Bunky Community : Nourish Consultancy

This week we are featuring Lindsay of Nourish Consultancy, to share more about herself, her darling family and her amazing business. 

I have personally known her through many seasons in each of our lives, and saw her battle with feeding aversions. The way she  navigated it and how both her and Rigby recovered was a phenomenal thing to be witness to.

Keep your eyes peeled on our Instagram, as she will come on to chat more about feeding aversions, starting solids!

What’s your name?
Lindsay Wark 

Where in the city do you live?
We live in Suffolk, UK (but still consider Vancouver one of our homes) 

What’s your nearest and dearest heirloom?
A necklace from my Oma - it was hers. I love it. 

What does your perfect day look like?
Starting with a heartfelt workout, open heart, open-mind. Followed by making breakfast for the kids, while consuming pots of coffee and discussing our plans for the day. This usually includes, walks, forts, playing dolls and pretending we are transformers or superheroes at all times. Finished with a lovely glass of wine and a movie! Oh yes, wonderful. 

I’ve usually got some sort of client call or comms tucked in there, to mix things up! I love talking baby! 

How have you found yourself in the pregnancy and postpartum realm?
Absolute bliss during my first pregnancy and postpartum. The second pregnancy was different, but not terrible. A few medical conditions to handle at the end, but I had a lot of support and guidance from the wonderful Emma Devin and our midwives at Strathcona Midwifery Collective. Postpartum was awful, to say the least. At the tender age of 3 weeks, my new baby girl stopped eating willingly, which is how I’ve come to create Nourish to this day. Anxiety, stress, depression - you name the negative postpartum signs - I had them. 

What’s your tagline/mantra?
Professionally - It is your job to offer your baby nutritious meals. It is your baby’s job to decide how much they will eat. 

Life - Push through the pain because pain is temporary. 

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​Tell me more about your offerings!
Like you, I am a parent. I would go to the ends of the earth for my babies.  I was heartbroken, afraid and desperate to help my baby who faced a behavioural feeding aversion.

My journey to find help took too many wrong roads including over-diagnosed medical conditions and doctors not truly listening.

I created NC for parents who are struggling with their baby who will not eat and has no medical reasoning for it. My experience is first hand and my consultancy continues to support parents around the world. I am not a doctor. I look holistically at your baby and provide a bespoke feeding plan to support your baby’s eating habits.  From that point, we can work together to find peace, joy, and freedom from feeding aversion.

Who are your favourite parents and families to serve?
Any parent knows they are entrusted with an inborn ability to feed their child. When your heart and soul refuses to take your breast, a bottle or solids from you - you are quickly devastated and heartbroken. You begin to push said food onto your child because that is what your medical team has told you to do. Increase the numbers, watch the scales, track the input and output. Your world becomes fixated on charts, graphs and doctor’s appointments. I cannot help but feel all the familiar feelings come rushing back to me, as I too have a similar story. The work I do is for the parents, to show them they are not to blame and teach them new laidback approaches to feeding their baby. The program is life-long and I truly love when a family sees that and implements into their world. 

Now for logistics: 

• What areas of the city do you serve?

International baby - 100% virtual. I’ve worked with clients in Canada, UK, USA to Singapore and South Africa. Unfortunately, baby’s across the globe are developing feeding aversions. 

• How do bookings work?

           Through my website - you can book a free 20-minute connect call. If we believe we are the right fit for each other, you can book your desired program also through the website. 

​Where can we find you on the web and social media?              

• Website               
• Instagram 
• Facebook 
• Email 

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