I was overweight as a child, as young as I can remember. And by the time I was in my teens I was also experiencing gut issues, fatigue and brain fog around my period, acne and even anxiety and depression. But by age 22 I was already adding burn out to that list. I started experiencing sleep paralysis and itchiness without rashes, my brain fog was at insane levels and my fatigue was increasing day by day. I soon experienced my first period of being bed bound with fatigue. And I entered an episodic type of CFS/ME for another 3 years, experiencing periods of relative wellness broken up with periods of being so sick I'd be bedbound. Eventually, I was eventually diagnosed with CFS/ME and PMDD and over coming years I added chronic migraines and chronic pain to that list. By the end of 2020 I was full time bedbound and my migraines were happening daily and were so severe that I couldn't tolerate light, and some day I couldn't even tolerate sound. I had a walking stick to get to the bathroom and everything felt hopeless. 

My turning point

In January 2021, I decided enough was enough. I felt deep in my bones that this wasn't how I was supposed to live. I was married to the most wonderful man and we really wanted children but I was so far from that dream and I knew I had to change something if I wanted to get better. I already ate mostly organic and a wholefoods based diet. I thought I was taking 'all the supplements' and doing 'all the right things' but, I was (very humbly) wrong.

My first step was sorting my mindset out. And from there I began listening to podcasts, audiobooks and seminars on anything to do with healing and realised that I needed to address the root cause of all my symptoms. I soon learnt about mould illness, the dangers of amalgam fillings and the role parasites play in chronic illness. 

I began addressing my root causes and learning everything I could. I was like a sponge taking in all this information every single day. I quickly experienced improvements and was able to begin my course with the Institute of Integrated Nutrition to become an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach. I graduated at the end of 2021 and began working with clients immediately. By this point I'd done a huge amount of healing personally and I was well on my way to becoming symptom free.

My whole life changed...for the better!

By 2022 I was really only dealing with some lingering fatigue and cycle issues. My body experienced less PEM (post exertional malaise) week on week. I went from being able to walk 5 minutes to 30, and soon I was able to do 5-7 mile hikes with no PEM and no crashes. I started acupuncture for my cycles along with further root cause work and within another few months I was having zero fatigue, healthy cycles and no lingering symptoms from anything else.

By mid 2022 I was complete symptom free from everything. Just less than 18 months after I began my healing journey. Was it easy? NO! I had to take action every day, and I experienced set backs as we all do. This is such a brief account of my journey, but you get the point. I addressed my root causes, took daily action consistently towards my goal, had a healthy level of paitence and BOOM, my life was transformed.

In August 2022 I got pregnant on the second month of trying and had a joyful, easy and very healthy pregnancy.

Where am I now?

I took 7 months off to be with my beautiful baby daughter and came back from maternity leave in January 2024. I immediately had a big list of clients, which was a big suprise to me. And by seeing so many people all at once, I realised there were some missing pieces and that health coaching alone wasn't serving people to the extent I wanted to.

I wanted to offer testing, and I'd taken education on reading blood tests, but they were so expensive and so limiting. Which brough me to muscle testing, which found me more than I found it. It turned up in my life just as I needed it. I took the hint from the universe and signed up to train in this modality with one of the top institues in the world. There isn't a day that goes by now where I don't use this skill and have deep gratitude for it. It meant I could now test people (remotely!) and give them the answers about WHY they have all these symptoms whilst also giving them the tools to actually do something about it.

This changed everything but I noticed through muscle testing that people kept testing that they needed emotional support. So I took the plunge and did my foundation and advanced level Mind Body Spirit Release training which is the best modality I have found for supporting emotional release.

The unique combination of health coaching, muscle testing and Mind Body Spirit Release supercharged my coaching practice AND my own life. I have seen even more leaps in my own health and have discovered that symptom free is just the base line - health can be so much more than this. 

Whats next? 

Well, I think I truly am done with studying for the time being. I keep playing about with the idea of taking my professional level qualification in Mind Body Spirit Release. But for now, I'm serving my clients to the full extent that I wanted to. I feel like my offerings go beyond so many others and are filled with the love I have for this work, as well as my knowledge and expertise. Now, my goal is to serve as many individual as I can and many others through the ripple effect of those clients supporting their friends and family.

It is a priviledge to play a small role in peoples healing journeys, and it is something I love and have gratitude for every single day.