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Patti’s Personal Journey<\/p>\n
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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>My journey to wellness is not a destination but rather a daily process of growing while making the best decisions adjusting to the constant changes of life. \u00a0I have learned patience, flexibility and self-awareness on my journey; each day bringing new challenges of maintaining balance and joy.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>My ah-hah moment begins in 1995 when I was diagnosed with\u00a0Hashimoto\u2019s Thyroiditis<\/em>, an autoimmune thyroid disease.\u00a0 I had just read \u201cHomemade Health<\/em>\u201d by Raymond & Dorothy Moore and slowly began to realize a direct connection between the food I ate and how I felt.\u00a0 My daughter had just finished her 9th round of antibiotics and she wasn\u2019t even 2 yet and I needed to know \u201cwhy\u201d she kept getting sick; so began my journey. \u00a0The following year, I became pregnant with my 3rd child just as we broke ground on a house we were building ourselves.\u00a0 We were living with a 3 and 5 year old in the unfinished basement while building with no kitchen, just a crock-pot and a utility sink.\u00a0 I was still working part-time outside the home having no computer and just the library and newsletters for a resource, I read anything I could get my hands on, eager to learn.\u00a0 Ten months later we finished the house, my son was born and I was able to stay home and began homeschooling my daughters.\u00a0 I experimented on my growing family and tried different approaches to eating, finding local resources for healthier food, blending my new knowledge into everyday life.\u00a0 My mindset at that time was \u201call or nothing\u201d and I\u2019d jump into a diet all the way.\u00a0 When one diet didn\u2019t work, I tried the next one and dreamed of going to school to learn more, but the funds weren\u2019t there nor was the timing right, so I kept researching and studying, finally getting a computer with internet making things more accessible.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>In the meantime, my son became ill after a short virus and I spent 18 months traveling to doctor appointments in three states trying to get him diagnosed, finally to be told to remove gluten from his diet and he\u2019d be fine.\u00a0 But what was gluten?\u00a0 I had just spent the last few years learning how to make my own whole-grain wheat bread!\u00a0 I felt like I was starting over, now embarking on a gluten-free direction to learn how to feed my son.\u00a0 Back then I experimented with coconut flour at a whopping $8\/lb.; gluten-free was unheard of in the mainstream.\u00a0 While my son was now on the road to recovery, our oldest child was diagnosed with thyroid cancer, she had just turned 13 and it was 2005.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t help my family transition well to healthier eating as I didn\u2019t seem to be able to define it. \u00a0“Healthy” was always changing as I learned new things and I was still \u201call or nothing\u201d and now overwhelmed to have 4 children and a husband, all with different needs and likes for food.\u00a0 Our world was upside down and filled with day and night research, more traveling for doctor appointments, surgery and radioactive iodine.\u00a0 I became a patient advocate, joined an international support group, took being screamed at by the head of nuclear medicine for becoming \u201ceducated\u201d and daring to question the poison they were giving my child for treatment. I also saw my husband be laughed at by a prominent endocrinologist after my husband suggested something had gone wrong with my daughter\u2019s immune system to have cancer in the first place. \u00a0The doctor said the immune system was not related to the endocrine system, I was shocked. \u00a0My passion grew stronger and I learned more about myself and my strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The next several years were spent learning more, making connections and being at home feeding my diverse family with all their special dietary needs.\u00a0 I continued to study and learn.\u00a0My extreme personality was softening with all my experiences and I had now collected the pieces of nutrition from different diets that worked for our family, but none worked as a whole and each of us had different needs.\u00a0 Following one plan would have been so much easier.\u00a0 I also encountered negative, outside influences and watched people love their food so much they would choose to slowly suffer rather than make dietary changes. \u00a0I became aware that how people are influenced by food is related to emotional attachments, family history, habits (good and bad) and parents, each coming from a different background and working together to make new habits for their children. \u00a0I learned food isn’t everything; it’s a piece of the “whole” puzzle of the wellness of the human body.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Finally the funds were available and the timing was right, and in 2018, I completed the Nutritional Therapy Consultant\u2122 program under the Nutritional Therapy Association.\u00a0 The foundational principles focused on nutrition along with digestion, blood sugar handling, mineral balance, healthy fats, hydration, importance of sleep and relaxation, cooking techniques, food sourcing and stress management.\u00a0 I chose this training specifically from many other choices since those 20 years of self-studying I felt their principles and viewpoints represented all I had learned through my trial and error methods.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There is no magic moment or a quick fix or one way to do things, but there is hope that the body is very resilient and if we focus on feeding it properly, we can be our best self. \u00a0I\u00a0am now in a new season of life and have created Nutrition for Healthier Living in hopes of encouraging others to follow their journey to wellness.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”3.23.3″ background_color=”#f8dce9″ custom_padding=”||103px|||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”3.23.3″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.23.3″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.23.3″ text_font=”||||||||” text_text_align=”center” text_text_color=”#44367a” text_font_size=”36px” text_text_shadow_style=”preset3″ custom_margin=”0px|||||” custom_padding=”||18px”] Patti’s Personal Journey [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/nfhl.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Purple-Cabbage.jpg-2-2.jpg” _builder_version=”3.23.3″][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.23.3″ width=”100%” custom_padding=”10px||0px”] \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 My journey to wellness is not a destination but rather a daily process of growing while making the best decisions adjusting to the constant changes of life. \u00a0I have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","spay_email":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/245\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nfhl.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}