Follow Your Gut Podcast

She Wasn’t Gaining Weight. Her Skin Was Raw. Now She’s Thriving! Sheridan and Her Baby’s Story

• Season 4 • Episode 157

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When your baby isn’t gaining weight. When their skin is raw and bleeding and nothing you try is helping. When the doctors keep saying, “They’ll grow out of it,” but your gut is screaming, “something is wrong” - that is a kind of pain that most people don’t understand. But I do. And this weeks Follow Your Gut Podcast guest, Sheridan, does too.

In this episode, I sit down with Sheridan, a first-time mom whose baby girl was covered in severe eczema, crying around the clock, refusing to eat, and losing weight. She did everything right. She went to the pediatrician over and over again. She tried every cream, every elimination diet, every piece of advice thrown her way. And nothing worked. Until she found ōNLē.

Just ten days after starting the Gut Rebalance Kit, her daughter’s skin began to clear. She started gaining weight. She began making eye contact again. She started coming back to life and Sheridan could finally breathe.

This episode is emotional, raw, and full of tears. It’s for the mama who’s in the thick of it. It’s for the family who’s been told to wait it out. It’s for the women who are ready to trust their intuition and finally find the healing they’ve been searching for.

The healing you will hear about in this episode is from the Women’s and Children’s Gut Rebalance Kit and Body Biome Kit.

I can’t wait for you to listen. I showed up to the conversation unprepared so make sure you have a box of tissues near by. 

Thanks for listening! I would love to connect with you ♡


Sending love and wellness from my family yours,
xx - Juniper Bennett
Founder of ōNLē ORGANICS

We’ve been conditioned to fear healing. Think about how many times have you watched a commercial for a medication and heard more time spent listing terrifying side effects than explaining how it helps? We live in a world where pharmaceutical solutions are normalized, even when they come with risks, and yet when a natural healing path is offered… we hesitate. We question. We brace for it not to work. And we wonder if we’re doing the right thing.

I see this every single day with the women who come to ōNLē. They’re scared. They’re exhausted. Most of them have already tried everything - doctors, elimination diets, steroids, creams, medications - and nothing is working. So when they find ōNLē, they carry both hope and fear. But the ones who experience the most life-altering transformations? They all have one thing in common.

They trust. Even if it doesn’t make perfect sense yet. Even if it means symptoms might get worse before they get better. Even if it challenges everything they’ve been told. They go all in. And on the other side of that trust… is healing.

Today’s episode is one of those stories. Sheridan is a first-time mom whose daughter wasn’t gaining weight. Her skin was raw, weeping and bleeding. Sheridan did everything - doctors, creams, diet changes - but nothing helped. Until she found this healing method. And just 10 days into rebalancing, she started getting her daughter back.

This conversation is tender and real and filled with tears, because it’s not just about eczema or weight gain. It’s about what happens when a mama refuses to give up. It’s about what healing actually looks like. And it’s about finding your child again after months of watching them slip away.

If you’ve ever been told to wait it out… if you’ve ever questioned your intuition… if you’re standing in the middle of fear and wondering what to do next, this episode is for you.

Juniper (00:00)

Welcome to the podcast, Sheridan. It is such an honor to have you here and it worked out so incredibly divine that you sent me a message the other day sharing your daughter's transformation and saying, can I please talk to you? Can I come on your podcast? I wanna share our journey. And it just so happened, I am on my work away. So this is something I do every month as I... run away to a hotel for two nights to create all of my next month's content so that I can just be fully in mama mode for the next month. And I'm here, and so you just reached out to me a couple days ago, and I feel really lucky to be able to be here with you. Will you please introduce yourself and maybe even a little bit about you as a woman before you became a mom and before... your experience with your daughter. And then we of course can't wait to hear your whole journey.

Sheridan (01:00)

Yes, of course. And I just want to say, like, I am so honored and thankful for you. You know, I told you in the message that I'm thankful that you are the one that we run to for healing because doctors obviously don't listen and they just kind of like... Shrug us off. But I just want to say thank you so much for being there for us. ⁓ So my name is Sheridan. ⁓ I'm a first time mom. My daughter is now 10 months old. And before I became a mom, I wanted to like that was my biggest dream is to just be a mom. That's all I wanted to be a mom and then a hairstylist, of course. But I already got that down. I'm already I'm already doing that. But all I wanted is to, you know, have a healthy journey for both of us. And obviously I feel like all moms want their babies to be, you know, happy and healthy. And whenever I had her, everything was perfect. ⁓ and then we moved to a new house whenever she turned four weeks old. And that's whenever it all started. she became very constipated. She did not poop for five weeks straight. ⁓ yeah, five weeks and she was breastfed and so that is definitely not normal. Yeah. Yeah. Five weeks and it would not come out unless I gave her a liquid suppository, which obviously we're not supposed to give to a baby that young, but with her not pooping, I was so weird.

Juniper (02:36)

So in that time, if you take her to the pediatrician.

Sheridan (02:39)

Yes, yes, and.

Juniper (02:42)

And was that there? Like, was that what they guided you to do?

Sheridan (02:46)

Yes, they said to just give her a liquid glycerin suppository every few days. ⁓ And I was doing that and nothing changed. It would not come out unless I was helping her. And it was like, it wasn't solid at all. Like it was still liquid, but she couldn't get it out unless I was helping her, which is, it's so not normal. So that's when I her start issue is four weeks old. ⁓ And then that's whenever we moved to that new house, like I said. And then she also had reflux colic and she was super fussy all the time and just crying flailing around throwing her body back and I had no idea why obviously my first time mom and so I'm like clueless. I'm like, what am I doing wrong?

Juniper (03:33)

Well, and I just want to pause you right there because... This is, first of all, it's really devastating because you did go to the pediatrician. That's where we all know to go, right? When things are going wrong, you go to the doctor. And I already know the answer to this, but I just want to ask, did they ever take all of these symptoms and say, gosh, there's something, there's a root problem going on here. These are connected.

Sheridan (03:43)

Yeah. Yeah. Nope. At that point, her skin, her eczema was not showing up yet. And so it was only, it was just the poop and then the colic and fuzziness, which I feel like that's enough for them to be like, okay, something's not right. She's maybe she's sensitive to something that you're eating. ⁓ and it was passing through my milk, like dairy eggs, you know, like the top allergens, but they didn't even mention that. Like I would ask them like, is it my milk? Do I need to stop eating something? And they'd be like, no, it's too early for us to tell it's too early. So I'm like,

Juniper (04:28)

Well, and

Sheridan (04:29)

You

Juniper (04:29)

all of these symptoms are brushed off as, it's just normal. This is just part of your baby adjusting to the world or, you know, but had you had the guidance at that point in time, right? Like had they embraced you and said, Sheridan, let's look into this. There's something at the root of this causing this. Think how much heartache for you and struggle for your daughter would have.

Sheridan (04:35)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (04:58)

been completely avoided.

Sheridan (05:00)

Yeah, I felt so lost. Like, her pediatrician was, is my pediatrician whenever I was little. And so, yeah, and he's amazing. Like, I was so excited that he was still in practice and everything. He's not super old or anything, but I was so excited that he was willing to take her in because I felt safe with him and trusted him with everything because of, you know, he took care of me. And it's like, what is happening? Like why?

Juniper (05:08)

What?

