Ever since I can remember, leading a healthy lifestyle has been of the upmost importance to me. I grew up as an athlete, and in order to perform my best, staying physically and mentally healthy and strong was integral, and this meant eating healthy, and taking care of my body physically and mentally. Living a healthy lifestyle and how that incorporates eating healthy food, exercising, and practicing mindfulness, has always been an important and habitual part of me and this has continued to be true for me through each stage of life – while I was in university, entering the workforce, and remains today.

In my spare time, I have always found myself researching and reading about new health foods and products in the market; what their nutritional benefits are, as well as research behind them that support their importance as a health food product. I’ve also always had a passion for cooking and baking, finding new recipes, and how to alter existing recipes with different ingredients to make them healthier; this brings me so much joy! I’ve always had a curiosity into what I can do naturally to achieve optimal health in order to look and feel my best, and I’ve always looked for these answers in the holistic nutrition space and industry.

My ‘WHY’ for enrolling at IHN was further catapulted by my own struggles with gut health. My gut dysbiosis, chronic constipation and bloating  got to a point where I was exhausted and frustrated, not only from these symptoms, but from the overwhelming amount of contradicting information I was finding on the internet and social media. I wanted to know what would heal my gut. I also wanted to take it one step further and understand WHY it would work n healing my gut. Once discovering IHN, it didn’t take me long to enrol in order to answer both of these questions for myself to heal my own gut, inflammation and further issues like borderline hypothyroid and mineral deficiencies on my journey to optimal health.  

It also became my passion to help others heal their body’s from these issues, because I know from first hand experience, how feeling backed up, lethargic, and bloated on a daily basis can make you feel like a stranger in your own body, have zero energy and struggle to find the joy in simple everyday moments. I knew the knowledge I would gain from my studies at IHN would be integral to not only helping myself, but help friends, family, and future clients on their healing journeys. 

Previous to IHN, I have worked mostly in media and advertising. Mostly selling content, advertising and brand partnerships. Not very similar to holistic nutrition at all!