Where Health Meets Home
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For over a decade, I worked in the healthcare field (hospitals, medical education companies, and private functional medicine clinics). Eventually, I started feeling the burnout that so many in healthcare experience. I wanted a way to be a help for people, but in a way that didn’t have me knee-deep in talking about disease states. I decided to make a career change and become a licensed REALTOR® in the state of Pennsylvania. I realized that there was so much room for improvement when it came to the world of real estate: Even down to the simple level of how agents were treating and “coaching” their clients. Initially, I was disheartened because, frankly, I’m not like the majority of the agents out there. I don’t care about the flashy watch or building a brand around the Selling Sunset types. I wanted to be authentically me and to help people through one of the biggest transitions of their lives.
As time went on, I still had an urge to help people improve their health; however, I wasn’t sure how to go about it in the real estate space. It was only after going through my own personal health journey and my own personal home renovation project that it hit me. Home health is oftentimes overlooked or undereducated about. Sure, you can read about how plants filter the air in Better Homes and Gardens, but I take a bigger picture approach to the matter, and focus on your home health essentials: Air, Water, Electricity, and Environmental issues. As I gained more experience as an agent (and spent plenty of time going through homes), I was shocked at how little people truly knew how to take care of their home health. My passion for creating both wellness and safety inside your home and your body has brought me to truly love what I do for a living.
And now, my “why” I’m so passionate for what I do.
The full home renovation of our 100 year old farm home in 2018-2019.
Renovating My Home & Health
My healing journey wasn’t something I chose to embark on merely because I wanted to be, “healthier.” I was happy-ish and content living my life just the way it was going, simply because it afforded me the chance to well, keep on doing what I was doing. All of that came to a crashing halt in 2019.
I was pregnant with our second child during a time where my family and I were living in our 100 year old farm home, which was being fully renovated. Maternity science says that when you are pregnant, your immune system drops to about 50% of it’s normal level so your body doesn’t reject your growing child (yay science). When you open the walls up in a 100 year old home, your going to have a lot flying around, including mold spores. With a compromised immune system, mold was able to take a hold, and colonize in my body; severely compromise my health. Ever since then, my health has not recovered to what it was prior. I spend years and thousands of dollars in order to figure out “the why,”and trying to fix myself while driving my nervous system deeper into dysregulation: Fun times!
Coming up for a breath air, did it all come down to the mold exposure from construction? No. That was the straw that broke the camels back though. What I know now is a whole host of reasons why my body was primed to get really sick from living in an old home through a whole home remodel (Lyme disease, co-infections, chronic stress response, prior concussions, genetics, etc.). Honestly, anyone who has a compromised immune system in any way would have had some effect from this. I can now truly empathize and advocate for others who are on this journey (and hopefully lessen the time they spend wondering, “why is this happening to me.”).
Through this journey, I’ve been able to meet and partner up with many professionals who can truly help with treating your health (physicians and practitioners), home mold remediation, proper construction practices, air quality maintenance, water filtration and more. The reality is that we live in a very different time now than we did even back in the 90’s, and we have to admit to the reality, make changes accordingly, and truly be of service to people and learn new ways of how to help people during the times we live in.