Growing Up

Natalie was born and raised in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where fast, processed, and sugary foods were the makeup of most people’s diets, including hers. She had many antibiotics as a child due to chronic ear infections. With the combination of her poor diet and stripping her gut health with antibiotics, she had set herself up to battle a laundry list of health ‘opportunities’.  She later learned these symptoms were a blessing in disguise and that it was her body trying to wake her up. These red flags were alerting her to take care of herself before they would turn into dis-ease. These symptoms included constipation, skin rashes, anxiety, mood swings, sinus infections, the list goes on and on.

Health Struggles & City Life

When Natalie moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota for college, her busy life working three jobs and going to school didn’t help to change much. She continued to live off of sugar, sinus infections, and caffeine drinks. Little did she know the stress of managing everything also disrupted her gut health, which continued into her corporate life after college. She quickly fell into the fast-paced, high stress culture of working long hours and after-work dinners and drinks. Natalie was getting sicker due to her poor habits compounding. She started going to the doctor, to have five minutes spent with her, and to leave with an antibiotic and not much information every.single.time.

Transformation

In her frustration for knowing there had to be an explanation and a better way,  Natalie started doing her own research, quickly realizing she was overgrown with yeast and fungus from depleting her gut microbiome with antibiotics and feeding it for years with sugar and dead foods or in other words, foods with no nutrients. It started to make sense that she needed to clean up her diet with nutritious food, while cleansing the body of old matter (poop!) so she could set up her gut to rebalance. Light bulbs were going off!

Move Was Born

Natalie did the craziest thing she’s ever done. She quit. She quit her unfulfilling corporate life to teach people how amazing their bodies are and how they can take care of themselves. Fast forward to today: Move is helping to educate people about their bodies, social programming, and what truly matters in life.

Accreditation

Natalie is a certified Colon Hydrotherapist (CT) and Nutritional Therapy Practitioner (NTP), which harnesses the power of real food and the unique needs of individual bodies. She has trained with experts at the Gerson Institute in San Diego, California, the natural cancer curing protocol developed by Dr. Max Gerson, two year herbal apprenticeship, and is also trained in the self H.A.R.T. Method, holistic abdominal relief therapy, a unique synthesis of Maya Abdominal Therapy with Techniques from the Aztec, Nahuatl and Mixteca cultures.

Minneapolis / St. Paul