What if you don’t need more health advice, just a better way to understand what happens when you follow it?
Hello – I’m Jo.
I’m really glad you’ve found your way here.
This is a space for those of you who need to get healthy, but despite following good advice and doing all the right things, you don’t see the improvements that others enjoy.
I understand that emotional roller coaster of initial hope followed by questioning and doubting everything, including yourself, your body and the advice/products.
In many ways, I was the person I now write for.
My own health issues in my teens and twenties led me to natural health and, while I did eventually improve my health and go on to run my own clinic for over 20 years, I never found staying healthy (even with natural methods) straightforward.
I know first-hand what it feels like when being healthy doesn’t feel easy.
Over time, I began to notice something important.
Different people can follow the same healthy advice and experience completely different results.
My clients weren’t doing everything wrong.
They simply needed someone to help personalise the advice they were already following.
We’d make small adjustments, observe how their body responded, then adjust again if needed.
I noticed some people saw results very quickly. Others, myself included, needed a more individual approach. Their bodies simply needed something different from one-size-fits-all advice.
Back to Square One
Covid came – my little clinic closed – I caught covid and everything changed.
For over 20 years I had created my own menu of self-care that worked for my body and had allowed me to enjoy better health in my forties than I had in my twenties.
But covid changed all that. In fact, it seemed to have changed my body.
I felt like I was back to square one – none of my usual self-care worked. And when I researched other advice and tried it – I didn’t see the expected improvements.
I realised what I really missed wasn’t more health advice. It was the assessment process. The ability to observe, adjust and personalise. So I began creating a DIY version of the clinic process I’d used for over twenty years.
And that was how Make Self-Care Simple was created.
And I soon noticed something else.
My body wasn’t always the problem.
It was responding – to my life, stress, routines, and environment – and showing me the effect of it.
When I stopped trying to fix my body, and started paying attention to those responses, everything began to feel clearer.
I wasn’t guessing in the same way.
I wasn’t constantly starting over.
Even now, I’m still learning.
But today I understand my body far better than I did a few years ago, and that has completely changed how I approach self-care.
🌿 What I do now
Through Make Self-Care Simple, I share the same DIY assessment process that helped me stop guessing and start understanding what my body was telling me.
Instead of giving you another plan to follow, I’ll help you learn how to:
• recognise your body’s responses
• make sense of what’s changing
• personalise the healthy advice you’ve already chosen
• decide what to try next
Whether you’re just beginning your self-care journey or trying to make sense of years of confusing results, my hope is that you’ll feel more confident working with your body rather than constantly wondering what’s gone wrong.
Because understanding your body’s feedback can be just as important as the advice itself.
Following healthy advice is only the beginning