The Story Behind “Better Days With Teri” — From a Close friend.

Jennifer this was so touching thank you!!!

Jennifer this was so touching, thank you!!!

Let me tell you a story about my friend Teri— not just of survival, but of surrender, strength, and a woman who refused to let pain have the final word.

Her name is Teri. And if you’re reading this, you need to know — the journey that created the change at Better Days With Teri and it wasn’t crafted in a classroom or behind a desk. It was forged from one obstacle after the other in a very short period of time!!.

It started with a phone call no daughter is ever ready for: "Your mother was found on the floor next to her bed after she had laid there for 15 hours, she has collapsed. She's being rushed to the hospital. We don't know if she's going to make it."

The paramedics believed she was already gone. But as they wheeled her lifeless body into the ambulance, her hand moved — barely — and someone realized… she was still fighting.

So Teri dropped everything — her life, her plans — and became a full-time caregiver. For eight long months, she lived in her with her mom, tending to her mother who was bedridden, frail, and fighting for every breath.

She wasn’t just caring for her mom — she was resurrecting her. She coordinated physical therapy. She partnered with hospital nutritionists. She stood in the gap when her mother couldn’t stand on her own. There were many moments Teri was frustrated and would go into her car alone and just cry.

But then, after 2 months Her mother was walking again, albeit small steps, but she was up. Today, she’s living independently, eating better than ever, and smiling again — because someone refused to give up on her.

But before Teri could even exhale, the next blow came — hard.

Returning home, she stepped straight into grief. There was no time for rest.

Her husband Gary’s mother was battling cancer. His father was deteriorating rapidly. Within a matter of months, both were gone. His mother died on Mother’s Day. His father followed six months later.

There was no break in the hits for Teri.

In January, she (Teri) collapsed with excruciating abdominal pain, vomiting, and a high fever. She was rushed to the ER — septic, with a severe gallbladder and pancreatic infection. Her local hospital couldn’t save her, so they sent her three hours away, in the dead of night, praying she’d survive the ride.

Multiple surgeries were performed. Fever. Infection. Setbacks. Twelve days in the hospital. And somehow, she pulled through. She was sicker than we all knew.

Barely a week into her recovery, and her husband Gary had a heart attack. Teri sat in ICU with him, still bruised from her own surgery, refusing to leave his side. The love for husband kept her going. Then came the most shattering blow of all:

Stage 4. Inoperable. Metastatic. Incurable. Cancer had invaded Gary’s body, and doctors gave no hope. Through her shear panic and terror and trying not to let Gary see this. she leaned on her friend Christy and me.

But this is where Teri’s story becomes something more than survival. This is when the narrative changed. This is where the fight emerged. After sitting in a Chick Fil A and talking to her friend Christy and crying so hard she knew Christy could not understand her words, but she knew Teri's heart and was she herself was facing the same battles literally-with her own mom, her husband, and her own health. Christy prayed with her and walked with her and that is when Teri knew she had to make a change in how the story was going to go from here. This was not going to be hopeless. Teri had always been a person who believed in hope. She was the one who motivated everyone else. Through every bit of her hits, her girls Dawn, Melissa, Nancy, Kaye, Becky, and so many others checking in one her helped. Being the strong one is not always easy, and the strong are known to hit a low hard. So having a tribe behind her making sure she was ok made a huge difference. With that she decided this was the time for change. This is where her purpose was born. Where her mess became her message.

She refused to let medical statistics write her husband’s story. She threw out everything in their home that wasn’t healing. She through out all processed, packaged and poor choices. With the Hospital Nutritionists from her mom, herself and her husband she learned a few tips But not stopping there She studied nutrition, and other courses and is now certified. She took courses on gut health, immune support, brain retraining, and faith-based healing. She worked on her husband’s mindset — and her own. She shifted every limiting belief. She had to get out of the box of victim and make this a victory! She prayed without ceasing. She worked hard discovering foods her sweet picky eating husband could handle,

And one year later…The “incurable” was gone. The mass had vanished. Gary was in remission.

That’s not luck. That’s not a miracle without movement. That is divine guidance, radical discipline, and unshakable belief in hope and the body’s power to heal when aligned with faith, food, and mindset.

This is the foundation of Better Days With Teri. Not hype. Not hustle. Not hollow advice from someone who hasn’t lived it. NOT A LIFE NUTRITION COACH but, someone who changed her life and her families life.

This is change came with tears, truth, and triumph.

If you’ve ever been overwhelmed, worn out, lost in your health or hopeless in your heart — you are not alone.

Better Days With Teri isn’t just another “program. ”It’s not a coach with a script. It’s a woman who’s walked through hell and made it her classroom.

A woman who took her mess — and made it her message.

Your story isn’t over. In fact, it might just be beginning.

And if you're ready to rise — not perfectly, but powerfully —Teri will walk with you.

One better day at a time.

Christy also turned her mess into her message by starting Cross Together Fellowship in Clarksville TN. Both Women are still in their storm but, as victors and messengers, not as victims. These women are the advocates we can learn from.

I am Jennifer and I have known Teri for many many years. I love Miss Teri so much and I thought it was time the story was told from someone who witnessed her shock, her strength, her helplessness, her grief, her exhaustion, but I also witnessed her strength, her persistence, her own pain, her shear panic and fear, and mostly her wide eyed hopefulness, and I witnessed her change. The moment she said there is hope in this somewhere and I am going to find it. I feel like no one could have been more graceful through all of this. Many didn't even know she was facing all of this, But now all of this has become the messages you can benefit from. If you would like to learn, Join Better Days with Teri and learn when there is a class, a live training or new blogs. https://www.betterdayswithteri.com