Today we’d like to introduce you to Tiffany Meyer.
Tiffany, can you briefly walk us through your story – how you started and how you got to where you are today.
In 2013, I was a corporate girl focused on “climbing the ladder”, with almost ten years of experience in Big Data Analytics. Out of the blue that spring, my mom was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. At 62 years old, my mom seemed to be the perfect picture of health. She did Pilates three to four times a week, sprinkled flaxseed on her organic cereal, ate salads all the time, all the crazy health nut things. I was the opposite, fixing my Digornio frozen pizza before getting on a late night call with our Ireland office, popping Advil to fight off yet another migraine. “Climbing the ladder” was put on hold when she was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma in May, dying just a few weeks later in July.
It hit me in a way nothing ever has and shook me to the core. Losing her was my wake up call that all those migraines torturing me weren’t normal. That the skin rashes weren’t normal. That the “extra 20-30 pounds” I carried wasn’t normal. My migraines meant frequent visits to urgent care or the ER, and even an IV of morphine couldn’t dull the pain. For all the times I’d mocked her, how could she have been healthy, or at least seemed to be healthy, yet cancer fiercely attacked her like it does so many others? And we didn’t even really get a chance to fight it.
After her death, I started looking into the “root cause for migraines”. Good luck finding results for that with Google. The truth is, doctors, don’t know why migraines happen. Don’t get me wrong – I’m not against western medicine, but doctors treat symptoms and teach you to notice “triggers”. I wanted to address the root cause. I started listening to a popular health podcast – The Fat Burning Man. One of his guests. Mary Shenouda, the PaleoChef, really stood out to me. This was the first time I’d really heard of Paleo. And get this – Mary’s health concern? She was a workaholic in the corporate space and she suffered from debilitating migraines. That was my FIRST real link to migraines and food. Mary found out she has Celiac Disease. While I don’t have a confirmed Celiac diagnosis, all the pieces started to come together for me. I started researching nutrition like crazy.
In fact, I was so passionate about it, I decided it was time for a career change. I was starting to heal my own body through food, and I wanted to help others, but I had no idea how. I heard Mary on another podcast, Balanced Bites. This is where I first heard of Liz Wolfe and the Nutritional Therapy Association (NTA). Liz was a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and talked about whole foods, nutrient density, how to address common symptoms like fatigue and irritable bowel syndrome through FOOD. I wanted the same education she had. I wanted to HELP people. So four years and just a couple of months after my mom died, I enrolled with the NTA hoping I could use my education to transition into corporate wellness.
Once I started the program, I was hooked. During one of the craziest years of my life — midterms and finals, not to mention being the key witness in a big trial, getting married, moving into a new house, holding down a corporate job with a boss that seemed like a nice guy but in reality was a total creep with an inappropriate motive — I decided I wanted to be 100% dedicated to helping people directly. No more corporate – no more creepy boss, no more micromanaged 8:30-5, no more bad breakroom coffee and fluorescent lighting.
A few months after completing my certification, I was ready to go full time and launch my business, Tiffany Meyer Wellness. These days I’m 100% dedicated to helping other people find the root cause and heal through food, and the joy of being a part of that journey with someone is amazing! While my journey started with something incredibly tragic, I know my mom would be so proud of me today, and she’d be my biggest advocate. My goal is to help as many people as I can!
Great, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Transitioning from the corporate world to running my practice hasn’t been as difficult as I initially anticipated! Thankfully, a lot of the skills I’ve learned in business are very transferable. While I didn’t know how to build a website, or how to send out a weekly newsletter, figuring all that out wasn’t so bad! The biggest challenge I have today is balancing where to put my energy each day. Clients always come first, always. If they have a question or need clarification, that’s always the number one item on my agenda.
Please tell us about your practice.
I am incredibly proud of my practice. It’s me, 100%. I don’t have a marketing coordinator (although hopefully one day I will!), I’m not paying someone to run my website, I don’t have someone else responding to emails or taking phone calls for new clients. This is a one-woman show! When you work with me, you work directly with me, hand in hand through your health journey. I also work behind the scenes for my husband’s chiropractic practice. It’s definitely nice to be able to offset one another, with structural issues supported through nutrition, and vice versa. We’re separate businesses, but the work is so complementary!
My migraines are why I became a Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, so it’s a big part of my practice. I found a large part of my own root cause was constant, chronic inflammation in my body, and I make choices to manage that daily. I see so many clients struggling with inflammation that manifests in different ways – allergies and headaches, hormone imbalances, digestive issues, stress, brain fog, the list go on and on. The truth is, inflammation is at the root of so many things, including cancer. Whether you have chronic sinus infections or you just received your cancer diagnosis, it’s not too late to start managing your health through nutrition. Everyone receives their own set of recommendations based on their own unique set of symptoms and assessment results, and no two clients are the same. Ever. I take local and remote clients, so why wait?
Do you look back particularly fondly on any memories from childhood?
I’m the youngest of four kids and the only girl. Our home was “the cool house”, so everyone constantly had friends over. When things got too loud or too chaotic, or there were just too many boys, I’d go into my closet. I had these built-in bookshelves that seemed enormous as a kid. In reality, they were probably 6 feet high, but I would climb those shelves and hide up there with a good book, waiting for the noise to die down. It was the best hiding spot!
Pricing:
- Individuals interested in working with Tiffany can save 20% off their Initial Evaluation when mentioning “Voyage” when signing up.
Contact Info:
- Address: 100 W Southlake Blvd, Suite 410, Southlake TX 76092
- Website: www.tiffanymeyerwellness.com
- Phone: 817.412.8626
- Email: tiffanymeyerwellness@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tiffanymeyerwellness/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tiffanymeyerwellness/
Image Credit:
All photos taken by Tiffany Meyer.
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