Today we’d like to introduce you to Irina Kvasha.
Irina, we appreciate you taking the time to share your story with us today. Where does your story begin?
I was 25 years old when I became sick with what everyone was sure was the flu. But it wasn’t, and little did I know then that my journey was just beginning.
My family and I assumed it was the flu. So I drank plenty of fluids and stayed in bed for a few days. But I wasn’t getting better and the symptoms became even more intense, including, migraines, vomiting, and brain fog. I went back to the doctor who said, ‘I think it’s food poisoning and you’ll get better in a few days.’ A few days later, I was in her office and not a stitch better. This time she said, ‘Maybe it is the flu and sometimes they can last up to 3 weeks.’ About a week later, I went back to the doctor, still sick with no relief. She said, ‘Is it possible you’re pregnant?’ My response was ‘no’ and a pregnancy test verified that. Afterwards, she said, ‘Maybe it’s bacterial? Here’s a script for Antibiotics for 10 days and you will be good as new.’
I was so excited to finally be given something that could help make this go away. After taking the medicine for 10 days, my symptoms lessened in intensity but never quite went away. About a week after completing this antibiotic, the symptoms intensified again, and I felt sicker than ever. I was so scared.
Hospitalization after hospitalization. What seemed like hundreds of Doctors and specialists. Months passed and my symptoms became progressively worse and increasingly intense. On top of the flu symptoms, I began to have neurological symptoms arise such a joint pain and swelling, muscle weakness, tremors, extreme fatigue, difficulty with gait and balance, and significant memory loss. The symptoms would rollercoaster with intensity, some days easier than others, but still far from the health I yearned so badly to get back.
I hopped from doctor to doctor, specialist to specialist, dozens upon dozens of hospitalizations and tests performed with no answers. I would hear them offer suggestions on what they believed could be going on “Maybe cancer”, or “Maybe Multiple Sclerosis”, “Early Onset Dementia”, “Fibromyalgia” , “Chronic fatigue Syndrome,” “Fever of Unknown origin”, “Lupus”, “HIV.” You name it, I’ve heard it.
Answers became scarce as doctors just starred baffled in disbelief and all hope for finally being better seemed to be depleting. This went on for YEARS and THOUSANDS of dollars in medical expenses as they ruled out everything they could think of. I was so desperate to feel normal again. To be honest, I probably would have eaten my own feces if someone had told me that would cure me.
After 3 years of misdiagnosis, I was finally diagnosed with Chronic Lyme Disease and chronic mononucleosis (which is now called PTLDS: Post Treatment Lyme Disease Syndrome by the CDC.)
This was a disease I had never heard of before and now had to live with. In the beginning, I was so relieved to finally have the accurate diagnosis. I thought this would finally lead to treatment and I would be finally be cured. I had no idea about all the controversy around the disease, how difficult and gruesome the treatment process is, and that there is still NO cure for it. My world seemed to just get darker as I realized that the treacherous journey to getting the diagnosed was the easy part.
I felt like my body hated me because everything became so unfathomably difficult and painful, including, standing, using the bathroom, walking, or even breathing. I would have shooting pains in my legs and all the way up my spine to my head that felt as if someone was sawing me open from the inside out. It was around this time that I started to become depressed. I felt that no one should have to live life feeling this sick and in pain for years and with no idea when or if there would ever be an end to it. I would cry often and contemplate death because, at the time, it seemed like the only thing that would save me from the suffering. I stayed on the path to treatment and remained on this rollercoaster for another 3 years.
At the center of my treatment, I was on extremely high doses of 12 different antibiotics at the same time and taking anywhere from 80-100 pills per day, including supplements and probiotics, as well as, various IV treatment therapies. If you would look at me from the outside, you would never believe how sick I felt or how many drugs I had to be on daily in order to survive.
After about a year and half on experimental treatment, I began opening up toward holistic healing including reiki, yoga, and meditation, which had aided in my healing journey to connect the mind and the body.
I delved more into holistic treatment, adding acupuncture, affirmations, Ozone therapy, UVBI Light therapy, NAD+ therapy, cannabis, and sound healing to my treatment plan. As holistic treatment progressed over the years, the symptoms became less intense, less frequent, and flares would make fewer appearances. The road to healing has been far from linear. It has had many twists and turns, up and downs, and continues to challenge me and my growth.
I became very curious and interested in Eastern Medicine and Holistic Healing Modalities which began my journey to becoming a Holistic Health Practitioner and a forever student of the world.
