About Our Founder

Meet Your Chief Alchemist

Hey there! I'm Meg and I live with Lupus, Fibromyalgia, and Migraine. I'm also a mom of two toddlers, a full-time professional, and the slightly chaotic human behind Celestial Infusions.

Managing all of that used to feel impossible. I won't lie, it took years to figure it all out. But I did. And that's exactly why this exists.

It started thirteen years ago with what I thought was 'just a headache.' By 2012, I had my first diagnosis: Migraine. Four years later in 2016, Lupus and Fibromyalgia joined the party.

The symptoms had been there for years before anyone took them seriously. The stabbing joint pain, the stiffness and swelling. Spending time in the sun would leave me completely drained with rashes across my skin. Every morning I'd wake up and have to wait for my body to 'come back online' before I could move. Fibromyalgia meant pain everywhere, all at once, every nerve firing constantly. Just touching the areas that hurt would make it worse.

For years, doctors told me it was stress. Drink more water. Lose weight. Apparently my chronic illness was just a hydration problem I wasn't taking seriously enough...

I'll paint you a picture: it's midnight and I'm laid up in my recliner, ice pack on my head, room pitch-black. I'm down to my last two rescue pills for the month (iykyk), and it's only the 15th. My insurance only covers 10 rescue pills a month. Ten! Because apparently migraine attacks adhere to a strict monthly quota.

This was just the Migraine. I was also managing Lupus flares and Fibromyalgia pain that made every movement feel like I was being punished.

This was my breaking point. The moment that changed everything. I had hit my limit.

So I went back to my roots. Literally.

I grew up watching my Grandma heal others. The oldest of six girls in New Orleans, she had a remedy for every ill, knowledge passed down from her mother, and her mother's mother. In the days when going to the doctor wasn't an option, she healed wounds both on the body and in the body.

It wasn't just about the herbs. It was about the food she fed you and the words she spoke to your spirit (some of those words would make a sailor blush lol). She drew from the wisdom of the women before her and leaned on her faith, her worn Bible with it's pages marked and highlighted. The work she did was laborious, but the results were undeniable. You felt it on every level of your being, mind, body, and soul.

That's the tradition I returned to. Not as a last resort, but as a reclaiming of my place in a long ancestral line of strong women I was born into.

For all the lip service from both the wellness community and pharmaceutical companies, they're more alike than either side will care to admit, and they both failed me when I used them exclusively.

The medical system told me to take my pills and manage expectations. Never mind that the side effects were often as bad as, or worse than, what I was trying to treat. When I asked for more options, I was met with shrugs and 'this is just how it is.'

The wellness community told me those pills were poison. That if I just tried hard enough, the right diet, the right supplements, the right mindset, I could heal myself completely. 

I was stuck between two dogmas, both insisting I had to choose. The medical world said herbs were 'woo woo pseudoscience.' The wellness world demonized anything from 'Big Pharma'. But my body didn't fit into either box.

Why was I being forced to choose?

So I built my own approach. I expanded my garden with healing herbs, holy basil, lemon balm, passionflower. I started crafting tinctures, brewing teas, mixing herbal powders into my morning smoothies. Not instead of my medication, but alongside it.

I also overhauled my diet, cutting out alcohol, sodas, commercial juices, and removing processed and fried foods from my daily meals. (I said daily on purpose, I'll never give up my po'boys and gumbo lol, everything in moderation!)

Taking a holistic approach, using herbs for prevention and maintenance, diet for foundation, and keeping prescriptions for rescue, changed everything. My migraine is no longer chronic. My Lupus and Fibromyalgia markers are steady and within normal thresholds. The frequency and intensity of flares have reduced dramatically. It wasn't about rejecting modern medicine; it was about building a complete toolkit that worked with my body, not against it.

The truth? Some days I still need that prescription or OTC. But most days, my garden is my pharmacy.

Living with three chronic conditions while parenting toddlers, working full-time, and building this brand? It's a tightrope walk.

I've learned that if I just 'get on with the day' without pausing first, I'll spend all day playing catch-up and end up completely depleted. Now, before I even get out of bed, I do a body assessment: What hurts today? How bad? That determines what I do and how I do it, for that day.

It's also about strategy: capitalizing on good pain days and prepping for the bad ones. On good days, I meal prep, food, juices, tea blends, so that on bad days, I'm not scrambling. I'm grateful for past-me who had the foresight to take care of future-me lol.

You don't want to push so hard on good days that you don't actually enjoy them. And you don't want bad days to be completely debilitating because you weren't prepared.

Knowing my triggers, avoiding what I can, mitigating what I can't, this is the dance of chronic illness. It's exhausting. But it's also empowering when you figure out what works for YOU.

Part of what works for me? Refusing to let chronic illness strip away all the beauty and wonder from my life.

I've always found peace in the vastness of the night sky, there's something grounding about remembering you're part of something bigger. When everything about managing chronic illness felt sterile and isolating, I needed a way to make my healing feel meaningful. I couldn't find that blend of practical herbalism and cosmic intention anywhere, so I created it!

Celestial Infusions isn't about choosing between your doctors and herbalism. It's about embracing a 'both/and' philosophy when the world only offers 'either/or.' It's about building a community where we can be honest about rationing medication, growing our own medicine, and finding what actually works beyond arbitrary limits.

I'm not here to sell you false hope or shame you for needing prescriptions. I'm here because I've been in those trenches, counting pills, feeling desperate, dismissed by doctors and judged by self-proclaimed wellness gurus; and I found a way forward that honors ALL of it.

So whether you're team conventional, team natural, or team 'whatever works today,' welcome. This is your cosmic apothecary, where ancient wisdom meets modern life, where science meets sorcery, and where you're never 'doing it wrong' for wanting every possible tool in your healing toolkit.

Let's navigate this messy, beautiful, complex journey together. After all, even the cosmos is chaotic, and look how magnificently it shines.

Meg
Founder, Chief Alchemist, and Fellow Warrior