Sheridan (05:29)

Why can I not run to him whenever I need him? Now I'm to the point where I do all of this.

Juniper (05:35)

Wow, I love that you shared that because I've never experienced that. I've never had this long-term relationship with a doctor. And it's almost like that hits even deeper. But I do love that you bring this up because...

Sheridan (05:45)

you

Juniper (05:55)

I said this in another recent podcast that I truly believe that all healthcare professionals are in their line of business because they really do care and they really do want to help. And it's not their fault. It's the training or the lack of training that they're receiving. And so he has the best of intentions and

Sheridan (06:17)

Yes.

Juniper (06:19)

And so I always just want to acknowledge that here that this conversation really isn't to bash any individual. It's really a systematic problem.

Sheridan (06:29)

Yes, absolutely. Like I am not saying that he is not intelligent or anything like that. Like he's been through all the schooling. Like I have major respect for him, but I still honestly have a little bit of resentment because he didn't help me get to the root problem. But yes, like you said, like I do not ever want to bash doctors or anything. It's just in my experience, I can't trust like I want to. So.

Juniper (06:56)

Well, absolutely. And for you, that's like a level of trust that goes really deep. so there's, I mean, I remember going through this with my son and just being like, what the hell? Like, why isn't anybody listening? Or like, why am I the one coming and saying, could this be connected? why aren't they saying, is anything else going on? how can we draw the whole picture here? And

Sheridan (07:10)

Yes. Yes. ⁓ Yes.

Juniper (07:22)

I remember being, I mean, I think you say the word resentment. I probably hold a lot of that deep inside of myself as well.

Sheridan (07:29)

Yes, I say all the time to my fiance, his name's Bradley, but I say all the time to him, like, I try so hard not to be angry and have that resentment towards all of the health care professionals that weren't so helpful. ⁓ But it's hard not to. Like, it's very hard not to be angry. But I know that God tells us to forgive and move on, and I have to. Like, I have to tell myself, like, she's getting better, she's healing. You've found somebody that is helping and you need to move on and so I've gotten better.

Juniper (08:06)

I want to keep hearing your story, but with that I think there's a really beautiful takeaway and that you're exactly right is that we go through these really hard times to expand as human beings right and this is For whatever reason I mean I I've come to a lot of clarity of why my family went through this is so that we would be forced to learn this healing method and be able to share it with the world and

Sheridan (08:33)

Yes. Yes.

Juniper (08:35)

I truly believe that every family that goes through this, there is a reason. And when you're in the thick of it, that can feel so dismissive and almost offensive. And I don't mean it that way. I just mean that at end of it, we get to grow and learn so much as humans and moms and...really set our children up for a whole different future than had we not gone through this. And I mean, I just think of all the things that I have learned that has changed and shaped me as a mother. And I know the same is true for you.

Sheridan (09:11)

Mm-hmm. Yes, yes. I have learned so many things, mostly from you because of your podcast and the Essentials to Gut Health course that comes with the purchase of the kit. I have learned so much from you and also doing my own research and then going to a functional medicine doctor and everything like that. I feel so wise because before I had her, I didn't know anything. I thought I had it all down. I was ready and no compared to what we've been through, and that's why I'm so thankful that we did go through this. I really am because now I do know that there is another form of healing rather than being prescribed medication and then having all those other side effects and then getting more medication, you know that. But I will say that I am going to use this method of healing for everything. And I try to tell everybody about it because.. I have a lot of friends that come to me, they're like, well, what do you think I could do for this problem? Or what do you think I could do for this problem? And I'm like, the gut cleanse, the gut cleanse like every time. And I've had like two people, I've had two people go to your website and get it from you. Yes. Yeah.

Juniper (10:20)

I know it just is. Really. Wow. So your daughter is experiencing this really lengthy constipation and she has colic and reflux.

Sheridan (10:35)

Yes. ⁓ Yes, so that was never she was four weeks old and then fast forward to November 20th at this point she is four months old and that's when the eczema showed up and it was all over her body like I wish I could I probably could show you pictures but it would take me a minute to find them but she had eczema all over her face her cheeks you saw in those pictures all over her body and at that point I'm like I've never had eczema my fiance's never had eczema on his side there is a little bit of history of eczema but I'm like, what is this? Like I don't know anything about it. And then I used tubby Todd, used coconut oil, I've used beef tallow, all the natural things and then all the things you could get from the store, nothing was fixing it. So at that point I'm like, what do I do? Like I didn't know that that like eczema comes internally. Like I didn't know that that's where it came from at that point. And at this point she was chunky and she was growing just fine. She was a normal happy chunky baby or I won't say happy. She was fussy all the time, but she was gaining weight and. ⁓ Sorry, I get really emotional, but After that, like she started to lose weight. ⁓ It was December 16th, so fast forward to five months old and she started to lose weight. And I'm like, what is going on? Like she's still breastfed. I'm feeding her more than enough. She eats fine. And the reflux vomit colic was still there. Sometimes she would like projectile vomit all over me. ⁓ Didn't know why. And so... At that point, I was doing elimination diets to see if it was dairy. Sorry if you can hear my dog.

Juniper (12:30)

It's okay. This recording is really great. It removes the background noise pretty good.

Sheridan (12:38)

okay, perfect, perfect. So at that point I was doing like all these elimination diets, ⁓ trying to see if that would help her with the reflux and stuff. And that made my supply like basically like completely disappear. And my mental health was not good at this point because I was trying to build up a stash for her in the freezer. And I had a good stash going, but at that point, like I was not producing enough to even make her a bottle. And so, my mental health was very bad. was exclusively pumping as well. And so I could see my output and see how much I was getting out. And it just, was devastating because that's all I wanted was to breastfeed her. And like before I had her, that's all I did was research breastfeeding, things that would help, things that would help, you know, my supply and everything. So I was devastated. Like it was very hard to stop, but for the sake of my mental health and for her, I had to stop. So I did. At this point, her eczema got even worse. Her neck was literally raw. Like whenever I would go to like wipe the milk that was getting in her neck, her neck was literally like a layer of skin was gone and it was bloody and just icky and gooey. It did not look normal at all. And she would bleed all the time from scratching herself. ⁓ I would wake up to her having blood all over her sheets and her crib and her skin would weep all the time. Like it would be almost like liquid pus, like just coming out all the time. And nothing, again, nothing I use topically would help. And I took her to the pediatrician, I think five times over the span of a month. I was there all the time and I lived super far away from him because we lived in like southern Oklahoma at that point and he was all the way like in North OKC. And so I drove very far to see him and I was there all the time and every time they'd be like, it's just eczema, she'll grow out of it. She'll grow out of it every time. And so I didn't give up and I just, I kept going. And then fast forward to February 5th at this point, she's seven months old and the eczema was at its all time worst. it was all over her body. Her lymph nodes started to get really swollen. ⁓ like at the base of her neck behind her ears. And then there's one on the right side of her neck that were like, just huge. Like I could see them poking out of her skin and feel them and they would, they would move around. Like they weren't stiff or anything. They would move around. And so. the pediatricians were like, I'm not worried about it because they move. And I'm like, well, why are they swollen? Like there has to be a reason why they are enlarged. Like this is not normal. Like I've never seen this on a baby before. and ⁓ then she also had cradle cap, which I know that that's another symptom of something internal. That's not right. ⁓ And I tried to use tubby Todd on that as well. The like the cradle cap one for their head and would not budge. would not get anything off. And I took her to a different pediatrician at this time because I wasn't getting the answers that I needed from her original pediatrician. So I took her to a different one and she said that she has a bacterial infection and that's why I couldn't get rid of it. And I was like, so does she have eczema too? And she was like, yes, she has eczema, but a bacterial infection on top of that because of the open wounds from her scratching. And I was like, oh my gosh, like she's gonna have to take antibiotic. And so of course she did. And now that I know all about the gut health stuff, like I regret that, but at the same time, it's like she needed it. She had a bacterial infection.

