03/04/2026
When you talk to people about food, day in, day out, people expect you to be a great cook! 👩🍳
My comedy apron, bought as a joke with a semblance of truth, says 'I kiss better than I cook'.
When I first start cooking as a teenager, I always hated the time pressure.
We had a monster of a home economics teacher, that left me feeling stressed about the whole thing.
My sister also trained as a chef and always came home with wonderful creations. So, cooking wasn't much on my radar (but I enjoyed the eating!😋)
When I first left home, I remember eating a load of frozen processed crap. It just wasn't important to me at the time.
Following a decade of trying to balance my raging health symptoms – painful periods, bad skin, unpredictable digestion, energy all over the place – I began studying to be a nutritional therapist. Over the next few years, so many of the missing pieces of the jigsaw puzzle gradually fell into place.
I began to understand in depth the impact of my diet and lifestyle on my own symptoms. Stress was a major trigger for my symptoms as well as helping to keep them going.
In the beginning I felt like a bit of a charlatan as many of my contemporaries had a ‘Good Life’ style upbringing and recognized the value of broccoli from an early age.
My mum did cook too, but as a child of the 80’s, I was raised on pot noodles and wagon wheels and ‘forced’ to eat one brussels sprout each Christmas.
But I think this background means I can relate strongly to what many of my clients are battling with. My clients often comment on my realistic, moderate, and non-judgmental style.
I caught on fast and was soon totally hooked on the power of food, nutrients and lifestyle medicine and their ability to change so dramatically how you feel. It’s all had such a significant impact on my own health and now I am passionate about helping others to transform how they feel too.
And these days, I'm a much better cook too! 😋
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