Michael
Michael grew up surrounded by addiction, abuse, instability, and institutional
failure. His early life included homelessness, incarceration, psychiatric
hospitalization, and substance abuse. By every metric, his story should have
ended early. Instead, through resilience and discipline, he returned to school,
achieved academic excellence, and entered both medical and technical training —
eventually building a decades-long career in technology, including startups and
leadership roles at some of the world's largest companies.
Yet professional success did not bring peace. As his career advanced, so did
exhaustion and physical breakdown. A devastating spinal injury left him unable to
work, sleep, play music, or even hold his children. Surgery was presented as the
only option. Instead — through radical dietary change, traditional practices,
disciplined movement, and deep trust in the body's capacity to heal — recovery
came, fully and unexpectedly. What doctors called impossible became reality.
Sarah
Sarah's path was equally forged through hardship and wisdom. Raised with very
little, she endured the loss of her brother at a young age and later spent years
battling Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism. After long-term pharmaceutical treatment
failed to restore her health, she turned — out of frustration and necessity — to
nutrition and natural medicine.
Through strict dietary transformation and minimal supplementation, her thyroid
stabilized and remains so today, with zero pharmaceutical use and only food as
medicine. That turning point reshaped not only her health, but her entire
worldview. Sarah has naturally birthed all of their children, including
multiple unassisted home births — each experience reinforcing their shared
conviction that the body, when supported rather than controlled, is remarkably
capable.
Their faith journey has been neither simple nor inherited. Michael, deeply wounded
by religious abuse in childhood, rejected Christianity for much of his life. It was
only after profound loss, grief, and collapse that he encountered Christ — not
through institution, but through surrender. That conversion reshaped everything.
Today, faith is not a concept for them — it is lived, tested, and central.
Forage exists because they have seen both sides: healing and harm, truth and
deception, nourishment and neglect. Their work is not about rejecting modernity, but
about remembering what we have forgotten. At its core, Forage is a return — to food
as medicine, to healing through creation, to bodies designed to restore, and to a
faith that redeems even the most broken stories.