Juniper (16:38)

That's all you knew at that time. And so can I ask questions during this whole time? do you live close to your family? Or is your support system look like? And I'm just asking because... I know from my personal experience and so many other mamas who have gone through this, it's incredibly lonely and isolating because everybody has really big opinions, but nobody knows why it's happening. And so you're like in this battle of like trying to fight for her, but how?

Sheridan (17:13)

Yeah, yes. So I actually have a very good support system at this time. And like at this house that we were living at, ⁓ we lived right next to my mother-in-law, which my mother-in-law is literally my best friend. She's, I love her so much. We're so close and she is very helpful. ⁓ Why am I getting emotional about her? I just love her so much, but she helped so much and they're... my gosh, there was a time when I just like hit a breaking point and Kelsen, my daughter, she was scratching 24 seven, like nothing I was doing was working and I was trying to get her ready for bed and do her skincare and she was so uncomfortable and just flailing around like. Screaming like non-stop. could not get her to stop screaming a PASSE would not work a bottle would not work Nothing I did would make her stop crying and she was like screaming like bloody murder And so I'm like there's something wrong like she's not Comfortable and I hit a breaking point and just I felt like I was paralyzed like I literally fell to the ground it was just done and Didn't know what to do. Like I felt so helpless And I was just crying on the ground, just paralyzed, I literally couldn't move. I reached up to grab my phone off the couch and I called my mother-in-law. Her name is Heather. And I called her and was just wailing on the phone, just crying like I couldn't even talk. And she was like, I'm on my way. And so she owns a gym right down the street. So she came from the gym immediately and ran in the door and she was like, what's happening? What's happening? And You know, she found me. got up off the floor and was trying to help my daughter stop crying, but I couldn't get her to stop still. And she just took her from me and she was like, I got her. I got her go lay down or go for a drive, go get something to eat. And so I did. And I, in that moment, I was like, I have to just walk away for a minute because I just, I was just done. And so I went for a drive and, know, listen to some elevation worship. I love, I love listening to to them, but they helped me get out of a dark place. But I was listening to them and just driving around for like an hour and then, you know, got back to my mental sanity and went back home and everything was fine. She got her to go to sleep and it was just, I don't know, in that moment I was so thankful that I live right next door to her. Yeah. Yeah. She's amazing.

Juniper (19:57)

Yeah, I'm so grateful for her too. Thank you for having her.

Sheridan (20:04)

⁓ and then also my, my mom, she lives about 30 minutes away. ⁓ and so yeah, she was helpful too. And then the hardest part was my fiance, ⁓ he works on the road, so he'd be gone for three weeks at a time. And yeah, so he's three weeks on one week off. so essentially I was doing this all by myself. ⁓ and he, felt so bad for him too, because he was so helpless. Like he was just like, I just want to be home so bad to help you in. He felt so helpless. Yeah. But yes, I do have a very good support system. That was a long story. Sorry.

Juniper (20:41)

I'm so grateful to hear that because there's, well, there's many parts of it, but a really big one is as new moms, it's, we blame ourselves, right? Like I must be doing something wrong. I must be doing something wrong. And to have a support system that you trust and you don't feel judged or that you can have that is amazing.

Sheridan (21:02)

Yeah, and you're right. Like you said, it is very lonely, very lonely because I'd be isolated in the house all the time by myself with her because whenever I go out in public, people will be like, my gosh, what's wrong with her skin or my gosh, she has eczema. And then they'd be like, you should try this or you should try this topical thing. And I'm like, I've already tried it. It's not working. I've already tried it. And it was just so frustrating. And then they'd be like, how old is she? And I'd be like seven months old. And they're like, she's so tiny. She's so tiny. And that is so triggering to me because of my journey and like how like it's, I'm like, I don't know why she's not gaining weight at this point. I mean, I know now why, but yeah, that's why I stayed home and it's very lonely.

Juniper (21:44)

Well, and it's so hard to be in that paralyzed place as a mom of like, yeah, clearly I see that something's wrong. I don't know what to do. And so the whole world sees that something's wrong, except the doctor that you're going to. And they're like, it's fine. This is just normal.

Sheridan (21:59)

Yes. Yes, I know. so, yeah, so then we go back to when she had the bacterial infection. So back to that. She had the bacterial infection. She took the antibiotic and immediately her skin cleared up. Like I haven't seen her skin that clear since she was four months old. Whenever the eczema started, I was like, my gosh, what if it's a bacterial infection this whole time and she doesn't even have eczema? And

Juniper (22:04)

Okay.

Sheridan (22:31)

that I think her skin was clear for like two days and then the eczema came back immediately. And I was like, my gosh, like I was so relieved. And then just, it just all came crashing down again. ⁓ And then the weight loss at that point became worse. She started to refuse to eat. So she wasn't drinking the formula. She wasn't eating solids. She, like I would try to give her a bite of puree and she'd be like, and turn her head and get super frustrated and just like do this and just cry, flail around in her chair. Like, I'm like, what is babies eat all the time? Babies want to eat 24 seven. What is going on? So weight loss was really bad. And then she would like gaze into space, like not make eye contact with me. Like I'd be like in her face like, Kelsyn and Kelsyn, like trying to get her attention and she would just be like zoned off in the space, just looking past me, almost like through me and just like, like just super out of it. And I would literally like hold her in front of me and like wiggle her a little bit and be like, Kelsyn, like saying her name very loud, right in front of her face. And she was looking through me and.

Juniper (23:42)

Well, what you're describing right now, I share this in a post, I was losing my son. I was going to lose him and I, there's so many ways that I would describe losing him. to long term disease, autoimmune disease, autism.

Sheridan (23:47)

Yes. Mm-hmm. Yes.

Juniper (23:58)

eventually maybe cancer. I just intuitively knew, I am losing him to something here. And it's really hard to, to put that into words, but you just described it so beautifully. It's like they're not there.

Sheridan (24:04)

Yep. Yes. scary. I'm so sorry that you experienced that too. How old was your son when you started healing him?

Juniper (24:22)

we went through this for two and a half years. So we didn't find these answers until he was two and a half.

Sheridan (24:24)

Thanks That's what I thought. Yeah, that's what I thought. I cannot believe, like when did the symptoms start?

Juniper (24:38)

It was like right, three weeks.

Sheridan (24:42)

You're joking. Dude, you went through that that long?

Juniper (24:46)

my God, I mean it is an absolute miracle that I'm still married. Because I mean, it just, as moms we're so scared and our babies aren't sleeping, we're not sleeping. And anytime that they're sleeping, we're desperately trying to find answers. And my husband was the same way. He would... ⁓

Sheridan (24:52)

My gosh, yes it does. Mm-hmm.

