personal journey

As a child my grandad told me there was a cure in the woods for everything, this is a philosophy I have carried through out my life always looking for what nature was looking to communicate or was offering us to heal our health. I believe that modern allopathic medicine whilst being important and necessary at times can often treat the symptom rather than address the root cause and this can often come with a cost later down the line. I have experienced many examples of this first hand throughout my life time, whilst my mum was pregnant with me she was quite ill with flu and given tetracycline to help improve her condition, whilst at the time no side affects were noted as my second teeth came through in childhood they were stained with huge yellow stains, Tetracycline stains that are very difficult to remove and caused a great amount of upset and tournament for me as a child. There are a number of other stories I could share like this but the point I would like to share with you is that whilst medicine is a great tool we have as a society to help people when needed, we often look at how to prevent the symptom rather than looking at what the cause might be which only exacerbates the problem.

As a teenager I was always interested in health and wellbeing I wanted to own my own retreat where I could help others heal, teach them to cook and help with exercise and nutrition. I studied exercise, nutrition and health and university and was doing great, until I failed one module on my course more than once which meant I had to resit the full year. The module question will haunt me forever ‘Discuss the impact of Margaret thatcher selling council houses on the NHS’, I got 39 three times in a row but passed everything else with flying colours. I guess the universe decided it wasn’t my time. After a stint in interior design and sales my life was destined to turn back to health and wellbeing. I was in a very abusive relationship which cost me my business, my friends and my health and with not much left to turn to my faith in the universe and energy brought me back around. I managed to enrol on a reiki course and to train as a panacea practitioner which combines NLP, Breathwork and Kundalini Yoga, life through me a curve ball and I really started to learn the power of healing energetically and physically by realigning the body. I met my now husband at this part of the journey and together we established a wellbeing centre and mental health charity where we combined our skills with the help of other therapists to create our 4-week course to treat anxiety and depression holistically and it worked amazingly with a 85% recovery rate.

Life added a few more twists and turns and in 2022 we bought our now home to establish an organic smallholding and develop a wellbeing retreat. My journey had finally come full circle and I was back in the position I wanted to be as a teen only I now had 20 years’ worth of experience and all the qualifications I need to back it up.

My approach to health and coaching is taking things back to basics, stripping everything right back to the start and building from key fundamentals to establish a basic level of health that you can then build on. Chances are of you are coming to me to help you with a symptom, then you already know something is out of balance somewhere, so testing isn’t going to be helpful at this point. I believe by stripping things back and building things back up normally the majority of issues people face will be resolved, in the cases where things are improved but still not quite right this is the point where I would look to introduce testing and analysis to help pinpoint the details.

 Later this year in collaboration with my husband who is a trained psychotherapist we will be launching our wellbeing retreat for 6 exclusive dates across the next 12 months where we will be offering a 3-day immersive experience covering connecting back to nature by spending time with the animals on the farm, forest and bog bathing, cold water therapy, health and nutrition coaching, breathwork and a sourdough class. If you would like to register for course dates and more info, then please sign up to our newsletter below.