Empower | Educate
- loiskaranina
- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 18, 2021
I set out to become a nutritional therapist to help people with their health journey and inspire others to carve out their own path to a healthy life. There is so much noise out there about nutrition and what constitutes the “perfect diet”, it’s little wonder people are left puzzled or mislead. Or worse, people give up and throw caution to the wind, continuing with their unhealthy habits. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t, right? Frankly, neither outcome is good enough.
Good health isn’t as hard work as it’s currently sold to be. Good health should not be arduous or restrictive.
Our current medical model only allows a 10-minute window into a person’s life. It is simply not enough time or space to allow anyone to explain their current health issues and how they have got to a point of ill health. You are all wonderfully unique and complex and you should be treated as such. Who you are genetically, the illnesses you’ve had, the medicines you take, the food you consume, the fluids you drink, the air you breathe, the exercise you do, your relationships with family, friends and co-workers, and even the thoughts you have – all contribute to your current state of health. How can you not be treated as an individual? I believe it’s important to look upstream and try to find the root cause of an illness or imbalance. Oftentimes there is no obvious answer and it takes a multi-targeted approach to help with symptoms and ultimately help bring the body back to a balance.
My objective is pretty simple really. I want to educate and empower. It’s all about learning to trust your body again and being in tune with its needs, physically and mentally. It’s all about forgiveness and acceptance, that it’s OK to eat a meal that does not contain the greatest nutritive value for you, but that providing you are consistently giving your body the right nutrition most of the time you can still be healthy and happy. No more “black and white” or “all-or-nothing” thinking – that path only leads to inevitable failure, tears and self-punishment. Why do that to yourself? Isn’t life hard enough?
It’s important to enjoy the journey! It’s about slowly and mindfully instilling new habits, but everybody knows old habits die hard so it’s important to take baby steps and be kind to yourself, just don’t give up. Change is hard! Even when you really want it.
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