Juniper (25:10)

He would travel for, he was a traveling salesman at the time. he would be gone for eight days and then home for five. And, and so I was on my own. live in Montana and I just remember there were times where it was negative 25 degrees and the ice is moving in on the locks. And I felt like,

Sheridan (25:32)

That's scary.

Juniper (25:33)

I'm just gonna lose my, I mean I did lose myself.

Sheridan (25:37)

Yeah, I did too. I am not the same person I was before. I've definitely lost myself in motherhood. Not in a positive way, would say. Some, yes, but mostly I've lost myself in her health issues, I would say. Like you said, whenever she's asleep, I'm up at three in the morning researching things and getting things together to try the next day to make her better. I just like, I'm so glad that we relate and we basically went through the same exact thing.

Juniper (26:12)

Well, what's really, when I started ōNLē, I didn't think I was making a business like that. I remember I was like a year in and a friend was like, what is it like to have a business and homeschool your kids? And I was like, oh, I guess that's what I'm doing here. I didn't start this to be a business owner, right? It's just once I saw the...

Sheridan (26:28)

Yeah.

Juniper (26:38)

change in my child and up to this point I really thought like there can't be that many people experiencing this but whoever needs this I want to share it with them and I am completely

Sheridan (26:47)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (26:49)

I don't even have words. cannot even now comprehend the number of families who are going through this and all of our stories are so parallel.

Sheridan (26:50)

Yeah. Yes, yes. I've had a lot of people message me and say, ⁓ my daughter has eczema too, or my son has eczema too. So many people. then in public, whenever I meet strangers and they see Kelsyn and they're like, my gosh, she's so cute, blah, blah, blah. And then they bring up her skin every time that she has eczema. And I'm like, yeah. And they're like, my nephew had like, it's everybody. And I know that, and I know that vaccines, like, I don't, I'm not saying that you should vaccinate or not vaccinate. I'm not gonna, you know, speak on that.

Juniper (27:21)

It's... yeah.

Sheridan (27:30)

But I know vaccines, that's a major side effect of them. That's not relevant to our situation because she's not. I know that that's an effect.

Juniper (27:39)

Well, it's just one of the many exposures that compromise our microbiome and then trigger this internal inflammation. so, okay, let's keep going with Kelsyn story.

Sheridan (27:45)

you And so at this point, she is still seven months old. And then February 18th, we took her to Fusion MD and it is a functional medicine doctor. I have heard many stories of her healing people. she, my father-in-law, he has a daughter named McKenna and she had Lyme's disease and she was in a wheelchair, could not walk and she healed her, now she can walk just fine. She is, yeah, she is thriving. And so she healed her and I'm like, I have to take Kelsyn in there, I have to. So I did. And they usually have a very long waiting list to get in there because, you know, everybody's trying to go there. And they, told them about her issues, how she's losing weight and I was crying on the phone. I'm very emotional whenever it comes to this stuff, but I called and was crying on the phone just desperate and they were like, come in tomorrow. And so. That's God. Like that is that is God. And so I went in, I brought her in and immediately they were like, you need to check your house for mold. And I was like, really? Like you think that that could be causing this issue? Like with her gut and she's still constipated at this point, too. ⁓ And so I'm like, my gosh, like that. Yeah, I guess I'll do that. And so. Brad got underneath the house because we had a crawl space in there and we rent. Thank goodness, I'm thankful that we do rent because of this, but he got underneath the house in the crawl space and he found mold and it was black mold. The wood was literally rotting away and it was like underneath where the bathtub was and the bathtub was leaking. And this house is newly remodeled. It's older, it's like not from the fifties, but it's newly remodeled. so in my head, I'm like, there's no mold in there. Like it's fine, it's healthy, it's safe. No, like. There was mold all up in there, all up in there. And so they, the landlord had a ⁓ specialist come out and look at it. And he was like, it's dormant. It's not active mold. It's dormant. It's dead. And so I'm like, well, I thought I had to answer, but I guess not. Cause it's dead. And no, I ran some mold tests my on my own. wanted to do an ERMI test, but I know that they're very expensive. And at the time we were paying so much for her appointments that like we could not afford it. So I just got a cheap test off of Amazon ⁓ with like 12 different Petri dishes. And so we put them in every single room of the house and left them out for only one hour in the open air. And the results that we got on those tests were insane. Like it picked up black mold. It picked up like basically every mold type you can think of. Like, yeah, I don't know if you can see this picture through the, obviously the.

Juniper (30:40)

yeah?

Sheridan (30:45)

people listening to the podcast can't see it, but I don't know if you can see this picture.

Juniper (30:47)

Well, maybe you can send it to me and can put it on the episode page.

Sheridan (30:53)

Yeah, it's not popping up, but you can see how much.

Juniper (30:56)

⁓ I can kind of see it now.

Sheridan (30:58)

Yeah, that was in the bathroom. Yeah. And then there was some, I'll send these pictures to you and the DMs, but in every single room, it popped up on the, I put some on the vents, the HVAC vents, and there was mold in all of the vents. And I'm like, I almost collapsed to the ground and was like, Lord, this is exactly what's going on. This is exactly why my baby is not pooping. As soon as we moved there into that house when she turned four weeks old is when that when her her constipation started. Yeah. Like I like I have chills right now. I'm like this is this is the answer. This is what it is. And so immediately in my head, I'm like, I have to detox her body. have to get this out of her. The mycotoxins. I like I have to get it out. And obviously it's in my body, too. It's in Brad's body, too. I mean, he wasn't exposed as much because he was gone for three weeks at a time, but still he was there. So.

Juniper (31:28)

started.

Sheridan (31:54)

yeah, so we went to the fusion indeed and her skin kept getting worse. she was not sleeping due to the itching. She was still bleeding. And at this point I had to sell my stash of breast milk, ⁓ which devastated me because I would be up for hours through the night pumping and trying to build up a stash for her. ⁓ and I had to give it away because I'm getting emotional again, but I have a two or not sell it. didn't sell it. I didn't get money for it, but I gave it away to somebody I know, ⁓ because I was eating the foods that she was sensitive to. did all cat tests and found out she was sensitive to, or she was allergic to egg whites, ⁓ sensitive to peanuts, wheat, ⁓ dairy, like all the things that I was eating. And so I couldn't give her my milk anymore. And it makes so much sense as to why she was projectile vomiting whenever she would drink it. So I had to give my stash away. ⁓ Still to this day, like it hurts so bad, but I know that a baby, a different baby was benefiting from it. So trying to stay positive about it. ⁓ And then shortly after that, we took her to, or I rushed her to the ER because her skin was like the worst I've ever seen. It was bloody. It was weeping. It was crusty. She like nothing I did would help and I was just so desperate. So I took her to the ER and they told me they're like, there's nothing we can do. There's nothing we can do. Like nothing. Didn't even give her any top, like offer any topicals. They like, she was dehydrated, losing weight still, like tiny, tiny. And they didn't give her fluids or anything, even though she was severely dehydrated. Like, yeah, it was bad. I was just crying in front of the, like the front desk women. Like I was just in tears. I was like, just, need help. I need help, please just help her. And they were like, I'm sorry. Like there's nothing that we can do. And so they sent me away again. Yes, so that was February around like the middle of February and then come March 2nd is whenever I started using only and I'm not kidding 10 days, 10 days after I started her skin was so much better. Like I like it's like a she's a different baby at this point. She is a different baby only 10 days. I'm like, wow, like is this my answer this whole time? And

Juniper (34:37)

This, I just have to pause you because this point in the story always like my breath catches and my body is covered in chills because I mean, I'm sharing this and I'm because I have, I saw it in my own son and now I've been so blessed to experience this healing in literally thousands of families. But every single time it's like, oh my gosh, it worked again. Like, and

Sheridan (35:06)

Yep.

