A little bit about me. My road to naturopathy.
After spending 10 years working in media, I left my job and moved from my hometown of Melbourne to Brisbane where my partners family is from. It was a big move and so many feelings I had been pushing down came bubbling up to the surface. That feeling of being a square peg in a round hole when it came to my career, seeing the trajectory of my life working for another large company doing a job I hated and feeling miserable. Preferring to spend my time researching yoga, natural health and nutrition than my chosen career path led me to make the decision to leave the corporate world , go back to uni full time and pursue my dream job. I was driven by the idea of being able to tell my son the story of how I was brave, followed my dreams and became a clinical naturopath, despite it being a long and hard road. I wanted my son to know he can grow up and do hard things, make shit happen and that anything is possible if you work hard and accept that while it might not happen over night, it can happen eventually.
I obviously still had to work while I studied (mortgage…life…adult responsibilities) but it was as though once I made the choice to go with the flow and stop forcing a life that wasn’t meant for me, the universe started delivering little gems to keeping me on track.
Fast forward 5.5 years, 41 subjects, 450 clinical hours, 500 million assignments and exams I finally finished my degree at the end of 2021 and it was such an incredible feeling. The sense of achievement but also the excitement and joy I feel when I’m working. I genuinely feel like I’m busting at the seams with joy, with ideas, with treatment options for clients, with new healthy recipes, with research. I love it all.
Even when I hit a very welcome study hiccup in the form of falling pregnant with my son, I continued on and chipped away at my degree. This meant even when I wasn’t moving forward at the speed I was used to, I was still making some kind of progress, and it’s this approach that gets the job done sometimes. Small steps also get you to where you want to go…..eventually.
What I know to be true, is the years will go by anyway. You might as well be working towards a goal that will get you closer to what you want to be doing with your life. It might not mean a huge career overhaul, but if you do have a passion, keep your day job and start exploring what this passion could lead to, how it translates for you. Who knows.
If you are wanting to make a career change, have any questions on what it’s like to study as a mature aged student, to do your yoga training or what it’s like studying a bachelor of health science, feel free to send me a message here! I am more than happy to have a chat with you about making a change.
And if you want to book a consultation with me, click here! At the moment I am seeing clients online or face to face in Samford.