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Hey, we are here this afternoon with Michelle Sutven.

She is a Lyme Disease survivor who is healed through natural means.

It is her goal in life to spread the word about natural and holistic modalities

through a private Facebook group that she co-administers called Holistic Nova.

She is a certified

aroma therapist and is currently completed one and a half years

towards a three and a half year master's program

and clinical herbalism and I will add she works full time

and has a very, very full life. So nice to have you here with us this morning this

afternoon Michelle. Thank you so much Cynthia. Let's just dive right in and can you

tell us how you became interested in herbalism?

So my interest began when I was diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012.

And not only was I diagnosed with Lyme disease, but at the time my two-year-old son was diagnosed at the exact same time.

And the doctor who diagnosed us gave us essentially three options of how we could begin to combat the disease.

And he said, one, you can go the antibiotic route, two, you can go the herbal route, or three, you can go the herbal route or three you can go the homeopathic route and through that journey I became very very interested in learning to heal naturally and because I was able to get both my son and

myself better decided that herbalism was the way for me because if that could

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