Well, it's been quite a year for the Wellness Hub! A year of many firsts and highlights!

• We hosted our first Wellness Weekend at the stunning Ardmay House in Arrochar, and our first Christmas lunch at Soul Food Kitchen, both joyful events, and opportunities to meet up with like minded people and make new friends! 

• Our group is going from strength to strength, with over 200 members, all learning how to make better choices for our health!

• On a personal level, it's been a year of being seen, being authentic, being vulnerable and working through my own stuff.

• Another year round the sun, in excellent health, which I know is not down to luck, chance, or genetics, but to the choices I make every day, with my wee gut buddies in mind! 

Life is full of challenges, no one escapes, but it's about progress, not perfection! 

I was thinking about the usual New Year resolutions, and how most of us are constantly trying to improve various aspects of ourselves and mostly falling short of our expectations, then falling back into our old ways and habits and beating ourselves up for it! My realisation is that we are constantly changing, our wee precious gut microbes are in a constant state of flux, depending on what we eat and drink, our stress levels, exercise, relationships, happiness & purpose. We literally are our gut microbes and I know that I am the best version of myself when I nurture and feed my wee army of gut buddies! 

Happiness is freshly baked sourdough, made with organic flour, love and patience; it’s a fridge full of ferments in all the colours of the rainbow,the rocket fuel for the good guys, sending in reinforcements to join our gut army! Knowledge is power, and making informed choices for our health is what The Wellness Hub is all about, and they are delicious choices!! 

So as 2024 fast approaches, I will continue to nurture my many wee gut buddies, my best pals, in the knowledge that they have my best interests at heart, it's a symbiotic relationship, and the most important one, all of us, will ever have!! I encourage you all to do the same.

I had some new professional photos taken this year, which just capture the joy my various ferments bring me, this is the authentic me, the best version of me. It's taken me many years to find her, but she is here to stay!! It’s never too late to make changes; we are the curators of our thoughts and lives so be selective and don’t settle!

My wish for everyone is to also find their authentic selves, to realise that we all have the power to live life on our own terms, to overcome challenges, to age well, and to realise that all of it starts and ends with our wee gut microbes! 

Wishing everyone good health and happiness in the coming year! 

In good health,

Janice x

Join us over on the Wellness Hub for exclusive access to tickets for our January guided Gut Reset with medical herbalist Lucie Bradley.