Firstly, I just want to say that I never set out to become a homeopath and I definitely didn’t take the straight path to get here. For over a decade I was sick from MCAS and a mind-body condition called TMS (Tension Myositis syndrome), although I didn’t know it at the time. These types of syndromes, I believe, make up a lot of mystery illnesses and chronic pain cases, yet many people don’t know much about them. This experience saw me develop a special interest in complex and chronic health conditions having navigated it myself which lead me to becoming a trauma informed homeopath and a mind-body practitioner after other modalities failed to work. Kyndred Wellness was born from this deep initiation into holistic health and now I’m currently deepening my knowledge of homeopathic medicine with an advanced practitioners degree through RMDY Academy although I know learning this wonderful system of medicine is really a life long undertaking.

Before I was pulled into the natural health space I trained as a beauty therapist and then transitioned into pharmacy where I had 10 years professional experience in the medical industry in pharmaceutical medicine. Talk about a full circle moment finding myself here as homeopathic medicine is the complete opposite to allopathic medicine. I do work a little differently to other homeopaths as I don’t just offer homeopathy but blend homeopathic treatment with mind-body medicine and nervous system regulation tools to best support your body’s natural capacity to heal, adapt and thrive. I wasted thousands of dollars and so much time jumping doctor to doctor trying to figure out the cause of all of my mystery symptoms. I tried every healing modality, protocol, detox, supplement and wellness gadget you could think of. It was one hell of a rough and costly ride and I don’t want that for you. Clients come to see me because I have lived experience of similar issues they are navigating and I know what it takes to get to the other side. I also know what happens when you don’t listen to your body. Living 10 years with chronic invisible illness has taught me a grit and determination I never knew I had as well as a deep respect for the complex connection between the body and mind. That understanding now shapes everything I do from my day to day activities to helping my clients to tune in, listen and create real change rather than just pushing through because my story really is a testament to what happens if you don’t.

This work is deeply personal for me. When I hit 30 my health became a mess. On the outside I looked like I was doing fine but on the inside I was crumbling and suffering with over 30+ symptoms I’d never experienced before. The symptoms would shift and change daily for me and included things like tinnitus, dizziness, migraines, itchy eyes, fatigue, POTS, recurring sinus issues and infections, weakened immunity, brain fog and hives. As if that wasn’t enough, I had major gut issues and a list of food intolerances so long I got down to just being able to eat only chicken and lettuce for years. I tried everything to heal during this time including medication, acupuncture, nutritionists, had allergy testing, reflexology, reiki, herbal medicine, naturopathy, osteopathy, bioenergetics, tried ayurvedic medicine, coffee enemas, hypnosis you name it - I tried it! I even went and saw a psychic I was so desperate to heal. Some of these modalities helped mildly or gave me temporary relief but none of them helped me get my life back like addressing my nervous system and homeopathy did. I eventually figured out that it wasn’t my hormones, Lyme, parasites or my diet. It was complex developmental trauma from my childhood and a nervous system that was stuck on high alert that was driving EVERYTHING and I was looking in all of the wrong places to ease my symptoms.

