My Why: Two Moments That Changed Everything

People say “everything happens for a reason,” and I think most of us hold onto that because it helps us make sense of the moments we don’t choose —

the unexpected, confronting, life-altering ones.

I’ve had plenty of those moments, like anyone.

But there were two moments in my life that hit so deeply it changed the course of my life.

Moments that made me ask:

If this is happening for a reason, what am I meant to see?

Those two experiences shaped everything about who I am now.

The most recent was in 2022.

At 27, I found myself in a hospital bed in Cairns, QLD, with blood clots covering a large percentage of both my lungs. A cardiovascular surgeon told me that, for the time I had those clots, I had a 95% chance of dropping dead. Doctors stood around me in disbelief that I had gone for a 5 km run that same morning.

What happened to me wasn’t fate.

It was redirection.

I had been holding tightly to a version of my life I thought I had to live.

I believed becoming an aesthetic dentist was the way I could help people

by transforming their smile, and in turn, their confidence.

It was during that period of forced stillness that I discovered the microbiome

the body’s internal ecosystem.

An invisible community quietly governs how we heal, adapt, and return to balance.

And something clicked.

We are not separate from nature.

We are made of it.

That realisation brought me back to the first time I had asked “why is this happening to me?”

I was 17 when my health completely collapsed.

I was given a prognosis that I’d be bedridden for the next 20 years, living with fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and liver dysfunction.

My muscles were so weak that doctors said I had the body strength of a 70-year-old woman. I was sleeping up to 18 hours a day.

My eyes were swollen, my body heavy, bruised, and exhausted.

I couldn't accept that future for the next 20 years of my life.

I needed answers.

So I began searching for the root cause of disease.

And that’s when I learned one of the most important truths of my life:

Inflammation is the root of almost all disease.

Understanding that brought so much clarity.

If inflammation was the root, then the solution wasn’t force, restriction, or trying to “fix” the body.

The solution had to be balance. Harmony.

Not fighting the body, but supporting it.

Within one year, I healed.

Years later, lying in that hospital bed with blood clots, everything connected.

My two defining moments — almost a decade apart —

were speaking to each other.

At 17, I had learned that inflammation is the root of all disease.

At 27, I finally understood where it begins:

in the imbalance of our internal ecosystem.

That discovery led me deeper into the oral microbiome, and suddenly everything I’d studied — dentistry, health science, anatomy — made sense.

The mouth isn’t just where your smile starts.

It’s where your health starts.

Most people don’t realise this, but almost 80% of inflammation in the body actually begins in the mouth. And because inflammation drives so many modern health conditions, the mouth becomes a clear reflection of what’s happening inside your body.

Early signs of imbalance often appear here long before symptoms show up elsewhere;

mineral deficiencies, immune stress, gut dysfunction, even emotional strain.

Your mouth tells the story of your internal world.

And that’s when my question — why me? — became my purpose.

My why: the deeper reason behind everything I now do.

I realised my work was never just about creating beautiful smiles on the surface.

It was about helping people feel good on the inside, so their smile becomes genuine.

A reflection of real health, not just appearance.

True beauty doesn't come from products or procedures.

It comes from alignment.

Your body knows how to heal.

It knows how to return to balance.

It knows how to radiate real health and beauty.

I'm here to help you reconnect with that.

That’s how bybrigitte was born.

From the understanding that beauty, health, and confidence all begin within.

My mission is to bring people back into harmony with themselves.

To remember that the body isn’t broken or complicated; it’s nature.

When you understand how it works, you stop fighting it.

You begin to trust it.

And when you trust your body, everything begins to shift.

You feel clearer, calmer, more connected.

Life stops feeling like something you have to push through,

and starts feeling like something you can move with.

Because when you realign with your true self — with your natural essence —

you radiate.

You radiate your most beautiful self.

Effortlessly. From the inside out.

This is what true health really feels like:

a return to who you are.

A life lived in rhythm with your body and in harmony with nature.

And when one person realigns, it doesn’t stay with them.

It ripples into their home, their relationships, and especially their children.

The wellbeing of the next generation begins with us.

This is my philosophy.

Trust. Realign. Radiate.