I Passed Out Twice in Front of My Two-Year-Old Daughter. That Was the Moment Everything Changed.

It was February 2025.

A regular workday when we were getting ready in the morning, getting the little one ready for daycare, taking the dog out (R.I.P. Whisky ) etc... the usual 'hustle bustle' mornings that everyone in this rat race has... But this morning was extra hard because my period had started and I already felt the weakness in my body, the pain that feels like your intestines are being twisted so the passing out was coming. And it happened.

My daughter was two years old. She needed me the way two-year-olds need their mothers, completely and constantly. And I was on the floor, while my partner had to walk out the dog.

I passed out twice that day. In front of her. I vomited. The pain from my period was so severe that my body simply gave out. I couldn't get up. I couldn't care for her. I couldn't do the one thing that mattered more to me than anything I had ever performed, achieved, or delivered in my entire life.

That was the moment I knew something had to fundamentally change.

Not managed. Not suppressed. Changed.

This wasn't new. This had been my life.

Long before that February, I had learned to perform through pain that most people will never experience.

I was a Division one basketball athlete in New York. The kind of environment where your body isn't just yours - it's a business asset. People are counting on you. They're paying for you. Results matter. Weakness, real or perceived, is not an option.

And yet, mid-practice, I would have to stop.

Get down on my knees.

And stay there.

From the outside, I can only imagine what it looked like. Someone who couldn't handle it. Someone fragile. I was pale as paper, trying not to pass out or vomit on the gym floor, and nobody understood why - because endometriosis doesn't show up on the outside. It's invisible. Which makes it one of the loneliest conditions a woman can carry into any performance environment.

What most people don't know: 1 in 10 women of reproductive age has endometriosis. The World Health Organization puts the global number at 190 million. In every locker room, every boardroom, every team - there are women silently managing this. Told they're weak. Told it's normal. Told to push through.

I pushed through for years.

Until the day I couldn't get up off my own floor with my daughter watching. I've had those days before, but this February was different.

The diagnosis: And what came with it.

When I finally had a name for what I'd been living with - endometriosis, confirmed, along with cysts in my ovaries that required surgery, diagnosed summer of 2023 - the medical recommendation was clear: go on hormonal medication. Suppress my cycle indefinitely. No period, no problem.

I understood the logic. The pain was real. The surgery was real. And the doctors were doing exactly what they were trained to do.

But sitting with that recommendation, something in me couldn't accept that silencing my body was the same as healing it. It felt less like a solution and more like surrender - shutting down a system that was desperately trying to communicate something important.

I said no.

Where healing actually started: And it wasn't where I expected.

The first thing I did wasn't change my diet. It wasn't a protocol or a supplement.

It was going inward.

I started with my subconscious mind.

Because here's what my background in neuroscience had always told me, and what I'd spent years helping clients understand: the body does not exist separately from the mind. A nervous system that has been running in survival mode - carrying old fear, old stress, old identity programs wired in from years of pressure and performance and pushing through -creates a hormonal and immune environment that cannot fully heal.

The inflammation. The pain. The cycles that turned my body into a battlefield every month. These weren't just physical events happening to me. They were my body's translation of everything my subconscious was still holding. Years of performing through pain and calling it strength. Years of disconnecting from what my body was telling me because there was always something more important to deliver.

I had been a high performer on the outside and completely at war on the inside for a very long time.

So I went to the root. I did the subconscious mind work - the same work I now guide my clients through. Identifying the programs. Dissolving the patterns. Rebuilding a new internal baseline, not just managing the symptoms sitting on top of it.

Then I changed how I ate.

Specifically, I began syncing my food and fasting to my cycle using the Fast Like a Girl method by Dr. Mindy Pelz (thank you so much, Mindy!) working with my hormones rather than overriding them. Recognizing that my body's needs shift through four distinct phases every month, and that treating it like a machine running identically every day had been part of the problem.

What happened.

The pain stopped.

The cramps that had put me on my knees in New York gyms, that had put me on the floor in front of my daughter - gone. My cycles regulated for the first time in years. My body, for the first time in a long time, felt like it was on my side.

And then the labs confirmed what I was already living.

February 2025 — AMH (ovarian reserve): 33.8 pmol/L

May 2026 — AMH: 37.1 pmol/L

AMH - Anti-Müllerian Hormone - is the marker used to assess egg count and ovarian reserve. It's expected to decline with age. After endometriosis. After ovarian cyst surgery, which inherently reduces ovarian tissue.

Mine went up.

Fifteen months after I started this work, my ovarian reserve has increased. That is not what the research predicts. That is not what my doctors would have predicted.

But it's what my body did when I stopped trying to suppress it and started actually listening to it.

Lab results:

Date: Feb. 14, 2025

"Egg count" = 33.8 pmol/L

Lab results:

Date: May 12, 2026

"Egg count" = 5.20 ng/ml which is in the same measurement as previous test approximately 37.1 pmol/L

Why I'm sharing this.

Because I know there are women reading this who have been on their knees literally or figuratively.

In a gym, in an office, in their own home, in front of someone who needed them.

Women who have been handed a solution that felt more like giving up. Who have been told their pain is weakness, or that the best they can do is manage it.

I want you to know that what's possible might be bigger than what you've been told.

The body is not broken. It's communicating. And when you go deep enough past the symptoms, past the management, past the suppression - you find a system that is extraordinarily capable of healing itself when given the right environment to do so.

That's what this work is. That's what healing at the root actually means.

This is my story and it doesn't mean yours will be the same. But the changes I made and the work I have done is my proof.

If you have questions or you want to see a video of me telling my story and showing every step that I did, email to info@themindmastering.com