Hello beautiful community,

My name is Tiffany Rowan and I am reaching out as I have been over coming health challenges and making miracles happen for a while now. I am so close to getting in a more sustainable position, yet need help during this transition. While I have been rehabilitating myself, bills have accumulated and it's gotten to the point where I feel crushed by the debt, thus ultimately affecting my hope and momentum moving forward. It's with the love and nurturing of some sweet community that they've encouraged me to reach out to be supported during this time. As there are times in life where we all need to be held and/or uplifted. So thank you so much, to those who read, share, support, donate or send love, all of this is so graciously appreciated and received in deep gratitude.

More about me and why I'm reaching out:

I am a tenacious, resilient and incredibly strong young woman who is fiercely challenging the life I was born into. When I was 10 years old I suffered a severe head injury that didn't receive proper medical care and a few months later suffered a severe pelvic injury that also didn't receive proper medical attention, to which I am still dealing with the injuries to this day. I was raised in extreme poverty, I started working at 8 years old and eventually started living on the streets and couch surfing, as that was safer then being at home. At 16 years young, I signed up for welfare to access some supports as I lived on my own already and was told that I would need to go on medication if I wanted a doctor to fill out my ODSP paperwork to gain additional and necessary supports. As a youth, I had no idea that was illegal and unknowingly obliged to walking a path that would forever change my life. One pill turned to 2, 2 to 3 (as a result of the side effects), until eventually at 25 years young I had become extremely obese, on 12+ pills a day(Effexor XR, Seroquel, Percocet, Abilify, to name a few), and I became unable to work, with pain, PTSD and depression ruling my life. I was told I'd never walk unassisted again, as I used a cane at this point to help me get the short distances I was able to manage and I had started to develop the beginning stages of kidney failure.

It was at this time that I had a nurse tell me in a frustrated and exasperated tone that I needed "to take another prescription because you don't have the money to get healthy." To which those words woke up something deep and primal inside of me as I thought this was a horrifying thing to say to a patient. I'd needed protection, guidance, nurturance, not prescriptions to numb me to my experience and a dismissal of the reality I was facing with band aid solutions that were only causing more and more problems, requiring more and more "band aids". I didn't realize it at the time, however a part of me knew and deeply understood that despite good intentions, they didn't have my best interests in mind, and were blinded by a broken system. This started me on a new adventure, a holistic healing adventure and I am so proud of how far I have come!

I have come off all of the medications and am using herbs and lifestyle to manage my symptoms. I have lost an incredible 200 pounds! I'm not only walking unassisted again, I can at times manage to dance ecstatically! I have changed my diet completely from the standard American diet to a whole foods diet. I went through an intense anti-inflammatory, detox phase for two years where I was vegan and cut out processed sugars, dairy, gluten, soy, corn and eggs. I have reversed the kidney damage and disease. I have put time and effort into creating and maintaining health and life enhancing routines and practices, such as stabilizing my blood sugar through diet thus helping in regulating my mood, exercising regularly, and following a sleeping schedule.

I'm the first in my family to graduate high school and have even endeavoured to study Herbology through Wild Rose College, to eventually be able to assist others with their healing health adventures. I've also been dabbling with unified physics, quantum biology and healing, epigenetics, Ayurveda, TCM, reiki, and sound therapy. I've estranged myself from a terrifyingly toxic family environment, a devastating environment that caused my brother to commit suicide, a loss that flavours how I walk through each day. I was also unexpectedly separated, seemingly overnight, from my business partner late last year which has had a substantial impact to my situation. Yet, I boldly continue to seek new ways of being and existing that create peace and coherence within myself and our society. I refuse to walk the path I was raised to walk and continue to persevere despite it all.

Because I am trailblazing with a holistic healing approach to my recovery, there are not a lot of government funded supports and I have maxed out the supports that I do qualify for. Beloved friends, I have come so, so far! I am fully investing all my time, energy and attention into rehabilitating, rebuilding and reintegrating into community. And with this, I ask you for a hand up. I have moved mountains with my mustard seeds, yet I'm exhausted. I feel run down and I need your help to get through this next phase. I wholeheartedly believe that I am incredibly close to getting into a more sustainable position. With gained awareness and treatment plans around my injuries, this is helping to reduce and regulate my symptoms, and with that I believe I can establish positive, sustainable momentum for myself, if I had the support to transition out of this phase in my journey, if I had a bit more capacity to invest in gaining momentum. Please help me make my dreams come true with your support. We rise collectively.

If you were to donate, your support would be going towards:

1) Rental arrears ($7400 CAD/$5125 USD)

2) Rent in general, so I can focus my time and energy towards healing and getting into a more sustainable position. (My rent is $1250CAD a month and through ODSP, I max out at $1368 for shelter and basic needs, leaving me in a bind each month)

3) Access to a Traditional Chinese Medical Doctor to enhance the sustainability of my healing (Visits range between $100-300CAD each visit)

4) Access to alternative medicines and therapies as needed to continue and enhance healing, including;

- healing herbs, tinctures, teas and spices

5) - acupuncture, which has provided great benefits already

6) - physiotherapy

7) - yoga

8) - massage

9) - dance therapy

10) Access to nourishing and healing organic produce and whole foods

11) School Tuition ($2500 CAD/ $1735USD per diploma, 3 diplomas required, currently 2/3rds through my first diploma)

12) Books, research and classes to assist with learning, integration, healing and expansion

13) Working and studying with other teachers in my community

If you feel moved to help or support, you can do so in many ways! You can:

1) share this fundraiser far and wide, on social media, through email, by word of mouth. With more awareness, more doors can open and I thank you so much for helping me co-create these opportunities

2) offer a donation through here, in person or through e-transfer- whether offering a one time donation or recurring donations, your support makes such an impact

3) host an event or show, and put some or all of the proceeds towards this fundraiser

4) help me get my art out there! I have handmade crystal jewellery and paintings I would love to share with the world in even bigger ways! @learning_to_love_thy_self

5) reach out with information regarding equal opportunity employment, specifically places who are willing to respect and work with neurodivergent folks

6) reaching out and offering discounted or complimentary access to holistic services and/or respites

I'm here now, calling in community from far and wide, those I know and those I have yet to meet, so we can take some of this pressure off, so I can create opportunities to use all I've learned, to be of service and help others in creating meaningful, empowering lives! So that I may continue to heal and have a chance at sharing the fruits of my labours, helping others find light and joy after devastating circumstances. The body keeps the score and so thank you, thank you, thank you, for helping me right the score and create balance and coherence after experiencing so much. Profoundly, thank you for helping me ensure my story has a different ending, for assisting in this Phoenix' Rise.

Thank you so much for helping me make my dreams of a peaceful, healthy future, that much more possible!

May the blessings be returned to you multiplied,

Warmly and with love,

Tiffany and Team