Why I built neurowellness.one — and what I hope it does for you.

Some things take years to understand — and even longer to name.

Where it began

My grandparents had spacious land — large vineyards, sweetcorn crops, and most of their own vegetables. They preserved everything, lived sustainably, and cooked everything from scratch. As children, we ate what the garden and the seasons gave us — the table was always full of real flavours, real colour, real food. I didn't understand then how significant that was. I just knew it was good.

Moving to London changed all of that. Fifteen years in the creative industry — a full diary, a pace that felt purposeful because it never stopped, and a body quietly paying the price. I've written about what those years actually cost me, and what began to shift, in Why I stopped chasing symptoms and started listening to my nervous system.

Eleven years ago, I left London for Bedfordshire — and that move started a process I've written about in that same piece. But it also opened a question I hadn't thought to ask before:

what did I actually want my life, and my health, to look like?

The first turn

In February 2018, I travelled to Costa Rica for a yoga teacher training. I came back different. Not dramatically — quietly. I started to teach, I started to build my own yoga practice, meditation, exploring slow movements that supported my nervous system, I allowed more time to really tasted a slower paced of life. I started saying no to things that depleted me and yes to things that didn't. Something had shifted, and I wanted to honour it.

The second turn

In 2022, I completed the Health Coach Diploma at the CNM — College of Naturopathic Medicine. It gave me the scientific framework to understand what my body had already been telling me for years. What it clarified, above all, was this: what I had been moving towards intuitively was backed by evidence. And that I wanted to help other women find the same understanding.

Eighteen months ago

And then, several years later, I noticed something shifting again — and I want to be honest about what the early part of that looked like, because it wasn't easy.

I had the fog. The difficulty concentrating. Sitting at a screen for hours, trying to run my own business while my brain refused to cooperate — it was genuinely hard. I noticed it most on the days I spent entirely in nature: those days, I felt completely fine. Which told me something important about what my nervous system needed. But I couldn't be in nature every day. So I did what I always do when something isn't working: I researched.

I started with what was already in the garden. Sage contains phytoestrogens — plant compounds that can weakly mimic oestrogen in the body. I began making it as a tea during the worst of the hot flashes. It helped more than I expected.

Sleep was the next thing I addressed — and it turned out to be the most important. I committed to consistent sleep times and a minimum of 7.5 hours. The difference was significant and relatively quick. I also began looking seriously at supplements — mushroom supplements first, then a daily stack that now includes magnesium, B vitamins, omega-3 fish oils, zinc, and vitamin D. That deserves its own post, and I'll be sharing exactly what I take and why very soon.

Once I began supporting my body properly, something shifted. The fog lifted. And what came in its place surprised me entirely.

I became less interested in things that didn't matter and more interested in things that did. Less patient with situations that depleted me. More committed to people who genuinely nourished me. I think this is what perimenopause can be, when the nervous system is regulated enough to allow it:

Not a decline, but a distillation. The unnecessary falls away. What remains is what you actually are.

Ikaria

In 2024, and again in 2025, I run two yoga retreats & spent more time on the Greek island of Ikaria — one of the world's Blue Zones, where people routinely live past one hundred. What I found was simpler than I expected: homemade food made entirely from local ingredients, swimming every day, yoga, conversations that moved slowly, sleep that came easily. Ikarian way of life - slow and intentional.

This is not complicated. This is what the body needs.

What clarified the mission

And then something happened that made everything impossible to ignore.

My mother became unwell. She had been living with the early stages of dementia for a few years — still coping, just. And then she stopped coping. She ended up in hospital. And something in me broke open in a way I had not anticipated.

I know many of you will recognise this experience. A parent whose mind is slipping. The helplessness of watching someone you love struggle to hold onto themselves. The fear — because it is fear — of what ageing can take from a person.

What that experience gave me, beyond the grief of it, was a mission I had perhaps always been moving towards but had not yet named clearly.

What I believe

I believe we can do far more to protect our brains, our nervous systems, and our vitality as we age than most of us have been taught. Sleep, nutrition, rest, stress regulation, genuine human connection — these are not soft lifestyle suggestions. They are the most powerful preventive tools we have. I am not saying dementia can simply be prevented by eating well or sleeping better. Life is more complex than that. But:

How we live in our thirties, forties, and fifties has a profound effect on how we age — and we are not as powerless as we are sometimes led to believe.

What neurowellness.one is — and what I hope it does for you

neurowellness.one was born from all of this. From a childhood table full of real food. From returning to that way of living, again and again — through Costa Rica, through Ikaria, through my decade living in Bedfordshire - my home now, through the years in between. From my own journey through perimenopause. From watching what happens when a nervous system is depleted for too long without support.

women, at every stage of life, deserve to understand their own bodies — not just manage their symptoms.

It is about building the kind of foundation that means you have the resources to regulate, to nourish, to restore — and to age in a way that feels like living, not enduring.

I hope it gives you the knowledge to understand what your body is asking for. I hope it gives you the practices that bring you back to yourself when life pulls you away. And I hope that one day you feel what I felt when the fog began to lift: that you are not just well, but more yourself than you have been in years.

That is what this is all for.

I would love to be part of your journey — whatever that looks like for you. Whether you are just beginning to listen to your body, navigating a transition you didn't expect, or simply looking for someone who understands what it means to feel depleted and knows there is another way — I am here.

I hope neurowellness.one becomes a place you return to.