I experimented with it all: the Master Cleanse, raw food, I did colonics and acupuncture. So I started researching, reading and trying different approaches to health and healing. I realised that something needed to change. Believe me, it is no fun living in a body that you don’t recognise as your own, and also feeling exhausted and overwhelmed from just waking up in the mornings. I was eating all the correct food and moving my body, but two years after I was diagnosed with adrenal fatigue and burn out, the symptoms got worse and I was diagnosed with early stages of Addison’s disease (which is an autoimmune disease following Adrenal burn out). Externally I was a high achiever, committed to perfection and making my employers and everybody else around me very happy, but I was the unhappiest version of myself. I now not just had an unhealthy relationship with food, but I was stressed, alcohol use became frequent and this affected my mental health. In my late twenties I was not just underweight, but undernourished, stressed and burned out. There were times I would starve myself to the anorexic version of myself and then binge to the fuller version.ĭuring my 20’s I stepped into the corporate world and worked like a maniac and I avoided food all together. This disconnected relationship with food developed into a serious eating disorder for most of my life. When I felt I “deserved” to eat I would reward myself with a meal or a treat, but if I didn’t get that A in a test – definitely then no food or no treat for me. Somehow, during my early teens, food became my enemy, but my reward at the same time. My mom did catering for functions and prepared all our family meals every day, so food was a big part of our lives (still is). I was born in a small little town in South Africa to an amazing family. Nourish Move Love Bali was born from my personal journey.
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