You have featured some amazing practitioners on your page!
Its hard to know where to start…I guess from the beginning is a good place.
My name is Kristy Celoni and Ive been a clinical Naturopath for the past 10 years. Ive always been interested in natural health and whole foods. Growing up I was one of the few kids that didn’t want take away and never looked forward to a friends McDonalds birthday party. I didn’t like the way the food would make me feel. Ive always been sensitive to headaches and IBS and I learnt from a young age that food had a huge influence on my health.
As I grew up I was always turning to books (before the internet era!) for natural remedies to treat my grandparents various ailments. I was shocked at the array of pharmaceutical drugs they were taking, some purely to combat the side effects of another medication in their cabinet. Surely there was another alternative!
I was so excited when Naturopathy was offered at university, I never thought I could combine all of these passions and create a career out of it. I have now been working as a naturopath for over 10 years and I couldn’t imagine doing anything else. Ive worked in Mexico, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, constantly learning along the way. Over the years I have learnt so many things as a mother, as a person and as a practitioner that make me who I am today. Now that my feet are firmly on Australian soil, I am able to combine my love of healing, health and whole food cooking by working in my clinic in southern Sydney.
In my clinic I specialise in treating clients with digestive health issues (although digestive health is linked to so many other conditions – chronic fatigue, anxiety, depression, childhood behavioural disorders, immune). My whole program is based on the GAPS (Gut and Psychology Syndrome ) protocol. Once I discovered this diet, I felt as if it was the missing link in my treatment plans. It is not just an elimination diet but a protocol that includes whole foods that heal – bone broths, whole, unprocessed foods and foods containing natural probiotics. My aim is to achieve long term results, teaching clients how to take control of their health along the way. The program changes over time, allowing clients to gradually introduce certain foods and monitor their own reactions. This allows the client to be aware of what foods work and don’t work for them. This puts the power of good health back in their hands. Everyone has the ability to positively influence their health and I enjoy guiding people through that process. For those clients too tried to even face starting something new, as part of an introductory package I offer, I will cook up the first weeks worth of food in their own homes. This gives them a bit of a kick start and also teaches them how to prepare these types of meals in their own home.
I am also passionate about children’s health. The first few years of my children’s life was spent in Asia. They grew up drinking coconuts (before they were cool :-)), having fresh vegetables with every meal and many meals were made from home made stocks or broths. I was really shocked moving home to see the quantity of process foods on our shelves and particularly bothered by the food sold in school canteens. What concerned me the most was that the people worked in the canteens genuinely thought that they were doing the right thing. They were following the government guidelines after all. These big posters that show chocolate milk, blue slushies, processed nuggets and packet noodles are approved ‘foods’ for kids. These ‘foods’ meet guideline standards due to their reduced portion size, meaning that their fat and sugar content fit below the DAILY allowance (only just). What about the chemical content in the food, the fact that it highly processed, or its lack of nutritional value? School is a place of learning, shouldn’t that learning extend to the responsibility of making healthier food choices? What a great lesson to take into the outside world.
Food should be close to its natural source as possible. Processed food contains hidden sugars, fats and chemicals and very little nutrition (unless its been artificially added). Food should be fuel for their little bodies and every bite counts. We are living in a society that is overfed and under nourished, and this leads to a huge array of preventable health problems in childhood and later in life. Children should be eating whole foods, and encouraged to be involved in making healthy meals. I know families are busy and often time poor so I love creating recipes to share in order to demonstrate how easy it is to incorporate healthier food choices into their every day lives. Once people start to see how easy it is to prepare and the difference real food can make to their lives – there’s no going back.
Keep up the good work Pete!
Warm regards,
Kristy Celoni
Your Naturopathic Health
Healing from the inside out.
www.yournaturopathichealth.com.au
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