Hey y’all, I’m Augusta, pursuing sacred in the everyday in Dallas, TX.
I’m a wife and mama to a wild 5-year-old boy (and a baby girl on the way in May 2025).
My mom is from Aruba and my first language is Papiamento, which I’m trying actively to teach to my kiddo. My Aruban heritage is very important to me, and our family prioritizes visiting my home country every summer.
I grew up in many different suburbs across America. Along the way, English and Spanish became other languages of my heart.
I almost exclusively read classic children’s literature and watch 90’s/2000’s romcoms and k-dramas.
I love to bake a little too much, and am regarded as the “dessert queen” amongst my family and friends.
You can often find me barefoot, outside, warm matcha in hand, soaking up the sun and embarking on exciting imaginary quests with my kiddo.
We cultivate rest, celebration, freedom, living traditions and nourishment in our home.
Why I’m doing this
My life had become unmanageable due to life-altering health issues and unhealed trauma. I decided to do something about it and started making small, holistic and habitual changes that radically improved my health and life.
I feel called to share what I’ve learned so I can help others on their journey to holistic health + holiness.
My health journey.
I’ve always struggled with eczema and, with a nutritionist for an aunt, have tried many diet and environmental changes over the years to keep it at bay. I had consistent UTI’s as a child and even had to be admitted to the hospital after a fibral seizure that left me unconscious. I was put on loads and loads of antibiotics.
When I was in high school, I experienced intense, painful sores excreting pus all over my arms (I felt like a leper), that took an entire year to go away no matter what I did. I saw doctors and dermatologists and was given topical creams that didn’t actually help.
We’ve always been a decently healthy family, though fast food and processed food ran rampant in our home. Breakfasts often consisted of poptarts or sugary cereal. Fridge stocked with sodas. Dinners attempting to be well-balanced but often grain-heavy and processed. Your typical American family diet.
As my relationship with God and with myself got healthier spiritually over the years, I also started to eat a little healthier. More fresh produce, less processed foods. Cut out soda. It helps that my now-husband grew up with a “health nut” family.
After our first 9 months of marriage, I experienced a miscarriage. We were devastated. I felt like my body had let me down. This tragedy really accelerated my crunchy lifestyle and I started researching and implementing more nontoxic and holistic lifestyle choices.
We had a beautiful, uneventful, sacred homebirth with our second child.
Then in July 2020, 6 months postpartum, after a few stressful life events and transitions, I started experiencing life-altering health issues including intense chronic fatigue, brain fog, joint pain and inflammation, hair loss (chunks), major eczema flareups all over my body, and more.
Even when the dust settled on the life stressors, I was still experiencing these symptoms on the daily and often couldn’t get out of bed.
I tried to see a few functional health doctors and all my blood work came back clear.
Frustrated with the lack of progress, I found ways to manage my pain, fatigue, and other symptoms by implementing more nontoxic and holistic lifestyle practices from healthcare professionals and other people who shared their own journeys and helpful tips online. I started eating gluten free and dairy free.
In October 2023, I did a liver detox that changed my life. I implemented an even stricter diet. I am now gluten free, dairy free, soy free, egg free, nightshade free, and (mostly) processed food free.
I feel the best that I have felt in 3 years.
I’m still on a journey with my health, but by making small steps, day by day, to live more holistic and less toxic, I have found drastic positive change. I’m on a mission to share what I’ve learned because I want you to feel free and whole, too.
My faith journey.
My family is culturally Catholic on both sides. We grew up going to mass, and I’m grateful for the foundations of tradition instilled in me.
When I went away to college, I experienced a crisis of faith and became anti-Christian semi-agnostic, though I lived a double life for awhile as a youth ministry volunteer during my summers back home.
On a mission trip in 2013 (that I did not want to go on), I experienced a deep reconversion when God met me in a very miraculous way.
I started my journey of discipleship at the same time I started dating my now-husband, and found my way back to Christianity and Catholicism through my local Maronite Rite Catholic Church and a non-denominational Christian community in Dallas.
Then, I served as a Catholic missionary and musician for 2 years, leading youth groups on mission trips and rebuilding homes/schools in heavily impoverished areas across the United States and in the Dominican Republic.
I felt called out of missionary life and into a rooted life growing a family in Dallas, TX in 2015 and never looked back.
For many years, my husband and I served as musicians at our local parish (he sings and plays guitar, I sing and play the drums) and we have worked in many capacities serving the church through our creative work in marketing.
