MEET ARIEL

Ariel, a nutritionist health coach since 2017, farmer since 2015, and speaker. She helps people fix the root cause of their gut and brain problems so they can experience more balance, joy, and function to their life, allowing them to finally heal from chronic mental, physical, and emotional conditions.

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Her passion for health comes from her own life challenges at a young age. Ariel was born with a life long condition known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta (O.I.), a genetic condition resulting in weak bone formation that allows her bones to break more than the average person. She has experienced over 22 surgeries and over 30 broken bones by the age of 15 years old.
 

At age 11 she was getting treatment and counseling for depression and anxiety as a result of her physical traumas, parent's traumatic divorce and co-parenting, bullying, isolation, and physical and emotional abuse. Ariel was under so much pain and despair that she would do anything to learn how to end the cycle of pain in her body, mind, spirit and her home.

She contributes her beginnings of farming and food education at SIUC to be the foundation of her healing and success. Her experience working with food on a deeply connected level has healed her depression, overcome her anxiety, experiences zero physical pain and has found a deep meaning in service of providing a service for others to find healing like she has.

Ariel believes that no matter what life challenges and pain you have gone through everyone has much more choice in how they want to live, they just need guidance to get there.