Growing up I remember my mother always searching for the healthiest options for our family. At a young age, doctors had wanted to fuse my mother’s back to remedy her severe scoliosis. My grandmother would not sign for it. She knew if that were to happen it would have limited my mother’s ability to live her life. She would not have been able to have children, run, or play sports. I am so grateful my grandmother had the courage to look elsewhere for help. Through chiropractic therapy she has been able to live a full life including having a family—birthing nine children. This is how I was raised, to not give up hope when others tell you to.
I have always looked up to my mother for making similar decisions with her own family. When I was 21, I went on a proselytizing mission for my church to Connecticut. During the last few weeks of my mission I was struck sick and diagnosed with Lyme disease. In hope that I would not have the debilitating effects of the disease haunt me my whole life, my mother and I searched for more promising solutions other than antibiotics.
At the time my parents had started a new way of ‘living’. They had come across the Alkalarian way of eating and had seen results in their health. After much thinking, reading, and praying I decided to join them in this endeavor. I feel this extreme change in the way I ate was the catalyst to my interest in living healthy. Through much trial and error, as well as a husband and two babies (update: I have 3 beautiful girls now!), I have been expanding my knowledge on how to keep my body healthy. Along with my husband and children, I am striving to take care of the body I have been given.
In a world where most everyone chooses differently, I felt it necessary for there to be a resource guide for people like me who find they are working against the grain of society. I hope those who are looking for something more when it comes to living well will find refuge here.
