Hi! I’m Tamara Lee, a Holistic Healer.
I'm a certified Nutritionist, Master Practitioner in NLP, Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy®, a Real Food Coach and Business Mentor.
These are my credentials... but I'm so much more than my labels. I’m a lover of the ocean, yoga, crystals, and eating good food (lots of it!). I love spending time alone in nature, run along the beach and do fun things with my four children. I dislike small talk, fakeness and living less than my potential.
I know who I am, and I like who I am - but it took me many years and ALOT of growth moments to get here. It all started when I was 26 years old, a young mum of 3 children who was experiencing a lot of anxiety, fatigue, constant bloating, (coupled with the stinkiest farts known to man), skin issues (rosacea and later on, adult acne), and allergies - meanwhile battling limiting beliefs about my own self worth.
I spent my days running around after two very energetic toddlers, while pregnant with my third child. I had zero energy myself, and as a result, my social life consisted of morning catch ups with other mums, which we’d sit around talking about how tired we were while the kids ran amok. I napped whenever my kids were sleeping, compensating for my lack of energy by consuming diet soft drinks and lots of chocolate.
I was surviving, but certainly not thriving. This became my catalyst to commence study in the field of nutrition.
In the early days, I trialed many different eating methodologies to figure out which was the ‘right’ one. I cut out dairy, gluten and processed foods. Then meat. I studied the works on every trending expert - including the Medical Medium, Dr Gundry, T. Colin Campbell - as well as conventional study to gain my Nutritionist accreditation.
My First Turning Point
Initially, this created a lot of confusion for me, for every field of study, each expert had a different opinion. I would fluctuate from feeling like I was making progress back to feeling utterly helpless.
However, as the years progressed, I learnt the principles for health and healing that WORKED FOR ME. My gut healed. My skin dramatically improved… and eventually, as I learned to incorporate emotional and somatic healing, my skin finally healed completely. Holistically healed... without any medication.
All the health set backs I’d previous had now seemed to be a beautiful gift. They all served as learning opportunities, and simply problems to be solved.
I always had the belief that I COULD heal, that it was POSSIBLE for me to experience the kind of energy and vitality I wanted. I had no idea then that this unshakable belief would become the secret force behind my healing. It all started with the desire to heal - coupled with the belief that I COULD.
It all starts with a decision.
I had a vision of who I wanted to become, but really had no idea of how I would become her, of what the roadmap to that outcome would be.
But that’s the beauty of deciding and committing. All you have to do is start, and you'll find your way.... eventually.
The better I felt, the more compelled I felt to learn why I felt so much better. In my spare time, I studied every facet of nutrition - human biology and biochemistry in particular. I started learning about how vital the nutrients of fruits and vegetables are for practically every system of the body. The nervous system. Endocrine system. Digestive system.
I started creating recipes of my own. Raw creations to replace the junk in my diet. I published one recipe book. Then two. Then three. I teaching others how to make these foods - small classes around my kitchen table, growing to large events held at libraries or community centres, sometimes with over 100 people in attendance.
Over the years, I tried every combination of diet you can imagine, on the hunt for the "holy grail" of diets. Vegetarian, Vegan. Gluten Free Vegan. Fat Free Vegan. Raw Vegan. Flexitarian. During times of stress and overwhelm (adding a fourth child in 2014), nutrition became my crutch to fall back on. It was always there for me, adding vital nutrients to my body on a daily basis.
My brand, The Raw Food Girl, has healed me. Or so I thought.
But cracks were starting to show. The pressure I put myself under to 'live up to my label' were becoming exhausting. While I had 'fixed' my diet, it had simply become a bandaid for the limiting beliefs I still held about my own self worth. My perfect diet was the source of my happiness and self worth. When I stuck to it, it was 'proof' that I was good enough.
But other parts of my life were not going so well. Like my marriage. There were problems bubbling under the surface, problems that I had no idea how to reconcile. This state of volatile emotional instability pushed me to become more and more dissociated from my emotions.
I masked my stress by working more, becoming increasingly obsessed what I ate. It was the only thing I felt I had control over, so control it I did. Disordered eating became the normal. I developed orthorexia (an obsession with healthy eating to the point it becomes unhealthy), as a result of the stress, pushing myself to do extreme fasts and cleanses. But when the stress of my marriage became too much, I stopped eating all together and my weight plummeted to 50kgs.
On the surface it looked like I had it all. People would comment on how 'good' I looked. The anorexic behaviour continued for months, until I was forced to wake up to the face that now, other parts of body out of balance too. My skin condition flared up again, with vengeance - adult acne and rosacea covered my cheeks and sometimes, my lips. I felt so ugly and blamed my skin for my husband's lack on interest in me. But this became more fuel to be stricter on myself.
My Second Turning Point
By the end of 2019, it became very apparent our marriage simply wasn't working. I felt trapped and scared, not knowing what to do. I started withdrawing into myself. Negative emotions and limiting beliefs ran rampant. I felt worthless, unloveable.
In July 2020, I knew something drastic needed to change. I couldn't keep up this facade, couldn't pretend that I was "fine."
I ended my marriage.
In the year following my divorce, I did many things to distract from grief and pain. Filling every minute of the day with constant distractions - work, outings for my kids, social events, friends, dating, exercise, you name it - all to create a constant stream of distractions so that I did not have to feel it all. My diet fluctuated from extremely healthy to binge eating, depending on my mood.
My workaholism was a distraction that I clung to most. My business grew rapidly. I moved into my dream home, convincing myself that I was now “living my best life.”
Until one day, my body simply said: ENOUGH.
Diagnosed with adrenal fatigue at the end of 2021, by then I was utterly exhausted. All I wanted to do was SLEEP. I took time off work, unwillingly, but also knowing it was the only way forward.
This journey of self discovery and awakening led me to learn that there is so much more to healing my body than food can do alone. Repressed emotions and limiting beliefs are major disruptors of energy.
I've tried many different healing modalities over the last few years, and while all were helpful, nothing blew the boundaries on my negative internal dialogue the way NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy® has. This style of coaching and language has made so much sense to me, literally re-programming my mind to think in a different way. It taught me how to gain the lessons out of all the hard experiences, to be grateful for times when I was so broken I couldn’t even pick myself up off the floor. These are days I now look back on and smile, for the growth I gained in these moments.
I'm now certified as a Trainer in all three of these healing modalities. It was in this space that I learnt how to truely HEAL, all parts of me. Now, anxiety is gone. I eat whatever foods I care for, without any gut issues. My skin completely healed. Self doubt is gone. And so has my fear.
I now combine these modalities along with nutrition, helping my clients heal their bodies through though holistic healing interventions. It's a full mind, body and spirit healing, on the core level, restoring the original factory settings of unlimited self worth and abundance.
If I can do it, you can do it too :-)
