This is the story of my path to healing...
My interest in medicine started very young. I would read medical books at bedtime and found myself very interested in the labels of the medicines we had at home.
At age 12, not only was I asthmatic but became very ill with pneumonia and was hospitalized. My Paediatrician at the time advised on foods/ingredients to avoid, to assist with my recovery. I soon realised that the food I ate affected my body and I needed to pay attention to this if I wanted to get better. This further sparked my interest in how the human body works.
Fast forward a few years and my pneumonia ordeal became a distant memory, therefore I felt no need to continue my ingredient reading regime. My teen years and twenties were upon me and they were fueled with all the wrong foods, little sleep and the numerous toxins that I breathed, ate, smoked, drank, swallowed and spoke. My constant illnesses and depressive episodes were relieved with medication and a constant supply of un-healthy comfort food.
In my mid to late twenties, hubby and I were ready to start a family. We struggled to conceive for many years and received lots of health advice from doctors, family, and friends. Once again, I found myself leaning towards a healthier diet and lifestyle to assist with my fertility. It worked! Once pregnant, again I relaxed my strict health regime and once my son was born, I was back to even less healthier ways.
Postpartum depression soon came to visit. It amplified my struggle with depression and anxiety. I chose the anti-depressant medication route but hated feeling emotionally numb all the time. With the help of a psychologist, I managed to ween off the medication very slowly. I didn't feel like I was completely depression and anxiety free, but was too busy being a 1st time Mom to really take care of it.
A few years later my daughter was born, and the postpartum depression returned. It brought debilitating panic attacks, severe depressive episodes, and daily thoughts of taking my own life. This was the life-changing catalyst that I didn't know I needed! I didn't want to go the medication route again, so I sought various natural therapies and remedies and learnt more and more about the benefits of adding or deleting certain foods from my diet. I then made a difficult, yet positively life-changing decision – I stopped eating sugar. It literally saved my life!
My seeking didn't stop there. I wanted to further educate myself on how to keep my mental and physical health in balance and assist others on the same path. For the first time in my life, I felt alive. I felt like I was living, not just existing. I wanted to ensure I would never return to the dark place of depression and anxiety, and I wanted to understand more of how I got there and how I got out. This led me to study for many years. I qualified as a Naturopathic Health Practitioner, as well as studied herbal medicine. I also qualified as a Rife PEMF therapist, being fortunate to own a Rife PEMF (Pulsed Electromagnetic Field) machine. I have Reiki, as well as Buddho certification and am humbled to have learnt many energy medicine techniques from great mentors and teachers. Due to my ongoing thirst to learn and understand the human body and the human experience, I continue to attend workshops and attain certifications in the natural and energy medicine field. I opened my practice and continue to learn daily from my patients as I walk with them on their health journey.
My passion to help others live happier and healthier lives led me to provide my patients with alternate tools and techniques to achieve this. I know that healing the emotional body is as important as healing the physical and mental body, and balancing all of these is the best, quickest and most fulfilling way to feel your best. I therefore included various energy medicine techniques into my practice. As time passed, I soon started to notice that my patients were achieving quicker results when these modalities were included into their health and healing regime. I had included Energy Medicine into my own life and benefited greatly from it, but watching my patients achieve such positive and life changing results, drew me to no longer ignore what had been calling me all this time – to specialise in Energy Medicine.
My practice today is based in Johannesburg South Africa, but due to the nature of my work, I do sessions with both human and animal patients all around the globe. Energy medicine has become so much more than what I do...it’s who I am. It has radically changed my life and how I experience living in every way.
My health is the best its ever been. Keeping my physical, mental and emotional wellbeing in balance is vital, but it’s not perfect every day. I experience life like anyone else. I can still get anxious in certain situations or feel down when life gets overwhelming. I still crave sweet and unhealthy foods when I'm in the need of some comfort, and there are times when my negative thoughts are louder than my positive. I am human and therefore the most perfect thing about me is that I am imperfect. I can say that my bad days are short-lived, my anxious moments don't turn into panic attacks, and I am able to experience joy, calm and balance quite soon after a very tumultuous time. I am mindful of my thoughts and how they make me feel and I know there will always be layers of past experiences that need to be shed or repaired. I believe that my health and healing journey will never end, but my journey thus far has brought me here today, to be with you. Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your health, happiness and healing journey. I look forward to walking beside you on your path x