Hi I’m katy. I am an English woman living in Lisbon, Portugal. I’m an embroiderer and have a fascination with all things food & healing. In 2020, I became very sick with an autoimmune issue, ptsd, leaky gut and an emotional overload after owning & working in very stressful hospitality environments. It left me unable to walk up hills, aching all over, I couldn’t lie or sit without my body feeling as though I was on a ship in bad weather, I had brain fog, and little energy. My heart would palpitate often and I was having severe anxiety and panic attacks.

My mood was so low some days I couldn’t imagine life as joyful anymore.

As someone who has always had an interest in Ayurvedic food principals and Chinese medicine I began to follow the protocols of both, focusing on my digestive system & gut health, often adding adaptogenic herbs and medicinal mushrooms to the mix. I never once went to a western doctor through any of this time, choosing holistic practitioners instead amd the understanding of my own healing abilities.

I noticed, as I had cut out sugar, gluten, meat, alcohol and coffee that I then became super sensitive to what felt good and what didn’t in my system. Certain foods, especially fermented ones, would help me have clarity, and for a short period I could imagine my life changing and things getting better. Eventually (it took two years), following a strict protocol, meditation, movement, positive thinking, time in nature, & working with psychedelics, I am now 100% better. In fact I am healthier than ever. My work now is to guide people to understanding their own healing power.

It also left me thinking about how women, especially, feel like they have to have it all, a career, children, marriage and yet by trying to have it all it leaves us depleted, stressed and sick. Is this what life is really about or have we been duped? I think by trying to have what society deems as ‘all’, means we lose something, love..love for ourselves, love for our bodies, love for our partner and not the time to fully love our children.

Lets work together to change the narrative.

All my LOVE

Katy