Meet Shae
Senior Naturopath (BHSc) and Clinic Founder
Hi! I'm Shae, the Gut Naturopath.
I’m a Naturopath (BHSc) and Certified Health Coach (CHHC) with a special focus in gut issues.
I've healed from celiac, SIBO, thyroid & liver issues, and now I run the Happy Healing Clinic, where we help women frustrated with bloating and chronic gut issues fix them permanently, so they can start living the life of their dreams.
I understand what you’re going through because I went through it too.
I thought I’d never escape the vicious cycle of illness I was caught in.
Here's my story...
Being unwell completely took over my life.
I’d hit bottom. I was so incredibly sick, and nothing I did changed it. I’d become too sick too work – and was fast going broke with all the supplements and health stuff I was trying.
I’d started hiding out from the world – feeling too sick to go out, and too ashamed at how awful I looked from being sick. I became an anxious recluse, hiding out from the world and avoiding social situations. My relationships were suffering. People were disappearing from my life, the invitations were stopping.
My life became about one thing and one thing only: my sick body. I didn’t feel like a real person anymore. I was a shadow of my former self, although I was now 20kg heavier thanks to this disease.
I started to think I’d never get better. I felt like already tried everything. I was sick of wasting money. I was sick of wasting time. I was going through naturopaths and doctors like they were cheating boyfriends.
But, most of all, I was sick of being sick.
Today, I look back on that scared girl and my heart breaks for her, just like it breaks for anyone else who ever has to endure this kind of misery and hopelessness.
But we absolutely can escape it. And I want to show you how.
How it all started...
At 21-years-young I was diagnosed with celiac disease – yeah, the “don’t eat gluten and you’ll be fine” one.
Except I wasn’t fine.
My diagnosis was unfortunately just the start, and I watched with horror as my health slowly declined in the years that followed, no matter how many green smoothies or supplements I threw at it.
I was trying everything I could possibly find and afford, going deeper and deeper down the healing and wellness rabbit hole.
Before my diagnosis...
I’d been having uncomfortable and concerning stomach pains and mild IBS symptoms for several years and couldn’t find out why, despite many doctors visits, tests and invasive procedures (including a laparoscopy).
But then the pain kicked up a notch. I wasn’t feeling good at all, and I was putting on weight at lightning speed.
I figured out the intense pain would come on just after eating bread, and after a little research went back to the doctor and asked to be tested for celiac disease. It came back positive.
So, my stomach was being destroyed each time I ate gluten. My body was caught in a vicious cycle of immune responses. My body was on fire with inflammation.
And I was drowning in toxicity created from my own gut and immune system, as well as storing environmental toxins way better than other people because my liver couldn’t cope.
9 years later I would find out I had a genetic liver condition the whole time (Gilbert’s syndrome). And I was not absorbing nutrients – my body was starving for nourishment.
I just kept getting worse
I was relieved to finally have a diagnosis after years of mystery symptoms, and thought I was on the road to a quick recovery.
Except that not eating gluten wasn’t enough. My symptoms continued to get worse, my health continued to decline and my weight continued to skyrocket. The damage had already been done to my digestive system, and trying to figure out everything that gluten was in was a label-reading nightmare.
Traditional western medicine had no solutions for my illness. I was lost. I didn’t know what to do. I didn’t know what was going wrong. And I didn’t know how to fix it.
So I did the only thing left to do: I took charge of my own health and became an obsessive researcher, trying to figure out what was going on with my body.
I tried everything. I’m not exaggerating.
I went strictly gluten-free. I wouldn’t even eat out. But made many gluten-mistakes in the first 6-12 months.
I went vegan – not just vegan, but clean vegan, making all my own food from scratch.
I spent all my time on my health and preparing healthy food.
But I was getting sicker. I felt like I was actually dying. Neurological symptoms, deathly fatigue, brain fog, memory loss, pain & inflammation everywhere, joint pain, headaches, nausea, bloating, constipation, gut pain every day. I couldn’t live anymore. I couldn’t work anymore.
I tried everything...
I did Gerson therapy – a full-time job of making juices, specific meals and coffee enemas.
Then I did GAPs/SCD/Keto – making bone broth, sauerkraut, organ meat, high fat meals.
I tried every supplement. Green smoothies. Probiotics. Collagen. Vitamins.
I went to multiple Naturopaths, chiropractors, integrative doctors, reiki, kinesiology, psychotherapy.
Then I found out I had SIBO – explaining the continued chronic bloating and constipation despite a gluten-free diet.
I got all the best testing done – full gene profile, the most expensive stool test, bloods regularly, ultrasounds.
The bi-phasic diet. No carbs/fruit. Antibacterial herbs. Antibiotics. For over 8 months.
And after all this – I had only gotten worse.
Utterly defeated.
No money left.
Disillusioned with natural healing.
I finally started healing...
Then I went rogue.
I started studying to be a Naturopath, and at the same time I found Medical Medium and started implementing his protocols, alongside Naturopathic principles and herbalism I was learning.
Within 6 months I could feel the difference, a year later my gut symptoms I'd been battling for 10 years had disappeared.
Healing. Finally healing.
I started rebuilding my life, piece by piece.
Now I help other with complex and chronic gut issues...
I combine a unique blend of Naturopathy, nutrition, herbalism, Medical Medium protocols, soul/spirit/mind healing, my lived experience and clinical practice experience for my patients.
So you can finally heal too.
Unfortunately I know my story is not a unique one.
Patients often come to me after having spent unfathomable amounts of time, money and energy on protocols that don’t work, or work for a little while but leave you worse in the end.
Because I have lived this, I know there is a better way.
The reason I became a Naturopath and started this clinic was because I don't want anyone to suffer unnecessarily like I did when there are real answers and solutions to your health issues.
I know how deeply gut issues can impact your life in every way imaginable.
We are here to help you get your life back.
Happy healing,
Love Shae xx
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