Overcoming Hormone Imbalance and Infertility Through Concierge Functional Medicine and Nutrition

Before working with Shae Leonard, the symptoms that I was dealing with was 100% total hormone imbalance. I had a pretty good extensive back history of eating disorders. And so, due to that, I had lost my period. I think the thing that made me reach out to Shae Leonard was that my sister-in-law, one of her best friends and coworker, had worked with Shae and she was in a similar situation as my husband and I, and we're longing pretty much to get a family started and had been told by every other avenue that it wasn't going be possible unless IVF entered the picture. I started working with Shae, and I figured out that there was a totally different set of answers than what the general medical field had been telling me for most of my life. I felt supported by Shae and Rachel and the entire team by constantly knowing that they were checking in on me, whether that was on the daily with biochanic and entering in my feelings or my thoughts or my anxiety levels, stress, whatever. If it wasn't that, it was the group coaching calls that we had every single week. And if it wasn't that, it was the one-on-one calls to where I felt heard. I felt like I could be open and be myself and I could get one-on- one feedback from a medical practitioner that I had never gotten in my life before that. Some of the specific health benefits that I have received since working with Shae was a total newfound understanding of nutrition and what my body needs and what my body doesn't need and what heals it and what hurts it. As far as symptom relief goes, I used to deal with really, really bad anxiety. I have pretty much no anxiety. I was dealing with a lot of hormonal headaches. Those are gone. I have a newfound relationship with myself as far as I trust myself again and I love myself again. What makes Shae's approach different to the ones that I've tried in the past is the one- on-one concierge care. I knew that if I truly needed something, all it took was me reaching out via email or through Biocanic, and I knew that I'd be getting a response pretty promptly. When you're her patient, when you're on board as a client, she gives you that one-on-one attention and the utmost detail. The inspiration that I have found through Shae is a totally different mindset in my day-to-day activities, whether it's practicing gratitude, mindful eating, just being kinder to myself. And then I think wholeheartedly the biggest inspiration being that Shae, like myself, has dealt with infertility issues. And I think that her story gives me hope to continue on and know that I'm on the right path, my husband and I are on the right path. And just because we didn't choose conventional medicine, I believe that God's got it in our future and that's solely working with Shae as a collaborator and knowing that He put her in our lives too, for a reason. For anyone who is hesitant working with Shae, I would say this: think about the things that you spend on average daily that don't matter. Starbucks runs, shopping, a night out with girlfriends, lunch with coworkers. You add all those things up over the course of a year and you've blown through money with absolutely nothing to show for it. Working with Shae has taught me life lessons that, in my 35 years, nobody else had taught me. I wish I would have known about her way sooner because I would have been in a boat that wasn't sinking a long time ago. I just want to say to Shae, congratulations on your new baby girl. And also, thank you so very much, you and Rachel, for working with me, for opening up my eyes and showing me the possibility of a new world that I never even dreamed possible. Autum Stewart, Midland, Texas.