Finding Her Way Back To The Nest: A Warrior’s Story of Hope, Resilience and Healing
So grateful to be a beacon of hope to an old friend!
There are moments in practice that remind me why I chose this path. Moments when a long-lost patient — weary from years of struggle — finds their way back to a safe place. To a home for healing. To the nest.
Recently, someone very dear to me did just that. Years ago, I had the honor of caring for her when I practiced family medicine. Life, as it often does, scattered our paths in different directions. Yet, when her health began to unravel in ways no doctor could fully explain, her intuition led her back here — to the care of root cause medicine. To hope.
A Life Full of Trials: The Weight of Unanswered Questions
Her past few years have been marked by relentless challenges:
A series of surgeries. An unexpected and devastating diagnosis of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) — a chronic autoimmune liver disease that seemed to arrive out of nowhere.
Stress piled upon stress: the loss of a beloved parent under circumstances beyond her control, an exhausting legal process around family medical leave, the echoes of a painful divorce, and the pressures of a demanding career in a heavy industrial environment.
Through it all, she kept searching. She tried to adapt — improving her diet, giving up alcohol, embracing Mediterranean nutrition, walking miles each week. But her body, burdened by decades of hidden stressors and inflammation, did not respond the way she hoped.
Despite her efforts, symptoms multiplied:
Unexplained weight gain
Persistent joint pain
Crushing fatigue and brain fog
Digestive troubles
Sleep disturbances and hormonal imbalances
Emotional wounds that medical care could not mend
Each new appointment seemed to add a diagnosis but subtract hope. Each treatment felt like a patch, not a path. Until now.
Turning Toward Healing: Choosing a New Way Forward
When she walked into our consult room, what I saw was not defeat — it was quiet determination. The decision had been made: no more band-aids. No more “just managing.” She chose to pursue true healing.
Together, we are stepping into a root-cause approach:
A full lab panel to illuminate hidden dysfunctions.
Advanced testing for mold and environmental toxins, considering her long-term workplace exposures.
Starting detoxification support immediately with drainage remedies and glutathione.
Exploring therapies like phosphatidylcholine infusions for cellular health, and EBOO for immune rejuvenation and detox support.
And most critically, restoring her belief in her body’s ability to heal.
We are not here to chase symptoms. We are here to rebuild health from the inside out.
Coming Home to Healing
There’s a quiet beauty when someone, after years of frustration, finds their way back to a place of trust and renewal. This is not coincidence — this is alignment.
This journey is not easy. It demands courage. It demands surrendering the old story of helplessness and embracing a new story of possibility. But this is exactly what she has chosen. And it is my absolute privilege to walk alongside her in this next chapter.
To everyone reading this, who feels trapped by a diagnosis or weighed down by chronic illness:
There is another way. There is hope beyond the prognosis. There is healing beyond symptom management.
The body remembers how to heal — sometimes, it just needs the right support and the right environment to begin again.
Let this story be a beacon for you. You are not alone. You are not broken. You are a warrior, and your healing journey matters.
— Docstar
TLC - The Lyday Center