The 'Why' behind my passion.
Your Healthy Abundant Life is a space designed for health conscious individuals, who want to learn more and take control of their health – the natural way. We are called to live an abundant life, lets make it healthy as well…
Whether you want to boost your immune system, improve your digestion, have clear glowing skin, increase your mental clarity or reverse a horrible diagnosis, this place is for you.
I found myself on this journey following a health diagnosis over 7 years ago. After much research I chose to adopt diet and lifestyle changes that have led to health and wellness – the natural way.
I have encountered incredible benefits from these changes in my life and am now passionate to share how to empower you to have your own best health
Where did it start?
Throughout my life I lived, what I thought, was a healthy lifestyle and consumed a fairly healthy diet. I wasn’t fanatical about anything, but I didn’t consume too much sugar and stuck to a low fat diet. All good, or so I thought. Little did I know that years down the line the low fat diet would come back to bite me.
In November 2014, I suddenly started feeling unwell. I had random weird symptoms including a strange giddy feeling, I felt generally unwell and tired amongst other things. The doctor could not pinpoint what was wrong, but after many trips to the surgery and blood tests later I was told I had an autoimmune condition.
That diagnosis was very scary and knocked me completely into a state of frozen fear. I was told I had to be on medication that had the most horrendous side effects and according to the specialist ‘ there was no other way’.
After my panic state subsided I knew in my heart there had to be an alternative, so I started researching. I began to understand terms like anti-inflammatory diet, detoxification, nutrient dense nutrition and how food can be our medicine. It makes sense really, although I had never thought about it before, but what we put in our body is SO important.
It was in this place that lightbulb moment happened. Habit change, awareness, empowerment and the journey began. With my head in the functional medicine books I was determined to connect the dots.
You can’t expect a car to run properly if you fill it up with the wrong fuel and that’s the same for our body. Our cells need good healthy fats to function correctly and our body needs whole foods that are full of nutrients to perform properly.
The low fat ‘fake foods’ I had consumed for years had not provided my body with the right building blocks and here was the end result. Of course there were other things to factor in, but the basis was the food I was putting into my body. I also heard for the first time the term ‘leaky gut’ …. What was that?
I now know that unless you get to the root cause of the health issue any medication you take is just like a band aid and in fact could be damaging your body in other ways.
Where did it lead?
This led me on a journey to re-train, and empower myself, and from there this passion and mission has developed to help others understand that there is another way to be strong, healthy and to maintain our weight without fad diets. I now also help people turn their own health diagnosis around. To find out more please visit my Services page or book a free 15 minute complimentary call.