Your health or even the health of your child depends on the level of understanding you have about nutrition and the effects, both positive and negative, it can have on the body. That is why here at Restoration Health we are empowering, educating, and restoring you back to whom you were meant to be. The healthy you...body, soul and spirit.

Let me tell you the story of how I, Ronda Nelson "the mom" started on a journey to become an empowered mother with a mission. It was one of the most frightening realizations a mother could encounter. My oldest daughter Rachel had been diagnosed with cancer. She was only 10 years old when we discovered the tumor on her upper arm. It was a mother's worst nightmare, full of doctor appointments, myriads of horrible tests, and two nerve racking surgeries. Then after buckets of tears and intense praying, we were given the dreaded diagnosis: Ewing's Sarcoma - cancer of the bone. She had a death sentence of 15 months and a 10 percent chance at life.

So we started in with the chemo and radiation and the long hospital stays. I watched her consume food from the hospital that was just canned/processed/pre-packaged matter that supposedly sustained life but couldn't really make her well. So, each time we went, I took a bag full of different supplements, my juicer, a few raw green vegetables, some apples and a 20 pound bag of carrots and plopped it on a little red wagon which belonged to the pediatrics/oncology floor. The nurses would just chuckle as they watched this "crazy" mother hauling big bags of produce to her daughters room. I just held my self together and kept on walking. Sometimes the moment would get me and I would start to cry. They would later question me as to how I could ever think that this food could possibly have any effect on my daughter's cancer. My commitment made me the laughing stock of the pediatric oncology floor. But I kept my strength up, for her.

Three times a day, I would turn on my juicer and blend up a healthy concoction made of high nutrient foods and immune system boosters. The only way she could get this down was with a straw and sometimes, when she couldn't swallow because of complications from the chemo, I would use a dropper to get a little fluid down her throat. I just had to make sure she had enough good food in her so her body could heal on its own. No one seemed to understand. It seemed like we were trying to fight a wildfire single-handedly with a couple of garden hoses. But we kept on.

Then, their was this moment that swallowed me whole. I will never forget her little face as she ask me "mommy, am I going to die?" and at that moment I tried to assure her of our faith and that I believed Jesus would heal her and that we would continue to pray and thank him for his blessings even though we could not see them yet. Then the moment spit me out as I left her room and I began to sob uncontrollably. At that point I realized I was unable to control whether she lived or died but the one thing I did have control over was what she ate. So, my determination magnified as I started to understand what it would take to make her body stronger so she could stop dying and start healing. This was the beginning of the journey I am still on today.

My daughter, Rachael, is 22, happily married and has a 4 year old son. She is still plagued at times with difficulties in her body from the massive amount of chemotherapy she endured, but she was able to fight and win this war through lots of prayer, good nutrition and a constant belief that she was going to live and not die. I learned some incredibly powerful lessons watching Rachel fight for her life. And all of this manifested into one point...sharing what I've learned with you.