I teach my clients to feel empowered and understand where their true health and vitality comes from. My mission is to teach women about their own bodies, the power of plants and detoxification Our bodies have the ability to heal, if we just step out of our own way a little bit. It took me about 11 years to learn how to do this myself. I want to provide the guidance I wish I had at that time for others. I suffered for way too long with cystic acne and I’m available to help woman who are currently in a place that I once was.

reviews from some past clients…

That was me below, when my acne wasn’t even at my worst!

It all started when…

I suffered from cystic acne my whole life. My skin started to get bad at 13 then gradually grew worse and worse every year until my holistic discoveries at 24. I had a rough time. Unless you have experienced chronic acne…all over your face…you truly can’t relate to the feelings of utter hopelessness and complete lack of confidence it creates. I remember noticing that every person I spoke to was staring at my skin first. I would immediately get uncomfortable and have to try to comfort them to avoid everyone being uncomfortable. When I think back on those days my heart breaks at the girl who felt defined by her skin. She never felt pretty, she didn’t feel like enough, and she always felt like she was doing something wrong. The amount of advice I received during this time would shock you (and I tried all the advice that was offered to me!) Skincare, laser treatments, antibiotics, creams, steroids, vitamins, red light therapy, Accntane (twice), and doing absolutely nothing….none of it worked. It wasn’t until I learned about detoxifying my body that my entire life turned around.

Three years of healing…

To make a very long story short, it wasn’t just about the dairy. Although my acne was never as bad as pre-dairy, it continued to come back in waves. I learned what foods did what to my digestion. I played around with probiotics and detoxification tool like saunas and colonics and enemas. I gave up meat but kept fish, then gave up fish because of mercury, then heard hard cheeses should be okay so I added that back in (I missed wine and cheese night). As you can see I dabbled in a lot of different things before I found what worked. And basically…it’s consistency that I was missing. When you’re detoxing from something you have to be consistent so that you can balance your body and get rid of the toxins.

Detoxification…

At first at the advice of a friend I gave up dairy. Literally 4 days later all my active lesion on my face flattened out. I was shocked. At 24…after about 11 years of suffering I thought I had found the CURE. I didn’t know whether to be so excited about my new discovery or upset that I hadn’t tried this sooner. I decided to go with the former and took a deep dive into nutrition swearing off dairy and telling everyone I knew it was poison! What I learned in the coming years was that removing dairy wasn’t exactly the cure but rather a lightbulb to awaken me to the idea that healing starts in the body. My body was TOXIC and dairy was a big contributor. Why didn’t ANY of the countless doctors I saw tell me about this? In fact most of them told me that what I put in my body would have NOTHING to do with my skin. OMG this fact is devastating and still happens a lot today. If you take ANYTHING from reading this far, please let it be…you are what you eat.

My yoga practice begins…

I got into a grove with my diet, my skin cleared up 90% and then I discovered hot yoga. I fell in love! It helped me detox my mind, heal emotionally from a breakup, meet new amazing friends and get fully acquainted with my body. My growing connection to my mind body and emotions helped clear my skin even further. Then I started to understand true vitality. I decided to become a yoga teacher, I loved how much it healed my mind, body, and soul.

Then I Fell in love with essential oils…

All the yoga teachers at my studio used essential oils. I didn’t understand it but they smelled good. A friend of mine gave me some oils to try from her MLM company one day. I started using these oils in all my classes, all over my own body and my students. I had no idea their therapeutic value I just liked their smell. Then one day a student came up to me after class and asked, “what carrier oil do you use?” I replied, “what’s a carrier oil?” she said “Honey you cannot just put straight essential oil on strangers! That’s dangerous!” Horrified and still completely unaware of what she was talking about I went home and did major research.

Penn + Olive was the best accident…

I dove head first into learning everything I possibly could about essential oils. Did you know that they can be dangerous on your skin if you don’t dilute them? Did you know that you need to formulate recipes that are made with the right ratio and dilution to put them on your skin safely? Luckily math and science is my JAM so I fell in love with learning and creating my own formulas. Did you know they can help with focus and sleep and energy and back pain and hormones and cleaning and SO MANY THINGS?! I started making my own blends that shocked me every single time I found them actually working. When I used my Sleep blend for the first and slept like I had just taken an Ambien but also didn’t wake up hung over…I was floored. I started giving them away to friends, and when that got expensive I started selling them…and here we are.

Where we’re at now…

So now I’ve decided to share what I’ve learned in every way I can. I’ve been selling these products I believe in so deeply but lately I’ve been seeing my past self in others. Women who are suffering with adult acne who have no clue why, because no one talks about. Women who feel the pain I once felt. Who notice that people stare at their skin first. The women who won’t go outside without loads of make up on, or worse won’t go out at all. I know what that feels like. The deep lack of confidence. The fear that when someone looks at you, acne is all they see. The exhaustion of constantly having to think about your skin the moment you wake up before you consider anything else for the day.

I seek to help women get out of this feeling, to understand that it is possible to heal your skin and that you will one day wake up and not have to worry if you sprouted another deep pimple.

If you are at the end of your rope and have tried everything I’d love to speak with you and see if we can talk about how we can work together.