I wish to empower First Responders to nourish their mind, body and spirit by adopting a holistic approach to the prevention and treatment of PTSD.
I want to empower them to take control of their emotional and physical health for the better, inspire them to choose the best version of their life and support them on their path to finding their true self again, beneath the fog that becomes the reality within their area of expertise.
First Responders have partners, children, family and friends. I know, first hand, how hard it is to be that person to someone who serves their community or country and the toll it can take physically and emotionally. These special people need to be nourished. This is a place for them to discover how to do this, see they are not alone and pick up some tips and tricks to support themselves and their loved one/s.
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Entertaining
If you are having some friends around for an occasion, you will impress with these recipes. They have been selected personally by me because they are fast, simple and taste AMAZING! I have chosen them because they are also so … Read More
Hey Stress, What’s up? by Kat.B
If you don’t ever feel stressed, there is no need for you to be here, (but first please PM me your secret) …. if you regularly feel yourself ‘stressing out’ then keep reading as you might find this little blog … Read More
Beck’s Bath Salts
1x cup Epsom salts 1x cup of Bi-Carb Soda 6-8 drops of doTERRA Lavender Essential Oil (I like mine strong:) – Put in all in a bowl and mix the shit outta it! Do it with your hands – its … Read More
Get Wet & Release!
I don’t know about you, but one of the only times I actually get to stop and be one my own, is if I’m in a bath or having a shower. Don’t get me wrong, the fam do come and … Read More
OnGuard Body Scrub
1 x cup of white or brown sugar 1/4 cup of fractionated coconut oil 10 drops of doTERRA OnGuard Essential Oil Blend Put in all in a bowl and mix the shit outta it! Do it with your hands – … Read More
Blaire’s Old School Peppermint Patties
Blaire is one of my Oil Loving Mummas who incorporates the use of the doTERRA essential oils into her everyday cooking and cleaning to reduce the free radicals her little ones come into contact with. A couple of months back, … Read More
My Tie Dye Kid & How We Support Him.
I used to wonder if he was the way he was because of the way I was feeling when I was pregnant with him and then the person I had grown into once he was born. There was many-a-night I … Read More
100 Ways to use doTERRA’s Top 10 Oils & Blends
These are just some of the things that I use the oils in my doTERRA Home Essentials Kit for. The Home Essentials Kit contains the top 10 oils. Place 4 drops in your diffuser 15 minutes before bedtime, and let … Read More
I say it best when I say nothing at all…
So, I have spent the last couple of weeks trying to think of something awe inspiring to write my first piece on. I want it to be AMAZING! I want it to be exactly what you want to read. After … Read More
About Me
I am the woman behind Nourished Forces. I am a Blogger (as of now), A First Responder, A Public Speaker & an Advocate for a Holistic Approach to PTSD. I am the Mum to two lovable boys under 10 and the wife of 12 years to my amazing husband who has the patience of a saint and the heart of a lion.
In 2016, I took a 7 month break away from my career to ‘Find myself’. (It sounds like a cliché from a reality TV show, but it is the only way to explain it.) I had worked in a hierarchy organisation for 15 years where over time, without realising, it had eaten my soul and left nothing but a shell of the person I once was. I had become toxified by the things I had seen, the things I had experienced and the culture I had been consumed by. Sound familiar?
I had been beaten trying to juggle shift work, career pressures, workplace politics and my family’s needs. Sleep was something I did sometimes when I could and the thought of actually falling asleep scared me- because the demons you have whilst awake follow you into your dreams, as many of us know.
My encounters and feelings cast a shadow upon my everyday life and how I perceived the world. It was effecting my friendships and how I interacted with both people I knew, and strangers to whom I was a toxic, dominating bitch constantly seeking confrontation. I hated people, I hated work and worst of all I hated myself.
My children and husband were getting nothing but a negative, sad, irrational person with severe anger management issues residing with them. I was not emotionally available to anyone and was happy to spend my time alone where I would stew on things I wasn’t happy about, cry or make myself ‘mind-numb’- escaping reality on social media. This was not the confident, strong, smart, empowered woman my husband married and this was not the mother I imagined being to my children before we chose to bring them into this world. I could continue as I was and go down the path many had before me, or I could take action and sort my shit out.
I made the choice to sort my shit out. Over the next months, I spent a lot of time reflecting on who I was, what I wanted from life and how I intended to get it. The reason I started my career originally was simply ‘to help people’ and over the years, I had lost that focus in the fog that had become my reality.
After spending 7 months learning how to nourish my mind, body and spirit and going on to do and practice exactly that, I returned to the workplace and am actually happy to be there now. I enjoy what I am doing and funny enough, I actually like people again. I can see a future that is not all drama surrounded by negative thoughts and it’s empowering to know I did this for myself.
After failing to find ANY positive support services available, which were specific to my needs and career, that could actually support me to nourish my mind, body and spirit and strip away the layers of negativity, sadness and anger I was holding onto, I decided to start my own…and Nourished Forces was born.
I want to help others get through the fog of their reality, sort their shit out and see a future where they don’t have to be the stereotypes we all know so well…‘damaged’, ‘broken’, ‘head noises’. No one tells you that you CAN turn it around, they are all too busy avoiding you, scared that if they make eye contact they may catch it too, or even worse trying to shuffle you out the back door like a secret shame. No one tells you it can be a happy and a positive future. IT CAN. It is hard work and its doing things that may be outside your comfort zone- but it works!
I empathise with how you feel because I too have been there. I still have my challenges daily, but I approach them differently now and they don’t consume me or my world. I know what you are experiencing and I want to help you nourish yourself so you can come through it and find yourself again.
I’m proud to say 15 years on that I still ‘help people’, but now I also get the ultimate pleasure of helping my fellow First Responders release that which no longer serves them. And that nourishes my soul!