I’ve always had an unhealthy relationship with food and since a teenager have tried umpteen very dubious ways to stay slim/ lose weight and keep fit!

It all began at secondary school where I was told that I had “Thunder thighs”

I embarked on a very destructive course of yo yo diets, extreme manic exercise regimes, powering up a Slendertone machine to it’s highest point and trying desperately to reduce the size of my body!

I was not at all large but in my head I felt huge and spent several years suffering with bulimia.

My teenage years, twenties and thirties were all dogged by thoughts that my body should look a different way than it did.

Never once did I stop to think of what was going on inside my body. I just focused on the way it looked from the outside!

How I wish I’d had a plan like this back then and could have save myself so many years of anxiety!

Fast forward to the age of 44. I had become a single mum with three adult sons and one daughter and then perimenopause hit me. I realised all those years before that I’d actually looked amazing but now the struggles to combat aging and lowering Oestrogen levels were the real issue.

I wanted my daughter to be saved from feeling the way I had felt.

I had an epiphany and realised that my focus needed to be on what was going on INSIDE my body and not OUTSIDE and from that moment everything changed.

When I began to take care of and nurture my gut health then my whole wellbeing started to change physically, mentally and emotionally.

My daughter is now thirteen and I have two grandaughters.

I have navigated menopause and come out the other side all naturally.

This is why I’m so passionate about helping women learn about all the things that it took me such a long while to fathom and save years of painful suffering and stress.