I am a 36 year old wife, mother to 3, and an entrepreneur/business owner with my amazing husband. After our first little girl in 2017, I bounced back pretty quickly and shed the baby weight. What I didn’t understand was that getting pregnant 9 months later would have me hurting with the second pregnancy. Our second little girl came pretty quickly and I did not allow my body the recovery time that it honestly needed before another pregnancy. I fell into post-partum depression after that pregnancy. Between the mom guilt of having 2 babies so close together and hip pain, I struggled to get back into the flow I would have typically been in.
Fast forward 5 months later, my dad was diagnosed with a Stage 4 Glioblastoma (brain cancer). I was your typical “Daddy’s Girl” and my heart was broken at the news, just as the rest of our family. His time was limited, and the next 9 months, we spent as much family time together as we all could. I fell into a deep depression, gained more weight, and allowed the anger and hurt to consume me after my Dad passed that following May.
I took the next 2 years to work on myself. I knew if I didn’t tear myself out of this negative cycle of hate, anger, despair, and sadness.... I wouldn’t only be hurting myself and my health... I was also hurting my family.
I then had baby #3, our little boy, and I was hopeful that this void I had been feeling was healed just a little bit more. And it was... However, as a mid-30's woman, my hormones, weight gain and poor nutrition had spiraled out of control. I began to have highly sensitive skin. Sensitivity that left my skin so painful, red, itchy and oozing (as seen in the photo above). I had acquired a condition called eczema. I have always had some skin sensitivities but this was beyond anything that I had experienced before. I tried my local MD, a dermatologist and ultimately worked with a Doctor that helped me with bloodwork to see what was going on at the core. He suggested focusing on my major issues first (thyroid and the skin).
Between my thyroid and the foods/cosmetology items I use daily, I began the search for what was causing my problems.
