Your body has the answers—
I help you find them
I'm Joshua Braden — a certified CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach and root-cause health coach based in Craftsbury, Vermont. I healed myself from three years of chronic Lyme disease through holistic lifestyle practices — and that experience is the foundation of everything I do.
I help people heal from the ailments of modern life that conventional medicine consistently struggles to resolve — chronic fatigue, gut dysfunction, hormone imbalances, burnout, anxiety, and Lyme disease — by looking at the whole person and finding what's actually driving the illness.
Not the symptoms. The source.
Joshua Braden
CHEK Holistic Health Coach
You've been feeling off for a while now.
Does this sound familiar?
01
Chronic Fatigue
You wake up foggy and frayed. The coffee doesn't make much of a difference.
03
Brain Fog
You struggle to focus, be present, think clearly. You're not the clear-headed mind you used to be.
05
"Your Labs Are Normal"
Doctors say nothing is wrong, but you know from your experience that's not right.
02
Persistent Pain
You have aches, Pains, Tension that moves around and stick with consistency.
04
Nothing Works
You've tried lots of things, nothing seems to stick and you're at the end of your rope.
06
High Stress, Low Stability
Your family, work, sport demand more of you than you have to give. The gap is widening.
I know what it's like, from experience
My Bulls-Eye Rash, just two weeks after
my daughter's birth. Buckle up, Joshua.
In my early twenties, I ran myself hard with very little skillful care for my own body. The Pain Teacher came knocking in stages: hand foot mouth disease (!) followed by shingles (!!) then — the mother of all of them — three years of chronic Lyme disease, arriving right after my daughter's birth.
Lyme is quite a beast. For me it totally depleted my nutrients, scrambled my hormones, screwed up my nervous system, and had me moving arthritically like an unwell 80 year old man. I was 26 and I was absolutely lost in my body and in reality.
But even while in it, I knew the experience was there to teach me. So I let it. Over those three years, I wove together a practice of holistic living — sleep, digestion, diet, movement, mindset, hydration, herbalism, circadian health, stress management, detoxification, nourishment, inner life. I healed. Not managed. Healed.
That seven-year arc forced me to take full responsibility for myself, my health, and my life. It's why this work isn't abstract for me. When I sit across from someone who is struggling with their health, I'm not offering theory. I'm offering something I have lived, felt viscerally--and grown through.
Coming Back Together
Healing is possible.
There is a way through.
