Elevated Wellness Travel by Ashley

My Story

People see the woman I am today...but they don’t always see the little girl I used to be.

My childhood was hard and lonely. It truly was survival mode.

I grew up carrying pain that most people never saw. I knew what it felt like to feel unloved.
To feel uncared for. To question your worth because the people who were supposed to protect you became part of your pain and there was loss in that pain. There was trauma. There was emotional pain, mental exhaustion, and physical suffering.

And for a long time, I learned how to survive…not how to heal.

That survival mode followed me into adulthood. It showed up in my nervous system.
In my exhaustion and in my health. In the way my body carried years of stress, fear, inflammation, and unprocessed pain.

For years, I struggled with heavy periods, fibroids, breast and ovarian pain, and constant exhaustion. My body was overwhelmed. I gained water weight from excessive blood loss, inflammation, and toxicity. For nearly three years, I struggled to even leave my home because the bleeding had become so severe.

I saw 4 gynecologists and over 12 doctors total. Not one addressed the root cause.

Most appointments felt like:
Symptoms = Prescriptions.

Meanwhile, my health continued getting worse. I ended up in the emergency room multiple times after passing out from severe blood loss and lack of oxygen in my body. It became a vicious cycle of suffering, fear, exhaustion, and frustration.

And what hurt the most was feeling like no one truly had answers.

Finally, I found a doctor willing to listen.

He never dismissed me by saying “heavy periods are normal.” He agreed something deeper was wrong, and because my cells had become abnormal, he recommended an endometrial ablation to stop the bleeding as quickly as possible.

I hoped it would finally end the suffering.

But after the procedure, I continued bleeding internally. The pain became unbearable.

My uterus stretched as blood backed up behind it, causing severe pain on my left side. There are no words to fully describe that kind of suffering. Surgery was my only option.

After years of heavy bleeding and pain, I was scheduled for a hysterectomy. And honestly…I was ready to be done. But even then, deep inside, I still needed answers.

I kept praying and asking God:
Why did my body end up this way?
Why couldn’t I heal?
What was I missing?

I wasn’t asking for a temporary fix anymore.
I was begging for the truth.

And I will never forget what God placed on my heart that led me to Functional Nutrition Counseling:

“Eat what I made, not what I didn’t. If on the shelf, leave it. If I made it, eat it.”

Those words changed my life. Because even in the darkest moments of my childhood…and even through years of suffering in my body…God never left me.

My faith journey didn’t begin when life became easy.
It began when I was a little girl searching for safety, peace, and hope in the middle of pain.

God met me there.

He became the love I didn’t always feel.
The peace I didn’t always have.
The strength I desperately needed.

And little by little, He showed me that survival was not the final chapter for me.

Healing was.

That realization transformed the way I viewed health, healing, nourishment, and the body God created.

God’s creation is perfect and intentional.
But the world we live in today is filled with stress, toxins, processed foods, chemicals, emotional overload, and constant disconnection from the foundations of wellness.

Now my mission and passion is to help bridge the healthcare divide by helping people look deeper into their health stories and uncover the environments where disease and dysfunction thrive.

I believe emergency medicine and surgery absolutely have their place.
They save lives.
I am grateful for mine.

But I also believe true healing requires a partnership, perspective, nourishment, education, balance, faith, and time.

Too often we live in “sick care” instead of healthcare.

This is why I do what I do. Because I know what it feels like to hurt quietly.
I know what it feels like when your body carries what your heart has been through.

That little girl deserved healing.
And so do you.

Your story matters.
Your body matters.
And healing is possible.

Glory to God in love and grace,
Ashley Lynn Angeli, CFNC

My Education

· High School Course in Human Biology and College Course in Nutritional Sciences

· Intro to Creating Wellness: Functional Medicine and Positive Psychology

· HeartMath Stress and Well-being Assessment Provider and Building Personal Resilience Coach Cert.

· Precision Nutrition PN1 Certification

· Mindbodygreen Institute - peri/menopause+

· Mindbodygreen Institute - Health Coach Certification

· Mindbodygreen Institute - Functional Nutrition

· The Hyamson Institute: Foundation Practitioner Certificate of Homeopathy and Homeopathic Medicine

· Functional Nutrition Alliance, Full Body Systems

· Aromatherapy Using Essential Oils for Natural Living

· Prosper Nutrition - Nutrition Coaching

· Certified Excellence - Hormone Health Coach

· Peptology - Injection and IV Training, Peptide Protocol

· Alzheimer's Association - essentiALZ training and certification

· Health Coach Institute, Health and Life Coaching

· Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI) Certification Course, The Mind Body Immune Connection

· Gut & Digestion Health Results Accelerator by Dr. Stephan Cabral

· Lara Adlers - Certification Course in Enviromental Health 180+ Lessons

· Josh Gitalis Functional Nutrition Certification Program

· Dr. Tom Obryan's Certified Gluten-Free Practitioner Program & You Can Fix Your Brain Masterclass

· Stanford University School of Medicine, Intro to Food and Health Certificate

· Associates degree in Business Management Technology with concentrations in management, entrepreneurship and manufacturing from Kent State University