13/09/2024
I think it's time I reintroduce myself. I have some new business contacts and friends that have come in, and I want to give you a little bit of background. Who am I? I have a long term passion for health. That passion lead me from being a Home Eco teacher to being a Naturopath.😍
My interest started with my mum leading the way, and probably the driver of a change in my family health habits. She had a lot of illness when I was young, and she ended up in a very bad space from a health perspective. She'd been on antibiotics for over a year by one doctor, and her immunity was just extremely low. Her liver wasn’t in a good state either with these medications. Often, I can remember, Dad taking her to the hospital, and I remember holding onto dad's shorts legs because he had mum in his arms as we walked down the local hospital corridor. 🚑
Someone told Mum about a naturopath in Melbourne. Those days, the road to Melbourne, from here, was probably a six or seven hour trip. There was no double road, so it was just that highway and a very different experience to now. Mum and Dad made that trip weekly, for months.🚗
Her naturopath got her to change her diet totally. She said to me that when she came out from seeing him, she cried. He told her what she could, or couldn't eat and it felt very limiting to her at the time. 🍊🥦🥗
I apologise to all those people who have left my clinic feeling the same way. It's what is needed to return to health, or reduce the inflammation. You do need to get things out of your life: foods, bad habits, chemicals, negative thoughts out, even some people!👩
The changes Mum implemented then for herself, we took on as a family. I remember at school, I didn't have white bread. Mum made homemade bread before homemade bread was a thing-again-, and it was brown, and everyone else had white. I remember wanting white. She used organic wheat, and she used to grind the wheat. We had a natural grinder, and she'd grind it up and make bread. 🍞
We ate dried fruit, nuts, and seeds when no-one was doing that. We had eggs or veggies on toast for breakfast. We didn't eat cereals other than porridge. We didn’t regularly consume cordial, soft drink or lollies. There was no sweet biscuits. Everything was homemade, from scratch. I do remember eating yoghurt, and we were probably some of the first people that I knew, actually, who ate yoghurt, and we also made it ourselves.🤪
Mum turned her health around which was fabulous because Dad then ended up at the Naturopath after he was hit in the face with a chainsaw. Different foods and medicines were needed to get rid of the infection from the chainsaw chain, that wasn’t cleaned out at the Drs/hospital. And the naturopathic supplemental medicines often had to be given precisely at certain times.🕧
When I was a teenager, I remember taking all that nutritional and health knowledge on board. 🥰
Another turning point for me in my health interest, was due to accident. I was riding a motorbike, unlicensed,-woops- and I slid out on a corner and took out a chuck of my leg at the top of my knee.🏍
It took a long time to heal. I had an appointment with a local naturopath, and he had a look in my eyes from a Iridology point of view, and he said to me, “What did you do to your knee? How did you hurt it?” That blew me away to know that the eyes reflected our health. That stimulated another interest in the level of health knowledge that I was building.👁👀
I was always someone who was so passionate about health because we had diabetes on both sides of our family, and I really didn't want to get it or set myself up for a potential getting it. I also I remember my mum telling us that she never got a filling until she was 16. I was determined to beat that- me being a bit competitive there!! I think I got my first filling in at 41.🦷
I chose Teaching with a major of Home Economics and Biology, as I thought it would be great to teach kids to learn to be able to know more about their bodies and health, and to be able to cook great meals when they left home. I did know that I would not stick with teaching! I just did not know what else I wanted to do!🤔
One school holiday, I was reading a Well-being magazine, and there it was! “Study to be a Naturopath”! Oh my Goodness…this was it-I finally knew what I wanted to be when I grew up! And so the study began! Here I am 28 years later!👋
Along the way, I got to experience a taste of my own health glitch, and it sent me on a deep dive knowledge wise. I had an episode with my brain that made me realise to a whole new level, that without our brain being able to function, the rest of our bodies will not have optimal function. I will leave this story for another day! However it changed my health perspective, and I started a whole new passion with brain health. Lately, my deep dive has gone into the menopausal brain, and this is a whole new world!
I have always had a passion for drinking clean water. And just the way life's played out, we've been in situations where we've drunk beautiful spring water on farms that have come from deep in the ground, and it's just been magnificent. I've also lived in towns that didn't fluoridate and didn't have chlorine either. When we did move to somewhere that had it, it was just so abhorrent to my taste buds that we actually used to buy bulk water.😎
Taking that all into consideration, it certainly sparked an interest in drinking good clean water. Now I have added and developed a love for the cleanliness of my drinking water, but also taking the knowledge of water to a whole new level in terms of the latest research. Especially molecular hydrogenated water.💦
Water holds memory, which I knew from a homeopathic point of view, however that water is a sentient being. It has consciousness. If this is something new for you, knowledge-wise, you can certainly do a dive into some of the research that's coming out on that and get your mind blown a bit.💦🤯
Am I passionate about health? Absolutely. I changed from my original career of teaching to naturopathy when I finally realised what I wanted to be when I “grew up”. And that passion now continues. So I love the best water for myself, and I love the best water for my clients. And it's seriously, seriously a big passion of mine. You will see posts about health, you will see posts about water and also about brain health-especially menopausal brains. My business as a naturopath is educating people about their health choices, about the ideal sources of water, and working with brain health to increase overall wellbeing.🧠💦👩🎓
How many of these things did you know about me? Let me know below.😁
