My body feels different, but my labs say I'm fine
Sleep, mood, cycles and energy are shifting, and you keep hearing that it's just stress. Let's start with what's changing, and why.
My story
Nearly 20 years in the ER and cardiology. Then I became the patient.
I earned my BSN and MSN at Johns Hopkins and spent my clinical career in emergency medicine and cardiology. The longer I worked there, the more I wanted to reach people before they needed emergency care.
In 2019, on the way home from a vacation in Hawaii with my husband, I was hospitalized with a ruptured appendix. I spent 13 days in the hospital, and our two boys kept me going. Twenty-seven days after I got home, I gave my TEDx talk, and it went viral.
I went on to train in advanced nutrition and functional testing, and I've spent the years since helping women in midlife understand what's changing in their bodies. I do not believe that women have to accept weight gain as a normal function of aging.
- ~20 yearsER and cardiology nurse practitioner
- 201913 days in the hospital with a ruptured appendix
- 27 days laterOn the TEDx stage, and the talk went viral
