My professional portfolio states that I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in all things Diabetes (CDCES & BC-ADM), but I am also a yoga teacher--how I find balance & prevent burnout. Besides yoga, I recharge in the mountains, in the high desert & on bodies of water-- I'm an adventure athlete who also happens to be a voracious reader! Deep at my core, I am a curious creature; even now as a "mature" adult, I still ask the same questions that drove my parents crazy when I was a toddler "why?", "why not?", "how come?". My mom's answer was "because I said".....UGH.....I hated it then & hate it now when the professional world answers in a similar vain "because that's how we've always done it!" One of my formerr (teen) patient's made me a string art bicycle picture with the phrase "find joy in the journey"---because she said "it summarizes you & your philosophy! Out of the mouth of "babes! :)