DEEPER. is a reclamation.
A return.
A remembering of who you are beneath the stress, the symptoms, the stories, the survival. It’s the process of peeling back the layers and kissing disconnection goodbye so your most emodied self can rise.
Healing doesn’t come from outside fixes or quick answers. It comes from reconnecting — to your body, your rhythms, your truth.
Here, we use functional lab testing and nervous system regulation to create safety in the places your body has been protecting for years. We go deeper - not just into lab data, but into the beliefs you’ve inherited, the stress you carry, and the patterns you’re ready to release.
You Are the Medicine. Everything you seek already lives inside of you - it’s about turning down the noise and tuning into the wisdom that’s always been within you.
This isn’t surface level wellness. It’s shadow work. Root cause work. Lab guided, nervous system led, and rooted in radical self love.
This is where science meets soul. Where structure meets intuition. Where health becomes a portal to your truest self.
My role is not to heal you - it’s to walk beside you as you remember how. This is where you stop outsourcing your power.
This is a reclamation of your wholeness - one layer, one truth at a time.
This is the deeper work.
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MEET liv
A trauma-informed certified Functional Health Practitioner. I specialize in unraveling chronic stress (internal and external), restoring gut health, and helping your body release what’s been weighing it down - from toxins to old narratives.
I didn’t end up here by chance - this work was born from everything I needed but couldn’t find in the traditional system.
I began my journey studying dietetics and nutrition in undergrad at the University of Hawaii. But something never sat right. It felt hollow. We were taught to give chemical-laden Ensure to sick patients, to treat the symptoms not the person - it was all protocols and checklists. We were never taught to ask why the body was struggling in the first place. It didn’t feel like healing - it felt like compliance. I couldn’t shake the disconnect.
While I was in school, my father was diagnosed with a terminal illness. I watched him spend nearly a decade inside the medical system - pinballed between specialists, medicated and dismissed - while his body kept asking for help in ways no doctor seemed to understand. I saw how easily people get shuffled when their symptoms don’t fit a textbook. My schooling and my father’s journey exposed the cracks in the system, and when toxic mold exposure wrecked my health, I fell through them too.
I’ve seen firsthand how deeply the system is built to fail us. How it overlooks the whole person, soul included. How it treats symptoms not root causes. How it forgets to ask why.
I knew there had to be a better way.
So I created one.
I became a certified Functional Health Practitioner and trained in trauma-informed care and nervous system healing. I stepped away from the conventional, and into something deeper - work that honors the body’s wisdom, questions outdated paradigms, challenges convention, leads with compassion and prioritizes root cause. I chose to work with the body - not against it. And that is how blending functional lab testing with nervous system support was birthed. It’s science AND soul in the same conversation.
I’ve always been someone who walks outside the lines, who questions the norm - you can ask my mom, my favorite response growing up was “why?” That curiosity is what led me to Hawaii in the first place and that curiosity then turned into a mission. To help others find the answers they’ve been searching for without the dismissing, the guessing, or the overwhelm. To make life feel sexy, expansive, and free again. To help you remember that curiosity, truth, and play are your birthrights. I’ve never been one to follow the rules, and I don’t expect you to either.
I believe that good health, mental and physical, is the starting point. It’s the foundation that makes everything else possible. When you feel connected to your body and soul, you become unstoppable. You stop asking for permission, you follow your impulses and live a life that’s fully yours - not one prescribed by society or soaked in limitation.
In this society, you have to question everything you’ve been told in order to truly be free - and to truly heal.
The point of it all, is curiosity. We’re here to challenge the system.
To never stop asking why.
To live lives that are wildly authentic and deeply felt.
I built DEEPER. from everything I’ve lived and learned.
This work is my heart.
This is what I needed.
Now, it’s what I offer.
For the last decade I could be found running around barefoot on the North Shore of Oahu, Hawaii - which I called home. These days, I’ve traded island life for the California coast - but the essence remains the same. Salt water, farmers markets, sunshine, a good book, dogs and sunflowers all give me immense pleasure. I am a firm believer that the art of living is in simplicity - in all forms: mind, body and soul.