Healthy Being

your best self

Are you going through separation or divorce? Or a single parent wanting to raise emotionally intelligent and resilient children?

After 14 years of marriage, that ended in divorce when our children were aged 4 and 10, I promised myself that I’d do whatever it took, whatever work I needed to do on myself, so I could be emotionally available for them. I don’t want them growing up feeling like they need to choose, or feeling guilty because they miss their father, or with the conditioning that divorced parents have to hate each other.

Reaching this place, for their mental and emotional well being, meant I needed to become conscious of, and work through my triggers, I needed to learn to master my emotions (don’t mistake this for burying them), and I need to be the example, to show them that with courage and love, for self and others, it is possible to choose to grow through adversity.

Listen to me speak about forgiveness.

Are you struggling with gut issues? Or a constant feeling of being ‘unwell’. So many seemingly unrelated health issues can be attributed to an unbalance gut microbiome.

As early as age 8, I remember struggling with gut issues. It was first labelled ‘Spastic colon’ and I recall the pain being unbearable. At age 17, a doctor diagnosed me with IBS and categorised me as ‘a stressed person’. And that’s the identity I adopted.

My gut issues escalated and after my first baby I started struggling with hypoglycemia. I also struggled with sinusitis and bronchitis which resulted in repeated use of anti-biotics.

A gut microbiome test finally revealed severe dysbiosis (imbalance of good:bad bacteria) with one of the ‘bad’ culprits producing all the mucus! I then knew that the root cause of my dysbiosis, and all its associated health challenges, was stress.

I had to take a long, hard look at my life and make some serious changes.

Listen to me speak about Self Love

Listen to me speak about Labels

Have you been laid off? Did you come out the other side stronger, or did it extinguish your spark?

Losing a job isn’t just losing a job. It’s losing a sense of purpose, a sense of identity, it’s losing friendships and relationships with people you have spent more waking hours with than your family, especially pre the remote working evolution.

Whether you’re going through it now, or you’re already on the other side, did you take the time to process the enormity of the event?

I didn’t. My first lay off was incredibly traumatic, both by the way it was handled and by the fact that I was 6 months pregnant. The last thing I expected was to be back there three years later! And then a year after that too.

I am now in a space where I am grateful it happened because applying my learnings to my own experiences has given me the unique gift to help others.

Listen to me speak about Gratitude

Choose you.

Choose growth.

Is it your time to take the first step towards living a life you love? To start moving from surviving to thriving?