Fourteen years ago, I was the patient.
Not a patient with a diagnosis that explained things. A patient who had been sick for years, getting worse, and running out of practitioners who had anything useful to offer.
I had chronic Lyme disease from my early thirties through my forties — ten years total, three of them what I now call my Zombie Years. Brain fog so thick I couldn't follow a conversation. Fatigue that sleep didn't touch. Food I'd eaten my whole life suddenly making me sick. Migraines that ruled my days.
I was running a small arts and entertainment newspaper and remodeling a Victorian home at the time — both of us sick, both of us pushing through, because that's what you do when you don't know yet that pushing through isn't going to work. My then-husband was sick too. We finished the house. We kept going. And I kept getting worse.
The medical system tried. It just didn't have the tools to reach what was actually happening. And I didn't know yet that there was another kind of tool entirely.
January 19, 2012.
I remember the exact date. That's when an energy healer walked into my life and changed the trajectory of everything.
Within six months of learning to work with my body's energy, I got my life back. Not managed my symptoms better. Not stabilized at a lower level of functioning. Actually got it back — the capacity to work, to think, to be present, to have a life.
What struck me wasn't just that it worked. It was what it was doing: not fighting the illness, but communicating with the adaptive responses my body had been running for years. Helping them understand the emergency was over. The exhaustion, the crashes, the hyperreactivity — those weren't the illness. They were what my body had done to survive the illness. Brilliant, faithful, costly survival. And when those patterns finally got the message that the threat had passed, they could stand down.
That distinction changed how I understood everything I'd been through. It also became the foundation of everything I've done since.
Fourteen years of figuring out how systems fail — and recover.
I spent the first years after my recovery going deep into the work: Applied Kinesiology, Quantum Touch, CranioSacral Therapy, somatic practices, nervous system frameworks. But more than any formal training, what shaped the work was my own body teaching me what it needed, and then learning to help other bodies do the same thing.
In 2013 I launched Healing Invisible Illness and spent the next six years working exclusively with complex chronic conditions — the kinds that don't fit medical boxes, that have been dismissed or mismanaged, that have left people exhausted and running out of options. I learned that a body is never broken. It's responding, communicating, protecting. And when you work at the energetic level where those patterns live, profound shifts become possible.
Then, in 2019, I did something that looks like a detour but wasn't: I stepped back from full-time healing work and took an Operations Director role at an IT company.
I spent three years looking at organizational systems — how they fail, where the bottlenecks are, why a problem in one part of the system creates cascading failures everywhere else, why fixing the visible symptom without addressing the underlying pattern means the problem comes back. It's the same work. Different substrate.
What that chapter gave me was a sharper lens for seeing the body's systems. The Fuel Series — my weekly writing on the interconnected systems Long COVID disrupts — is a direct product of that crossover. Cortisol dysregulation creates conditions for mitochondrial failure creates conditions for insulin resistance creates conditions for thyroid downregulation. These aren't separate problems. They're a failing system, and they have to be understood as one.
I came back to healing work in 2022, and this year rebranded specifically around Long COVID — because that's where I'm seeing the clearest need, and the clearest match between what I do and what's missing.
I haven't had Long COVID. I recognize it immediately.
The patterns my Long COVID clients describe mirror exactly what I lived through with Lyme: the nervous system stuck in threat mode, the body burning through energy just to maintain baseline existence, the same desperate search for someone who could explain why everything was connected and nothing was working.
The trigger is different. The underlying mechanisms are the same. And the work that reaches those mechanisms is the same work I've been doing since 2013.
The research has now caught up to validate what I was seeing in my practice years before it had scientific language: the autonomic nervous system dysregulation, the mitochondrial dysfunction, the inflammatory signaling that never got the shutdown command. These aren't just biochemical phenomena. They run on energy. And when they're dysregulated at the energetic level, that's where the work has to happen.
Why You're Exhausted
Since January 2026, I've been publishing weekly on Substack — deep dives into the biology of what Long COVID is doing to your body, how energy healing works, and the nervous system patterns underneath chronic illness. Written for people who want to understand what's actually happening, not just be told what to try next. Read on Substack
A few things that are also true.
I'm 53 and navigating menopause, which means I'm currently living inside one of the systems I write about most. I'm not writing about this from a clinical distance.
I live in Colorado. I strength train. I hike. The systems-thinking habit I built in operations work never turned off — I'm still constantly looking at why things are failing and what the underlying pattern is. I just do it now with bodies instead of IT infrastructure.
I left journalism because the healing work called louder. I left the operations role because it had given me what I came for. I'm here now because this is where the work is.
Background
14 years practicing energy healing. Trained in Applied Kinesiology, Quantum Touch, somatic regulation, and whole-system healing. Former newspaper owner, and Operations Director at an IT company. Specialized focus on post-viral recovery and nervous system dysregulation.
I am an energy healer, not a doctor. The work I do complements qualified medical care — it does not replace it.
If you're ready to talk
The free consultation is where everything starts. Twenty minutes. An honest conversation about what's happening in your system and whether this work is a fit. I'll tell you plainly if I think something else would serve you better.
Not ready for that yet? Start with the Fuel Series — seven free articles on the biology of what's happening in your body.
