As an integrative holistic health practitioner, Melanie's approach to helping clients achieve better health and wellness is very personalized, recognizing that each individual's path to healing is unique. Her own complicated health journey, which eventually resulted in multiple diagnosed autoimmune conditions, was exacerbated by experiencing a severe lack of doctors within the modern Western medical model, with a clear understanding and knowledge of the human body at a cellular level. Where allopathic doctors were only interested in the pharmaceutical suppression of symptoms, Melanie was interested in getting to the core of the issues. If diseases could be triggered, why couldn’t they also be healed? This led her to seeking education in functional medicine and nutrition, and clinical herbalism and would also eventually lead to her discovery that the path to healing is anything but linear. While lifestyle changes were a game-changer, simply correcting the nutritional deficiencies within the body would prove insufficient in achieving the balanced and sustainable health that she so desperately sought. Through her experiences, she would later learn that a holistic approach to healing also recognizes the interconnectedness of one’s physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being, and that at the root of any illness and/or disease, also lies an energetic component. This prompted her to further her studies, seeking trauma-informed education and certifications in polyvagal theory, somatic experiencing, meditation, breathwork, shamanic ceremony, sacred plant medicines, chakra healing and tapping/EFT. Her own lifestyle and wellness routine is now rooted in her expanded awareness and knowledge in a broad range of healing modalities, as well as deeply informs her personal spiritual practice, all of which promotes more balanced physical and emotional health, and is at the foundation of her approach as a holistic health and wellness mentor.