Juniper (35:06)

So can I ask you really quickly, how did you find ōNLē?

Sheridan (35:10)

⁓ I don't know if it was an ad. I don't know if you have ads on Instagram. No, maybe it was just on the Explorer page, but you popped up on my Instagram and I don't remember exactly what posts it was, but it was something about eczema because obviously, know, Instagram, like the algorithm, like makes things pops up, pop up what you're searching and what you're looking at. And so I found you that way. And so I went to your page and immediately was like,

Juniper (35:20)

Okay.

Sheridan (35:38)

my gosh, like she's, know, into the natural side of things. She, her son, like she almost basically was losing her son. And I read your story and read everything about you. And I was like, dude, like what else do I have to lose? Like, even if this doesn't work, what do have to lose? Like, I'll just try it. And so I, I waited probably like a week or so, and I was like, it just kept popping up in my head. I was like, you know, try it, just try it, just try it. And ⁓ I eventually just gave in. was like, I got to do it. And so I would.

Juniper (36:13)

Well, I think that so many moms are like that. I mean, I even remember when I finally discovered more information about his gut and the naturopath that taught us this healing method, in my mind, I was just like, how can it be that simple? Like, how have we gone through hell so many times? Nobody has had answers. How can it just be this simple? And so,

Sheridan (36:37)

Yeah! I know.

Juniper (36:43)

I think where you are, even that it, I mean, it took you, you know, week or two to like first see only and then to say, well, what do I have to lose? I'm going to try it. I think is a really common experience that people have because it's kind of just like, well, there's no negative side effects, but it's kind of an investment. How, how could it just be that simple? Like, I don't know if it's even worth my time to try that, but.

Sheridan (37:09)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (37:11)

I am forever grateful for Instagram and the algorithm because it really does help us connect to what we need and what will serve us a lot of times. It can do the opposite too, but. ⁓

Sheridan (37:23)

Yes. Yes. Yes. Definitely. I'm forever grateful. But yeah, I mean, I was a little nervous whenever I saw the, you know, it's the main ingredient is the alkaline structured silver. And so of course I'm going to do some more research and more digging. And I did. And, know, like you said, in one of your podcasts recently, ⁓ everybody has negative things to say about silver. They're like, it's going to turn you blue. It's going to turn your skin blue. Like the blue man or whatever. I don't remember his name, but he made silver in his house and took it and he turned blue. And so I'm like, of course I'm like, can't do that. And then all the articles that like the good articles talking about silver, they get removed because they don't want us to know about that. They don't want us to know that that's a form of healing because they big pharma wants us, you know, stuck in the cycle. But I, there was something in me that was just like, just do it, just do it. Like I think that, I think that it was the Lord and he was like,

Juniper (37:55)

Yeah.

Sheridan (38:22)

this is what she needs, is what's gonna heal her. And so I talked to Brad and was just like, know, I think this is it. And so I did and I'm forever grateful. I started taking it too. And I think my symptoms started to get better maybe like a week or two after I started taking it, which my symptoms obviously don't show through my skin, but I was bloated all the time. If I even ate a banana, like I would... Double in size it is every after everything I eat and I've been like this for years like a long time even whenever I was a teenager whenever I was a kid because you know I grew up eating processed foods. I didn't know any better. You know they they Say that I mean if the foods on the shelves and it's safe to eat but now that I know like that's not true and so I Was eating processed foods all the time. I was probably exposed to Whenever I was a kid ⁓ But I was bloated all the time, no matter what I ate. so I knew that there was something not right. And I started taking it and it's helped so much. My bloating is down significantly. I feel like I can eat a lot of the foods that I wasn't able to before. ⁓ My skin is a lot better. I feel a lot better. I have more energy. I feel like I'm not super tired all the time. It's been an insane difference. I will say I did have the die-off symptoms at first, for sure, like bad headache. The headache was bad. But I know that's so normal because, I mean, it's getting the toxins out in the headache. I was super tired and fatigued, but then that quickly went away.

Juniper (40:07)

Well, and I appreciate you sharing this part of your story because this is, I mean, this is exactly what happened with me and my son. And just as there's this massive gap in education around our gut health and our internal health causing external symptoms, right? The same is true in maternal care. And none of us are taught that our gut health is really, really important when we're pregnant. And so,

Sheridan (40:21)

Thank

Juniper (40:37)

knowing that you had an imbalance your whole life makes very, very much a lot of sense that it made Kelsen very ⁓

Sheridan (40:41)

Yes.

Juniper (40:50)

vulnerable to something like the mold exposure and we are all vulnerable to that right but a lot of us will have more significant reactions and we'll experience it more significantly if our microbiome is already compromised and so without you knowing this you unknowingly pass this imbalance onto her during pregnancy and birth and I feel like that can come as like such a hard

Sheridan (40:51)

Mm-hmm. Yes.

Juniper (41:18)

shock for moms like moment of like, no, like, it really is my fault. And it is. Yeah. And it's it's I just want to say it here. It is not your fault. It was not my fault. It is not any mama's fault. This is, again, a systematic a cultural issue. And one that is one of my biggest missions with only is to educate on the

Sheridan (41:24)

Yes, that's what I thought. Thanks.

Juniper (41:41)

importance of our microbiome during pregnancy so that we can set our children up to not experience this. Okay, I remember you sending me a message about your tattoos during, I think it was during your die off.

Sheridan (41:48)

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yes, and it's still doing it like right here. You can't really see it obviously, but yesterday I was getting my hair done and I was like, why am I itchy? And I look and I'm bleeding it, but I know that it's so normal because the heavy metals and the ink are literally coming out of my body. And now I regret my tattoos. Like I'm like, I wish I never got these. Like what it... If this is happening, what is it doing to like me internally? But I wish I could get rid of them now, but you know what? They're going to be there forever.

Juniper (42:31)

And we just don't know, don't know until we do, right? And how beautiful that you now have tools that are helping push anything out of your body that shouldn't be there. And so it's okay.

Sheridan (42:35)

Yes. Mm-hmm. Yes, it was crazy. I was so itchy, so itchy. And it was like this part on this one, it was raised, like the lines were raised. And then right here, the lines are raised. And I mean, they probably didn't use very high quality ink ⁓ after I talked to you about that. But it's crazy, like how it was literally pushing out of me. Like, yeah.

Juniper (43:08)

Wow.

Sheridan (43:10)

But it's much better, it's much better now that I've been on the cleanse for I think 74 days now. It's much better, but yeah, it's still happening a little bit, but I look at it and it makes me happy. Like at first I was like scared, I was like, what's happening? But now I look at it I'm like, it's working, I'm healing. So.

