Life outside of Business

1st: Thank you to my husband and partner of 30+ years. He allows me to do the things that I find fulfilling and I am grateful. Decisions that we make about how we live are based on what we want to do and what we need to do to accomplish our goals. It’s called lifestyle! What and how we eat is foundational.

We live in Florida with our 2 (rescued) cats. They eat a diet suited to felines and they enjoy looking at the the lizzards, snakes as well as the birds, butterflies and dragonflies that visit our garden - growing some tropical fruit trees, and a plentiful supply of culinary herbs.

I dance Ballroom and in order to be a Competition Dancer, I need to make time to put time in at the gym! I keep telling myself that it keeps me young.

And I make time to keep my herbs, vegetables and fruit trees in good condition so that we can enjoy incorporating them into our food. And the neighbors enjoy the overflow.

Why Nutrition Consulting now – actually 25+ years ago? I was a “good” nurse and I loved what  the Nursing Profession was back then. Things changed, so I changed my focus.

 Over the years I have faced my own health challenges. Looking back, I am grateful for being presented with those challenges. They helped to guide the direction of my current work. I was a good nurse: ate “well”, lots of exercise and a pretty stable life. So how did “medicine” fail to diagnose that I had PCOS (should have been obvious in my 20s)? Medicine decided that my best option (after 2 miscarriages) was to have a hysterectomy – at age 28! Then they said that life would be so much better without worrying about painful periods. It was, until a “routine” mammogram diagnosed breast cancer at age 40. It was at that point that I left nursing and made a decision to do something else. I took control of my life and actions: I declined medical advice of mastectomy and possible chemo and/or radiation. I asked to be monitored while I changed my diet and other lifestyle activities. It took 19 months before they could find nothing. Interesting thing: all my research into how I would get my life back was done in the hospital medical library! They were dusty books. In 1994 there was no internet to do a search. They keep checking but can’t find a diagnosis to pin on me. I am grateful!