AboutEvelyn Alexander Expertise I can supplement your knowledge on health food and alternative remedies. I take a dynamic (energetic) approach to health and discomforts. My sources and references for my advice and ideas are predominantly Anthroposophic.
I am not medically trained. I have done 25 years of critical research (metaphysics and alternative medicine) and been an expert on About for over eight years. Two great ills I can help combat are ignorance and neglectfulness. In matters of healthy living I encourage discipline, respect and self-belief.
My life-philosophy is fundamentally based on ANTHROPOSOPHY, which in a nut-shell, is a western metaphysical science and modern alchemical way of looking at the meaning of life. I also draw on Taoist and Ayurvedic systems.
I am a mother of a boy with an Autistc Spectrum Disorder, whom I have raised on a bio-dynamic diet and homeopathic remedies. I have been a vegetarian for 25 years. I am currently researching ways to understand and treat Autism from an alternative perspective.
Experience My direct nutritional and health care experience stems from 25 years of vegetarianism, 15 years of bio-organic cooking and 10 years as a single mother of an Autistic boy. I have read widely on nutrition and (alternative) medicine. My main focus over the past 20 years has been on Anthroposophy. I take a critical stance of modern New Age spin-offs, but generally support the hard core theory of man as a four-fold spiritual being.
I have studied the following topics: Yoga, Astrology, Meditation, Tarot, Reiki, Taoist Five Element Theory, Colour/Painting Therapy, Herbology, Aromatherapy, Flower Essences, Crystals, Ayurveda, Acupuncture, Shiatsu, Macrobiotics, Ortho-Molecular science, Touch For Health, Natropathy, Music therapy, Eurhythmy, various forms of Shamanism, Palmistry, Numerology, Alchemy, World Religions, Metaphysics, Mythology, Cabala, Angels and Elementals. My interests extend into the fields of biology and especially plant morphology.
Education/Credentials I have an academic background in linguistics. I translate and edit. I teach English. But I seem to be better at imaginative and creative thinking than logic and reason.
Past/Present Clients Intelligent and sensitive people who are interested in gathering more information on alternative options in medicine and nutrition, which may lead to emotional, physical or spiritual healing. I have been unable to help people with weight issues lose specific amounts of weight within specific amounts of time - since this does not fall within my holistic aims.
Question my name is tasha my life is very bad i'm 18 i weight 180 pound i feel so bad about myself i don't even look in the minor whats a good diet i can go on?
Answer Dear Tasha,
I am afraid I am not a dietician and do not know much about weight-loss. I share my understandings about nutrition and healthy living. So I might not be the right one to advise you.
However, I think it might be useful, whether you consult someone else or want me to steer you in the right direction, to give a little more detail as to your current diet and indicate what you would like to change about your life. This will mean taking a closer look at yourself, but I trust that in doing so you will find at least one or two things that may not be superb but at least could be worse! It sounds a bit negative, but you have to think in "baby steps" at first.
If I were you, though, I would forget the mirror angle all together. I was no hero in the mirror at 18 either! I was very depressed about my "ugliness" and many body issues and it took tremendous efforts before things started to become better. The trick seems to lie somewhere inbetween "remembering to forget yourself": this may mean something like take special care of yourself, nurse yourself into a more balanced state, but almost without self-interest (because too much focus on self-image at this stage is pointless, since you have fallen into the habit of negative perception).
Concentrate on the things you CAN do to embellish yourself, which will mainly depend on how you feel and what you think about the world around you. Healthy eating can be very healing because it offers you an opportunity to commune with Mother Earth and the miracle of our life-force in a natural way on a daily basis. Diets are supposed to be "habits"/ways of life. Furthermore, natural products (so called health foods) are full of dynamic energy which help to boost your own energy system and can bring the sun back into your life.
Don't hesitate to ask anything else or otherwise keep browsing the Expert Site for specific diets; whatever you do appreciate those little blessings you absolutely positively do have (I just broke my foot and realise, now, handicapped and with one injury leading to many others, how I have been most unappreciative, in some ways, myself!).
Take care,
Love Evelyn.
