My Personal Story
I graduated nursing school and experienced irregular cycles, spotting and hormonal acne. Being familiar with the medical field, I was eager to get to the root of the problem instead of masking my symptoms with hormonal birth control. I sought out a medical provider who was trained in “NaProTechnology”. NaProTechnology is a new women’s health science that works is correlation with the women’s body, not against it. My provider suggested I start charting my cycles with the Creighton Model so that we could obtain some cycle-times blood work.
This was the beginning of my journey with the Creighton Model. I was able to get help. Sure enough, my progesterone was incredibly low. I was started on natural progesterone in my luteal phase and after a while of my body adjusting, my symptoms improved.
I moved states and started a new job at a NaPro family-medicine clinic. I got to work daily with women in similar situations. I also started to become incredibly passionate about working with couples struggling with infertility and miscarriages. I began the process to become a FertilityCare Practitioner so that I could teach other women and couples how to chart their cycles to get help- like I did.
Flash forward a few years, I married my freshman-year college sweetheart and we have since used the Creighton Model as a method of family planning. The Creighton system is truly an investment in your future and will help give you the tools to become an active participant in monitoring your own gynecological health.
Through working as a registered nurse at a NaPro doctor’s office as well as educating as a fertility care practitioner, I became convicted that I wanted to do more. I wanted to be able to not only teach my clients how to chart their menstrual cycles, I wanted to teach them natural ways to help support their hormones to feel the best version of themselves!
This is why I began the process of becoming a certified hormone coach through the Fiat Institute. I am in the midst of training for this right now but am eager to begin working with clients shortly.
What does Cana Lifestyle mean?
Living a Cana lifestyle is inspired by one of my favorite Bible verses, the wedding at Cana described in John chapter 2.
It says, “On the third day there was a wedding* in Cana* in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus and his disciples were also invited to the wedding. When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” [And] Jesus said to her, “Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servers, “Do whatever he tells you.”
Living a Cana lifestyle is just that, doing whatever He tells you. God calls us to live in harmony with our bodies. 1 Corinthians 6:19, “Do you not know that your body is a temple of the holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?”
God created us mind, bodies and spirits. Our bodies are sacred and need to be treated with the utmost respect and care.
The story goes on, “Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, “Fill the jars with water.” So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, “Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter.”*So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, “Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now.” Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs* in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him.”
This miracle revealed his glory and confirmed the sanctity of marriage. The fact that this miracle happened at a wedding depicts the beauty and gift of marriage and family life. Miracles truly happen daily, even in this day and age, especially in regard to fertility, marriage, health, mental and spiritual wellbeing. Here at Cana Lifestyle, we work tandem with your God-given, beautiful body to help restore health so you can be fully who God desires you to be.