Hi, my name is Jena.
My goal is to help people better understand their health choices! The Wellness Resolution uncovers many of the lies and deceptions about health, and helps people to discover the truth about what it means to live a wellness lifestyle!
I have a Wellness Coach, Happiness Coach, and Life Coach Certificate, but most importantly I have gained unique expertise from becoming chronically sick with debilitating chronic pain and depression, and finding a way out of the hole of darkness that engulfed me and beckoned to swallow me whole. I found a way out through my persistent efforts to keep fighting, the support of my husband, and my religious faith in God. Through my journey, I’ve not only seeing health improvements, but a path to dive deep into learning about why chronic illness is becoming more common and what can be done about it.
Here is a short summary of my chronic illness story and path to make a difference.
Becoming Chronically Sick
After the flu triggered my chronic illness and I began to have horrible stomach pains, my whole world started to unravel. I started to get more migraines, back pain, chest pain, pain in my neck, constipation, and food sensitivities to half of everything I ate. I even struggled to sleep at night. Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night in severe pain. Even after 10 hours of sleep, I suffered from horrible fatigue. Then the depression started. I began to wish I was dying.
This was around two months after I decided to start my own business. So I would get up early to go to networking events with my fear of talking in front of people, full-on fatigue, and pain. But, I would pretend like I felt perfectly normal. I pretended all the time that I felt okay because I didn’t want pity or attention. I just wanted to feel normal.
Finding a way out of the Darkness and Recovering
This is an art piece I created a long time ago.
After a year of getting every test done by medical doctors and them just diagnosing me with IBS, I realized I needed a new direction. But, I had no direction. So I prayed and prayed, and decided to join an evening, educational church class. It didn’t help with the depression, not the kind of depression I had. What I found instead was someone who visited a naturopath for her chronic health condition and had life-changing results. At the time I was skeptical but had no other answers.
It took a long time, but with the help of the naturopath doctor, I got my life back. I went from three days out of a week unable to work just lying on the couch in pain, to now being able to function almost like normal: sleeping well, full of energy, no longer depressed, etc. In the last few years I have worked with many other natural health practitioners on other areas of my health and made even more improvements.
Obtaining My Expertise
When Life Hands You Lemons and You Make Lemonade…
Meanwhile, I was randomly approached by a startup nonprofit that helps chronic illness sufferers looking for marketing help. It felt like fate because I had been thinking “how can I help other chronic sufferers?” As the main marketing and content creator, I have written and researched in-depth over 35 natural remedies and holistic treatments. I have read 1,000’s of articles on wellness topics and counting and met face-to-face with various holistic based health practitioners. Additionally, I’ve helped many wellness businesses with their marketing. My natural holistic doctor who changed my life infinitely for the better became my client. I did online marketing for that business for many years. I also did the marketing for a chiropractor clinic for over four years.
My Own Personal Research
Along with all my professional experience, I have made it a personal goal of mine to understand why I became chronically sick. The answers from my naturopath were super helpful, but I kept on digging deeper and deeper. I wanted to know not only why this happened to me personally, but why so many others around me were starting to struggle with some form of anxiety, food sensitivities, gut problems, migraines, and more. Why is chronic illness becoming more common? Why is cancer so common?
Over the last 7 years, I have been connecting the dots. I’ve connected dots using my own personal research, the information I have learned through natural practitioners, and through the nonprofit, I’ve been marketing and developing content for. Now I have obtained this huge fundamental understanding that can’t be explained in one discussion or one written piece of content. I understand things in a way that less than 5% of the population does. So I feel burdened by not sharing my knowledge. I don’t want anyone to suffer from even 10% of the things I have suffered with.
What you will Learn from my Blog
My expertise includes problems with the U.S. healthcare system, the food marketing lies, the political corruption, and how history has influenced and distorted our current views on health care and what it means to be healthy. I have an understanding of the main root causes of most modern illnesses. Plus, what alternative treatments are out there to help before a condition becomes detrimental. I have learned a great deal on how to obtain a wellness lifestyle in an effort to improve one’s health, live a fuller life, while also trying to prevent illness and disease.
My depth of knowledge is ever-growing as I still continuously work to improve my health, network with various health and wellness practitioners, plus research, do marketing for my clients, and write content.
