17/01/2026
2016 ✨
Jumping on the 2016 trend and wow!
2016 was a lifetime ago.
We started the year settling on our first house purchase, moving into this new home with 2yo daughter, Ava and our 3yo ginger cat, Skittles. I was a SAHM by day and emergency nurse by night. My camera roll was 90% kids and 10% cat. Almost no photos of myself or my personal interests/hobbies 🤣 you know that time when you loose yourself!
There was a constant background noise, an elephant in the room… Ava had been struggling with eczema and environmental sensitivities since 5mths old. The severity fluctuated from hospital admissions requiring full body bandages, waking up to blood stained sheets from skin lacerations self inflicted in her sleep, people stopping in the street to ask me if my baby had survived a fire!! (Not even joking)… to moments of serenity and calm and relief from all of the above! It wasn’t always a total battle, but the constant fear and exhaustion that came from mothering under those conditions took its toll on all of us.
I spent countless hours researching and then driving across the city searching for a solution. A remedy. Something that wasn’t from the pharmaceutical industry. I had told myself that this was the only way.
I spiralled. Hard.
Through it all, Ava quietly consented and endured. She seemed to have a deeper understanding. She would comfort ME! My goodness. Makes me cry now just thinking about it. She would check on me, telling me ‘mummy it’s ok!’ 🤍
It took me years to fully appreciate this journey. The lessons and the gifts.
It’s crazy to think that 2016 was so long ago but also seems like yesterday. So much has changed and back then I had no idea I’d be doing what I’m doing now.
Whilst there is plenty I would change, I have a beautiful cluster of memories from 2016 that helped strengthen my foundations, life experiences that make me the woman I am today. A gift that helps me to help others.
**I forgot to mention in the slides - the biggest breakthrough in recent years came after biomagnetic pairing therapy with Jan . That’s when so much changed for us. Like an emotional fog lifted.
#2016
