My Journey — How I Beat Cancer
When I first moved to New York City to pursue a career in musical theatre, my body began to break down in ways I couldn’t understand. I was 23 and dealing with excruciating joint pain — an undiagnosed autoimmune condition that left me living on painkillers for years.
At 26, everything changed. I stumbled into an emergency room and was diagnosed with late-stage metastatic cancer — nine tumors throughout my abdomen, one wrapped around my kidney, another around my vena cava, restricting blood flow to my heart. It was one of the darkest moments of my life.
I endured months of aggressive chemotherapy and multiple surgeries, including a retroperitoneal lymph node dissection. Within a year, I was declared cancer-free — but that was only the beginning.
My recovery spiraled into years of chronic illness: abdominal adhesions, multiple bowel resections, Lyme disease, chronic fatigue, heavy metal toxicity, and viral overload. My immune system collapsed. I was exhausted, defeated, and humbled.
One night, in that rock-bottom moment, I dropped to my knees and made a promise: If I get through this, I’ll become a lighthouse for others lost in the dark.
That vow changed everything.
I started to study what true healing meant — earning certifications in functional and biological health, gut repair, and energy systems. I explored the world of red light therapy, PEMF, oxidative therapies, oxygen, and advanced drainage techniques. Slowly, the lights came back on — my energy returned, my pain dissolved, and I began to sleep deeply for the first time in years.
What I learned is this: we’re living in an epidemic of chronic illness, but the body isn’t broken. It’s communicating. Before we add to the body, we must align with nature’s rhythms. Before we fix, we must listen. And before we treat symptoms, we must strengthen the terrain.
And I want to be clear — I’m not here to dissuade anyone from the power of modern medicine. To be alive today, I relied on the very best that Western medicine had to offer: brilliant surgeons, compassionate oncologists, urologists, and the chemotherapy that, though harsh and not without repercussions, saved my life. Those interventions were essential agents of healing — just as much as the radical ownership of my nutrition, sleep, technologies, emotional balance, and the way I relate to the world around me. Both sides of that equation made me who I am today.
Read my full story hereFrom surviving to thriving
After recovery, I began to see a huge gap in the world of health and wellness. We’ve built an entire system that can remove a tumor, eliminate an infection, or suppress symptoms — yet we rarely change the terrain that allowed those issues to develop in the first place.
What I’ve come to believe is this: health is a skill. It’s not something you buy or find in a bottle — it’s built through daily choices that reshape your physiology, mindset, and capacity as a human being.
In today’s world, even living close to nature requires support. We’re surrounded by environmental toxicants, processed foods, and constant stress. So yes — we need to eat organic, move our lymph, and at times, lean on technology to restore balance.
That’s why I integrate tools like Flowpresso for full-body lymphatic drainage, infrared saunas for detoxification, cold adaptation for nervous-system regulation, and oxygen therapies for cellular recovery — especially in chronic or neurological illness.
And that’s also why I created The Biological Blueprint — a framework built on core principles, timeless concepts, and modern science to help people understand how their physiology truly functions and integrate that understanding into everyday life.
It starts with three simple questions:
1. How do you feel?
2. What do you want?
3. What are you willing to do about it?
Those questions are the foundation of transformation — and the path from surviving to thriving.
