Our Story.
All praises to the Most High YAHUAH for leading and gifting us with the ability to share His creations as He originally intended for us to receive and use them for healing, restoration and sustenance!
My health journey actually began as a child. Growing up, my mother was very health conscious. We would visit the health food store to buy fresh produce, herbs, vitamin supplements, all natural fruit leathers, sugar free candy, and herbal teas. My mom was also an avid herbal tea drinker! She had tea for every need, and I can remember reading all the boxes to gain understanding as to what they were for: chamomile for sleep, peppermint for a pick me up, lemon with honey for a tangy, refreshing and throat soothing relief or a ginger blended tea for digestion support. Little did I know that it would be the start of an ongoing interest in teas and herbs throughout my life.
In 2012, I was diagnosed with severe gastroenteritis, IBS and GERD. While I tended to eat healthy, I had fallen into the trap of eating too much (so-called) “healthy” processed food to keep up with my very busy lifestyle. My body needed a reset and tea played an important role in this as I completely changed my diet. By 2016, I desired to pursue a business that focused on holistic health and wellness because of what I had experienced in my own life. While I considered it just a dream goal and not my reality, I continued to grow, learn, research and expand my knowledge and understanding around how what we consume impacts and interacts with our bodies. It’s fascinating! There are so many external (in our environment) and internal (what we put in our bodies) factors that impact our health and wellness. We must develop an intimate relationship with our bodies to gain insight as to what works for and against us.
In August 2023, I was victim to a superspreader COVID event. I became quite ill, and struggled to recover. As soon as I began to experience relief, I would get sick again with what felt like a relapse of COVID symptoms. This continued to happen every few weeks; I would recover, and then become sick again. By mid-November, my health was continuing to deteriorate as I battled what was labeled as “Long COVID”. Every time I left the house, I would relapse. In order to seek treatment, I took a medical leave of absence from my job as the Head of Corporate Communications at a Federal Government Defense Contractor in early December 2023; and was prescribed medications that made me feel worse. Additionally, any amount of stress I encountered as I attempted to venture back into small work tasks would also cause a relapse; and I would have an extreme autoimmune response to minor disruptions in my body causing intense inflammation. Everyday tasks became more and more exasperating as I battled daily upper respiratory congestion; along with being excessively lethargic, with body aches and brain fog. While my quality of life was decreasing every day, my faith in YAHUAH and my belief that He would heal me increased.
My family and I continued to commit ourselves to prayer and seeking The Most High YAHUAH for guidance on healing and restoration. I put my trust and belief in how The Most High YAHUAH was leading me and had faith that He would lead me through it. Through prayer, I was led to not go back to the doctor’s office and cancel my upcoming appointments; and following a visit to a holistic medicine specialist, I received a diagnosis that things were becoming critical as my arteries were being constricted by small blood clots as the spike protein continued to replicate in my body. I was experiencing a repetitive Herxheimer reaction and my body was becoming too weak to completely fight off the spike protein that was essentially taking squatters rights.
The holistic medicine specialist gave me guidance that would be helpful, however, The Most High YAHUAH showed me how to apply it along with increasing my understanding of other herbs and medicines of the earth that would be pivotal to my healing and recovery. Through fervent prayer, surrender and striving to be obedient, I was given wisdom, knowledge and insight on how to use herbs, spices, plants, minerals and foods to heal! As The Most High YAHUAH increased my understanding, by His grace I was able to create tea blends that would be helpful to others. He then blessed us with the opportunity and direction to start MaKhaYaH Life.
The name "MaKhaYaH" was granted to us by the Most High YAHUAH, and stemming from paleo Hebrew, it means:
Sustenance: food that revives life; to revive, restore and preserve life; victuals, and [to] recover.
We seek to do the will of our Father, YAHUAH, and provide products that will do exactly as we have been named by Him. HallaluYAH!
Sirach 38:4-6
“YAHUAH has created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known? And He has given men skill, that He might be honored in His marvelous works.”
