About Me
I didn’t choose ancestral medicine because it was fashionable. I returned to it because I realised it shapes not just a single life, but whole generations.
My own ancestry runs through artists, classical singers, barristers, naturopaths, herbalists, and a royal midwife. I moved away from family traditions to study modern medicine, a very different avenue from my ancestors‘ "outdated" traditional healing wisdom. After all, penicillin and inoculations were still fairly new when I was growing up and it seemed that, in that brave new world emerging after WWII, this modern medicine had all the answers to the world’s ills. Only I eventually discovered that, for me, it didn’t.
After years of my own searching, I came full circle — back to the royal herbal on my great-grandmother’s shelf, back to remedies rooted in earth and food. For three decades now I’ve practised naturopathy, researched, taught, and written, specialising in gut and behavioural health, and walking alongside families, practitioners, and seekers who want something more than symptom-management.
What I’ve learned is simple: when we reclaim our gut life — food, microbes, rhythms — we reclaim mood, immunity, and resilience. It’s time to stop waging war on our smallest kin and embrace germ welfare: the living partnership with the tiny allies that shape our vitality.
Fermenting Success – Fostering Resilience
Fermentation dissolves barriers. Across cultures, kitchens, even boardrooms, the same bubbling jars heal bodies, spark ideas, and reconnect families. Ferments lift mood, lighten outlook, and remind us that change can be as simple as a cabbage leaf and a little time.
That’s why I created Bubbling Life — to help people loosen the ailments, habits, and heaviness that keep them small. My work is equal parts guidance, coaching, and hands-on craft. What begins as sauerkraut on a chopping board often ends as confidence in a life once stuck.
Fermentation isn’t just food. It’s a pattern for living, creating, and thriving.
Cheap food is expensive food. It offers no value for money and is a main contributor to ill health, obesity and behavioural issues.
Elle Fox
Mentor-hip
Over years of teaching, lecturing, writing, and listening, one truth kept returning: people grow best when their gut is at ease. Call it biology, call it instinct — a settled belly makes space for learning, resilience, and creativity.
So yes, I mentor entrepreneurs, students, practitioners, and seekers. But I also show them how to make bubbles and fizz. Because fermentation is more than jars — it’s a rehearsal for courage. It shows you that change is alive, messy, and ultimately nourishing.
Mentoring, microbes, and medicine: they all belong together.
Charity Work
I count it a privilege to stand with Plaw Hatch and Tablehurst, our biodynamic farms in Forest Row. These places grow food the way it was always meant to be grown — alive, sustaining, rooted in respect for land, animal, and community.
Through my fermentation workshops I’ve raised funds for Tablehurst’s straw-bale eco-house and Plaw Hatch’s Young Farmer Apprentice Scheme. Every class bubbles with more than jars: it helps keep these farms thriving for the generations ahead.
When you learn fermentation with me, you’re also nourishing the soil that feeds us all.
Why Biodynamic Farming?
Working with Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch has shown me the cost of food stripped of life — and the power of food grown in rhythm with earth and season. Biodynamic farming doesn’t just produce vegetables and milk; it produces vitality, community, and hope.
Fermented foods have carried that vitality into my own family and practice. The microbes they hold shape mood, resilience, and even the stories we tell ourselves. Protect them, and they will protect you.
My naturopathic work always circles back here: to the vitality of local food, to fermentation as medicine, and to practices that refuse the hollow promise of processed convenience. This is how I live, and it is what I invite you to taste for yourself.
Some of the Things I Love
Health Mentoring & Coaching
Knowledge only matters if it sparks change. I love helping people find clarity, rhythm, and practices that actually work in the grit of daily life.
GAPS Health
Trained by Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride, I’ve walked alongside families and individuals through gut and gut-brain healing using GAPS nutrition and functional insight.
Biodynamics
To me, biodynamic farming is the quiet revolution: food that honours land and body alike. Having served as Director of the cooperative that owns Tablehurst and Plaw Hatch for over 15 years has deepened that commitment.
Weston A. Price Principles
Dr Weston Price’s explorations into ancestral diets still resound. His work reminds us that food is more than fuel — it is memory, structure, and legacy.