I’m Kathy Gillen and I’m passionate about wellness.  Wellness is when my pants button easily and I have enough energy to draw big lines through today’s  checklist.  But wellness is a journey.

A Wellness Roadtrip meanders.  Unlike a weekend roadtrip to NYC for shows and excessive eating, or to the beach for big sun and tall drinks, the destination is uncertain.  Arrival times are vague.  Sometimes I travel alone but often with friends.  It’s a journey about feeling good:  waking, refreshed and ready for the day’s abundance.

Sometimes I go full speed ahead, fueled by organic greens and high quality supplements, anxious to get to the next spot.  Other times my trip to wellness slows, and freshly, baked brownies call to me like the billboard on the highway announcing the Outlet Mall with 175 stores at the next exit!

My journey to a healthy lifestyle started when I was a kid.  My father had a huge organic garden.  I was the only one I knew who actually had “all vegetable” meals.  I didn’t get to go to the pool in the summer until I’d picked my two rows of beans.  But as much as I complained then, and begged my mom, “please, just once could you buy Twinkies,” I now appreciate the foundation my parents laid.

A bunch of years, and four babies, later my Wellness Roadtrip took on new meaning.   I’d been making my own baby food and convincing my three older kids that broccoli was a treat, when my fourth child was diagnosed with a mitochondrial disease.  We learned that her disease was metabolic; meaning every cell in her body didn’t metabolize food properly.  I spent the next several years trying desperately to become an expert in cellular function.  While the doctors predicted her life expectancy from this degenerative disease to be two years, I shoved flax seed oil and tofu/kale smoothies down her with a good dose of hope.

Now nearly eight years later, my daughter Merritt Joy has never been hospitalized or suffered from any of the debilitating viruses the doctors feared.  She is highly disabled, but very healthy.

While my daughter’s condition could have been the flat tire that ruined my journey, it instead became the impetus for the ride of my life.  I have adopted many of the same basic health principles I use to keep her healthy.  I’m 44 and feeling great.  (And I don’t live on tofu and kale!)

I hope you’ll hop in the passenger’s seat and travel with me.  Great food and supplementation, not to mention good basic knowledge and time to rest, will lead us to thrilling destinations.

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