I’m a Pagan Of The Good Time

April 26, 2017 By

I love the Hozier song Take Me to Church, there is a line in this song that says “I’m a Pagan of the good time”. When I heard it, I thought, ME TOO! I am definitely a Pagan of the good time! Yep, I love a good party and celebration. I wanted to be a singer when I was younger and I swear my inner rock star regularly comes out! I will be the one that wants to stay out late and keep going at the end of the night and the one that dances too much at the party. Have you seen that video going around the internet of the girl in a red dress at a wedding dancing crazy? Well, that is totally me! The dichotomy I have with my rock star self is that, as you would know,IMG_4337 I am also a professional Nutritionist! These two parts of me don’t always see eye to eye on life and what is best for me. My rock star meets my Green Smoothie Goddess and says BORING! My parents loved a good party or get together too, I was raised on them so I guess it is in my DNA.

So, I make it my life’s work to bring these two aspects of myself into some sort of alignment and balance, and then I try to teach that to my patients. What I learn, they learn. I am not the Nutritionist to see if you are looking for perfection. No, that doesn’t work for me and I prefer to be honest with people and real about who I am. I drink some wine, eat chocolate and sometimes even chips and pasta (wowsers, am I going to Nutritionist hell?)! But ALL the time I add extra vegetables, drink green smoothies and juices, fast and try to balance it all out. And if I notice my health is altering or symptoms are popping up that are out of the ordinary I address these through diet, supplementation and other healing modalities. Does my rock star self get in the way of me knowing how to heal your gut, enhance your immune system, help your anxiety, identify nutritional deficiencies or help with your fatigue? Hell no!

So if you are looking for a way to improve your health and wellness from someone who gets the pull to enjoy life! I’m for you! I focus on progress not perfection.

After the Easter weekend I totally need to rein things in as it got a little too crazy up in here! So I am fasting and detoxing and shaming my rock star self and feeling like I filled my cup and completely happy at the same time! Why over joyed with happiness? Because I had fun with my family and that is the best thing for me! What I have realised so far in my quest for balance and whole hearted living is if I don’t let my party self out to play she will roar out with a vengeance. And that’s when shit gets a little crazy. For me, this looks like too much mundane living, doing too much mothering and wifing and not enough for me and not having enough fun! If I include having fun as a priority, like dancing, going to the beach, going out to dinner with friends & being a little crazy in my every day, I can see things stay within balance. We all need to be real and human however that looks for us, some people are the masters of balance and others are learning and in the end it’s all fucking good!

Love Cassandra x

PS. Go on and dance like no one is watching and see how good it really feels! Increase your endorphins and gain more energy from fun and laughter.