It was June 16th of 2020, 32 days before my 30th birthday, when my life took an unexpected turn that would forever change the trajectory of the remaining time I have here on earth.

That day was the beginning to a 3 and a half year long Dark Night of the Soul and Spiritual Awakening that was triggered by a back injury while fighting a wildfire in Colorado. What started out as a journey to healing my back, 5 months later, turned into a battle of fighting to stay alive.

By November of 2020, I was experiencing unexplainable daily and persistent symptoms of migraines, nausea, night sweats, dry heaving and vomiting. Come February of 2021, the symptoms had proliferated and exacerbated to the point where I was no longer able to consume solid or liquid foods. I had lost 25 pounds within 3 weeks, weighing a total of 104. At this point, my youngest sister flew to Colorado to care for me because I could no longer.

Being a Marine Veteran, I was utilizing the VA for medical care throughout this process. I was in and out of the emergency room, going from one doctor’s appointment to the next, seeking answers as to what was wrong with me. Only to walk away empty handed with no solution as to how to heal myself. Once I figured out that the VA wasn’t going to help me, I started to seek treatment outside of them but still within allopathic medicine. In hopes that that would bring me an answer. But it didn’t.

However, what I did receive was a pill. Then another. And another. Until I was taking a handful of pills a day, living the life of a geriatric at 30 years old. A pill to treat the symptoms and not the root cause of my physical ailments. Pills that led me to battling digestive health issues, such as SIBO and low acid levels, that were avoidable. The longer I was on the pills, the worse I got.

During the midst of it all, I experienced 19 months of having a headache or migraine every single day. Within those 19 months, I had a migraine day and night for 5 months consecutively. Migraines were nothing new to me as I have had them since I was about 9 years old but never to this degree. After having CT scans, MRI’s and x-rays taken of my neck and brain, there was still no answer or pill that brought me relief. I had tried massage, acupuncture, dry needling, hot and cold packs, and herbs but the relief never came. It was through this pain where I had considered taking my own life, an inclination that I never thought I’d have.

It took me having to experience an overwhelming amount of fear, pain, and suffering in order for me to wake up and say no more. To take back my power. The moment I decided to take a holistic approach to healing my body, was the moment everything shifted.

That moment was when I decided to host the most important interview of my lifetime. The interview (InnerView) of the self. What I have learned through my own healing journey, is that being physically fit does not suggest that you are healthy. That is merely one dimension of wellness. Up until my Dark Night of the Soul, I was that person with the mindset that a fit body is a healthy body. I would spend hours in the gym, strength training, 4 to 7 days a week. I had spent 30 years training only one dimension of myself and it finally caught up with me. Hear this, wellness is achieved by exploring and restoring the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual body. It is all connected. Each dimension of the self needs as much strength training as the other.

As a result of my healing journey, I’m a firm believer that suppressed emotions and trauma causes stagnant energy/blockages within one’s body that creates physical, emotional, mental and spiritual imbalances. One way these imbalances show up is in the form of physical symptoms. What I learned the hard way is that western medicine’s approach to “healing” does not address the root cause of a person’s condition, it only treats the symptoms. Symptoms are your body’s way of communicating with you. If that channel of communication is suppressed for too long, either subconsciously or consciously, this will lead to dis-ease, cancer, illness and even injuries.

What led me to where I am today physically, emotionally, and spiritually was doing the inner work. This included but was not limited to healing childhood and sexual trauma, and even trauma that I wasn’t aware I had been carrying around with me for 30 years. Allowing myself to feel everything that I had suppressed as a survival mechanism.

It was a process of getting comfortable with being uncomfortable and allowing myself to be vulnerable so I could release and let go of what no longer served me. Reconnecting with my higher self and intuition, trusting that I hold the power, knowledge and answers to heal myself. Relearning how to use my internal technology to guide me.

By taking the leap of faith in using alternative healing modalities and eliminating the pharmaceuticals, it gave my body the opportunity to start healing on its own. The way it was designed to do so. Those daily migraines and headaches that I once had for 19 months consecutively are gone. No pill, herb, botox, massage, acupuncture, dry needling or hot and cold pack was the answer but what was, was me going within.

Once July of 2021 came around, I thought I was out of the woods as most of my symptoms had subsided for nearly 4 months; however, I had begun to develop a plethora of new symptoms.

While utilizing functional medicine to help treat SIBO, I sought out answers as to why I was experiencing symptoms of inflammation, blurry vision, skin rashes, body aches, muscle spasms, extreme fatigue, brain fog, memory loss, a year and a half long chronic sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, flu like symptoms and so on. By the time it was all said and done, the findings were: Lyme, mold toxicity, EBV, strep, Candida overgrowth and up to 4 different types of germs.

My journey has cultivated a passion for holistic healing that has led me to health and wellness coaching. I believe that I went through my healing journey not only for the evolution of my soul but also so I could be there to help support and guide others through theirs. I personally know what it is like to be told that there is nothing wrong with you and made to believe that it is all in your head. I’m here to tell you, that it’s not. There is a reason why you do not feel like your best self. In order to find that reason, you must look at the whole picture: the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual body.

If you’re ready to become a better and healthier version of you, I would be honored to take this journey with you.

With much Love and Light,

Asia