The Golden Path-Functional and Integrative Health Coaching

18/01/2026

17/01/2026

Core Truth about UC

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to ulcerative colitis.
Healing requires individual context, guidance, and personalization.

🟡 1. Safety & Stabilization

Stop the fire before rebuilding the house
• Calm the nervous system
• Reduce obvious triggers
• Restore sleep, hydration, rhythm

Healing cannot begin in survival mode.

🟡 2. Terrain Rebuilding

Replace what years of illness depleted
• Identify nutrient deficiencies
• Support absorption, not just intake
• Restore immune and cellular energy

You cannot heal tissue with empty reserves.

🟡 3. Gut Integrity & Immune Balance

Not just the colon
• Repair gut lining
• Reduce immune misfiring
• Lower antigen load (personalized)

More supplements ≠ more healing.

🟡 4. Nervous System & Identity Work

The missing piece
• Address chronic stress patterns
• Release trauma stored in the body
• Shift identity away from illness

Healing is neurological as well as biochemical.

🟡 5. Personalization & Sustainable Remission

This is where paths diverge
• Individual nutrition & lifestyle
• Work, travel, family reality
• Ongoing feedback from the body

Remission is not a destination — it’s a relationship.

✨ The Golden Path

A guided framework for clarity, personalization, and long-term healing — not a quick fix, not a promise, but a map.

08/01/2026

A Grounding Passage—The Golden Path: Remembering Our Humanity

I walk the Golden Path.
To walk this path is to remember what it means to be human. It means choosing presence over pressure, enlightenment over distraction, and wisdom over noise. It means listening to the quiet intelligence of the body and the steady guidance of nature, our first and most faithful teacher.

On the Golden Path, health is not obedience; it is relationship. Relationship with the body, with food, with movement, with rest, with emotions, and with truth. I nourish rather than numb. I support rather than suppress. I move toward vitality, not punishment.

I reclaim my inner authority. I do not hand my power entirely to systems, trends, or external voices. I remain open to learning, yet rooted in insight.

I question what is normalized when it disconnects us from our bodies, our instincts, and our humanity.

I understand that this path is quieter—and sometimes lonelier. In a world that rewards speed, avoidance, and dependency, choosing awareness can look like resistance. Choosing responsibility can look unconventional. Choosing repair can look harder than walking away. Still, this is the path I choose.

On the Golden Path, compassion and clarity walk together. I hold empathy without abandoning truth. I can understand why others numb, avoid, or disconnect—without needing to follow them. I do not harden my heart to survive. I soften it while standing firmly in my values.

I remember that dysregulation is not failure, and distance is not the end of love. I allow grief to exist without turning it into blame—toward myself or others. Healing begins where judgment ends.

The Golden Path honors embodiment. To feel fully, to stay present, to choose food from the earth, movement that restores, and rhythms that support life—these are not radical acts. They are ancient ones.

When doubt arises, I return to this path: to breath, to body, to nature, to truth.

I am not broken; I am human.
I am remembering. And in remembering, I quietly light the way for others to do the same.

31/12/2025

2025 — A year of rebuilding, brick by brick ✨

This year was about more than renovating a Karoo property.
It was about listening to the land, respecting what already stood, and restoring without erasing the soul of this place.

There were delays, dust, decisions, and days where patience was tested.
I learned that true craftsmanship takes time.
That beauty isn’t rushed.
That solid foundations matter — in homes, and in life.

Every wall repaired, every detail considered, every corner brought back to life reminded me that restoration is an act of care, not control.

This chapter comes to an end with the work completed — but the story is only just beginning.
A home once tired now stands ready to hold stories, rest, and quiet joy.

Grateful for the process, the lessons, and the Karoo for teaching me how to build slowly, honestly, and with intention 🤍

05/12/2025

🌞 The Human Diet: Eating With the Sun

Just as every animal has an instinctive diet and rhythm, humans also have a biological eating pattern encoded in us — and it is tied directly to the sun.

1. Midday is When Our Body Is Designed to Eat the Most

When the sun is at its peak:
• Digestive enzymes are highest
• Insulin sensitivity is strongest
• Metabolism is most active
• The gut has the best blood flow and motility

This makes lunch — not dinner — the ideal time for the biggest, most nourishing meal.

2. A Light Meal Before Sunset Completes the Cycle

As the sun begins to set:
• Digestion naturally slows
• Melatonin begins to rise
• The body shifts toward repair, not digestion

So a light meal such as broth, soup, easily digestible proteins, or cooked vegetables aligns perfectly with the way our biology prepares for rest.

3. This Pattern Matches Nature

Every species eats according to:
• Light cycles
• Natural food availability
• Digestive rhythms

Humans are no different. Our circadian rhythm — controlled by light — regulates not just sleep but digestion, hormones, immunity, and metabolism.

So if this is your intution, it is totally right:
👉 The most “human” diet is a circadian diet — eating in harmony with the sun.

4. Why This Works for Ultimate Health

Eating this way:
• Reduces inflammation
• Improves blood sugar
• Supports weight balance
• Enhances gut repair
• Strengthens the microbiome
• Promotes restorative sleep
• Supports energy and cognitive clarity

It’s a natural reset without deprivation.

30/11/2025

🌿 Do colonics or frequent “gut cleanses” wipe out good bacteria?
Not exactly — but they can disturb the delicate balance of the microbiome.

Most of our beneficial bacteria live on the gut lining, not floating in stool. So while colonics and diarrhea may wash out some of the free-floating microbes, the deeper issue is the irritation, inflammation, and dysbiosis that can follow repeated flushing.

As a Functional Health Coach, I take a gentler, physiology-based approach:

✨ Rest the gut through strategic fasting
✨ Nourish the microbiome with natural probiotics & prebiotics
✨ Support the gut lining with whole foods and targeted nutrients
✨ Allow the body to recalibrate itself — it’s brilliantly designed to do so

Your gut doesn’t need force.
It needs conditions that allow healing.

This is the heart of functional wellness:
Work with the body, not against it. 💛🌿

11/11/2025

If you have gut problems, fiber is not your friend!
I have found when people with IBS, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis and other gut issues take a break from fiber, they allow a much needed break in their digestive tract.
When we use meat stock to heal and seal the gut along with gelatinous meats and specific well cooked veggies, we can reduce bowel inflammation and begin to slowly introduce fiber back into the diet. ☀️

03/11/2025

Deep Hydration — The Foundation of Healing

Most people think hydration is just about drinking enough water…
But true deep hydration happens inside your cells — where minerals, amino acids, and electrolytes work together to create energy, reduce inflammation, and support detoxification.

After years of rebuilding my health without a colon, I learned that water alone isn’t enough.
I use a simple, functional hydration stack to support every cell:

✨ Amino acids – to rebuild and repair tissue
✨ Multi-minerals – to replenish what fasting and stress deplete
✨ Celtic salt – for trace minerals and cellular conductivity
✨ Hydrogen (H₂) and electrolytes – to reduce oxidative stress and energize the mitochondria

When your cells are hydrated, your body can heal, think clearly, and thrive.

Hydration is not just about water — it’s about bioavailability.
💛 Nourish the cells, and the body follows.

02/11/2025

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