Juniper (43:17)

Wow. beautiful and I kind of this is a part of having the tool that I really love is that you know gaining all this awareness about our gut health and the importance of what we're putting in our bodies and making sure that we our drainage pathways are open and that we can detox naturally daily right

Sheridan (43:48)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (43:51)

with our liver and kidneys and lymphatic system are functioning optimally is I feel like so empowering because it takes the pressure away of having to expect ourselves to be perfect. So I'll share an example of this. I do have the awareness of tattoos and

Sheridan (43:51)

Yes. Yes.

Juniper (44:15)

the heavy metals in the inks. And so it gives it empowers me to ask more questions. I did want tattoos. I got tattoos on my arms. And I did this knowing all of this information, but I felt empowered to make this choice because one, I know that my body is balanced and really strong and really resilient. And two, I actually messaged the artist and asked what ink she uses. And she so graciously was like, this

Sheridan (44:23)

Those are cute. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

 Juniper (44:45)

I'm so glad that you asked. I've actually wanted to reach out to you. I met her through Instagram. So, and she's rebalanced and we've corresponded a lot. And she's like, I wanted to ask you if this is, because I've tried to source the absolute best quality ink, is this one okay? And it was, it's like the best of the best ink. And so, Having this awareness really empowers you to make choices with a lot of intention and it is easy to see this microbiome lifestyle as very restrictive, but I find it to be very empowering.

Sheridan (45:20)

Yes, yes, exactly. Like with the food restrictions and stuff, I will say it was very hard at first, but now I'm to the point where I'm living the lifestyle of, you know, cutting out the dairy, the gluten, the alcohol, the sugar, the ketchup, which is so random. But I mean, you explain the process of how they make ketchup and it makes so much sense, but like cutting those out, I feel so good. I feel so much better. And I will say that I did slip up at first. Like I was like. this is too hard, need my dairy or this is too hard, I need some sourdough bread, but I know that you'll still heal if you eat those foods, but it definitely slows it down. I noticed that like it slows down the process of healing. And so yeah, I cut those out and I am healing so much better. So.

Juniper (46:05)

I'm so happy hear that and I love what you said right there is it just feels so good to have them out because they're not feeding the overgrowth in our bodies, right? And creating inflammation. so a lot of people go into this feeling very intimidated about the food side and you don't have to do it perfectly. You do it where you are. Just know, like just keep your mind open that it gets easier and it gets really fun. And 

Sheridan (46:15)

Yes. Mm-hmm. Yeah, I know.

Juniper (46:33)

There's, you know,  I've tried to create as many resources I can to make this as easy as possible for families. I've got my cookbook and the course, but it's still, it's a commitment and it's hard, but once you, you can let yourself ease into it. And once you get there, it just feels so good. So for my family, we just feel so good that we've continued to live this lifestyle indefinitely. And.

Sheridan (46:51)

Okay. Mm-hmm.

Juniper (46:59)

We feel so empowered by this choice. I don't even, wouldn't, for our family, I wouldn't call it a restriction. I would call it a very intentional choice that we make because we feel so good. We sleep so good. We, our homeschool goes so good. We're able to do the activities, go snowboarding and then go straight to the climbing gym because we just feel so good. And, and so it's a,

Sheridan (47:11)

Yes. Yes.

Juniper (47:27)

It's not that my perspective and one that I really like to share is it's not that it's not just the food that we're choosing. It's the look at it from a bigger lens of what is the life that I'm actually choosing? How do I want to show up tomorrow? Do I want to show up as my best self? Okay, then I'm going to make that choice to show up as my best self. And that's what this means is I'm going to choose.

Sheridan (47:49)

you

Juniper (47:56)

to have tamari instead of soy sauce. Okay, let's keep going with your story.

Sheridan (47:59)

Yeah. Yep. Exactly. It is definitely a lifestyle. Okay, so, ⁓ so yeah, on March 2nd, that's, ⁓ we'll say March 2nd of 2025, that's when we started. And ⁓ so yeah, so the die off symptoms for me were headache, fatigue, ⁓ brain fog got a little bit worse. ⁓ And then I, my face was breaking out a little bit. But now that those dial symptoms are gone, like, I feel so good. My brain fog is gone. And before, like, I felt like I could not think. Like, I sometimes would say, I feel dumb. Like, I feel like I don't know what's happened over the years. I feel like I can't think, but the brain fog's gone. I feel like I can think clearly and I can function like at my best self. And then for Kelsen, her die off symptoms, it made the skin flare up again. You know, after the 10 days, her skin did get better, but then it started to flare up again, which I knew was completely normal. ⁓ But in that I was like, you know, it's working. Like this shows that it is working. And I know that those were the dial symptoms. So we just kept going. She was in... ⁓

Juniper (49:09)

Well, I am so proud of you that you did the work and you worked through the course so that you were prepared and you knew that this was possibly coming because a lot of people...

Sheridan (49:16)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (49:23)

Don't make time for the course. A lot of people, and I know, and I say this with so much understanding and compassion, when you are in the thick of this, it is all consuming. And to try to find more time to work through a course can feel really daunting. And our minds can say, I don't have time for that. I'm just gonna go for it.

Sheridan (49:24)

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Juniper (49:41)

Take the time to go through the course so that you can be like Sheridan and you know that symptoms might look a little bit better and then they might look a little bit worse and it's a part of the process because the most devastating messages that I get are ones saying, I don't know what's going on. It looked a little bit better and it got worse so I quit. I think that we're having a bad reaction. That's the worst thing you can do because that gives the overgrowth time to come back with vengeance.

Sheridan (50:02)

Yes. They do.

Juniper (50:09)

I am so proud of you for making time to work through the course and get to this point, her 10 days in, 12 days in, where her symptoms are flaring a little bit, that you had the perspective of, okay, it's working.

Sheridan (50:14)

Thank Yes, yes. He was definitely flaring again, but they were, it was much more manageable than before. Her skin wasn't weeping anymore. She wasn't bleeding. She was definitely still itchy and she's still, she's still like, she's 10 months old now and we're on day, I think 74 now, but she's, she's still a little itchy and her skin is a little bit flaky, but that's a sign of healing. I'm in a lot of like eczema groups on Facebook and stuff. And they say that the itching and the flaking is the last thing to go. And so I'm like, She's almost like, she's almost healed. She's almost healed. Yeah, but I'm gonna keep doing the maintenance ⁓ even after she, the skin problems do resolve, but yeah, it's much more manageable. And I'm not sitting here like wondering what else I can do to make it better. Like I use your, the body biome kit. think it's ⁓ the healing gel and then the glow oil. And I use that like the gel first and then the oil on top of that to lock it in. ⁓ It's a game changer. It's like magic. I'm kidding. It really is.

Juniper (51:28)

It's like magic. kind of have, my kids keep telling me to change the name of Relief to be called Magic Stuff.

Sheridan (51:37)

That's essentially what it is. mean, I love, love using that on her. And then I put the healing gel on my breakouts because I am breaking out right now. I know you can't really see it in the camera, but the healing gel, swear it zaps them gone. The next day I wake up and I'm like, my face is clear.

Juniper (51:54)

And as we're moving into summer, you'll have to experiment with mosquito bites. It's the same. You will literally watch them go away.

