My small Beginnings

Over five years ago, I had unashamedly started to share my story and experiences on how God rescued me from an early grave. I had made a radical diet lifestyle change after attending a health seminar organized for Christian ministers and their wives. I was then in the leadership of PFN, Surulere, Lagos, and was a prominent Pentecostal gospel minister in CAN, Surulere Chapter.

Well, I didn’t really have much in mind, except that I wanted to learn how to live a healthy lifestyle. It never occurred to me that I could one day be guiding or coaching others how they could reverse their health challenges through diet lifestyle change. I was also not thinking of delving into the study of herbal medicine, or even becoming a “Herbalist”! Lol.

Okay, one of my friends in our alumni platform had actually called me a herbalist when what I recommended for him to give his mum, one of our pioneer mothers in CGM and CWIFI, (don’t worry about the meaning of those acronyms), worked like a magic portion. Mama, who is above 80, had previously suffered a stroke and was unable to move her bowel for four consecutive days. She was then despairing for life and my friend was worried.

When he informed me after we met for the first time since leaving the same university over 30 years ago, I recommended one of the herbal medicines I had used for myself and others who came my way. The medicine got to his mum the next day in faraway Delta State, and the helpers hired to assist her gave her the liquid herbal medicine. It wasn’t too long when she informed those who cared for her that she needed to use the toilet.

My friend was later told how what Mama passed out from her bowel turned the entire place upside down. I’m sure you understand what I mean. Well, she later asked for food she had refused for days, as she was totally relieved. Few days from then, the old woman started to add on some flesh.

Prior to creating a Facebook page I call Health & Wellness Plus, where I share health articles for information and educational purposes, I was passionately speaking to any interested group I met about diet lifestyle change, and the numerous immense benefits that people would receive from it. I even gave some people the natural remedies I had discovered through research on credit. And of course, some never paid back. Well, my joy was that some of them testified how they were helped.

As I said, I didn’t even understand what I was getting into, and didn’t care if anybody “liked” what I was writing, neither did I care if anyone commented on my stories. My joy was that of a writer trying to get something off his or her chest. In fact, I can’t remember anyone who “liked” any of my early pieces of writing.

Last year, I had the privilege of guiding or coaching a precious determined lady back to wellness. Many there are, who pay lip service to wanting to get fit or lose their excess body weight.

Before she was introduced to me, she had stopped driving her car, which she mostly used for her business. She had complained of how much pain she suffered in her joints and could no more drive her car. We never got to meet physically, but we talked at length, severally.

I went straight to her diet lifestyle and she agreed to make the necessary adjustments. She sought the cooperation of her hubby, who reluctantly agreed to the adjustments I had suggested to her. He would have preferred she remained the way she was, weight wise.

Well, few weeks from the time we started on that health restoration journey, she announced that she had lost 3kg or so. I was excited. She eventually shed more weight as we progressed and she became better.

We talked almost every day as we constantly reviewed all the natural methods we were using, including few herbal medicines I had recommended for her. I encouraged her to exercise and told her to drink more water, especially the natural alkaline water I asked her to look for and make her only drinking water.

After she resumed driving her car she had abandoned for some time (I can’t remember exactly how long), she sent me a message that she wanted to appreciate me. She thought I had been a blessing to her life and sent her appreciation gift.

My recent decision to go for the professional training on Natural/Traditional/Alternative Medicine is a new beginning for me. So also is the publication of the e-book that tells the stories.

Honestly, I have just become a full time student of Natural Medicine, which has been known as Traditional Medicine. For me, the so-called Orthodox Medicine is the alternative to our Natural Medicine, which consists of our local vegetables or herbs, roots/tubers, fruits, nuts, grains, etc.

The journey has just begun.

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