A Personal Journey to Wellness

Hi, I’m Juli J.

Twenty-four years ago, I was crying on a grocery store floor, desperately trying to read labels and keep my two-year-old daughter alive. She’d just been hospitalized with celiac disease, and I had to learn an entirely new way to feed my family – fast.

A year later, I was diagnosed too. Suddenly I wasn’t just cooking gluten-free for her – I was healing my own body.

That was over two decades ago. And what I’ve learned since then is this: removing gluten is just the beginning. Real healing goes deeper.

My Journey to Becoming an NTP

I became a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner because I wanted to understand the “why” behind what was happening in our bodies. I studied. I experimented. I cooked thousands of meals. And I learned that healing doesn’t come from following someone else’s perfect protocol – it comes from understanding what YOUR body needs.

Living with celiac disease for over two decades taught me that there’s no one-size-fits-all approach to healing. What works for one person may not work for another. Your body is unique. Your history is unique. Your healing journey will be unique too.

Through my own journey, I discovered that gluten-free processed food is still processed food. That box of gluten-free cookies isn’t healing your body. Real healing comes from whole, nourishing foods that your body recognizes and can actually use.

Now, I help people like you do exactly that.

 Hi, I’m Juli. I’ve been where you are. So has my family.

It started with my daughter, Paris.

She was a baby. And she wasn’t thriving the way she should have been. Failure to thrive… that’s the phrase they use. But there’s no clinical phrase for what it feels like as a parent.

We were young. First-time parents. Terrified. Watching our little girl and knowing in our gut that something was wrong, and not being able to fix it.

Then came the hospital. A week there with our baby, waiting for answers, holding her, scared in a way I had never been scared before.

The answer was celiac disease.

And then came the part nobody prepares you for. The grocery store.

I remember standing in the aisle, label in my hand, trying to understand words I had never had to read before. Tears coming. Overwhelmed. Just trying to figure out how to feed my own child without hurting her.

I cried on that grocery store floor.

That image has never left me. Because I know I’m not the only one who has been there.

For a whole year, I lived in that world. Learning to cook all over again. Reading every label. Rebuilding our kitchen from scratch.

And then… a year later… I was diagnosed too.

Suddenly it wasn’t just Paris. It was me. It was our whole house. Our whole life. Everything shifted.

I want you to hear this, especially if you’re newly diagnosed and standing in your own version of that grocery store aisle right now:

It does get easier.

Not because the disease goes away. But because you stop doing it alone. You learn the things. You find the foods. You build a life that feels like yours again, not a list of everything you’ve lost.

I know this because I’ve lived it since the year 2000. And because I went on to become a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner so I could help other people get there faster than I did.

Everything I do now happens around my kitchen table.

That’s where the classes are. That’s where the food gets made. That’s where people come to learn, to ask the questions they’re afraid to ask, and to feel normal again for an hour.

It’s a place for the newly diagnosed who don’t know where to start.

And it’s a place for the woman who has been gluten-free for forty years and still, some days, feels alone in it.

Pull up a chair.

We’ll cook real food. We’ll figure out what your body actually needs. And when it helps, I’ll bring in the tools I trust… the supplements and the doTERRA products I use in my own protocols.

But mostly, I’ll just be here. Like a big sister who already walked this road and came out okay.

You don’t have to do this alone.

I’m really glad you found your way to the table.

How we’ll work together!