Sheridan (52:02)

Yeah, it's absolutely insane. anyway, it's back to her journey. ⁓ So at this point, she's eight months old. Her poop got a lot better. She started to poop more regularly. She was still a little bit constipated, but it was way better than before. I would still have to like kind of help her sometimes, like get it out. It was still a little bit solid. ⁓ And for me, my bloating was a lot better. I feel like I could fit into my clothes more and I wasn't scared to eat a banana anymore and I wasn't doubling in size and I yeah and then ⁓ so fast forward to April 12th which she's nine months old at this point ⁓ we moved out of the house that had mold in it and we have been living in this house for what is today about three weeks now She's a different baby. She is a completely different baby. moving out of that house mixed with, you know, using only she is not the same baby. She's trying to walk. She is crawling so fast all over the place. She makes eye contact with me. She, you know, is trying to talk. She says, mama, dada. She says, wow, now, like all these words. And it's like, I don't even recognize this girl. She's so happy. And she's just I just look at her and cry because I feel like that's my girl, that's her. I've been waiting for this for so long and it's like I lost her in the process, but now she's here and she's so much fun. ⁓ She's literally the best thing that ever happened to me. I just love her so much, but she's finally back. So continuing to... ⁓ May 24th, so basically the present. ⁓ She's pooping perfectly now. She poops sometimes multiple times a day and it's soft and it's normal. And her skin is clear for the most part. She does have little flare ups because like those food that she's sensitive to, I have to give her every four days. It's like a rotation so her body can build up the ⁓ I guess like the tolerance to them. functional medicine doctor told us to do that. And so every four days her skin flares up a little bit, but it's like, it's so minor that it just looks like she has, you know, some red cheeks or something. It's crazy. ⁓ And then, yeah, so she's trying to walk and talk and everything. And she's finally gaining weight. She is 10 months old and she weighs 15 pounds. If that tells you how small she is. She is a tiny girl. but she's finally gaining weight. put her on the scale and I about cried because, you know, 15 pounds was like my goal. was like, I gotta get her 15 pounds. I've just been like shoveling food down her throat, feeding her as much as I can. And yeah, she's so much healthier than she was before. And I'm just so, so thankful. Like I'm much happier. I am in a much better mental space. I feel like I'm present with her and not just Obsessing over her skin and looking at her and be like, my gosh her skin her skin. It's bad and like It just feels so good to be present again I feel like I'm finally finding myself in motherhood instead of just being lost. I am taking her to places I'm getting out of the house more meeting up with my friends. I'm You know taking her out in public and not wondering if somebody's gonna be like what's wrong with her skin or she's so tiny but I have no words.

Juniper (55:55)

So I want to just take a second here and really explain because mold toxicity is unfortunately really common.

Sheridan (56:04)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (56:06)

A lot of time, so what the rebalance started doing for her is it was killing the mycotoxins inside her body. And when we have mold exposure, and it makes a lot of sense in her story when she took antibiotics, it kind of came back with vengeance, is because the antibiotics were killing bad overgrowth in her body too, which is why her skin cleared. But as we know, it kills the good and the bad.

Sheridan (56:30)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (56:36)

And so, of course, it came right back because it was continuously being exposed, but also...

Sheridan (56:42)

Mm.

Juniper (56:43)

because now her body is left in an even more vulnerable state. So the way that the Rebalance Kit works is it's killing all the bad in the body, including the mycotoxins, but also when we have exposure to mycotoxins, it weakens our entire microbiome ecosystem, which allows room for yeast and bad bacteria and so many different pathogens to move in.

Sheridan (57:03)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (57:13)

So when you're still living in your last house with mold, her body started healing because internally all of that was being killed while her good microbiome was being restored. But moving and leaving that environment... of course what happens is she's not having this constant exposure. And so her body is finally in this state of alignment where there's the internal healing still happening without that exposure. And so I really just kind of want to explain that process because one of the only times, well, there's two times that rebalancing doesn't work. One is like I shared earlier, you might not prioritize the course and learn all the information and you stop too early because even in the course I teach you how to know when the gut is fully in balance and when you should be done rebalancing and take the time, please everybody listening, take the time to do that. I.. poured my heart and soul into creating this course so that you have all the information to succeed. And one of the two times that it doesn't work is people just don't take the time to learn and they quit too early. They give up too early. And the second is when there is a chronic exposure to mold. And so...

Sheridan (58:25)

Yes.

Juniper (58:43)

those are the only two conversations that are happening when it's not working is there is an exposure And

Sheridan (58:47)

Okay.

Juniper (58:50)

So really quickly, I wanna touch on her food sensitivities and what you're gonna witness from here moving forward. so she most likely doesn't actually have allergies or food sensitivities, it's that her body has been in this chronic state of inflammation. So her gut brain connection is blurry. And as her gut heals, her gut-brain connection clears and her body stops reacting to things that it shouldn't be reacting to. And this is a natural part of the healing process. And I love that you're working with a functional medicine practitioner and that you have guidance in working through this and everybody has their own recommendations and we actually went through this too because my son had, he tested severely allergic to nine different things. And we did not do the slow introduction of them. we just cut them out completely. And then once his gut was in balance, our naturopath was like, go back to the allergies, I guarantee they're gone. And they were gone. And

Sheridan (59:57)

my gosh. Maybe I'll do that then. Maybe I'll just cut them out because I don't like giving them to her because it makes her flare up and she's uncomfortable. Maybe I'll do that too.

Juniper (1:00:06)

really check in with your intuition, what feels right to you, because ultimately it's not about my experience or what I say or what the functional practitioner says. It's really what feels in alignment and what feels right to you. But in my experience,

Sheridan (1:00:10)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (1:00:24)

There is a lot of misinformation about food sensitivities and a lot of people come to ōNLē and they're like, how are we gonna cut these foods out? Eggs, dairy, they're going to develop sensitivities because they're not having that exposure. And that's really a myth. what I have learned in my experience and now supporting so many families is actually When we continue to consume the foods that are triggering to our bodies right now, there's a reason that that's happening and we actually just need to give our bodies time to heal. And it's not a race and it can take time and it's okay. So I'll share another example. My son was not allergic to nightshades, but after we did five rounds of rebalancing his body, I mean, he was completely healed. But I would notice, you know, over like the next year, I would notice just funny things. Like occasionally his poop would smell really sour or he would like just little subtle things that, you know, without going through this journey, I would have never cued in on, but I was hyper aware of every

Sheridan (1:01:34)

Mm-hmm.

Juniper (1:01:37)

and like looking at every single poop and so intuitively I was just like you know what I feel like there's a connection here between that and nightshades I'm just gonna cut them out and he experienced another level of healing and so we cut them out actually for two years and Then we reintroduced Nightshades and I mean, has salsa, he loves salsa, he loves spice, he loves all the peppers. He's consumes them every single day and he's fine. And so I just shared that part not to try to change how you were doing it, but just to kind of share this awareness that sometimes that exposure is actually creating inflammation in the body and it's okay to just give it time and trust that her body is strong

Sheridan (1:02:07)

I love that. Yeah.

Juniper (1:02:26)

resilient and she's as her gut heals more and more that inflammation is going to go away and she'll get to a point where she tolerates all of these foods.

Sheridan (1:02:39)

Yes, and it's all the foods that she loves. Like she loves bananas, but that's one of the things that she's sensitive to. And so I haven't been giving it to her except for, you know, through the cycle of introducing it every four days, but I kind of felt like I should just cut them out. And so now that you say that, I think that I'm probably just going to cut them out until she's healed and maybe do another all cat tests and see if, see if it pops up again, because I mean, the mold does that mold does that.

