About Me
Hi! I’m Anneka. I’m a certified Health Coach and Nutritional Cook, and a member of the Association of Naturopathic Practitioners (mANP), supporting women as they navigate hormonal shifts, fertility journeys, postnatal challenges and perimenopause symptoms.
Becoming a mother in 2017, I found myself feeling disjointed and adrift, not quite finding my place in this new world of motherhood and feeling disconnected from my old life. Struggling to find my parental footing, whilst also balancing a career as a jewellery designer, making all the wrong nutritional choices and taking no time to listen to what my body really needed, I felt lost in the ether. Much like so many women before me, my perinatal experience had taken its toll on my body and mind.
Fast forward to 2020 and adding the birth of my second child, a global pandemic, and a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis to the mix, and I was drowning. I needed to reevaluate and restore balance, making my health a priority.
A creative to the core, I began to find a therapeutic outlet in the kitchen. Not wanting to rely solely on modern medicine to reduce the risk of an MS relapse, I became hooked on the healing powers of food & lifestyle. No stranger to a holistic approach to medicine- my mother, the embodiment of preventative medicine, was a GP-turned-Functional Medic, teaching me so much along the way- I realised that finding the root cause was in my blood.
Fast forward to the present day. I have studied Nutrition in Culinary (NTEC) at the renowned Leiths School of Food & Wine, qualified as a Health Coach at the prestigious College of Naturopathic Medicine, and I am currently studying Nutritional Therapy at CNM.
My story is far too common. Running on adrenaline and reaching burnout, not fuelling our bodies with the nutrients & lifestyle measures we really need to thrive. Women tend to suffer in silence, until we reach exhaustion, resulting in aches & pains, autoimmune disease, our mental health hanging in the balance. As a Health Coach, I am fuelled by a desire to help women feel at their most optimal, to guide & empower clients with their own boundaries, and take control. As a nutritional cook, I want to add the nutrients needed to help women thrive in this new chapter.
My focus is on restoring balance to your body & mind.
To support you in reaching achievable, sustainable & healthy nutritional & lifestyle goals.
