A mom at 14, the loss of love at 19, an illness that seemed fatal, and a journey of healing has resulted in a holistic health practitioner's career. Being a teen mom is hard and dealing with the stigma and judgment is extremely hard. We live in a world that places a high value on judgment, and it can profoundly impact the way we live and how we face the world. The most significant outcome is to release the stigma and judgment. It is possible with the pouring of love and support in knowing that you cannot undo a decision, but accept the decision and choose to improve the decision making.

Chaunice Collins has changed how she made decisions, and she did that by making the decisions to improve her life. She had to grow up amazingly fast. When most of her peers were hanging out, she raised a child and worked to support her child. The experience of being a mom made her strive for more, but she faced some challenging moments of losing the father of her child at the age of 19 and suffering health issues that were not clear to her.

Luckily, she had some great experiences working in the wellness industry and healthcare that enabled her to be open to alternative health practices. Chaunice decided to take responsibility for her health and well-being. She has changed her health and has influenced a healthy lifestyle to her family, friends, and people she cared for. Her healthy change has ultimately led her to shift her life to serving others as a holistic health practitioner. This change was not an overnight decision, but the decision was based on a life of serving, helping, and influencing.

This is how change happens. You have experiences that shape you. For Chaunice it was being a teen mom and wanting more. You then have more experiences, and people enter your life that will influence you. For Chaunice it was wanting to support her daughter, and the work she did for a chiropractor that taught her about alternative healing and her mom that started juicing. You then add more experiences that lead you to real changes in your life. For Chaunice it was the blending of alternative healing and working with patients with many treatments that were not being healed.  These experiences led to her to complete the training and become a holistic health practitioner.

This experience to change journey is not isolated to Chaunice. We all have experiences, influences, and the added experiences that lead us to change our lives. Chaunice took all of her life and blended it to grow, learn, and make decisions to better her life. These were hard decisions, but she refused to live off of the government. That decision alone kept her moving forward.

Chaunice has shared her journey that reminds us not to let your imperfect decisions stop you from becoming the best version of you and from holding you back from moving forward in life. She teaches us how our lives' decisions, experiences, and influences will lead us to follow our passions and go after changes that we want for ourselves. Ultimately, Chaunice has shown us that changing our life is up to us.