Welcome! I’m Ginger Fagan, the owner of Healing Upstream. I am a Holistic Health Practitioner whose passion is to help families find true health. I graduated from the College of Naturopathic Medicine in England with a diploma in Naturopathic Nutrition.
My journey into naturopathic health started shortly after I graduated from high school when I worked for a small natural health store in Florida. I had the honor of sitting under a naturopath and learning from her wisdom as she taught community classes and became a cherished mentor. As an avid reader I would devour all the books and information I could get my hands on, long before we had the internet for easy access.
Over the years I have worked in various aspects of the medical field including: psych tech, EMT-B, phlebotomist, hospital unit secretary, assisted living/home health aid, and massage therapy. I started to pursue a double bachelor’s degree in Pre-Med and Dietetics at the university, but three years in I discovered I was expecting my first child. With my military husband deploying shortly after her birth, I decided to pause my education. It was a decision I have never regretted.
Over the next five years I would add three more children to our family. You can read “My Story” to learn how I ended up sharing Lyme with all four children and my husband. Three out of four have been diagnosed on the spectrum- something we would learn is common with congenital Lyme since it attacks the nervous system. Between the six members of my family our list of health issues is longer than all four of my kid’s Christmas wish lists put together.
It was fighting for my own family’s health, and not finding answers within the medical system, that led me to go back to school and pursue Naturopathic Nutrition. It was always my goal as a mother to teach my children to live life beyond the expected limitations of their health. Our health is not our identitiy. It’s just another aspect of life that helps shape our character and our perspectives. It was imperative to teach them how to make choices that would nourish and care for their bodies so they could have a healthy future.
Now it’s my passion to help equip you to reclaim your health for the sake of your family’s future. Healthy kids start with healthy parents! Together we can change the health of your family one generation at a time. It can start with YOU!
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” Deuteronomy 6:5-7 (ESV)