Today’s guest is Kealy Severson, a licensed healthcare professional, environmentally acquired injury specialist, podcast host, and mold survivor. While she’s not completely sure when her journey with mold-related illness began, she believes that this fungus began taking root when she was a child. However, it wasn't until her entire family began to get sick that she realized some environmental factor must be at play and she needed to begin reclaiming life after mold.

Her experience with mold highlights just how prevalent this mold is indoors and how drastically it can impact health. Kealy understands firsthand how much mold can impact normal, everyday life, having dealt with the effects of chronic illness, struggling to keep us as a mother of three, caring for sick children, and the strain on a marriage. Now, she’s using this massive and traumatic life event to help others who are also dealing with environmental contaminants.

Today’s Talk:
During this episode, Michael Rubino chats with mold survivor Kealy Severson to discuss her long and exhausting battle with mold exposure. While she can’t pinpoint exactly when her illness began, she distinctly remembers an event when she was 10 years old and experienced a drastic personality shift. Looking back, she thinks that’s when her fungus problems began- in a damp basement.

Throughout the next 18 years, she experienced chronic symptoms throughout her life but never pieced together what the trigger was. Instead, she normalized her symptoms. It wasn’t until adulthood that she realized something else was at play. She and her family just moved into an apartment after Kealy took a new position as an acupuncturist. While they smelled a musty odor in the kitchen, Kealy said that she never associated a mildew smell with hidden water or mold. Over the next few years, she, her husband, and her three children all began experiencing a range of symptoms.

As her health slowly began to deteriorate, her relationship with her husband did as well. One of his main symptoms of exposure was a dramatic mood and personality switch that made him act like a completely different person. It wasn’t until she heard a podcast featuring a woman affected by mold that she started to consider this fungus as a potential culprit. Still, it would be some time before her husband discovered the hidden mold in their kitchen.

What followed was a battle with their landlord, moving out with the clothes on their back, and then moving into a home down the street. She immediately began detoxification protocols for herself and each member of their family to start reclaiming life after mold. While they did begin to feel better, it was an incredibly slow and drawn-out process. Low and behold, they discovered hidden mold in this home as well.

From there, they battled for remediation again and ended up moving in with Kealy’s mother, whose apartment also had mold. Kealy and her family weren’t able to begin reclaiming life after mold until they bought a new home that was free from this fungus.

“The first thing that you should look to if you're chronically sick is something in your environment because it's been normalized to think that it's a disease or something else. And, so many of these chronic illnesses have an intimate environmental component and I don't think people realize that and it doesn't matter about your genetics. These aren't genetic disorders. These are environmental disorders causing genetic activation problems with your health.”

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