Vibrant health starts in the home

I’m an ordinary girl on an extraordinary mission to inspire and empower as many people as I can to lead a less toxic and more nourishing  and conscious life – in all areas of their life – starting in their home. I believe that vibrant health starts in your home. It starts with the food, personal care products and cleaning products that you bring into your home.  Your home is where you spend most of your time and your home is really the only place that you largely can control.

Prompted by a health crisis, I started my health journey over 2 decades ago by focusing on the food I was eating and swapping out the dietary toxins along with the mainstream dogma that has caused an epidemic of chronic illness and degenerative disease. I soon realised (as one door opened another door) that toxins weren’t just found our food system…they were lurking in the personal care products I was using on my and my babies’ skin and in the cleaning products I was spraying all over the house. They were in the sunscreen I was plastering all over my body, the make-up I was coating all over my face and the perfumes and air fresheners I was spraying. 

Despite what the manufactures or the powers that be might say, scientific evidence clearly shows that dietary toxins (including refined sugars, refined starches, industrial seed oils, and artificial additives) and environmental toxins (including PEGS, SLS, synthetic fragrances, synthetic colours, phthalates, aluminium, oxybenzone etc), are of genuine concern with wide ranges health consequences. Children are the most vulnerable as their systems are much smaller. These toxins in the products that line our supermarket and pharmacy shelves have been allowed to ubiquitously infiltrate our lives, our bodies and the planet in the name of commerce and we consumers are paying the price. We are paying with our health!

The sobering light bulb moment came for me when I realized that just because something is allowed to be sold or is ubiquitously used doesn’t make it safe!! And that’s when I realized that I need to become more independent in my health care, do my own due diligence (because no one else is going to do it for me), and to take personal responsibility for my own health. This is my job and my job alone. No one else can do it for me.

Unsurprisingly, when I took this level of personal responsibility, that’s when I was able to reverse all of my and my family’s health issues.  I consciously engaged in lifestyle choices that genuinely aligned with our wise biology, and avoided those that undermined it. And I sought out, and attracted, a solid tribe of supportive like-minded people which makes the journey even more rich and delicious. 

My wish for you is to reclaim your power as individuals – to feel more empowered and independent in your health care. We are indeed at the threshold of a massive paradigm shift in global consciousness. Sometimes it takes, as it did for me, a personal health crisis to be your wake-up call and sometimes it takes a global health crisis. And maybe for you it’s a bit of both. 

So whether you’re at the very start of your health and wellness journey or part way through or maybe you’re looking for a community of like-minded souls, I invite you to join me at one or both of my next workshops where you can learn, appreciate and focus  on just how much power and influence you really can have over your health - physically, emotionally and spiritually: 

1. To kick the chemicals in your personal care products and cleaning products in a positive, empowering and super simple way and to become more independent in your health care by being your family’s alchemist and healer - join me at my next free The Essentials zoom webinar Tuesday 26 May 7-9pm. Book here!
   

2. To clean up your diet, understand the fundamental of robust nutrition and robust gut health and to enjoy a long term sustainable traditional wholefoods dietary approach that has served our ancestors for Millenia-  join me at my next Food as Medicine talk via zoom webinar on Saturday 1 August 9am- 2pm co-presented with Australia’s leading holistic dietician Marieke Rodenstein. This is a comprehensive talk that sets you up for life that also covers the topics in 1 above. To learn what is covered and the tremendous amount of information, material and online cooking classes you get as part of this talk,  click here.  Note - the 26 May Food as Medicine talk is fully booked and places are already filling fast for 1 August so booked fast to avoid disappointment.

Free zoom webinar Tues 26 May 7pm: How to become more independent in your health care

I’m fired up more than ever before to inspire and empower as many people as I can to BECOME AS INDEPENDENT AS POSSIBLE IN THEIR HEALTH CARE. Now more than ever it is imperative that we strive to be the healthiest possible versions of ourselves so that we can feel empowered, fearless, and resilient.

Join me at my next FREE monthly Essential Oil 101 workshop. Learn why Young Living essential oils are a powerful must-have tool in my health tool box (right up there with nutrient dense food, pure water, sunshine, sleep, positive mindset and strong community support) and why so many people globally are turning to them for support at an unprecedented rate.

In this information-packed no-nonsense 2 hour webinar (run monthly) you will learn why every home needs YL oils and oil infused products.

In particular you will learn:

1. how YL oils can powerfully defend and protect to build strong resilience

2.  how to use YL oils as your first port of call wellness cabinet to become pharmacy-free and chemical-free as nature intended (this is game-changing as a mum especially when woken at 2am!) 

