Holistic Stephanie Rowe

Sauna blanket and a sound bath… I feel like a whole new person. ☺️❤️

Do you sauna? Or do sound baths? Are you familiar with the benefits of both?

This account has really been growing (thank you!) and I’m getting a lot of messages asking who I am/how I got into holistic health, so I shall explain.

I grew up wanting to be a psychiatrist. Because I wanted to go to medical school, I studied my butt off to get straight As and graduated high school as valedictorian.

I attended the University of Alabama (🐘❤️🏈) and earned a Bachelor’s degree in psychology. I loved all my psychology classes. However, while I was in college, THREE of my close friends committed su***de. All three of them were taking prescribed antidepressants at the time. So I started asking my professors about these medicines, and I kept being told that yes, most antidepressants do have a well-known and documented “suicidal hump,” where they can make you significantly worse before they make you better, especially in adolescents. I started having panic attacks and was prescribed benzodiazepines, and realized these can have awful side effects too!

Needless to say, I was very shaken up and felt like I could never prescribe these drugs to anyone. So I opted out of medical school. I was lost and confused but I knew I couldn’t continue down that path anymore.

I floundered about career-wise for a bit. I took a job doing marketing for a company in Atlanta and quickly got burned out. I decided to move to the beach and sell real estate because if I was going to be marketing someone, I wanted it to be me.

I moved down to Destin on January 1, 2014 and began my real estate journey. A few short years later, I met this hot Marine who jumps out of planes for a living. I fell head over heels, got married, and had a kid.

I have enjoyed real estate; it can be a very lucrative career (especially on 30A!) and it’s fun to tour multimillion dollar beach homes all the time.

But then 2020 happened, and I started realizing that it’s not just benzos and ssris that are bad. 😭💔

I was introduced to naturopathy and something inside me instantly clicked. I could get back to helping people like I always wanted to - without having to prescribe petroleum pills! Our Creator has provided us with what we need to heal our bodies! 🙌🏼

What brought YOU to holistic health?