let me explain…

For years I ran on stress biology without even realising it. Family dysfunction. Childhood trauma. Work demands. Running a household. Kids. Financial pressure. The never ending mental load of being a mum. The one who remembers everything, plans it all and holds it all together for everyone. I thought I was ‘handling’ it but I wasn’t. My body was absorbing every stressful assault and storing it. Building up a debt that I didn’t even realise I was accumulating and when I hit 30 the bill for that ignorance came knocking. My system hit capacity and my body began shutting down. It all started with an argument that lead to me becoming estranged from my parents that really was the straw that broke the camels back and kicked off every chain of event from that point on. The emotional toll, stress and grief from that was just too much and my body couldn’t cope with the emotional pain. Immediately afterwards my immune system crashed and I began reacting to all kinds of foods then I got recurring sinus infections so bad it resulted in me requiring surgery and then lastly we found black mould in our home and that was the last assault my poor delicate body could handle and with it came the crushing fatigue, hair loss, thyroid issues, candida, brain fog, unexplained pain, itching, tinnitus, vestibular migraines and weight loss that had me nearly end up on feeding tubes. I saw multiple immunologists and specialists trying to work out what was happening and was handed baby formula and a prescription for antihistamines and sent on my way. After 6 months of barely surviving my new hell I went back to the immunologist weighing just 45 kilos to ask why I wasn’t feeling any better. and he finally exasperatingly said “I can’t help you, you’re going to have to learn to live with it”. I was crushed but also determined to figure out what was going on. I knew there had to be answers out there somewhere. There was no way I was living on two foods, stuck with uncomfortable symptoms, unable to drive and being confined to my bed or house forever. I read every book on healing I could find and was often up late googling symptoms and deep diving various health threads in hopes I could find someone like me. Oddly, one day in my research I came across a woman on YouTube that shared her journey about being stuck eating only a handful of foods after mould exposure and she talked about completing the Gupta nervous system program and gaining her health back. This was the first I had heard about nervous system regulation and brain retraining techniques. I watched her go from skinny and barely able to eat anything to thriving and being able to eat everything. Wondering if this could help me I searched the web for other programs that may be able to help and signed up to the Primal Trust program. Within weeks my symptom severity decreased and I realised I had more capacity for living again. I still couldn’t eat anything but two foods but at least my symptoms calmed and I could now drive and walk to my letterbox again. Life seemed okay again.. until my dog passed away, we moved cities, financial strain hit and my sister got diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and again my world was rocked by stress and symptoms were back. Sick of this one step forward and 4 steps back dance that was playing out in my wellness journey I prayed to God to help me find the person who would finally lead me out of this hell once and for all and the very next day I found a lady on instagram talking about healing with homeopathy. That lady turned out to be Melissa Kupsch and I immediately booked a consult with her. Two years of ongoing treatment later and I was beginning to eat food again and had better energy than ever so I signed up to study homeopathy with her as my mentor. Shortly after, I started studying nervous system regulation and trauma informed care. I always felt my stress response was lower than others, like they could handle life better and I wanted to understand why. It turns out developmental trauma from childhood was the reason and it was hijacking my nervous system keeping me in a constant stress loop without even realising it. Homeopathy in conjunction with nervous system and somatic support was the only thing that got me over the line to beginning to lead a normal life again. Within a year of studying and continuing to treat myself homeopathically with the information I was learning as a student I was back at the gym, eating a larger range of foods and jetting off on trips overseas, things I never thought would be possible for me to do ever again.

All of this nightmare is what happens when your stress response gets stuck in the “on” position and no amount of supplements, detoxes, acupuncture sessions or medications will fix it. When I finally linked stress and trauma to my symptoms I became aware of the mind-body connection and its deep impact on our vitality and health. You have to address the nervous system to heal from chronic conditions. Homeopathy is fabulous at getting to the architecture underlying chronic symptoms and can address this like no other healing modality I have tried and I have tried many! Homeopathy addresses how the body holds experiences, aids in its ability to release them and it restores emotional and energetic balance from the inside out with an added ability to reach back generations and help individuals release what was never theres to being with. It’s not about treating disease or chasing after symptoms, that’s a game with no end, but addressing causations. People are much like instruments that have become out of tune due to life’s ups and downs and very often your body is manifesting symptoms as a way of communicating this imbalance. Homeopathy acts as a tuning fork able to get you back into balance. After experiencing stress, overwhelm and chronic health challenges it took me years to realise there’s a missing piece to the healing puzzle and it’s your nervous system. I hope to save others from this lengthy lesson. Had I known this from the outset I could have saved myself so much time and literally thousands of dollars on expensive therapies and cupboards full of supplements that got me absolutely nowhere. When the body finally feels safe, it can and will heal. When we experience stressful situations, especially if we have had significant stresses earlier in life, our internal capacity is reduced and we are at risk for it to show up in our body in the form of chronic symptoms, disease and pain later in life. Science proves this in the ACE’s study. Your nervous system is the control centre for every organ and major system in your body and this is why symptoms often occur across each of them and can shift and change from day to day. If you are like me and have tried cutting foods and are only ending up sicker it’s because the food is not driving the problem. The imbalance lies even deeper, once the body becomes overloaded a misfire begins happening in the brain and it begins to respond to normal everyday stimuli as dangerous even when they’re not. No, you’re not allergic to every food under the sun. it’s your nervous system stuck in stress pathology. Address that and healing naturally unfolds.

Kyndred Wellness was created to naturally help women navigate holistic wellness and chronic symptoms and to provide the personalised care, support and understanding they’ve been craving but may not have received. I understand how it feels to be dismissed by doctors which is why here at Kyndred we actually listen and everything we do is highly individualised to your unique journey with reverence for the nervous system and the wisdom that lies beneath your symptoms. I am so deeply passionate about homeopathy’s ability to heal even the deepest health complaints because I’ve seen and experienced what it can do first hand. Everyday I see how often other people override their bodies instead of listening to them — often pushing past their daily needs and ignoring their body’s cues. Your nervous system underpins how your body responds to life. Our bodies cannot heal in survival mode that’s why you try everything and nothing seems to work. Navigating chronic health issues is a difficult, complex and challenging experience. As a professional homeopath and specialist in chronic care I understand this process. I bring my lived expertise, professional training and mountains of compassion to help guide you back to vibrant health one step at a time. With tailored support and a concise treatment plan it is possible to get back on track, no matter how far gone you believe yourself to be.

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