S1 E10 Sonya Doesn't Need Help Getting Out of Her Chair Anymore Natural Health Warriors

How Sonya went from needing help out of her chair in the morning to leading up to 8 Zumba classes a week!

Good morning, everyone. Tirzah Hawkins here for Natural Health Warriors. And I'm here with Sonya today. She's got a really incredible story to share with you, but she's also got some nervous excitement going on because you are waiting for the baby call.

My daughter is passed due, and so she was due on the 13th. And we went in yesterday and she's making progress. She's two, she was two centimeters yesterday, and she woke up a little crampy today. So we're, we're hoping that things keep progressing.

For those of you that are watching this in the future, it's the 17th I believe this morning. And so she was due on the 13th so any time now. Very exciting. And how many, um, is this your second grand baby though?

This will be my third.

Your third?

Yeah. So I have a little boy already and a little girl that is six months old and now I'll have this one.

So awesome. Yeah, that's exciting. Congrats

Does that age. Me?

No, you're still young and beautiful. All right, so Sonya, you have gone through so much in your life. Can you give us a little overview of your back story and kind of things that have contributed to where you've been physically and emotionally with your health?

Yeah, that's a, it's a hard journey. Um, I start tearing up every time I think about it, but

we have tisues. I'm like here: the whole box. Yes. You might want to pause, like go get your own tissue.

So I had a, my mom, my biological mom left me when I was five with, um, my stepdad. And my Stepdad, um, had some difficulties of his own. Emotional challenges from being a war veteran and, and um, was abusive ,and I was taken out of his home and put into a series of foster care situations that were unhealthy. And, um, and so that kind of started my journey of not feeling good enough for anybody. And my mom left me. Why did she left me? Leave me. Was I not good enough? Wasn't pretty enough, was I not, you know? What's happening? And you know, my dad's abuse definitely triggered a huge amount of stuff. Um, foster parents that I didn't feel like cared about me. Um, so I started a lifestyle of being on the run from judicial systems, um, living on the streets, bouncing house to house. And I think that that really spurred the, um, the unhealthy. You know, I didn't learn good health choices early on in my life. I was, you can't living on the streets, it's impossible to do. I'm sleeping on park benches and also going through a really horrible situation, um, of rape and getting pregnant and um, meeting somebody in the process of that. See, look, I'm already tearing up. That basically told me that he wanted to be with me, but I had to give my daughter up in order to do that and I didn't do that. And then that relationship became very abusive. And, um, when I was pregnant with her, I had gestational diabetes, so I was 98 pounds when I got pregnant. And I wound up being close to 200 pounds by the time I delivered.



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