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Emma Ellice-Flint - Nutritionist
A LITTLE ABOUT ME

My journey to a Menopausal & Perimenopausal Nutritionist 

Welcome to 2022! Since many of you have only ever heard me talk about my work, I thought it jolly well about time I introduced myself.

I was born in England, although my heart is quite torn these days between countries, as I’ll explain.

In the 1980s, I completed a three-year hospitality course at a London college. Yet it was only the chef classes that ever held my interest. (And, oddly enough, the Quantitative Business Analysis module – go figure!)

Learning to cook was the best thing I've ever done!

While that hospitality course led to a corporate career for me in London, marketing for international hotels, food kept calling. I soon hung up the business suits and donned chef’s whites instead, catering myriad events like the Wimbledon tennis and even for the Queen!
Emma's arrival in Sydney Australia
Exploring Sydney in the 90s
When I moved to Sydney, Australia, in the late 80s, I found it easy to get work in food and keep pursuing my dream.

I cooked in all sorts of venues, at one point running the kitchen for a very large law firm that provided healthy lunchtime meals for the partners. At the other end of the spectrum, I was catering posh meals for politicians, visiting royalty and celebs.

It didn’t take long for my interest in healthy eating to take over.

Bring on another costume change: I set aside the chef’s whites and tackled a bachelor’s degree in Nutritional Medicine.

This was an eye opener. I was juggling the needs of my kids and getting my brain into gear after almost 20 years “off”. But oh my, I was like a pig in mud! Learning about nutrition and what goes on in the body physiologically – I couldn’t get enough of it. It made so much sense.

I began practising my new-found nutritional knowledge on myself and started to feel fantastic. I thought wow, that worked out much better than I expected.
Then I practised on my family but received a mixed reception. “What’s THAT I’m eating Mum!?!?” The males in my family were particularly concerned they would grow boobs from eating so much tofu. Spoiler alert: they didn’t! And, of course, they felt better for eating it. Mum knows best, right?

Once I realised how much more vitality I had from eating these foods, I was bursting to let the world know. I started helping people as a nutritionist in a Sydney clinic, which led to the path you’ve found me on.

Over time, nutrition during perimenopause and menopause became my passion.

My first cookery book
I began to offer food workshops and give corporate talks on the subject, then started writing cookbooks, which led to The Happy Hormone Cookbook.

When I learned about the amazing perimenopause and menopause work of Dr Louise Newson and the other passionate doctors at Newson Health, I knew that’s where I needed to be. It required a tough decision: leaving my life in Sydney to return to England.

That meant bidding farewell to my daughter, son, and sisters at the end of 2018. (I’m not alone though: another daughter, my brother and my husband are in England with me).

The plan was to get together with my Sydney-based family every six months or so, which I thought I could manage. However, as so many others also found, the pandemic does not respect plans.

With Australia closed to outsiders, our only contact was via lots of tearful video calls. I never want to go through that again. Happily, in December I was finally able to visit: hugging them was the best Christmas gift ever!
Hugging my son
Hugging my sisters
Hugging my daughter
Apart from the dreadful pandemic, I wouldn’t change anything about these last few years. It has meant so much to me to contribute to a better quality of life for women in perimenopause and menopause. That’s why I happily see people one-on-one in clinic, and enjoy giving talks, presentations (public and corporate) and workshops. I also write articles, develop recipes and, recently, started working with Dr Newson and the team at balance app.

My heart is still split between Australia and England, but the joy I get from seeing good nutrition change a person’s life makes it all worthwhile.

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