I’m pretty sure that no one has childhood dreams of cleaning out other people’s bums for a living. I certainly didn’t, nor did I have any idea the profession even existed. Yet, here I am, 26 years into this career, feeling more nourished and fulfilled than I ever could have dreamt up all those years ago. 

I have intentionally created a life rooted in connection, and my professional life is not an exception. In my twenties I taught kids with hearing loss and then became a counselor in a domestic violence shelter. I helped create a youth program for children of women who were working to transition out of prostitution. It was in these experiences that I learned how to truly listen and witnessed how truly being heard has the power to literally open new paths in people's lives, including my own as the listener. People’s stories, these connections are my sustenance and I knew early that I had to make a profession out of it. 

It was also there that I had the good fortune of meeting Paddy Lazar. We shared a passion for trying to live big meaningful lives full of pragmatic actions, things we could live, practice and do, toward ending the oppression we could reach out and touch from our own lives. It was on a dog walk after we learned that The Council for Prostitution Alternatives was soon closing, that the vision of becoming colon hydrotherapists emerged. In an exercise of listing the things in our lives we love aloud we had a big laugh about how much we both love having colonics!  

Woo is always optional at All’s Well That Ends Well, but I swear that when the idea of us becoming colon hydrotherapists spawned, the clouds began to part, and by the time we talked through the ways in which it checked all our boxes–rooted in connection, listening and holding space, and being in a position to offer an affordable healing modality to all communities on our own terms, the sun was out and shining. The plans for getting trained and starting a business together easily clicked into place.

Since then, with my own eyes, I have seen colonics become vital to the well-being of a myriad of humans, both healthy and sick. I’ve been witness to clients with Lyme disease coming in with brain fog and leaving reporting more clarity; to arthritic clients reporting decreased inflammation after just an hour-long session; to seeing people heartbroken over deaths, life changes and losses let go of them; to people on water fasts continuing to eliminate fecal matter 30 days into the no-food-cleanse; to cancer clients leaving with a smile and a bit of a spring in their steps; to people becoming less constipated and bloated; to watching people find enough energy post-eliminations to move and make dietary changes that actually improve their lives. It is by witnessing these clients again and again that I have become convinced that if you are called to try this modality, it is not without reason, likely many reasons. 

Paddy has moved on but the spirit and passion we started with has certainly not. At All’s Well That Ends Well, we are all here to support you, share resources with you, and make your session as comfortable as possible. We sincerely look forward to meeting you.