Founder/ Director
Multi-discipline holistic practitioner
“Developing and expanding my consciousness has been an ongoing process ever since I realised my health was my most precious ally in life.
A balanced health allows one to be more present and being able to help others as well as enjoying what life has to offer. A jeopardized health kills one’s light, bringing extra worries, negativity, and mental strains, accumulating ailments, and leading to more health issues”.
I gained experience in the complementary and Alternative Medicine from my own health recovery journey. I had to deepen my knowledge on detoxification and fasting, stress-management and chronic inflammation linked to gut’s issues as I myself dealt with debilitating ailments from early childhood.
Being brought up with a strong allopathic medicine approach, I realised in my younger adulthood that all I kept doing was going back and forth to my GP. Pharmaceuticals and over the counter medicine were prescribed regularly to deal with my ailments. Year after year, I noticed that my ailments stayed in a chronic state rather than being eradicated. The gap between each use became smaller to keep the pain away or at least managing it. It was my state of mind back then. It was a vicious circle.
“Reading a book on Nutrition back in 2002 was literally a mind-blowing experience, everything stemmed from that day".
The very decisive moment which gave me the confidence in taking back control of my health was when I shared my progress with my GP as I was back yet again for another thrush issue. Since I educated myself on the medicinal and healing effects of Nutrition and lifestyle choices, and applied what I learnt, less frequent thrush reoccurrences were noticed. Therefore, I asked my GP if I could get her support and guidance with her knowledge instead of taking more pharmaceuticals. She said that it was nothing to do with nutrition and that I should take the antibiotics as it would be the only way to clear out the thrush. That was that for me. From that day on, I’d only visit my GP for diagnosis with her medical expertise but then I would search on how to get better by myself, reaching out for alternative ways. It took me up to 5 years to get my health back and ever since, I promised myself that I will never take my health for granted again. It was a conscious decision. The chronic state that I was in, taught me to address the underlying issues.
In 2007, I decided to start my formal education with The College of Naturopathic Medicine in London and completed a 3 year diploma in Naturopathic Nutrition. My journey toward wanting to help others regaining control of their own health started then and has been ongoing ever since.
While educating myself on Nutrition, I came to understand that Doctors only touched on Nutrition 12 days within their 7 years of medical schooling.
It made so much sense as to why my GP wasn’t open to this field back then as it wasn’t really offered to her. The great news is that the scientific community has now caught up with the value of Nutrition and people’s health recovery. As I explored for different ways in approaching my health, then Integrative Medicine was introduced to the public. A new era and what an exciting one!!
My belief is that when health gets disrupted, don’t wait too long to tackle it. It will only make your body scream louder and the adaptation state you allow yourself to be in, will get your body to compensate in whatever way it can to keep you going. This never ends well… So, get out there and get help. Maybe an opinion from your GP, therapist, or alternative practitioner, then a second opinion and sometimes even a third to be sure you get to use the right tools for your health issue. Feel your body, address your emotions and trust in your inner wisdom, your mind will do the rest. It’s your body and only you know it and what’s best for it. And you only get one! There is nothing more empowering than feeling alive within.
I enjoy immensely helping people to integrate new ways into their day-to-day life so that they can increase their awareness about their health. Digging deeper myself, I started looking into how I could bring inner peace to the gut so the mind could move forward and embrace life in a more authentic way. Reaching a calmer state of mind and allowing the body’s inner-wisdom to express its authentic self can be a real eye opener. One can then feel what the body lacks or has too much of. Acceptance, self-resiliency, and consistency in anything one does, goes a long way in bringing inner peace.
There is a choice to be made when chaos enters our life. If recognised, one can make a conscious choice whether to detach from it or learn on how to live with it. But simply making that conscious step toward that choice is one step further toward an understanding about one’s health.
Let me assist you in tapping into your inner resources, and bring back your body into balance at a physical, emotional and spiritual level. With a holistic and integrated mind, my approach combines diverse elements into a whole so to help reclaiming the body's vitality, starting from the gut.
I will be very much looking forward to meeting you soon.
Edwige