Kirsten, what initially drew you to the holistic wellness industry?
I come from a family of nurses and healers, and always assumed I too would be in the healing arts. My childhood was spent between the coastal jungles of Borneo, Malaysia and rural New Zealand; this immersion in nature in my youth lent itself to a fascination with the workings of the natural world. The sciences were always my favourite subjects at school, and I’d often borrow microscopes from the science lab, spending hours at home peeking into the intricacies of plant life.
The messaging around healthy eating in the ’90s was not particularly holistic in its approach and cultivated a negative and misinformed relationship with nutrition for many young women, including myself. Ultimately, it was a desire to deepen my understanding of true nourishment, my captivation with the life sciences, alongside the belief I would walk a healing
