Dear Friend,

I’m sorry we are meeting here, but I welcome you to stay.

I’m Anne, a naturopathic practitioner, functional genomics specialist, and bereaved mom. I spent years helping others find wellness—running labs, analyzing genetics, designing nutritional protocols, and teaching people how to bring their bodies back into balance after a cancer diagnosis. I worked at an alternative cancer clinic, and I loved my job. It was science and soul intertwined, and it was sacred.

Then, in 2022, my youngest child, AJ, was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.

As both a mother and a naturopathic practitioner working in cancer care, I thought: If anyone could find a way to help him through this, it would be me. I understood inflammation, detoxification, mitochondria, methylation, microbiomes—I had the education, the holistic cancer tools, and all the resources to tackle AJ’s cancer from every angle.

But no amount of intervention, love, or prayer changed what was written in his cells. His oncologist told him medicine failed him. As his mom, I felt that I had failed him.

After years of treatment and a relentless fight to live, my sweet 22 year old boy, my beloved AJ died.

And with him, the woman I was.

The Collapse

The years of intense caregiving left my nervous system stuck in hypervigilant survival mode. Then, despite every effort, I was robbed of my child. My already tender wounds were brutally reopened and doused with metaphorical acid that incinerated every ounce of my existence, yet somehow I was still breathing and expected to survive. I couldn’t think clearly, regulate my emotions, or care enough to do anything about it. And under all of my despair was the crushing guilt that I—a naturopath who’d spent her career helping people heal from cancer—couldn’t save my own child.

I questioned everything. Every decision in AJ’s journey. My education. My faith. My profession. My worth. My past, present, and future. WHY!!!

Child loss is the most devastating and disorienting experience a human can endure.

I trusted God but felt deeply betrayed by Him. I believed in heaven, yet raged at this separation from my child. My faith didn’t die, but it fractured into something stripped down bare, brutally honest, and unrecognizable - LAMENT. The book of Psalms became my anthem, and I screamed without apology.

In that place of total unraveling, I began to study what grief really does to the body: how trauma alters gene expression, how chronic stress burns out mitochondria, how the HPA axis can freeze a person in time. I became aware of the extent to which I am biologically altered by love, trauma, and profound loss and realized if I didn’t do anything about it, I’d likely be staring at a diagnosis for myself. On one hand I didn’t care, but on the other, I knew my two living children needed what was left of their mother, and for them, I could try to rise from these ashes.

The Rebuild

So I began again.

Not as a practitioner who had all the answers, but as a broken mother who needed a way to live inside her own skin again. I applied everything I knew about functional genomics, cellular repair, and trauma biology—not to cure grief, but to survive it differently.

That process became the foundation for the Path to Find the Light course—a 12-week online hand-in-hand walk for bereaved parents ready to begin cellular healing.

It’s not about fixing grief. It’s about finding safety again in a body that has endured the unendurable. It’s about rebuilding mitochondria, restoring energy, regulating the nervous system, and allowing new life to emerge within the landscape of profound loss. My hope is that this course will provide you with a soft landing from this unbearable freefall. My hope is that you will be able to integrate these personalized lessons and allow them to launch you towards the glimmer of light that still shines.

My Professional Background

I hold a doctorate degree in Traditional Naturopathy and am a Registered Traditional Naturopath with the International Association of Natural Health Practitioners. I earned my bachelor’s degree in Health and Wellness and hold certifications in Holistic Nutrition, Functional Genomics, Gut Ecology & Metabolic Modulation, and Functional Blood Chemistry.

But none of that compares to the education grief has given me. The truest credentials I have now were written through tears, cellular collapse, a throwdown with faith, and a fight to find a spark and follow it to the light.

The Invitation

If you’ve lost a child, please know: This truly is the worst thing ever, and it’s ok to feel everything you are feeling. You are a nervous system trying to survive the unimaginable.

Through One Eleven Wellness and the Path to Find the Light, I walk beside you as we learn to live again, rebuild our energy, and find light—not by erasing the pain, but by honoring it.

You don’t have to rise. You just have to keep breathing.
And when you’re ready, we’ll chase the light together.