I'm Olivia. Nurse, herbalist, mom of two, and the person behind Livin' 80/20.

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I became a nurse to help people heal. In the ICU, I got very good at crisis: medications, monitors, keeping someone alive through the worst day of their life. But the dramatic saves were rare. Most days I cared for bodies that had been quietly failing for years, and the patients kept getting younger.

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I rarely had time to ask the question that followed me home: how did they get here? Chronic stress. Burnout. Inflammation. A body ignored until it broke.

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Then I looked at my coworkers, running on no lunch, break-room donuts, fluorescent lights, and no sleep, and saw the same thing happening to us. If I stayed, I'd be the patient one day.

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Modern medicine is incredible in an emergency. But it has very little to offer the slow slide into chronic illness, and it rarely makes room for the basics that help a body heal: real food, sunlight, fresh air, rest.

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So I left the bedside, studied herbalism and root-cause work, and started making the remedies I wanted for my own family. Livin' 80/20 grew from that: eighty percent steady, honest care for your body, twenty percent being a human who still wants a cookie and a life.

Then we moved from California to Arizona, and I had to rebuild everything: home, family rhythm, business, community. It's been slow. Bedrooms first, then the kitchen, then homeschool, then a farm stand. I'm finding my balance in real time.

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That's the work I do with you, too. No perfect protocol, no extremes. We look at what's driving the exhaustion, the inflammation, the "I don't feel like myself," and build habits that fit a real life: food, nervous system, herbs, rhythm.

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Coaching when you want a guide. Syrups and teas when you just need something in the fridge.

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This isn't about doing everything right. It's about supporting your body consistently enough that you have room left to live.

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Welcome. I'm so glad you're here.