My name is Joanna White. I am a 35 year old single mum who has this year transitioned into a plant-based lifestyle after battling food addiction my entire life.

In my 20s I lived a very toxic lifestyle was navigating chronic illness and disease through binge eating and drinking. I had extremely poor and low self-esteem, had no idea who I was or where I was going in life and became an absolute shell of myself. This then led to me making poor choices with my behaviours and relationships. Then when I became a mum after years of being told I was infertile I knew something had to change. I had to change.

Fast forwards to who I am now 6 years later I have changed my lifestyle which did not happen over night.

Firstly it started with going to therapy and studying mindfulness and grounding. Then it led me to change my eating habits and sleep routine. Then 2 years ago I joined a gym and that is where everything levelled up.

Now at 35 I have lost 10 stone, changed my entire lifestyle, began reversing illnesses and disease that once took over my life. Seizure's and severe depression being 2 things I have changed. I have now been seizure free for over a year. I am medication free after previously being on 7 different lots of prescribed medication a day. I made the informed choice to heal myself holistically and since then I have never looked back.

After finding out in my 30s I had Complex PTSD, ADHD and Autism, I decided that I was not going to be another human guinea pig medicated for the rest of my life. I now manage all my conditions the way our ancestors originally taught us too.