Every once in a while, something happens that really matters. Something that will define at least the next chapter of your journey – perhaps it’s a conversation with a client, a meeting with a visionary or a major event in your personal life. Below, you’ll find some very insightful folks sharing defining moments from their journeys.

Laura Waldorf Reiss

There was a defining moment, early in my life, that quietly changed everything. I was diagnosed with severe dyslexia late in elementary school and after years of wondering why learning felt so hard to me while it seemed effortless to my sister and friends. While my friends went to the playground at recess, I went to the learning center. Read More>>

Britney Jones

Britney Jones is a talented alkaline vegan chef promoting good health across the United States. Her journey to a healthier lifestyle began when one of her daughters was diagnosed with a severe case of eczema. After researching, Britney soon came to understand the importance of gut health in treating her daughter’s condition. Read More>>

Joshua Park

I was diagnosed with an autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease in my mid-twenties, and my life began to unravel. Every day brought chronic diarrhea, nausea, abdominal pain, urgency, blood in my stool, and utter exhaustion. I was losing weight, losing stability, and losing hope. What was even worse than my physical collapse was the failure of every system I turned to. Doctors offered immunosuppressants. Read More>>

Karen Beckles

I spent more than twenty years in law enforcement. I learned to perform under pressure and to keep moving no matter what the day brought. Then I had a heart attack a year before I retired. That moment changed the direction of my life. Read More>>

Mariana Victoria Hernandez

I started my career in Venezuela where I’m originally from. I graduated in psychology back in 2019 and started working right away, mostly with kids. In 2020 after Covid hit, my country fell apart. There was barely any gas, you could be in a gas line for days. Power went on and off and same with water. Read More>>

Jennifer L X Sare

There have been ongoing defining moments throughout my career. The more I learn, the more I see, the more I want to grow. As an anthropologist and nutritionist with a background in philosophy and kinesiology, I see the human experience as multidimensional and interconnected. Read More>>

Heather Romero

During my first job in the field, I experienced an unexpected shift in my career path. At the time, I was working in community health with refugees. My desire to positively impact the world and the lives of others guided me to this career. Read More>>

Lindsey Nguyen

I believe that it is not so much one defining moment in time for me, but rather, an accumulation of professional experiences and human interactions that has impacted my new sense of purpose for my community. Read More>>

Marie Sporich

One of my first clients was a close friend who was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer at the age of 40. By the time it was found, it had already spread to her bones and her brain. Read More>>

Jasmine Hanson

In life we are lucky to have sparks of intuition, like fireflies in the night, guiding us on our path to becoming. The first of mine came on a small island in Indonesia, small enough to walk around the perimeter in a few hours. I found myself in a yin yoga class by accident, usually called to the high intensity power flows. Read More>>

Alexandra Granato-Garcia

For fifteen years, my corporate career was a rich ecosystem of its own, rooted in instructional design and training and development. I led a multidisciplinary creative team, and though my title was ‘lead,’ my truest work was building relationships, connecting with people on a deep human level. This systems-based thinking served me, yet a whisper of something more personal persisted. Read More>>

Wendy Massey

The defining moment in my career came 14 years ago, after a decade of working as an ER and Trauma Nurse. My son became deathly ill, and despite consulting some of the best physicians I knew, every appointment ended the same way — another prescription, another procedure. Read More>>

Lisa De la torre

Embarrassed to share but I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) in my early 20s — a condition that, unlike many others, can’t be managed with medication. Believe me, I tried. It’s a painful diagnosis, one that often brings emotional extremes and rapid shifts that can make the simplest things feel overwhelming. Read More>>

Michelle Johnson

I began studying hands-on body energy work in 1981. It was a specific approach toward Touch for Health created by Dr. Brian Jenner of Australia. Touch for Health is a ‘western’ hands-on therapy based largely on Eastern awareness of meridian energy in the body. Read More>>

Merry Street

My defining moment came in 2005 when I nearly died. In that instant, I had a choice — to let go or to live. I chose life. That decision opened a completely new path for me. I began exploring and developing my intuitive abilities and became deeply fascinated by the subconscious mind and how it shapes our reality. Read More>>

Krista Crescenzo

In 2018 I was working the evening shift as an RN on a Pediatric Inpatient Rehabilitation unit. I got an email from one of my fellow nurses about a Holistic Nursing certification program. Instantly intrigued, the more I read the more I wanted to know. This was definitely different from my conventional nurse training. Read More>>

TONY MOORE

At the age of 35, beaten and broken, I was sitting in a prison facing more time than I ever have faced in my entire life. While I was waiting on my new criminal charges to be completed, I prayed and asked God for forgiveness. One day my daughter Nancy and my sister Yvette came to visit me in Racine Correctional Institution. Read More>>

Esosa Edosomwan

Yes, absolutely. There was a specific day that crystallized everything for me and fundamentally changed how I saw my role as a Certified Nutrition Specialist. Read More>>

Josh Geetter

The defining moment presents every time I engage with a patient, customer, colleague, employee, or one of our clinic & shop mascots. Read More>>