Where the Holistic Insight comes from... 

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Previous experiences:​

• I worked for a large health food retailer in my early career. For 10 years I taught and developed people from different backgrounds, ages and abilities to understand how the body works and how we can use natural remedies to improve health and wellbeing, as well as advising members of the public. I taught people how to advise on remedies such as herbal medicines, vitamins and minerals, health foods/nutrition, aromatherapy, skincare and sports/fitness/weight loss or gain. People were trained from having no previous experience or knowledge of the body or medicine, and over the course of 2 years, worked their way up to accredited A-level qualifications and were required to maintain qualified status through continuous and intensive training and development, including yearly examinations. In the job role, they were required to advise members of the public from day one in a busy retail environment, whilst they worked towards their qualifications, which required a lot of guidance and support. It was a hugely rewarding role and a very rich experience, which I still refer back to years later.

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• After completing my own degree in herbal medicine, I provided mentoring to some of the students who joined the degree in the following years (it's an extremely demanding medical degree!). It was this experience (as well as the events of 2020) which led me to set up an online school and create the Mind-body online course, as I could see the need for an accessible course which focuses on this aspect of health and wellbeing, and introduces herbalism to other therapists. I moved to Portugal later in 2020 with the intention to focus more of my energy towards teaching and connecting more deeply to nature. 

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Recent experiences:

• In 2023, I ran an 11 week Introduction to Herbalism course for teenagers. Two of the teenagers have continued to learn with me as they wanted to study more in-depth and so they have been gaining some practical skills and work experience, as herbal apprentices. 

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• In 2023 I decided to homeschool my daughter. Being holistically-minded, I see the huge importance in approaching education in this way and so I created a holistic homeschool system for my own daughter with this at the foundation of her education, inspired by popular holistic education methods such as those introduced by Waldorf, Steiner, Ferrier and Parker.

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• During the autumn/winter of 2023/24, with some help from my two impressive herbal apprentices, we created The Holistic Science School, with content based around the energies of the time of year. In the spring of 2024, we will be ready to welcome children age 7-12. 

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It is my absolute pleasure to be able to support individuals, families and the next generation in learning about what nature provides all around us, how to maintain good health and ultimately, live out those dreams!