Juniper (1:03:04)

Please send me the results of your because it is so fascinating to see the before and the after and how it compares because I mean I could not believe going to that when my naturopath was like go get retested that is like yeah gone the allergies even I've never seen this before

Sheridan (1:03:06)

Okay, I will. Really? That's crazy. That is so crazy. I hope that like it does that for her and also me because That's that's crazy Makes sense.

Juniper (1:03:32)

you guys, you still have 60 days in your current rebalance around that, right? And so there's a tremendous amount more healing that's gonna happen.

Sheridan (1:03:38)

Mm-hmm. Yes, I'm so excited. And I think even after like, you know, like how you said, ⁓ you know, you're healed whenever it starts to taste like water. I will say like the first day that I took it, it was so strong. It was so strong, I was like, ⁓ I know my gut is not right. I know that I need this. So now that I'm 74 days in, like I take it and I'm like, it's getting closer to water. Like it's this, the taste is so like small, like it doesn't taste near as strong. So that's how I know it's working too. Like the process is just so cool and so fascinating. I'm like, how, like this stuff is literally magic and how doesn't everybody not know about it? I just want, like I said in the message, I just want to scream from the rooftops and be like, use only, use only, it'll heal you. It's crazy.

Juniper (1:04:32)

There are so many times where it does feel like magic. And I am so grateful for you sharing your story and helping spread the awareness and make an impact for other families because what you went through is gonna make me cry now.

Sheridan (1:04:35)

Yeah. Yeah.

Juniper (1:04:55)

I feel like I lost two and a half years of my son's life. Like I was not present. I lost that time and I'll never get that time back. And I'm now on the other side. I'm really grateful to be where we are and that we have this knowledge and that we get to share this healing.

Sheridan (1:05:04)

Yeah.

Juniper (1:05:17)

but my heart aches that I've lost my time because it wasn't just my son. I have a daughter that's three years older than him and I have a complete gap where I don't even remember being her mom because I was so obsessed with trying to save my son's life and fighting on my own. ⁓ And that hurts so deep, especially because darn it.

 Sheridan (1:05:19)

Yeah.

Juniper (1:05:46)

He's 11 now and time goes by so fast and I lost two and a half years of it darn it, but ⁓

Sheridan (1:05:51)

That's crazy. I'm so glad that you said that because I would say that all the time and I like tried to explain it to my friends that also have babies around her age and they just don't understand. It's not their fault because they obviously didn't go through what we did, but like I try to explain that and be like, feel like I've lost out on the first nine months of her life. Like I am so like, like you said, like I just hurt because of all I've ever wanted is to be a mom and anybody that knows me knows that about me. And so as soon as I get to experience that, it's like it was taken away for me. But I'm just so thankful that I figured it out early rather than, you know, not to compare it to your situation. And I am so sorry you went through it for so long, but I'm so thankful I found it now. I found you and your product now rather than whenever she's two or three. I'm just like, I can't tell you how thankful I am for you because.

Juniper (1:06:53)

Well, I am so thankful too because that's the whole other part that gets me emotional is I think about, my gosh, like what would have happened? What would have happened to my son?

Sheridan (1:07:02)

Yeah.

Juniper (1:07:04)

what would have happened to your daughter if we didn't find this healing? If this continued to grow and grow and grow in the body because it doesn't just go away. the advice of just wait it out, no, if there is a symptom, that's the body saying, please help me. Don't wait it out because the longer you wait, the longer it takes to heal and the worse symptoms will get. And that brings me to...

Sheridan (1:07:13)

Mm-mm. ⁓

Juniper (1:07:32)

I feel the most positive and powerful energy of gratitude that even though I did lose two and a half years, gosh, I didn't lose his whole life. I get to have my best, healthiest, thriving son and myself and my whole family forever now. And what a small period of time in comparison. And I'm right here in it with you.

Sheridan (1:07:42)

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yes.

Juniper (1:08:02)

No.

Sheridan (1:08:02)

Yes, yes. And I'm so, I'm so happy that you're that you're the one that we run to for healing whenever nobody else would listen. So, but I would like to end this with advice for parents, other parents that are maybe going through the same thing, like just starting the journey of, you know, eczema or other symptoms. Like, I just want to let them know that you need to advocate for your child no matter what. Do not stop. If you feel like something is wrong in your gut, that there is something not right with your child and nobody will listen, like do not stop and do not give up because you are their voice. They can't, know, if they're obviously, if they're a little older, it's different, but you are their voice. And I mean, if I stopped advocating for her and if I gave up, who knows? Like, like, like you said, where would she be? Like what, what else would be wrong? Like I'd still be miserable with her just. 

Begging God for an answer, but do not stop giving up like do not Stop advocating for your baby. And then also another thing is like I mentioned before the symptoms do Get worse before they get better. So do not give up on the process If you end up doing the gut cleanse, do not stop just keep going the symptoms get worse for they get better and that's a sign that it's working and The last thing is there is a way to get rid of you or your child's problems that you've noticed ⁓ there is a way and I think that the biggest thing since your gut is your second brain Start with the gut and see if that helps there is a way to get rid of it though but You're welcome

Juniper (1:09:47)

I appreciate that so much. Thank you so much for all of your time and for so vulnerably sharing your story and her healing and Those pictures that you sent me, is it okay if I put it on the page with this so that people really have a visual of the before and after?

Sheridan (1:10:09)

Absolutely, and I can send you since that second her after picture isn't the best picture I can send you another one of like a like a more clear picture of her face for comparison because in that picture she's eating and has avocado on her face So I'll send you a better one for comparison. But yes, I would love for you to share them and you know You don't have to block out her eyes or anything. I just want everybody to know her story and know who she is and Just for everybody to know that there is a way to heal so

Juniper (1:10:34)

Thank you. Okay, and then the very last thing that I want to say is you just joined the Rebalancing Collective community and We're so grateful to have you there and you are much further along in your journey than a lot of the mamas coming in there. And I just appreciate you being in that space and holding space for families that are going through this because your story is what gives other people hope. So thank you for taking all this time to share your story and show up in that space.

Sheridan (1:10:58)

Mm-hmm. Yes. Absolutely. And I look up to you so much as a mother, as a woman, and I just want to say thank you again so much for everything.

Juniper (1:11:18)

Thank you, it is really surreal and such an honor to be here. And as I said at the beginning, like before we started recording, you're like, I'm gonna try not to cry. And I was like, no, no, no, cry. This is not a professional podcast. We are humans and moms. And this is what.

Sheridan (1:11:33)

I'm crying again.

Juniper (1:11:39)

when I started ōNLē, I held myself back for a long time thinking, okay, I have to have this like presence of being this perfect. No, that's actually what ōNLē has morphed into is this beautiful letting go of that ridiculous internal part that we create. And it's just being real. And so,

Sheridan (1:11:58)

being authentic, yes, I'm all about that. Like literally both of us have no makeup on, our hair is mess, like, but you still look so beautiful. But showing it authentically is just, that's where it's at, so.

Juniper (1:12:04)

That's such a bad... ⁓ which is what exactly the community is. And I'm so happy that you're there and here. So thank you, Sheridan.

Sheridan (1:12:17)

you Yes, thank you.