“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” forms my foundation as a nutrition and healthcare professional. I blend science, psychology, and spirituality to create transformational healing that addresses the root causes of dietary-related diseases.
My career bridges two worlds: as a former biology teacher, SENCO, and Head of Year, I witnessed how dietary choices profoundly affect students’ learning, engagement, and potential. This insight drove me to leave teaching in 2020 to become a nutritionist, aiming to create meaningful change in education systems.
While pursuing my MSc at Surrey, I volunteered with a council initiative teaching healthy eating to overweight children and their parents. This dual-level approach fostered sustainable transformation, targeting childhood obesity in underserved communities.
My personal journey as a GB triathlete and swimmer, followed by recovery from an eating disorder, gave me firsthand understanding of food-body relationship challenges. Through intuitive eating, I learned to counter damaging diet culture narratives.
The UK faces a metabolic disease pandemic—obesity, fatty liver disease, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes—all preventable and reversible through education and lifestyle changes. I advocate a whole food approach that rejects restrictive mindsets, rewires unhealthy narratives around body image and food, and restores gut health to rebalance body and mind.
I believe deeply in the power of Lifestyle First to transform education at all levels. By combining my teaching expertise with nutritional knowledge, I’m positioned to empower informed choices that can create game-changing impact for generations to come.