Cristie Vito
Chronic Pain Warrior, Author, Mindfulness Teacher & Speaker
Meet Cristie
For the past 20 years, Cristie has been an award-winning entrepreneur and community leader from owning a wedding and event planning company for over a decade, working in health and wellness, freelance writing to becoming a reiki healer and mindfulness teacher. As her health began to decline and traditional western medicine unfortunately failed her, she researched and tried many ancient eastern medicines stemming from traditional Chinese medicine, ayurvedic practices and most importantly mindfulness techniques in order to better deal with and change her relationship to pain.
Chronic Pain Warrior
Cristie lives with a rare and complex connective tissue disorder called Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). If you think of connective tissue as the glue that holds our bodies together, people with EDS have a defect causing our glue to be more like silly string! In addition to EDS, she has a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system disorder called Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome.
On top of these genetic conditions, she has a number of autoimmune conditions including Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome in which she underwent an ileostomy surgery to remove her entire colon.
Now she shares what she learned living with complex chronic pain in her #1 best selling book Bless The Meds to help others on their healing journeys.
Photos by Julie C Butler