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Managing chronic health conditions is very difficult, and overcoming them seems almost impossible. Sonia Hunt wants you to know that she’s living proof that you can go from surviving to thriving with mind over matter, heart, and a lot of grit.
First diagnosed at age three with severe food allergies, asthma, and environmental allergies, Sonia’s health was embroiled in gaining more allergies as she aged, with hundreds of hospital visits due to her allergies and anaphylaxis incidents which found her almost dead on the emergency room table over a span of four decades.
In 2008, after her fourth anaphylaxis incident, Sonia hit rock bottom with her health and knew that if she didn’t figure out why this was happening, the next time could be the last.
“Managing my food allergies by suppressing symptoms was the Western protocol my entire life, and it wasn’t working. I needed to find a new way that would heal my body but also heal the detriment to my mind, spirit, and emotions that came as a result of the reactions food had in my system,” says Ms. Hunt.
It took almost two years to bounce back after the traumatic anaphylaxis incident, and in 2010, Sonia began a new journey to healing by focusing on her whole-body health, identifying toxicity within all areas of her life, and working to understand the root cause of her food allergies.
With an empowered mindset, Hunt brought together a team of multidisciplinary doctors, created a framework for how they were going to go about healing, and set outcomes to try to achieve. For a full decade, Sonia tested and tweaked her whole-body health through changes in mental health, diet, supplementation, lifestyle, and environment, which led to her eliminating all of her over 32 food allergies.
Sonia Hunt has been in remission since 2020 and chronicled her journey to healing in her #1 Best-Selling Book, NUT JOB: How I Crushed My Food Allergies To Thrive, and in her TEDx Talk, which has over 1M views.
Today, as a Health and Wellness Keynote Speaker, Author, Certified Health Coach, and Advisor, Sonia is helping women heal chronic health issues to be their best and thrive – a journey she personally experienced for four decades.
“When I was going through my own journey, there was no one I could relate to or that looked like me, a woman of color and foodie who wanted to be healthy so that I could have wonderful experiences and thrive in my career and life. So, I became that woman,” says Hunt.
Ms. Hunt serves as a mentor to global organizations focused on solutions for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and is the creator of Three to Be™, a holistic health and well-being program that guides people on how to Be Healthy, Be Safe + Be Well™ to thrive in life.
Her speaking platform takes a deeper look at:
reinventing life-health-work harmony,
redefining value systems and narratives around well-being,
reimagining our foodways,
rethinking conversations around mental health,
all of which are rooted in advocating for self.
When asked about her biggest lessons learned to share with the over 32M Americans with food allergies and the over 133M Americans with chronic health conditions, Ms. Hunt stated the following:
The conversation on mental and emotional health must begin at diagnosis.
There is no one-size-fits-all model for chronic health conditions; Everyone’s journey, especially a woman’s health journey, is unique and requires personalized attention via a multidisciplinary approach.
Expanding awareness of all forms of healing is key.
Humanizing your journey and building community builds your empathy and advocation muscles.
Sonia Hunt crushed her own food allergies and is now crushing chronic conditions by helping women become empowered to heal. “We only get this one life, and in that life, we have the power to heal our lives, beginning with our health, just by making one conscious decision – to try,” says Sonia Hunt.
