Healing Diet Graduate – Abigail Saunders

Abigail is a Natural Physician student and has just graduated the Healing Diets Coach Diploma part of her studies! Here she shares a little of her inspiration to study natural medicine and her experience with her Healing Diets studies

From a young age I have been surrounded by nature and the power of natural remedies. My mother was, and still is, keen to heal and use natural products to improve our wellbeing, and being surrounded by this pulled my own interest towards natural medicine.

Growing up surrounded by an older family who were constantly occupied with some sort of health condition really opened by eyes to how our modern day medicines don’t always cure the problem. Too often, they only soothe the symptoms, or keep them at a minimum, while also experiencing new side effects as a result of taking the medications. Ever since a young age this felt wrong and I knew I wanted to do something about it. It was a cycle I couldn’t bear to keep watching and not do anything about.

Becoming a Healing Diets Coach was a very exciting time. Going through the course and learning so much was transformative not just for increasing my knowledge but also for my own self growth and self-discovery journey too. The more I learnt through the course, the deeper my connection to food and Mother Earth deepened, especially as I accompanied my own rituals with new ones I was discovering.

Throughout the course, my mum was always interested in what I was learning and offered herself up many times as a very willing guinea pig to try new things out with me! This was interesting as we are each unique and it was great to experience how my body responded and then be able to compare to her own experiences.

As a recent graduate, I have many ideas brewing as to what next and am very excited as to where this path will take me. Meanwhile, I am continuing my Natural Physician journey with School of Natural Medicine with my Herbal Medicine studies!