B.S. Exercise Science, College of Health and Human Performance
at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
Minor in Chemistry · Pre-Med Focus

Functional Medicine Health and Wellness Coach
at the the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy, the only coaching organization that partners with the Institute for Functional Medicine to integrate resources and education from leading functional medicine experts into their core curriculum.

FMCHC
NBC-HWC Board Certification Expected November 2026

finding healing in homeostasis

A year into college, my body started telling me something was wrong. I was pre-med, modeling, working, sleeping too little, and carrying the kind of stress that lives in your nervous system long after the day is over. From the outside I looked like someone who had it together. On the inside my mind, my body, and my day to day life felt like a battlefield. I constantly felt at war.

Being diagnosed with Lyme disease gave that war a name. But it didn't come with a roadmap. What followed was a season of navigating a healthcare system that offered very little in the way of real answers, while simultaneously facing an industry that had no concern for what I was going through beneath the surface. The modeling world wanted my appearance, my performance, and the profit it could generate from both. My health was not part of that equation. I learned early that I was only as valuable to an agent or client as my ability to make them money. That truth, as hard as it was to sit with, became one of the most clarifying things I have ever experienced.

I stopped looking outward for answers and started looking inward. Through my mother's foundation as a functional medicine nurse practitioner and my own relentless research, I began to understand my body as something far more intelligent and interconnected than I had been taught to see it. I started implementing anti-inflammatory nutrition and stress relief practices and felt the shift almost immediately. More energy. Better sleep. A nervous system that was no longer constantly braced for impact. My hormonal acne, which no dermatologist had ever looked beneath the surface of, began to clear. No prescriptions, just healing but from the inside out.

What changed most was my relationship with food. Not as something to restrict or indulge in, not simply as fuel, but as true medicine. My body composition stabilized. My skin, hair, and nails responded. My energy became something I could rely on. I was healing, genuinely healing, while still meeting the expectations my modeling career required of me. Not in spite of prioritizing my health, but because of it.

That is the story I carry into every client relationship. Not as a cautionary tale, but as proof of what becomes possible when you finally stop fighting your body and start tending to it.

how I got here

At eighteen I began modeling while studying in the College of Health and Human Performance at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science with a minor in Chemistry and a pre-med focus, while simultaneously navigating an industry with very strong opinions about my body and very little guidance on how to meet its expectations in a way that actually served my long term health.

The real shift came a year into college when I was diagnosed with Lyme disease. For the first time, I stopped focusing on how my body looked and started paying attention to how it healed and functioned. What I discovered changed everything. A healthy, healing body and a body that meets industry expectations are not at odds. They can live harmoniously in the same vessel. I could pursue genuine healing, restore my health from the inside out, and still maintain the body composition and energy my modeling career required.

Those two worlds that had lived in tension for so long finally became one.

After graduating I moved to Los Angeles to pursue modeling full time, bringing everything I had studied and lived with me. Building and maintaining a healthy body and sustainable lifestyle that could hold up against the weight of the industry. Not just for the years I would spend modeling, but for every year after. A healthy body meant to serve me for life, not just for a season.