A practice rooted in lived experience.

My early desires to be a professional dancer nurtured a strong interest in the human body. While studying dance at university, I began to experience emotional lows that were new to me, and which I would later come to know as the first steps in my long journey through depression.

I began to talk to counselors and started anti-depressant medication. But the downward spiral continued. Soon, another new emotion began to rear its ugly head: anxiety so strong that it resulted in the first real blow to my life, where I was forced to quit my job and put on the brakes.

I remember feeling that the one thing I truly loved to do had become the last thing I wanted to do.

The only solace I had found from the unrelenting depression and anxiety came from finding a shiatsu massage therapist. She changed my situation for the better, so much so that I began studying part-time to become a certified shiatsu therapist.

I took on a new job managing Fresh, a vegetarian restaurant in Toronto, prepared to juggle this, along with the two dance companies I worked for, as well as school. I thought I could do it all. And then, once again, the spiral returned.

Hitting the bottom of the pit made me re-evaluate how I was living my life to figure out what had to change.

I had graduated as a shiatsu therapist, but felt that I wanted to be better equipped to help people; to have a full tool-belt in order to support patients completely. I enrolled at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and decided to leave my work as a dancer and the frenetic world of restaurants for good.

I hope that my experiences of being in the pit and climbing out of it can offer hope and guidance to others. While the strength of family and friends has been so important, I can't say enough about the role of my naturopathic values, which have instilled in me a quest to find another way through the muck.

Once I allowed myself to accept that simplicity is often the best medicine, in the form of taking on less, eating simply and connecting with nature, my journey took on a whole new meaning.

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