What happens when you connect to your life purpose? Well when I started following my dream of being a nutritionist and helping people to transform their health, a series of coincidences took place.
Ever since I visited the nutritionist in the midst of my illness in July 2010 I wanted to do that job. At one point I looked online for courses and came across the CNM Nutrition Diploma course. It looked amazing because it incorporated the mind, body, spirit link and naturopathic treatments into the course! Just my kind of holistic approach! I enquired but did not enrol because I thought I would not be able to afford to find the money to do the course as I was only working part-time. So I put my dreams to one side and carried on with my average life.
Then I met a man at Vegfest in Hove. We discovered that we had the same passion for using diet to cure illness and lived in the same town! He invited me over to his house for lunch and we started spending a lot of time together. We became close and one evening driving back from his Mum’s house in Deal, Kent he said to me “Kate you are stuck in a rut in your job. What do you want to do with your life?” So I told him I wanted to be a nutritionist. He said when we got back, we would have a look at courses online. So the next day we had a look and he saw the CNM course and said that looks good and it is very near to where you live.
So I booked an open day online and we went along together. As soon as I was there I instinctively knew this was right for me and what I wanted to do. I had no doubts in my mind. When they mentioned the course fee I felt anxious. How am I going to find the money to fund the course? I was panicking in the car journey home. He was reassuring me that I would find the money and everything would work out ok. So the next day I checked my bank account and discovered I had just enough in savings for the first year of the course if I used my credit card as well! The first year was starting that weekend! So I paid over the phone there and then on the Thursday and enrolled in the course! If it wasn’t for a push from him, I never would have joined the course. People come into your life to help you move forward on your path.
A few months after enrolling on the course, I felt the need to break up with him, as I didn’t have time to study and spend all my spare time with him. It was too much. Also there was a huge age gap between us. I’m glad he came into my life, but it wasn’t right for me.
So as I now had a lot more time on my hands, I began a regime of meditating for 15 minutes every morning which is excellent for oxygenating the body, releasing tension in the muscles and relaxing the mind. One morning, in a meditative state after the meditation I created a blog. It’s like an outside force was guiding me forward. It had been on mind for at least a week and I had been thinking of names. So I created Kate’s Inspired Cooking on 11th April 2014!
Blogging has brought so much joy and creativity into my life! I have learnt how to take good photographs and write inspiring articles! I love cooking and have done for years! So now every time I make a new recipe, I type it into Word and take some photos of the finished product! It is joy to connect with lovely people from all over the world through the WordPress.com reader! And now, after 3 months of blogging, I am grateful to have over 150 followers and growing!
It is important to me to connect with people with ME/CFS. I seek out ME sufferers and share my story with them so they know they are not alone. When I was ill I felt completely alone and misunderstood. Unsupported by doctors and deserted by so called “friends”. I feel it is part of my life purpose to give hope to people with ME.
The important point on my journey was in July when I read an article in the CNM newsletter about the director of CNM who had used homeopathy to recover from the chronic pain after having an operation on his fingers which he accidentally cut off working in industry. At the end of the article they mentioned, “If you have an interesting story of using natural remedies to recover from illness, please contact our PR department.” So I emailed them with the link to My Story on my blog. A couple of weeks later they got back to me saying they would like to publish my story across their platforms! So I answered their questions and await to see the final version online!
Shortly afterwards, they contacted me saying that What Doctors Don’t Tell You magazine is looking for interesting health recovery stories and can they put my name forward. I immediately said “Yes!” and not long after I received a phone call from the editor of the magazine saying he would like to put my story in the magazine! I was over the moon! It means that my story can be spread worldwide and reach many readers of the magazine who have the so called incurable illness ME. The next morning we scheduled a phone interview and I told him the details of what happened during my period of illness. He was a lovely guy and so understanding and on my wavelength in terms of views on the health system. So we ended the call as I had to go to work in my part-time admin job. After arriving, the photographer called and we arranged a date for the photo shoot! I was so excited!
So here I am, having returned from the photo shoot earlier today, awe struck to have met the amazing photographer John Clement who has photographed Stephen Fry, Jo Brand and Rachel Stevens among others! He is going to email me some of the photos and article will be published in several weeks! I am so grateful for these amazing opportunities that keep coming my way! This is what happens when you connect to your life purpose! The journey continues from here…
Wow! Your story is SUCH an inspiration to me!!! 😀 My dream is the same as yours and learning of your recovery and how you are making you’re dreams come true, is just so incredibly motivating! When will your article be published? Can’t wait to read it! It must have been so much fun having a photoshoot! 🙂 xxx
I’m so happy to have inspired you! 🙂 That’s the reason I started my blog! Yeah we have so much in common! When are you starting the nutrition course? 🙂 Not sure when the article will be published, it’s up to the designer. Hopefully next month! I get excited every time a new issue is released and go to the shops to read it! Yeah it was really fun having a photoshoot, although my face ached from smiling so much afterwards he he! We went to a park with great scenery and the photographer had so many interesting stories to tell. 🙂 xxx
Teehee! Aw! Nothing beats having a sore face from smiling, sounds like it was a blast! 😀 I can’t wait to read your article! 😀 I’m hoping to start the course in October and I’m SO excited!! I’ve got my interview on Thursday though and I’m kinda nervous! Not sure whether to expect something formal or not, might they tell me they don’t want me?! Haha! I hope not!! What was your interview like? *hugs* xxx
I’m so excited about the article! 😀 Can’t wait to read it as well! I’m starting my first year of nutrition in October. Can’t wait to learn all about nutrition and do observations in clinic with real patients! I didn’t have an interview. I just went to the open day and sat and watched the talk, then afterwards had a casual chat with the speaker. A few people had proper interviews while I was there, I think it is just an opportunity to ask questions. Don’t worry they won’t turn you down! They are paid to sign up as many people as possible! xxx
*hugs* Thank you for putting my mind at rest! 🙂 Hopefully it’ll all go well, I’ve just been filling in the application forms! 😀 Ohh! Yes! Working with real patients is going to be so much fun!! Can’t wait to get stuck into the course, I love that I’ve met you and you’re doing it too! 😀 xxx
Hey Kate! Just wanted to let you know, my interview yesterday went SO well! I spent ages fretting about the questions they might ask me, and they didn’t ask me any at all! She just wanted to know if I had any to ask! I mentioned that I’d met you and you’re doing the course too, and the lady got SUPER excited and got me to write your name down! I hope that was okay! Haha! My mouth tends to run away with me when I get nervous! xx
Hey Chrissy! I’m glad your interview went well! Yes the course consultants are very nice and helpful. That’s ok! I hope you could spell my surname haha! I wonder if she will contact me? Yay it’s so great that we met each other and we are doing the course together and we can help each other and follow each others journeys to becoming a nutritional therapist! 🙂 xxx
Haha! I hope I spelt your surname right, did you hear anything from them yet? I saw their email about them giving referrers an £100 reward – you should totally get one! Hehe! 😀 I’m super excited we’re both doing the course, I really can’t wait to begin!! xx
No I haven’t heard from them yet! It is funny you should mention this. I was just speaking to CNM’s PR lady as they featured me in the CNM public enewsletter which went out yesterday and I will be in the CNM student & graduate enewsletter going out tonight! I told her that you mentioned my name and she said I have to fill out the ambassador form. Can I have your details so I can fill it out? I’ll contact you on facebook. Thank you so much for mentioning me! 🙂 Yes I think you will love the course! I can’t wait for it to restart! Shame we don’t go to the same college! 🙂 xx