I grew up learning that my body was something to hide. From a young age, the men around me and the systems I moved through taught me that my body was shameful or dangerous — something to cover, control, and shrink. School reinforced this by policing women’s bodies down to every inch, while society quietly insisted that to be accepted, a woman had to be thin, contained, and effortless. Those messages took root. I learned to see my body not as home, but as a problem to fix. I developed severe body dysmorphia and became obsessed with control through food and exercise, cycling through fad diets and overtraining in an attempt to finally feel safe inside myself.

That obsession led me to study nutrition, initially to understand how to manipulate the body. But the deeper I studied human physiology, the more my perspective shifted. I began to see the body not as a machine, but as a living ecosystem — one that moves in rhythms, seasons, and cycles, just like the Earth. This realization opened a spiritual path through yoga, meditation, and inner inquiry, where science and spirituality began to weave together. I came to understand that the human body is Earth in flesh, and healing is a process of reparenting ourselves with compassion, respect, and attunement to our natural rhythms. As we heal our bodies, we heal our relationship with the Earth — and this is the foundation of my work.