Tag: ovarian cancer

Welcome to my first official blog for my coaching and health and wellness programs. You’ve probably read a little bit about me but just in case my name is Serena Wills and I am a health and wellness coach. I received my Master of Arts in Health and Wellness Coaching from the Maryland University of Integrative Health. I have 20 years of nonprofit experience which covers everywhere from after school programming, Arts education, literacy, training programs for adults and the list goes on. I have served my communities well in that aspect. I learned a lot about the health field from my mother who is no longer with me due to losing her battle with ovarian cancer. She was an adoptive parent to two of my sisters; one had severe brain damage and lots of medical issues because her biological mother having and dying from AIDS and my youngest sister has moderate to severe autism due to being born to a crack-addicted mother. I learned about their conditions, how to be an advocate for your loved ones, neurological disorders and the list goes on through my mother. She learned because she cared greatly about my sister’s and had not one stitch of background and the medical field. When we lost my sister Ayana who was 24 years old we grieved but we also celebrated her life because the doctors did not think she would make it past the age of 1. Due to my mother’s care and not giving up on my sister she lived 24 years on this planet.

When my mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer we had wished that we knew more about integrative health, holistic healing, nutrition, herbalism, etc and my mother didn’t have the best diet, she was very stressed and she did not get regular check-ups from the doctor. She poured so much into her children that she left her own health behind. Between chemo drugs and chemotherapy it ripped my mother apart and my mother had only wished that she knew more about natural healing.

I became an advocate for ovarian cancer and GYN cancers after losing my mother but then my own personal health battle struck when I was bitten by a tick and a few months later was diagnosed with Lyme disease after having numerous misdiagnoses from various doctors. I was diagnosed with everything from asthma to multiple sclerosis before the Lyme diagnosis. I tried the antibiotic route but it did not help me whatsoever. I was guided to an Integrative Health doctor in Washington DC, from there I met the neurologist I have now after a former neurologist didn’t know about Lyme disease. Even my current neurologist believes a lot in holistic and Integrative Health and I formulated a medical team of naturopaths, nutritionist, herbalist, chiropractor, acupuncturist and I learned so much of what I wish I would have known when my mom was sick.

My nutritionist and herbalist was at the time Tai Sophia Institute which is now Maryland University of Integrative Health. I was fascinated with the people, the building and the love and care I got from the staff because I walked in as a patient not knowing that years later I would walk out as a graduate with a graduate degree. The more I learned the more intrigued I was to go back to school because I wanted to help people in such a way where I wasn’t telling them what to do and giving them blatant advice but to be their guide on the side and the school had an excellent health and wellness coaching program.

Not only have I learned how to help others by being a health and wellness coach but I learned to help myself and become a better person not only for me but for my son, family and loved ones.

Everyone’s path is different and in my particular case I was led to becoming a health and wellness coach after experiencing so much pain and loss and I wanted to turn that around for the greater good to help people out.

To learn more about health and wellness coaching and if it is right for you, please contact me here and schedule your 30 minute complimentary pre-discovery session.

Stay tuned for more blogs and information and thank you again for taking time to read my blog.