That’s when I started to look at other ways of healing. I looked at diet and acupuncture and they both changed my life. I was astonished at how much difference diet made to my pain levels and angry that no one had ever told me about the relationship between my health and my diet. I mean, like everyone else, I knew that having a good enough diet is important but I had never realized the immense power food has over our physical and mental health. Acupuncture helped me too for the endometriosis side of things but, most importantly, I discovered that it didn’t just helped with my gynaecological symptoms but also with a lot of other things, seemingly unrelated, such as deep tiredness and stress. It’s my overall health and wellbeing that improved, not just the pain. And so started my journey as a Chinese medicine practitioner. I am now a qualified Chinese Medicine practitioner and acupuncturist and a member of the British Acupuncture Council (BAcC). I trained at the Northern College of Acupuncture in York at master degree level and, since my graduation, I have carried on doing some more specific courses to deepen my knowledge.
