The Wellness Mama Podcast Holistic Healing from POTS: A Mother’s Journey With Leigh Schoener
Aug 27, 2025
Leigh Schoener, owner of Lee Debra Wellness LLC and a health coach for families, shares her transformative journey with her daughter’s battle against POTS. They discuss the common symptoms of this condition and how a shift in mindset sparked their healing journey. Leigh reveals nutritional changes, focusing on the elimination of inflammatory foods like gluten and dairy. She emphasizes the power of simple tools such as breath, sunshine, and walking as underrated methods for healing. Their story is a testament to resilience and the importance of a supportive health team.
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What POTS Really Is
- POTS is a dysfunction of the autonomic nervous system that impairs proper blood pumping and causes large heart rate spikes upon standing.
- It often affects multiple organs including the gut and brain, producing symptoms like lightheadedness, brain fog, and chronic pain.
Diagnosis Followed A Concussion Evaluation
- Leigh's daughter was diagnosed with POTS in eighth grade after a concussion clinic noted persistent abnormal heart rate variability.
- The diagnosis connected earlier unexplained symptoms dating back to age nine into a unifying picture for the family.
Early Symptoms: Exercise Issues And Foot Pain
- At age nine her daughter suddenly developed exercise intolerance, exercise-induced asthma, and acute unexplained foot pain that later related to POTS and Ehlers-Danlos.
- An orthopedist found strep in bloodwork and later testing identified hypermobility, connecting the symptoms together.