Hey there....I'm Melisa.  I am glad you are here!  I wanted to introduce myself and offer a brief history about my journey to everything holistic.  I wasn't always this way, seeking the whys and hows of health, healing, and  restorative practices.  It ALL started  when I got  pregnant with my first child.  I started questioning whether I should put "those" products, pharmaceuticals, and processed foods inside or around my new baby’s body.  I started researching Western philosophies of medicine and healthcare and it scared me!  My intuition was on high alert and I continued down the rabbit hole.  Funny how it takes something big for us to make changes in our life and take responsibility for our health.  For some, it is a cancer diagnosis (like my husband).  For others, it might be an accident, a chronic health challenge, or it could just be that one AHA! moment from seeing someone else’s story that gets you to start wondering, “Is there another way?” I went through many transformative moments where I began to really see my existence and the power that I have to heal on all levels.   

I have a master’s degree in social work and spent some years working with at risk populations including abused and battered women, rape victims, low socioeconomic communities, and eventually became a child and family therapist.  But, after getting pregnant with my first child, I knew, for my own mental and emotional health, and the health of my unborn baby, that I needed to step back from this career.  I became a stay-at-home mommy and eventually ended up with three beautiful children. It was during that time that my expedition into learning homeopathy, nutrition and other holistic healing modalities strengthened my purpose.  After my husband got diagnosed with cancer when my youngest was only 3 months old, my dedication for inspiring our bodies to heal themselves became more immense.  And that is how I got here!  I am now a Board Certified Naturopathic Doctor and Certified Holistic Health Practitioner. My passion is finding the root cause of illness and  dis-ease, understanding why the body is expressing certain symptoms, seeing what spiritual and emotional components are affecting physical imbalances, and knowing the ways in which to inspire the body to regain health and balance.  We are all having our own experience as human beings and thus need different and more individualized ways to help ourselves thrive and live our best lives.  I love discovering those paths that help us truly heal. 

I have always been a Seeker.  My desire to understand how the human body, mind and spirit work synergistically together to form who we are has been at the forefront of my ambitions.  The link between our mental, emotional, spiritual bodies and our physical health as a root cause of illness, and understanding those links in order to restore ourselves, needs further exploration by each of us. How and why does dis-ease occur,  and what can we do to heal ourselves with the beautiful gifts that Mother Nature so freely provides us and whose frequencies bring wisdom to our bodies to help inspire our healing? I feel blessed every day to be able to continue to ask questions about all things, seek truth, and believe in all possibilities.