Ally Sanchez - Herbalist and Nutritionist

My own healing has been a source of education and insight too, battling an addictive personality and an ability to run my adrenals into overload. Healing, is a life journey on all levels, physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. Physically, I have returned to a plant-based diet and enjoy road and trail running with a couple of marathons and a 50km trail run under my belt. Spiritually, I spend time in prayer, over my medicines, my work, and for each client before opening the doors of the clinic. I acknowledge a loving Creator as the true source of all healing, myself merely a vessel. My husband’s support grounds me emotionally as I walk two paths as both a recipient of healing and a channel of healing to others. Mentally, I am continually upgrading my skills, seeking teachers who share a similar methodology of diagnosis and prescribing, elders found with dirt under their nails rather than a white lab coat. I devour books, podcasts, articles, and blogs on natural health and healing and balance this knowledge with the mainstream science of a Masters of Human Nutrition, which I am completing through Deakin University in Melbourne.

As a wife and mother of three delightfully feral boys, I understand the juggling of ethics, values, and time. I believe as parents we have entered into a new paradigm. One where our families are exposed to synthetic chemicals, food additives, preservatives, and processed junk. I battle and don’t always win, to keep my family on a wholefood diet. I am a believer and supporter of parents to have access to natural childbirth and the right to a private midwife and homebirth. I encourage bonding, baby carrying, breastfeeding, and bringing up the next generation on whole foods and natural medicines to encourage strong bodies.� Education is power and I am not talking about the education that comes from pharmaceutical funded scare campaigns or agenda biased governments. Researching and self-education have never been more important.

Modern Medicine has made some very valuable life-saving additions to healthcare, particularly with acute life-threatening issues. If I was to cut my leg off, hypothetically, of course, I wouldn’t wrap a comfrey leaf around it but head straight for a surgeons table But if I was experiencing things like chronic inflammation in my knee, reoccurring headaches, the anxiety produced heart palpitations, hormonal nightmares, digestive upsets, restless nights or tired days my beloved herbs would be my first point of call, hands down.

I’d love you to come along to where we can discuss any illness patterns you or your family are experiencing. We can discuss how the ancient herbal medicines and a tried and tested Traditional Approach to Healing can help support/combat/reverse/prevent the impact of this modern world on your health and wellbeing. �With Much Love ALLY