleeping like a husband through the night. I say that jokingly sleep better than a baby. The back pain is gone, the fatigue is gone. Like all the things, everything kind of just came back into place. And it's just such a blessing it gets me choked up when I think about it all the time that I lost. And all the pharmaceuticals I was dependent on just to get by. So yeah, I'm really grateful. And the other thing I was thinking about last night as if it weren't for like this, this superfood company and this mission and this community, I wouldn't have stuck with it. Because I was given an opportunity to share this with people I care about. And it's because of the community. And then the sport of my husband doing it with me. So I would say the community is amazing. The superfoods are like no other, but then having the accountability of my spouse. It was like the trifecta of success. And so had it not been for all those things, I think I still would have had an amazing experience. But I felt I have my life back. And so I'm super grateful. And my kids are thriving, my husband's thriving. And so yeah, I can't I can't say enough good things.”
Athlete transformation; endurance, mental clarity, peak performance, reduced inflammation with Lin z Schauer~
“I live in the mountains. I'm a big, you know, athlete, endurance athlete, most recently mountain biking, so I was kind of new to it at that point. And I was riding with a friend who'd been riding for so long. And I was kicking his butt on every hill, I was smoking it. I even passed this guy wearing spandex, like he was like a professional writer. And I didn't really notice it, you know, until my friend was like, came out, like coughing, and he's like, What are you doing, and it just clicked. I was like, Oh, my God, that's, that's super foods, it's like turning me into Superwoman.
So I started becoming a little more tuned into it. And I actually, you know, my brother and I had sent him I was like, You got to try to get on this program. And about a month into his program. We had this really deep conversation in like levels that we had never, ever gone before as siblings. And it was, it was just so pure and clear. And I even said to him, as I've never been able to just be this clear my communication before. And I realized, you know, I was, before I began, all this, I was probably would think I was the healthiest person I knew I was doing all the right things, eating organic and growing my own food, and I was avoiding all the inflammatory stuff. But there was just a missing element that I didn't even know that I needed.
And so kind of connecting those pieces back together, and I just didn't realize how much pain I had been in and how much suffering I had been carrying around until I alleviated it. I had tendinitis in my elbows and my ankles that I just thought was because I had been doing activities in the mountains for 20 years, and all kinds of just small little symptoms that started to just fall away. So I don't go a day without it! You know, I have my shake right here. I just got back from a run. Like, I can't go without this stuff anymore. And it's been really incredible just to support other people to be doing the same thing. And I'm going to participate in our new year new you challenge. Group transformation starting in January, so yeah, I guess my only regret is that I didn't say yes, sooner. So thanks for keeping me in mind, Rita.”
transformation story with heavy metal detox, migraines and journey through cancer with Stephanie Dawn~
“It's a total honor to share my story. So let's go back two and a half years, I a lot was going on for me. I was having daily migraines. I had a large mass in my breast. And I was deeply concerned about my health. This after, you know, thinking I was healthy for many years, and I've been a part of our superfoods community. But I was I swung like a pendulum back and forth between cleansing and eating really cleanly. And then going back to some really bad habits like the standard American diet in all full, full transparency. And so I learned that I had a breast cancer diagnosis. And that was just an absolute game changer for me in terms of how I moved forward with my diet, the whole landscape of how I did it Life completely transformed.
I began to eliminate all the really bad things that I loved that I was having a hard time releasing in between, you know, the pendulum swinging back and forth. And so I stopped sugar once and for all, I stopped coffee once and for all, I stopped alcohol once and for all gluten. And I'm probably Oh, cow dairy. Yeah. So, you know, that was my journey. I'm not saying that everyone has to do that. But that was what I needed to do. That's what was taking me down. And it certainly was contra indicated against cancer. So I learned that I had tumors in both breasts, two different types of cancer. And I was completely shocked. It was completely jaw dropped. And so like I said, I eliminated all those things. And I deeply worked on transforming my diet, and going even deeper into the superfoods than I had prior. I think for many of us, when we get started, it's like, oh, yeah, I do it quarterly, or I do it, you know, when the seasons change. And for me, it was like, No, this had to become a lifestyle. You know, this had to be a daily thing.
And, and so, the other piece is really important, because I want to unpack a little bit the migraines. So I was someone who'd never had migraines before my life, and I thought that it was connected to the breast cancer. But what I learned is that it was ultimately connected to heavy metal toxicity in my body. And so I went on a deep, deep heavy metal detox using our, our superfoods. And within six months, the migraines were gone. And I'm continuing to detox my body, often, you know, with the heavy metal detox and in other ways as well. And so I'm just I'm incredibly grateful for the nutritional foundation that I had going into the cancer diagnosis. And now, you know, on the other side of it all, my natural path can't find any cancer in my body. I'm showing up every day living life, and being of service in the world and incredibly grateful for this body and for how it is that I can love it and nurture it on the daily. So thank you so much Rita for the opportunity to share my story. I'm grateful.”
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