"There are people who touch our lives at certain points on our journey. Some people enter our lives and we are forever changed and grateful for having met them. Kara is one of those people for me. It was during a time of deep personal crisis and turmoil that I found Kara. I knew I wanted to chart a new path in my life’s journey, but did not know how to begin.

In the beginning of 2017 I was in the best shape of my life. Then I was struck with an illness that caused me to lose 30 pounds (on a 5’9” frame with a usual weight of 135, this was a tremendous amount of weight). I lost every bit of muscle and looked like skin and bones, I thought I was dying. I wouldn’t leave the house because of how I looked