Ep. 244 – How are you – really? with Alka Tiessink
Alka was diagnosed ‘severely depressed’ by her GP.
Instead of taking medication, Alka chose to eat whole foods, flooding her body with nutrients which kicked off her journey to wellness.
She knows how detrimental a diagnosis can be and she’s passionate for us to know that we aren’t our diagnosis.
We can find the person we’ve always been, and we can have fun again – just like we did when we were kids.
Be inspired xo
At age 28 Alka was “diagnosed” with severe depression. Against advice of her GP she didn’t start medication but decided to find other ways of healing. What this would be, she had no idea.
A year prior she’d read a study on the intake fruit and vegetables and how it influences our mental health. She felt like she was on a crossroads of having to start taking medication, or use food as medicine.
She chose to commit to a wholefood plant based diet in hopes of healing herself. Within a short period of time she started to feel better and her GP declared her “not depressed anymore”.
This experience has put Alka on the path of helping and supporting others who are going through physical and mental health issues and want to get to the root of the problem instead of slapping on medication like it’s a band-aid.
Having studied both Psychology (bsc) and Integrative Nutrition Health Coaching, she has the precise skills and experience to help others who are going through their own health struggles.
As a coach she has helped women take charge of their own health and healing.
“Most disease come from an unhealthy lifestyle so that’s where we need to look first, to start the healing process”.
To find out more about Alka, come over here:
- Website: Alka Tiessink
- Instagram: Alka Ties
- Facebook: Alka Tiessink
- Facebook: Coaching with Alka
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