I'm a dedicated Health & Wellness Coach empowering busy working moms to feel energized and confident! Together, we'll conquer stress and embrace a vibrant life!
As a mom myself, I get how tough it can be to juggle work, family, and everything else while also trying to take care of yourself.
Time is tight, and let’s face it, self-care often feels like a distant dream.
But here’s the thing: you can thrive!
I’m here to make sure you don’t just survive the chaos, but feel amazing while you’re doing it
After school
I became a fashion model traveling around the world. I lived and worked in many places and therefore was always trying new cuisines and dishes; some more memorable than others.
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Plus I had lots of friends who cared deeply about what they ate and drank and also put on their skin, making sure it was organic or meat free and super healthy and that's when I first started learning about healthy eating and how to read an ingredient list.
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After leaving the fashion industry I worked in several jobs before finding a niche in store design information working with companies like M&S and Waterstones.
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Between jobs I also spent six months delivering boats in the Caribbean - which sounds much more glamorous than it was - but we did have a lot of fun and great food!
Becoming a mother wasn't easy
I was 43 when Sofia was born. And I was single, so trying to work at home from when she was a few months old we were both severely sleep deprived. I was told by doctors, nurses and health visitors just to keep lying her on her back and eventually she would sleep for more than 15 minutes at a time, but she didn’t.
One night while she was lying next to me I realised she was stopping breathing! After several trips to A&E and pediatricians she was prescribed strong medication for silent reflux which she remained on until she was about three.
Dr Google frightened me but
I had to keep reading and researching to learn how to make life more comfortable for my daughter.
I read stories about children with un-diagnosed reflux who became food phobic and could only eat through a feeding tube. Or children who only eat white food, such as pizza, bread, chips - carbohydrate loaded food that tends to “stay down”.
I was determined to make sure Sofia got better and loved food as much as me and her chef father.
When she said "I don't eat vegetables"
I realised I needed to educate Sofia in a more proactive way and give her the tools to resist the peer pressure she's listening to at school. And yes she does eat most vegetables and fruit apart from mushrooms which my mother told her are too slimey!
As soon as kids start school they are discussing what they like and don't like and choosing what they eat for lunch so we discuss what food makes her feel fuller longer and what she likes and any new food she has tried.
Eat Pray Love
One of my favourite food memories with Sofia is that when we were in Naples we visited L'Antica Pizzeria Michele. It's the pizzeria where Julia Roberts's character ate Margherita pizza in the film of Elizabeth Gilbert's memoir Eat Pray Love.
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Pizza is very important to us as Sofia's grandfather was one of the founders of Pizza Express.
