With a heart full of compassion, a keen eye for design, and a soul tuned to beauty and meaning, Bunni Miller has been a foundational force in the creation of Love Is The Answer. As Creative Director, she has assisted in shaping the look, feel, and spirit of the platform.
Her journey to this work has been anything but ordinary. Born with a deep desire to serve, Bunni spent her early life nurturing animals, pretending to run schools and restaurants with her younger brother Ryan, and dreaming of becoming a teacher or psychologist. After studying Liberal Arts and Psychology at SDSU, she followed her heart and worked closely with animals, running a dog daycare and volunteering for rabbit rescues, drawn always to the purity and unconditional love animals so freely offer.
As Bunni beautifully puts it, “Animals don’t just love, they embody love in its purest form. Not the romantic kind, but a love that’s honest, selfless, present, as well as unconditional and free of judgment. It’s a powerful reminder of how we, too, should love each other, all living beings, and the Earth we call home.”
Beneath her caring nature, Bunni was carrying the weight of unresolved trauma, health struggles, and a complex relationship with her body. A major trauma at age six led to emotional and physical challenges throughout her youth, limiting her ability to live a healthy, happy, and fulfilled life.
Unlike Dr. Shawn, who started his health journey at 15, Bunni’s began much later in life and came with many more years of programming to challenge. By 15, she was living with bulimia, and by her early 30s, she was navigating chronic health issues, including high cholesterol, digestive distress, and a loss of connection to herself.
Medicated for high cholesterol and having undergone gallbladder removal by age 31, Bunni was also carrying an extra 25 pounds, dealing with acne, and suffering from frequent heartburn. Her relationship with food had become toxic and disheartening.
Despite regular exercise and what she believed was a healthy diet, the weight wouldn’t come off, leaving her frustrated and confused about what to eat.
Bunni had always loved animals and found deep joy in working closely with them. Eating animal products had always felt deeply unsettling to her, even from a young age, though all the ‘experts’ told her she needed animal protein to be healthy.
Then, in 2014, she met Dr. Shawn.
Dr. Shawn told her, “The body is the key to the mind. What you do to the body, you do to the mind,” she recalls. “And when we clean up the body, we clean up and begin to unravel the mind.” I was ready.
Their meeting was a turning point. Through his teachings, love, and support, Bunni began to understand food, healing, and self-love in a completely new light. She transitioned away from processed foods, gave up animal products, and began aligning with a plant-based, compassionate lifestyle that finally made sense to her soul.
She was inspired after hearing of his experience, heartfelt wisdom, and powerful insights. She knew she was in the best hands. With his guidance, she believed she could finally climb out of the rabbit hole she had dug herself into.
She was always told to “eat animal protein,” though Dr. Shawn taught her what we really need are amino acids, not animal protein. He explained that amino acids are the building blocks of protein: if protein is a brick wall, the amino acids are the individual bricks. So what we need is amino acids—not the wall itself.
He explained that when we eat animal protein, our body must break it down and re-convert it into amino acids to be absorbed. So why hurt animals (which deeply troubled Bunni) when we could just eat the plants they eat to get our protein? (Why eat the brick wall and have your body work hard to break it down into bricks, when you can just eat the bricks!)
Dr. Shawn also said something that stuck with her: “You’re either a vegetarian or a secondhand vegetarian.” And it’s true! Think about it—where do animals get their protein from? Plants and greens! Why be a secondhand vegetarian?
The day Bunni met Dr. Shawn, he broke it all down for her and it finally clicked. It made so much sense. Bunni even stopped throwing up that day. Her relationship with everything she put in her body changed.
At that point, she had no choice but to challenge all her programming. She gave up drinking 12 Diet Cokes a day (which she had done for almost 20 years), all refined foods, all animal products, gelatin-laden candy, and 18 years of bulimia.
Not everyone understood why she was on this new path, but Bunni didn’t mind, it resonated with her, and she needed to check it out.
Bunni was 32 at the time, and she was ready for change.
Over the last decade—now, past her 43rd year, Bunni has done the work: body, mind, and soul. She’s released limiting thoughts and beliefs, rewritten harmful patterns, and embraced a life of intention, inner peace, and purpose. She has gained compassion for herself and others, challenged her programming, created inner and outer balance, gained YOUniversal wisdom and knowledge, cultivated self-love, cleaned up her mind and body, and now lives from a place of love, not lack; thriving instead of merely surviving.
Dr. Shawn once told her, “There’s only one reason someone isn’t willing to change, and that is because they’re not sick enough… (yet).”
In her role as Creative Director, she brings not only her design sensibility but her lived experience, wisdom, and heart She understands the journey from disconnection to wholeness because she’s walked it.
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