05/14/2026
20 pounds in 3 months. No diet changes or strenuous exercise.
MY AGARA LIFE STORY OF GRACE & HOPE:
Over the last several years, my life unraveled in ways I never could have imagined.
I lost my physical business while caring for my parents and becoming a full-time caregiver for my husband after he became seriously ill.
Life became survival mode.
Doctors, medications, worry, bills, exhaustion, and grief.
I was trying to hold everything together while quietly falling apart inside.
And somehow, during that same season, I was still building the network marketing company I was with at the time.
I was a founding member, and I became their international poster child for weight loss.
But even in the middle of those achievements, the losses kept coming.
I lost my only brother to pancreatic cancer.
I lost both of my parents just 90 days apart. On the very same day I became a Diamond with my company, I lost a close friend to a heart attack.Then I lost my husband right before Christmas.
Under all of that heartbreak was anger, grief, and pain I never really had time to process. So I buried it. And I just kept going.
I auctioned off my home. I sold the business I had built. I moved to a new city. And then the network marketing company I had worked so hard to build let me down.
I had no income at that point, so I started over in sales and marketing for a group of local radio stations. On the outside, I kept functioning. On the inside, I was carrying grief, loneliness, fear, and financial pressure everywhere I went.
Through all of it, I had my Shih Tzu, Grace. She was my comfort in the middle of the storm. She stayed close when I felt fragile and lost, and somehow she could still make me smile.
I kept going the best I could.
I wrote books. I started my own publishing company. Writing became therapy for me.
But stress was living in my body.
I had headaches, body aches, brain fog, and while I was losing so much in my world, I gained 30 pounds. That kind of chronic stress changes your body.
It raises cortisol, affects everything, and I could feel what it was doing to me. I hated how I looked. I barely recognized myself anymore.
Then, just before Thanksgiving last year, I lost Grace after 17 years. And that loss shattered me. It felt like all the grief I had buried from every other loss came crashing down on me at once.
I knew I needed another little friend, so I found a Cavapoo puppy named Hope. And I kept her name the same, because hope was exactly what I needed.
That was also when I realized I was not only grieving the people, the home, and the businesses I had lost.
I was grieving the woman I used to be.
Around that time, a longtime friend and business partner asked me to try Agara Life Café Coffee. Honestly, I did not expect much. It arrived on December 26th, and I tried it the next morning.
And for me, that first cup made a huge difference. My brain fog started lifting. My energy started coming back. And I felt a spark of myself returning.
Then on January 3rd, I was on a Saturday Zoom, and I heard a man share about being in a very dark place emotionally. That really hit me. After that, I saw Agara Life owner Grace talking about how the company and products were bringing people hope.
Grace and Hope? Like my dogs? For me, that felt deeply personal. It felt like a sign from above that maybe I was not as alone as I had felt.
And that is when I decided to jump in with both feet as a founding Emerald Ambassador.
Three months later, I had lost 20 pounds. But the biggest change was not physical.
It was emotional. Hope came back. And little by little, I started finding myself again.
So if you are carrying invisible pain, trying to look strong while falling apart inside, and stress and grief have taken a toll on your heart, mind and body, I just want to say: Sometimes one small shift can open the door to something bigger. Maybe this is not the end of your story either.
For me, Agara became part of my shift. And for that, I am deeply grateful to Agara and to Grace our owner.
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