3. how the YL oils nourish the microbiome and do not affect essential beneficial bacteria (unlike the slew of toxic “anti bacterial” products on the market that wreak havoc on our microbiome and the planet)

4. how to healthy swap ALL conventional personal care products and household cleaning products to create a less toxic home and world for our children to grow up in

5. why I exclusively use YL oils over all other brands, what makes them unique, why they are the only brand that can genuinely call themselves therapeutic-grade and why they are world leaders in the oils movement

6. How to use YL oils and oil infused products to take your and your kids physical and emotional health to the next level so that you feel positive and empowered 💪🏻👊🏻 

You’ll also get a glimpse of the benefits of being a part of my supportive community in terms of continuing education, wealth of online resources at your fingertips, and personalised support.

Click here to book. 

If you CAN’T MAKE IT to this workshop:

1. Email me so we can call you for a FREE one on one phone / zoom consult to explain it all to you; or

2. Watch my FREE 40 min pre recorded Oils 101 video (simply complete the contact form here and we will contact you to have a chat and send you the link to the video) 🌱🌿💚🌏

My raw and real musings on motherhood and our limited edition Mother’s Day offering

Motherhood. 

The most rewarding yet difficult endeavour I have ever embarked upon. My children bring me endless wonderment coupled with exasperation (and which dose is greater depends on the day and depends on the kid in question). I have never experienced a love so pure, intense and unconditional as the love I have for my children. Yet motherhood is by far a vocation that is more painful than anything I have ever experienced. Just when I thought things were getting easier, they turned into a tween and a teen which makes the toddler years look like a walk in the park. 

The shadows of guilt, shame and incompetence over my parenting often haunt me. And the more I talk to other mothers (no matter how zen or perfect they appear, or how many parenting books, courses or programs they have completed) the more I realise that I am not alone. So I’m here to tell you that no mother is perfect and that whatever you’re feeling I guarantee that we have all felt it. We are all doing our best to raise children in an increasingly challenging world and without the village and the natural environment that children have evolved to be raised in. And those mismatches in themselves bring a myriad of issues. 

While the impact mothers have on their children etches deep and can last generations (for better or for worse) the saving grace is that our children are incredibly forgiving and resilient, and each day is a new start with new intentions. 

The passing of my own mother to dementia last year has given me great cause to stop and ponder the fragility of life. When there is nothing left to say there’s always “I’m sorry, and I love you”. 

As mothers, we not only bring forth life, we feed, nurture, care, support, love and protect with all our hearts. Yes motherhood involves pain and suffering but it also involves wonder and joy. And let’s not forget that as we celebrate our special day in May. 

Last year my son asked me “Mum, why did you have children?” My response: “To grow as a person…. To love and to be loved in returned, to teach you what I know and to learn from you in return.” Indeed, my children are my greatest teachers, my shiny mirrors reflecting back everything I dislike in myself and exquisitely pressing my buttons in a way that only they know how to press.  They will keep pressing and pushing until I show up as the best possible version of myself – happy, confident, capable, fair, supportive, honest, accessible, with clear boundaries. If they don’t feel I’m stepping up in any one of these areas, they will poke and prod (“act out”) until I step up.  As my children grow and mature, I feel it’s an opportunity for me to grow and mature as a person. There are many lessons to embrace, as every mother knows. 

So I dedicate this newsletter to my mother, and to mothers everywhere, who have done and who are doing so much for their children. I see at Broth Bar, coming to my talks and doing my classes, driven by a desire to provide the best possible start to your childrens’ lives. It warms my heart to think that the next generation of children that we are raising will be more robust, resilient, taller, smarter and beautiful than our generation, due to our hard work. And for that we can pat ourselves on the back! 

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To celebrate, acknowledge and honour the mothers in our lives and the incredible role they play, we have crafted as a Mother’s Day special limited edition, our signature activated macadamia nuts smothered in our signature raw dark chocolate: organic choc coated maccas for mamas! Simply suburb! Who doesn’t love that winning combo!? I hope you enjoy them as much as we have enjoyed bringing them back for sale to you as a Mothers’ Day limited edition. Throw into a larger hamper, or simply gift as a stand alone special treat. These are sure to please the yummiest/tiredest/grumpiest/happiest of mummies – for we are all these things rolled into one plus more ;-) 

Sold exclusively at Broth Bar & Larder. To organise a courier to any area within metropolitan Sydney or Wollongong simply call Broth Bar & Larder on 0421 786 009. Limited quantities available, so get in quick to avoid disappointment. 

“Mothers have the power not only to rock the cradle but to rock the world”
 – Dr. Bernard Jensen