Location: United Kingdom
Profession: Health Care Worker
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About
My favourite way to eat bread is with friends and also for breakfast, better still for breakfast with friends and family
And depending on the time of day add some nice butter, homemade jam or marmalade, olive oil cheese ...... need i carry on
My Work
I am based in London, and luckily for me I have some wonderful bakeries very close to me, so I have been spoilt for choice, to be honest I'd rather not eat bread if it is tasteless, and having said that it has been a bit of a journey for me, I started off with a bread making machine because I had B&B guests staying with me, and I wanted to make there breakfasts special, breakfast has always been the highlight of my day. I was always disappointed at how tasteless the bread was, for a while I could get lovely flour at my local farmers market, when that stopped i moved on to burying bread from one of the other stalls.
Make the leap from B&B to my Chinese Medicine practice, which is my primary job, food makes our Qi, Qi is the spark of life, it's our vitality, an expression of our inner self, you could say our mojo. How we digest our food to make Qi is a vital key, you have to start somewhere and I choose to start with good bread to not only to enjoy with all types of food, also to share amongst your community.
Passionate about Baking as Lifestyle Medicine
My TCM practice is predominantly working with women, and fertility, but not only women and not only fertility, it does not take much for me to be able to expand and explain my practice model out to share how interconnected our bodies are, if we look after our hormones, our digestion can do it's best work, which helps our circulation, nourishes our muscles and bones, and at the end of the day, help us to sleep well. It is a balance of Yin and Yang, if yin is in balance we can sleep well, the body is encased in a cool protective cloak while the yang internally prepares us for the cumming day, In the day time the opposite happens, our Yang energy is our get up and go, it is the fire of life.
Yin and Yang are the cycle of life, which is nourished by the food we eat and how we eat.
My Community
Within TCM we have a dietary medicine aspect, we also have Yangshen meaning The nourishment of life, the principles of Yangsheng are very similar to those of Vanessa's Baking s Lifestyle Medicine, which means BALM fits very neatly into my practice, they mirror my values, it also gives me a wonderful opportunity to talk more about how and what to eat.
How I use BALM Protocol
I love to cook, eat, host and share all things food, it would be wonderful once I have made inroads into mastering the art of baking to help others experience the joys of baking with my.
