Ever wonder whether natural therapies, a different diet and or supplements would help you achieve optimal health but you’re not sure where to start? You’re not alone. Antonietta has been researching natural therapies for over 30 years and she knows how confusing it all is. Lucky for you Antonietta is committed to helping people find their best paths to healing; in just a few sessions Antonietta will help you identify the healing systems that will work best for you and your lifestyle.

Health Mentoring at Health By The Bay is ‘all about you’ because for Antonietta there is no other way. Antonietta will help you identify your needs, ideas and beliefs as they relate to health. From there you can evaluate which natural health approach is most likely to work for you. This service is also available on-line, as small group or workshop.

Why is Antonietta qualified to do this?

Having recovered from a chronic illness that required Antonietta to leave full time work some 10 years ago, Antonietta is familiar with how confusing, demoralising and exhausting it is to try and figure a path through chronic illness – even for a practitioner. She can now see she had so many conflicting demands, ideas and needs all vying for attention. So trying to get clear enough to make decisions about the best way through her illness FOR HER (and not her well-meaning mother, sister, friend, advisers etc) was nearly impossible. She now sees her clients wresting with the same dilemmas.“Isn’t it funny how everyone has an opinion about how you ‘should be’ managing your health, kind of like how people (sometimes strangers even) think they know how you should manage YOUR kids, relationship, family etc”.

Equally, Antonietta learned, over time, how to evaluate and use other modalities to facilitate her recovery. One of her motto’s is “no one system is all things to all people”. The art is to make an educated decision about which ones to use and when to combine them. This is especially important because most of us are working with finite time, energy and resources.

Having been there, Antonietta knows what it’s like to deal with:

• the mountain of conflicting information
• limited time to research
• not really knowing what other modalities offer
• trying to find something that fits YOU rather than everyone else’s idea of what will work for you (… because it has worked for them, or their neighbour, or their neighbours cat, or their cousin.. you get the idea…).

We all know lots of modalities make huge claims and, on the face of it, seem to work for different people. But why does a specific modality seem to work for some people and not for others? Again, we all know someone who swears by a given practitioner and they insist it will work for you too. So, after lots of badgering, you go to the practitioner in question, and well… it was OK… or perhaps it was completely unhelpful … or worse still… it might have been terrible. This does not make sense does it? If a modality works for one person it should work for everyone right? This question preoccupied Antonietta for a long time.

After much contemplation, discussion, reading and sleepless nights Antonietta concluded success in a given modality is not about the modality – it’s about the person. And so, when Antonietta is helping you choose the optimal system for you, Antonietta starts with you. In fact the whole decision making process is all about YOU; what your needs are, what you can cope with at a given point in time, what makes sense to you etc. If the key elements you need at that time are not present in the modality you are trying, then you are not likely to get the outcomes you want/need. So unless you are clear enough about your personal needs to be able to assess whether they will be met in a given modality your chances of success are patchy. It’s too much to leave to chance; this is your health and bank balance we are talking about.

So Antonietta has designed health mentoring sessions to help anyone decide what their health goals are and then to determine how to meet them, in a way that suits their current circumstances/needs/beliefs.

Some mottos:

“AT ALL COSTS increase choice, have fun and reduce all unnecessary chemicals & interference.”

“Life is way too cool to waste; just do it, go for it, play full out!”

With so much conflicting information around, it can be really difficult to know which ‘Natural Health Path’ to take, especially when you are recovering from a chronic illness. For example, you know you want to minimise the amount of drugs and interventions but you don’t know which complimentary system will help you achieve that – or even if it is possible. Or you might want to support your immune system while undergoing a specific treatment but the same questions apply. It’s important to make the best choices we can as most of us have finite time, energy and funds, we can’t afford (at any level) ‘just to try’ X or Y system.

Learn the differences and similarities between the major natural and complimentary health systems. Health Mentoring helps you decide which system will best suit your circumstances & needs. The health system you choose needs to be congruent with your view of your health. Take control, make better health choices. Learn more about you & choose the best healing option for your situation and needs… not your neighbour