During one hospitalization, I experienced a medically unexplainable moment of cardiac arrest. While sleeping during this hospitalization, suddenly the cardiac monitors went off and my blood pressure dropped. I woke up to her room full of medical professionals, with cardiac paddle in hand whispering “ I think she’s alive.” I opened my eyes and said, of course I’m alive. To which they replied to me and informed me of what just occurred. I was confused because at that moment, I felt like I was in a deep dream. And in this dream I met spirit who explained to me, my symptoms and how to heal and how to use the power of my symptoms. I’ve never been a spiritual person before this, but something felt greater in this moment and I knew it wasn’t a dream.
Today, I am 36 years old, and every day, I am grateful for this body and all that it has done and continues to do for me. It had granted me this chance to awaken from the darkness and appreciate life and all of its beauty.
It has allowed me to expand my career from a Speech Pathologist to Holistic Health Practitioner. Over my more than 10 year journey to wellness, I have learned, trained, and become certified in various modalities of holistic healing. I have had the privilege of working with many clients with great success on their healing journey, as well as my own.
Doctors and specialist continue to call me to this day and have no clue how I am alive, walking, thriving, and a mother of my own baby I had naturally! However, they continue to refer their patients to me when the western medical model doesn’t benefit their client. I want to connect and share all of this knowledge I’ve gained along this journey to help others in any way I can to shine bright and create healing. Which is where The Aura Doctor was born! It is where I share everything in my holistic journey, and continue to share knowledge, recipes, inspiration, classes, workshops, and more, while also sharing my spiritual gift with those were open to the spiritual awakening path. Has become a community that we built people on their healing journey and spiritual awakenings. And I’m grateful to be a part of it.
I have also just expanded the business to include children. Since the birth of my son, I’ve noticed that there is not much out there for self-care and self-regulation for the kiddos and so I started Aura Doctor Junior. It will include all the things The Aura Doctor does for adults but geared for little kids, such as, holistic healing and mindfulness, in combination with bilingual speech therapy.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
Haha! It has been far from smooth. It has been one of the most difficult, heart, wrenching, and tumultuous times. I would never wish the things that I went through on anyone. It is such an isolating and lonely, feeling to feel so debilitating ill and not have any answers or hope in the medical system. It was hard mentally and physically to fight for health and normalcy, to fight to survive every day, not knowing what the next would bring while feeling like you have the worst flu every moment of every day compounded with other neurological symptoms. It was almost a 10 year journey To fight for my health and feel like answers were getting scarcer and scarcer. I was so young and most people around me couldn’t comprehend because most people usually take their health for granted, especially in their 20s. But I couldn’t and I still can’t.
I’ve had to keep my foot on the pedal of Holistic Health every day. There is no faking it or taking a day off. I have to do the inner work and outer work on a regular basis. I have to eat very clean and eliminate any inflammatory foods, I follow the medical medium diet, As well as inner work which includes a spiritual practice, yoga meditation and more. My road may never be smooth, but I’m grateful to be on the road to be able to walk it and experience it and be here today.
We’ve been impressed with The Aura Doctor, but for folks who might not be as familiar, what can you share with them about what you do and what sets you apart from others?
My business includes All things holistic, healing and spiritual awakening. It is a community of people going through their healing journeys and spiritual awakenings. This is a place where we provide a safe space to grow, expand, learn, and heal from the human body to the Aura. There are a variety of classes, workshops, events, and products that I sell that revolve around self-care and all natural holistic healing of the mind, body and soul. This includes yoga classes, meditation, sound healing, recipes, meals plans, Reiki, and aura readings.
I mostly known nationally for my “Aura” readings and the accuracy of these readings. This is my spiritual gift that was explained to me by spirit on the night of my cardiac arrest. This is where I’m able to tap into someone else’s energy field and communicate with their energetic field through a language created with spirit using all of the physical symptoms that I once experienced through my own medical journey . It has been said to be a life-changing and healing reading experience for anyone who is open. .
What quality or characteristic do you feel is most important to your success?
I think it’s most important to remain as kind and as open as possible. I have learned that we’re all together on this planet as humankind and we’re here to learn from each other, help each other, and guide one another in expanding and up leveling ourselves, our souls, and our lives to our best and greatest ability. And when we treat one another like family, magic happens !
I’ve also learned to listen to my intuition and to the spiritual messages around me. I’ve learned that messages and guidance are all around us at all times and we are always being led to our best and high is good -if we just pay attention and get out of our own heads lol!
Pricing:
- Aura Readings $150
- Reiki $130
- Reiki infused Aura Readings $188
- Private events – prices vary
Contact Info:
- Website: https://Www.theauradoctor.com
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