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THE DREAM! WORD BY VANESSA FINNIGAN
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aking with local, wholesome produce- the old-fashioned way, lights a primal spark in our hearts. It engages our senses, involves our mind, body and spirit and takes us on a meditative journey, connecting us with our ancestors and providing nourishment to the people we love. It’s a giving and receiving! And it’s easy to see why entrepreneur, and mum, Helen Marshall has taken this primitive yearning and community-centric model and made it into a successful business in Australia. Not only is she dynamic, smart and effervescent, she has a passion for wanting to make others feel good and she has been doing just that for the last five years with her business, ‘Primal Alternative’. Helen’s entrepreneurial flair was noticeable from an early age and at
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twelve years old growing up in the U.K, she started making friendship bracelets and hair scrunchies and selling them to her friends. She said while most of her ideas were great, they were not really taken seriously and so she had to wait until later in life to create the business of her dreams. But things didn’t show up in the way she thought they would. At the age of 37, Helen experienced a health crisis after years of suffering with sleep and digestive disturbances and agoraphobia which restricted her travel for ten years. She said, “I didn’t see the point in carrying on when I felt so bad and when I mentioned this to my husband he was very concerned.” He encouraged Helen to go to the doctors but after a variety of blood tests were conducted, they couldn’t find anything physically wrong with her. Then the Universe stepped in… and out of crisis came opportunity!
Helen had an intuitive download and was guided to change her diet and go gluten free. Then a colleague suggested looking into the paleo approach. And Helen being an action taking, ‘two boots in’ sort of woman, meant she put all her energies into adopting this new way of living. Her new findings and healthy lifestyle was a revelation and breath of fresh air. At the same time, it was initially confronting! She had been working for years as a personal trainer and health coach, encouraging people to adopt the traditional food pyramid diet and then when she opened the door to this new lifestyle and way of eating she thought, “Oh my God, I have been telling people the wrong thing”. Her new learnings meant she turned the food pyramid on its head and started eating a high fat, high protein diet. She shared this new information with interested clients www.holisticblissmagazine.com
