Welcome.

I’m so pleased you're here.  If you have just started on your health journey or have been trying to find answers for years you are in the right place.

My mission is to help women and families heal and live happy, fulfilling lives. Through my own families health journey and the stories of others it breaks my heart whenever anyone is suffering and I am committed to helping and educating to create lasting change.

I achieve this through education and motivation around health, emotional mindset, managing stress, toxin reduction and healthy home renovating.  It doesn’t happen overnight but every small step is the way forward in creating a life which is positive, empowered and informed.

To read my full story, see the longer blog post “My journey”

My Journey.

A little bit about me… I grew up in London and from about 17 I loved to party!  It wouldn’t be uncommon to drink 5 pints on a Tuesday night and eat McDonalds 4 times a week!

My natural health journey started when I had acne and the conventional treatments weren’t working for me… a change in diet, cutting back on the partying and  I also used a broccoli supplement and it cleared it up!   This really opened my eyes to the power of natural therapies and diet.

Fast forward a couple of years I put a sewing needle through my finger and unbeknownst to me it was stuck in there... an operation and 6 rounds of antibiotics later, my gut was wrecked.  I spent 18 months going to different practitioners with no clear answers. I was sick a lot and picked up the worst food poisoning in Vanuatu which went on for 8 days, yuk.

In 2016 I became pregnant and picked up a parasite (Blastocystis) when I was 6 months.  Our beautiful baby boy was born by caesarean section (that’s a whole other blog post) and that’s where the fun began… he was a very demanding chap!  He didn’t sleep well and was up 3-6 times a night for 18 months.  I was in a very bad way by this point with chronic fatigue, brain fog, apathy, anxiety and digestive issues.  I thought this was rock bottom but there was still more to come…!

At 11 months old my son picked up a gastro bug which then developed into a huge rash all over his face, constant crying, very upset stomach and waking up for 2-3 hours at nighttime.  At one point we thought he had autism as he would bang his head against his cot and us, it was terrifying.   We spent most days going from appointment to appointment (kinesiologist, homeopath, naturopaths, integrative medicine doctor, Chinese medicine doctor, immunologist)  trying to figure out what was wrong.  I was in a very, very bad place.  

It was so consuming and there was a constant commentary playing in my mind on how we could heal Arlo.  I would spend hours researching different practitioners and methodologies and would get very overwhelmed and not know where to turn….One night after another night of being up from 1 - 4am I text my mum asking her to come over from the UK to help as I was broken.  Luckily she did, which was a huge blessing, as soon as she arrived Arlo’s mood started to improve. Maybe it was because my energy had changed as I felt I could relax now my mum was here to look after me!  Babies and children are so intuitive!  

3 months later  after working with a naturopath and kinesiologist, we started to see improvements. The rash on his face was so much better, he was much happier and stopped headbutting.  He got better as the months went by, tolerating more foods, not getting sick as often, dark circles under his eyes going….It was a long road and took 2 years to get to the point where he was doing solid poops again. I did some serious happy dances when that happened!

All the while when Arlo was sick I still had the parasite and was breastfeeding, at one point I was only eating about 10 foods as I didn’t know if what I was eating was affecting his tummy.  I was seriously underweight and looked gaunt.  Once we weaned at 17 months, I set to work on getting rid of the parasite.  I read anything and everything on how to kill it, I was obsessed.  4 different treatments later and nothing had worked. I was so adamant that I wanted to treat it naturally but at this point I was considering antibiotics or flying to London for a FMT (faecal Matter transplant).  

As often happens, just as I was about to give up I came across some new information.  I was listening to the Melissa Ambrosini podcast and she was talking to Dr Stephen Cabral, an amazing naturopathic doctor in the US.  His approach and protocols just spoke to me.   Within a week I had signed up to do his Integrative health practitioner course and had started his parasite  protocol.  After that I went on to do the Candida and Bacterial overgrowth protocol.  All up it took me 4.5 months.  The moment of truth when I went to get re-tested for blasto, I almost fell off my chair when the doctor told me the test had come back ALL CLEAR!! It was the moment I had been dreaming of for 2.5 years, it was such an amazing feeling I cried with happiness. 

Fast forward a year and I am feeling the best I have in years.  My mind is clear and happy, energy levels are getting stronger every day and my gut is almost healed (these parasites cause a lot of damage!).  It has taken hard work and commitment but it has been worth it to come out the other side with the knowledge and clarity you can only have after  going through a big health journey.  I thank the universe for everything that has happened (even the awful bits) as it has led me here… here to help you.