From birthwork to hormone care, Emily shares how midwifery shaped her mission to offer women the personalized, compassionate support they deserve in midlife—and why it’s long overdue.

I discovered functional medicine by accident — and it changed the way I saw health, symptoms, and the power of listening. But when I started working with women in midlife, I noticed something was missing.

They’d done it all: the detoxes, diets, supplements. And still didn’t feel better. What functional medicine often overlooks is the one thing at the root of it all for women 40 and up: hormones.