It all started when Stefanie Foster Freeman, HHC, was a child. At the age of three, she began showing symptoms of an insidious disease. At first, she thought nothing of it. When her hip pained her too much to walk, she let relatives carry her. It wasn't until later that she and her family realized how momentous that first burst of pain was for her life journey.
Eight years later, she was officially diagnosed with what was then called juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. In this memoir, Freeman candidly chronicles the effects that diagnosis had on her life and her dogged search for alleviation and treatment.
In addition to her personal struggle with JRA, Freeman shows the many ways the medical establishment let her family down. But eventually, her grief and frustration with traditional medicine led her on a new journey toward finding relief. The solution she found will give any arthritis sufferer hope.
JRA now has a different name-juvenile idiopathic arthritis-but the disease is still the same. Freeman hopes that sufferers will find hope and comfort in her story.
About the Author: Stefanie Foster Freeman, HHC, was diagnosed with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis at a young age. She has struggled her whole life with managing the disease.
But Freeman didn't let that stop her from reaching her dreams. She received her bachelor's degree in newspaper journalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. She studied at the Institute of Integrative Nutrition and began her health coaching business, Finally Fit Forever! She is a partner in Valor & Vibrancy, an ongoing women's health educational seminar series. Freeman is a motivational speaker and Young Living essential-oil educator. Through determination and research, she healed herself of her autoimmune disease.
Freeman lives with her husband in Virginia Beach, Virginia. She has four children.
