A part of my journey

I wanted to share a little of my back story for you as I get questions on mine and my family’s life choices quite a bit :)

In my mid twenties I left the corporate world and the culture of work hard / party harder to re-educate and train as a holistic nutritionist.

A few years later I began to grow my family and raising them as a fully present mother and creating a safe and loving home was my sole focus. I home birthed my children and almost free-birthed my last baby (he wasn’t waiting around!) and have done my utmost to ensure the most natural start to life that I could offer them free from vaccinations, medications and harmful toxins in our environment. Whilst my husband worked hard to build up his business I spent a decade mostly barefoot and pregnant or breastfeeding :) with a young child/ren by my side.

Fast forward to 8 years ago, when I began to dip back into the world of offering health and wellness support after a long long break in this full mothering mode. I had by then completed my family and was keen to come back to exploring my own purpose beyond being mama to my four children. I took refresher then advanced nutrition exams, completed my first 200hr yoga teacher training, then trained as a health coach, a master transformation coach, a naturopath and am now specialising in herbal medicine. Alongside this, I grew a naturopathic health coaching business, taught in-person yoga classes and held workshops and retreats. Everything was fun and energetic and it felt so good to be helping others with their health goals and feeling like I was making an impact in many women's lives.

And then 2020 happened and everything changed.

Suddenly I had to cease all my in-person offerings as the world went online.

Small businesses folded around us and people were no longer spending money on what they deemed ‘luxuries’ such as yoga classes, wellbeing workshops and health coaching.

I was struggling to make the same level of income and as most people seemed to accept this new way of living in a tech-driven and distanced world, I knew I had to somehow make it make sense and make it work for my family and I.

We felt like outsiders looking in. We were apprehensive about the direction the world was moving in. The introduction of bots and algorithms, the censorship and surveillance, the disinformation of the truth of natural health and healing, the exclusion and threat of having our travel and work rights removed for not complying to mandated vaccines.

To cut a very long story short my husband and I made some big decisions together. We removed our children from school and decided to make plans to eventually remove ourselves from the grid and live an autonomous and honest life inspired by the cycles of Nature with community and sovereign core values at the epicentre.

It was was a stressful time and there are parts of me today that are still in the aftershock of that particular period, but I am starting to feel more peace about why what happened in the world had to happen.

I believe nothing happens by chance. The universe holds the greatest wisdom that far exceeds the human ego.

It’s been a process of exploring and reframing much of my own mindset on wealth, freedom and abundance and I am now creating multiple income streams and stepping into new leadership roles in my business (es).

So maybe it took a global reset for me to make my peace with the way the world is now. But I feel there is more to come. More to destabilise and question our current frameworks. There is talk of financial crashes, power outages, more lockdowns and compromised food chains. I believe this will happen to some extent over the next few years and it is necessary for it to happen to create space for those who want to be active participants in the new world.

I am fully here for it. And the choices we make today are to enable us to be as self-sustained and resourced as possible. This will not only carry us through more turbulent times ahead, but also empower us in our health and financial sovereignty.