With a name like ' Sea ger', I guess it was always predestined that I would be a child of the tide. My mum made sure that my early years were spent running carefree on the beaches of her native North Devon, surfing the waves and sand dunes with our wooden belly boards until our thighs were worn red raw against the grain and our backs browned by the sun. Without those early memories and the strong connection to the heartbeat of the Atlantic, I don't think I would have survived the coming...

It was way back in 2001 that I first did an aromatherapy course. I'd been undergoing a really traumatic divorce which had left me feeling lost and making all the wrong choices. Just at the point that my body was going to give up on me, I went for a massage treatment with a young beauty therapist that was embarking on an aromatherapy course and suggested I be her training 'body' to practise on. In truth, those treatments saved me and opened my eyes to the power of Nature as a healer when we...

I don't know about you, but my world seems to consist of a daily onslaught of buzzing technology, deadlines and a hectic, fast-paced online reality. It's exhausting isn't it. We can never keep up. And yet, amidst all this stress, maniac wars and cortisol driving complications, I've notices that people are turning to Nature and rediscovering a profound healing power that has long since been forgotten. And I've experienced this power firsthand. I first became interested in nutrition when I...