It was never on my radar to become a women’s acupuncturist, nutritionist and healthcoach. I’d never ever tried any alternative therapies before I began to suffer with burnout.
I was working too many night shifts in 24 hour TV news rooms. I was exhausted by the unhealthy work culture and started questioning everything.
I began to suffer from insomnia and constant headaches which brought me close to becoming chronically fatigued.
Adrenal fatigue or chronic fatigue, was not medically recognised at the time. I felt very unsupported so with nowhere else to turn I had to find my own way back to health.
I stopped work; slept for hours, spent time in Nature; learnt meditation, tried different therapeutic treatments and slowly started to recover.
At the time acupuncture was the one therapy I found which instantly relieved my headaches. I felt lighter and more energised after a treatment as well as hopeful that I would get better.
A few years later I began to train as an acupuncturist, myself. I loved every minute of my course even though it was hard work. But by the time I began setting up my practice I was over forty and was wondering whether I’d ever have children of my own.
Around this time, I met someone new and miraculously fell pregnant quickly and had my son a few weeks shy of my 42nd birthday.
Becoming a mother later in life; being blessed with a natural birth and knowing that it is possible to conceive against the odds inspires my work with women of all ages.
When working with women facing the same ticking clock as I did I can fully empathise. I remember just how easy it is to wonder whether it’s time to give up hope.
Since then I have been working as women’s acupuncturist, nutritionist and healthcoach supporting women and couple’s with their own fertility journey and pregnancy.
