Bunni Miller

(Creative Director)

“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is...
‘What are we doing for others’?”
-Dr Martin Luther King Jr.

Aloha my name is Bunni Miller, as child I always had the desire to serve others. Whether it was playing restaurant and serving food to my family, playing store or school with my younger brother, I always wanted to serve, support and assist in some form. When I was younger I really wanted to be an elementary school teacher or psychologist and just be able to assist and help people grow and feel good about themselves.

After graduating from SDSU with a major in Liberal Arts for teaching and minor in Psychology, I chose to work with animals instead of the above-mentioned because they are such a gift to us. They give and love unconditionally, something us humans could take note of.

I have volunteered and fostered for rabbit rescues as well as had my own dog daycare in my 20s. Animal’s teach us love, not in a romantic sense, but in a true, unconditional, virtuous, present, non-judging and selfless way.

For this is the way all love should be…toward every person, animal, precious resources and the earth. Working on this project offering my support and guidance to my husband Dr. Shawn has been one of the most incredible gifts, I could have ever imagined.

In 2014 when I initially met Dr. Shawn, I was struggling with multiple health challenges that were limiting my ability to live a healthy, happy and fulfilled life. Unlike Dr. Shawn who started his health journey at 15, mine started much later in life and I had a lot more years of programming to challenge! But I was so inspired after hearing his story and I knew I was in the best hands and with his guidance could come out of the rabbit hole I had dug myself into.

When I was six years old I suffered a major trauma (seeing my mother die in front of me) and it was really hard to function in life. This trauma was unresolved for me and caused many emotional as well as physical challenges throughout my life. At 15, I was diagnosed with depression and also became bulimic, quite different than the path to health Dr Shawn ventured on at the same age! I was put on a multitude of prescription drugs and as my symptoms changed over the years, so did the drugs.

The initial diagnosis of depression when I was 15 years old had changed and at 18 I was labeled bipolar and a new class of drugs were prescribed taking me down another dark path and having another label. I had the ‘top’ doctors, and they all told me that I was born this way, one even referred to it as a ‘broken brain’, that ‘I needed drugs the rest of my life, and I had no control over it’…I was starting to believe them and my power was gone....

I was in treatment for bulimia for eight of the 17 years I struggled with it, but nothing improved. I also had high cholesterol which I was medicated for and even had my gallbladder removed at age 31. My relationship with food was so negative. I was also 25 pounds heavier than I am now, struggled with acne and frequent heartburn.No matter how much I exercised or how well I thought I was eating I could not lose the weight. I was so confused as to what to eat.

I have always had and loved animals and working so closely with them has been my greatest joy, but eating animal products bothered me tremendously from an early age. I was always told I needed my protein, though Dr. Shawn taught me what you really need are amino acids not animal protein.

He explained to me that amino acids are the building blocks of protein and protein is like a brick wall and all the individual bricks in that brick wall are the amino acids, so really you need amino acids not animal protein. He taught me that when we eat animal protein our body has to break it all down and reconvert it into amino acids to be absorbed So why go through the process of hurting animals which bothered me deeply when I could just eat the plants they ate for their protein.

He also said something that made a lot of sense for me, he said “you’re either a vegetarian or a secondhand vegetarian”, and it’s true! Think about it, where do animals get their protein? From greens (amino acids). The day I met Dr. Shawn he broke it all down for me and it clicked, and made so much sense! I even stopped throwing up that day and my relationship with everything I put in my body changed.

At this point I had no choice but to challenge my programming! I gave up drinking 12 diet cokes a day for almost 20 years, all refined foods, all animal products, gelatin laden candy, and slowly those drugs prescribed for my ‘broken brain’ lol. Not everyone understood, but I didn’t mind -this resonated with me and I needed to check it out.

Dr. Shawn said he ‘wasn’t sure how to unravel every experience in the mind, but he did know how to clean up the body. And what you do to the body, you do to the mind.’ So here I am today feeling lighter, cleaner, more balanced, happy and have more love for myself and others, something I struggled with before.

I’ve been through a lot and I often tell Dr. Shawn that I’m more relatable because most people don’t start as early as him. He told me, “There’s only one reason I found someone’s not willing to change and that is, they are not sick enough yet…” I was 32 years old at the time, and I was ready for change!

Now past my 40th year I have gained compassion for myself, others, challenged my programming, released limiting thoughts and beliefs, created inner and outer balance, gained YOUniversal wisdom and knowledge, self-love, cleaned up my mind/body, and am living from a place of thriving instead of surviving!

Dr. Shawn changed my life and I have no doubt he can change yours as well, I mean who better than a chiropractor to have your back?!

Sending aBUNdant love and gratitude and mahalo for joining the LOVEolution here at LITA!

Bunni Miller,