My Story

 

Your body has a voice. Learn to trust it.

 

Hi, I'm Kim, and I'm here because everything went wrong, and I had to figure out how to make everything right again. Probably much like yourself.

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My journey with autoimmunity began with Grave's Disease and Celiac Disease, and both have shaped my life in the most profound way. When I began taking medication for my Grave's Disease, I had no idea it would nearly end my life. A month after taking the medication I was fighting for my life in the ICU with drug-induced Agranulocytosis - zero white blood cells, zero neutrophils - along with Sepsis, Tachycardia, Hypotension, Neutropenia, Acidosis, and complete immune system failure. I spent 13 days in the ICU with three doctors telling me I would not survive. I was one of only a handful of people in the world to survive a case so severe.

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When I left the hospital, my Endocrinologist gave me two choices: have my thyroid removed or die. I could never take medication for my disease again. I opted to follow my own path by following my gut instincts, and I began the process of healing myself from the inside out. I was determined to heal and survive. And somewhere in the middle of that journey, I discovered something that has shaped every decision I've made since.

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Your body has a voice. Learn to trust it.

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Your body is talking to you every single day. Through symptoms. Through fatigue. Through pain. Through inflammation. Through anxiety. Through energy. The question isn't whether your body is speaking. The question is whether we've been taught how to listen.

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Against every expectation, I achieved remission from a very aggressive Graves' Disease without surgery or medication. Faster than anyone, including myself, thought was possible. A feat none of my doctors believed could happen. Then I kept going. Today, I keep six autoimmune diseases in remission through a holistic, evidence-informed lifestyle built on nutrition, movement, stress regulation, sleep, environment, and thousands of intentional decisions repeated day after day.

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The worst thing that ever happened to me turned out to be one of the best things that ever happened to me…It revealed my purpose.

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People often tell me how inspiring my story is. I don't want it to inspire you. I want it to wake you up, because my story isn't really about surviving. It's about what survival taught me. It taught me that no title, degree, institution, or expert will ever spend 24 hours a day inside your body. Only you will! And that changes everything.

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Lived experience is the pinnacle of all schools, but along my journey I became a Board-Certified Holistic Health Practitioner (Certified Holistic Nutritionist, Certified Holistic Health Coach, Certified Health & Wellness Coach), and an Autoimmune Certified Coach, and the founder of Salt n' Sauna Wellness. I specialize in practical, real-life approaches that actually work in a real life. Practical isn't a philosophy for me, it's a survival skill, and the foundation of everything I teach and embody.

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I am not here to tell you what to think. I am here to empower you to think for yourself, to ask better questions, to think critically, to trust your instincts enough to investigate them, and to become impossible to dismiss. I've experienced the fear. The frustration. The hopelessness of sitting in a doctor's office feeling dismissed, unheard, and unseen. And I've experienced what happens when you refuse to stop searching for answers. That refusal saved my life.

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What I do now is empower, teach, create, and share everything I've learned so that you can walk into any room, any appointment, any conversation about your health armed with the knowledge and confidence that was never supposed to belong only to the people in white coats.

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My mission is to help you reclaim the authority over your body that you were taught to give away…because no one will ever know your body better than you do. Learn to become its greatest advocate. From one warrior to the next: you can be healthy and vibrant. You can live fully with health issues. I’m proof that it is possible. I've lived this, and I'm not keeping it quiet any longer.

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Bring the fire. Find the receipts.