For years, I abused my body. It was a cycle of restrictive eating (we’re talking 1 meal a day), binge drinking (bottles of wine), 2-3 hours sleep a night (every night!) alongside negative self talk and obsessive overthinking. The binge drinking caused chronic tonsillitis, migraines, depressive episodes and severe IBS.

In lockdown, my IBS was at its worst- food was becoming a nightmare and eating anything I hadn’t prepared was impossible. It would lead to migraines, severe stomach pain, constant toilet trips and a bloat that left me looking 6 months pregnant.

Despite exercising and eating what I believed to be a ‘healthy’ vegan diet, I was suffering terribly.

I spent most of my time in a constant state of worry with severe health anxiety.

I spent months trying to implement generic advice from the internet (to no avail!) and from the GP who kept fobbing me off, explaining to me that painful periods were just part and parcel of being a woman. Never giving me any advice other than to take the newly recommended form of hormonal contraception.

In 2021, I decided to take matters into my own hands and overhaul my life.

It turns out, Health isn’t a one size fits all and there were things within my past that were causing problematic issues with my present health (hormonal, digestive, nervous), and only by addressing these could I work on healing my gut health, menstrual cycle and ultimately my relationship with food.

All of this research and trial & error to help fix my own health led me to wanting to help others, so I enrolled with CNM and graduated in 2024 as a qualified Health Coach.