Lyme Disease Recovery: Life After Lyme
Mission
For years, I woke up every morning feeling like I had survived a collision with a semi‑truck. My joints screamed, my breath felt shallow, and my energy evaporated before the day even began. Doctors told me I was “fine.” Specialists shrugged. Some implied it was all in my head. But deep inside, I knew something was terribly wrong.
My life became a quiet battle no one could see. I rationed my energy like contraband during prohibition—one careful sip at a time—choosing which moments I could show up for and which memories I would miss. Holidays, traditions, late‑night laughter, early‑morning adventures… I watched so many of them from the sidelines, heartbroken that my children would remember a mother who was always too tired, too sore, too sick to join in.
For 15 years, I lived in a body that felt like it was shutting down while the world insisted, I was perfectly healthy.
Everything changed in December 2018.
A functional medicine practitioner finally uncovered what no one else had: chronic Lyme disease, adrenal dysfunction, autoimmune thyroid disease, and a body fighting an invisible war. That diagnosis didn’t magically fix me—but it gave my suffering a name. It gave me direction. It gave me back my hope.
And hope is a powerful thing.
My healing journey wasn’t linear. It wasn’t simple. It wasn’t quick. But it awakened something fierce in me—a determination to understand my body, to trust my intuition, and to reclaim the life I thought I had lost forever.
Today, I’m a Lyme recovery advocate, science‑based wellness educator, and storyteller for the chronically unseen. I use my lived experience, research, and hard‑won wisdom to help others navigate the maze of chronic illness with clarity, compassion, and courage.
If you’re here because you’re exhausted, confused, dismissed, or searching for answers—you’re not alone. I’ve walked that road. I know its shadows. And I know a way forward.
My mission is simple: to give you the knowledge, validation, and hope I desperately needed on my darkest days.
You deserve to be believed. You deserve to be understood. You deserve to heal.
And I’m here to walk beside you as you do.