About

Registered Nutritional Therapist

BSc(Hons), mBANT, mCNHC

My Story

Struggling with friendships, marriage life, relationships in general? Finding it hard to deal with stresses in life that you were able to cope with before? Lacking energy, and patience with everything and everyone? Feeling up and down depending on the day, not knowing why today you feel like crying all the time, depressed or inundated with feelings of fear or anxiety? Not feeling like yourself anymore? Questioning everything in your life, your job, your marriage, your career? Not sleeping like before? Waking up in the middle of the night, perhaps having to go to the loo, or covered in night sweats? Always worrying about everything? Feeling alone and lost? Suddenly feeling old, forgetful, with new body aches, dry skin? I could go on and on…I feel you, I’ve been there too.

In my early 40s, I felt most of the above. I felt awful, almost like a teenager when our moods are unpredictable and we feel helpless and lost and we don’t quite know what’s going on in our body and why suddenly everything seems hard and different. My moods were so unpredictable that a lot of the time I didn’t like myself anymore. I was suddenly tired of doing and being everything for everyone else and I started to want to “rebel” and not give in to my old people’s pleasing ways. I wanted to do things my way and I started asking, what about me? What about my feelings and my needs?

I must say it never occurred to me that this had a lot to do with the hormonal changes in perimenopause. I just thought that there was something wrong with me, that I was failing at being a mum, a wife, a friend, a daughter. I felt I was failing at everything. And I was exhausted. I was taking on everyone else's problems and sufferings as well as dealing with my own. I was about to crash down.

After a family holiday at my in-laws, I realised I hit rock bottom. I was still a sleepless mum of a toddler and going through perimenopause. I was putting everyone else's wants and needs before mine and I was exhausted. I realised I needed to find help and start focusing on myself and taking care of myself rather than everyone else. And I realised I was the one to do it, nobody else was going to. With the help of my herbalist, Susi, I started to regain balance. We concentrated on my nutrition and getting the nourishment I desperately needed. Also lifestyle, moving more for my body, brain and sleep. Over the years I learned about different Functional tests, like the Dutch test, to help me understand how my body was detoxifying hormones and how to support this. This and other functional tests helped me understand and put together the missing pieces to feel better. Overall I did a lot of work on myself over the years but I had to go around and find and learn what I needed. I want to share what I’ve learned so that it’s quicker and easier for you.

I see so many of my friends and women around me suffering in their forties with very similar symptoms to mine that I just wish we all knew that it is possible to feel more balanced. It’s in our hands. We can get to know ourselves and our own unique physiology to understand what we need to give to our bodies and souls. Perimenopause can be such an empowering time. I’m here to guide you and support you if you are ready. I can’t wait to see you thrive through perimenopause.

Aside from helping women in their 40s feel better and thrive through perimenopause, I'm passionate about breast health. I love baking, trying new recipes, languages, travelling, yoga, walking in nature whilst listening to meditations, paddle boarding, rebounding on my mini trampolin, and most of all raising my daughter.

I would love to hear your story. Get in touch below to share your own story with me and see how I can help you.