I’m so super excited about what this year holds for me, I’ve never really been one to have New Years resolutions but I’m excited about 2017. I’ve been happy to see the the back end of the last couple of years with all the heath issues I’ve had. It was nearly 12 months to the day between when I had my first surgery and when I had my fourth and final surgery so I was super happy to see the end of that. I’m continuing to work on my wellness, I’m still not 100% but thanks to my beautiful naturopath I’m getting there. My restricted diet has actually been a lot easier than I thought it would be and I’m...
If you follow me on Facebook or Instagram you’ll know this already but I recently did some food sensitivity testing and it turns out I’m sensitive to a lot of food! I knew something wasn’t sitting well as I’ve had tummy troubles but I had no idea it was a lot of the foods I eat regularly, no wonder I wasn’t feeling the best! My results are unusual and it’s not too surprising given the fact I had 4 bowel surgeries over the course of 12 months and LOTS of antibiotics. On one hand it’s a bit annoying and on the other I’m really excited because I have the opportunity to make myself feel a lot better. I can control...
There are a couple of strange things that happened as a result of my health issues, one of them was that I felt really determined to leave a legacy. It sounds very macabre but when I was really sick one of the things I thought was that I haven’t left a mark on the world and I won’t be remembered. After that I felt such a passion to be an influencer, encouraging change in the lives of my families, friends and strangers. I feel super happy with what I’ve started and I feel so humbled when complete strangers message me and tell me they’ve been inspired by something I’ve written and are making changes to their own families lives. I...
I saw an Instagram post from a celebrity Mum the other day who said something along the lines of ‘I normally shower my kids with stuff in an attempt to make them happy but I realised I don’t need to give them so much stuff, I just need to be with them and be present in their lives,’ so they went to the park and used torn up bits of cardboard to slide down a hill and had an absolute ball. I love this! I’m all about reducing the amount of stuff we have, especially plastic stuff that’s only used for a short while but stays on the planet forever, I just find it so wasteful and unnecessary. When I...
I find this whole ‘keep using things until their proven to be bad for us’ thing so frustrating! How can putting chemical by-products in skincare not be bad for us?! If you check out the Environmental Working Group skin deep website you get a fantastic understanding of what chemicals to avoid. Some of them have the status ‘possibly causes cancer’ or ‘probably causes cancer’ but until it’s changed to ‘definitely causes cancer’ companies are free to keep using it, seriously!? If you grab a steak out of the fridge and it smells really iffy do you think, ‘this will possibly/probably make me sick but I’d better eat it just so I can be 100% certain’ ummm NO you put that...
