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Nourishing Works Welcome to Nourishing Works. I was born and raised in Eastern Europe in a small country called Moldova, which used to be part of the Soviet Union.

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https://nourishingworks.com/ I have happy memories of my childhood – loved and protected by my parents and grandparents, their love was expressed in many ways, but especially through food. My jewish ancestors cooked their food from scratch, nothing went to waste, every part of the animal and plant were lovingly prepared and served at the family table. My mum loves telling this story about her grandmother making five meal courses from one chicken: bone broth, stuffed chicken neck, meat jelly, chicken liver pate and chicken mince patties – oh and schmaltz (chicken fat) with crackling! I grew up on lovingly prepared, seasonal, locally grown foods. In the Soviet Union, we had no processed foods in stores, no variety of brands, no advertising, and the food shortages were real. Yet people were creative and industrious with their food growing, making and preserving. Our small kitchens in the hearts of our tiny apartments were places for everyone to gather, share stories and eat. When we immigrated to New Zealand in the late 80s, we couldn’t believe the abundance and variety of foods in the supermarkets. My mum was crying on our first visit to a food store while walking through the animal food aisles – New Zealand pets were fed better than people in the Soviet Union. Little did we know that all these processed foods were making humans and animals sick. In the last few years, living through my personal health challenges, as well as chronic diseases in my family – I became increasingly disillusioned with conventional medical care but learnt a great deal about my own body and how our environment (including what we eat) influences every aspect of our health. That’s when I decided to make changes to the ways I ate and lived. These changes were evolved out of pain and fear of losing my life purpose, fear of medical authorities, statistics, genetics, and fear of losing my energy and drive to fully embrace and enjoy life every day. I’m still on my healing journey, but day by day I feel more energy and vitality than ever before in my life. I want to share my knowledge to empower others to heal themselves. I want to make difference in people’s lives where they can take charge of their own health and vitality through common-sense tools of nourishment and self-compassion. I became a Functional Nutritional Therapy Practitioner to help people who feel exhausted, inflamed and brain-fogged to make better nutritional and lifestyle choices so they can reduce their pain, eliminate fatigue, and start enjoying their lives to the full.

Can you stay in bed all day?Most of us can’t. Not because the day is full - because stopping feels more dangerous than p...
22/10/2026

Can you stay in bed all day?

Most of us can’t. Not because the day is full - because stopping feels more dangerous than pushing through.

I see it with clients, with friends, with myself. There’s always one more thing that feels more urgent than letting the body recover.

It’s not a luxury.

It’s the space you can give your body when it needs to rebuild.

I spent years avoiding sugar and anything that turned into it.For a long time the low-carb research and the experts behi...
19/10/2026

I spent years avoiding sugar and anything that turned into it.

For a long time the low-carb research and the experts behind it made restriction feel like the sensible choice. Coffee stayed black, and anything that could turn into sugar was treated as something better left out.

Lately the picture has softened. Food takes up less mental space, the old good-or-bad labels have loosened, and meals with ordinary carbohydrates feel more complete. The energy is steadier and warmer, and the automatic reach for something sweet right after eating has quietened.

This is only what I’m noticing in my own energy and cortisol response. It still depends on context.

If you’ve moved in a similar direction, or if the old rules still feel solid, I’d be curious what you’ve noticed.

What’s not in this jar, and why I left it there.Tallow first. A short list of cold-pressed oils chosen for skin. No frag...
15/10/2026

What’s not in this jar, and why I left it there.

Tallow first. A short list of cold-pressed oils chosen for skin. No fragrance, no essential oils, no wax. Same cream on any shelf.
Warm a little between your palms. That’s the method.

Nourishing Tallow Cream

Warm, simple food the body can read.The kind a grandmother’s kitchen would have understood without a label. Enough to le...
12/10/2026

Warm, simple food the body can read.

The kind a grandmother’s kitchen would have understood without a label. Enough to let the system settle. That’s the message.

Life is not a lab. A body is not a contract.If you’ve been living from one result to the next, this is about that. A blo...
08/10/2026

Life is not a lab. A body is not a contract.

If you’ve been living from one result to the next, this is about that. A blood test can be useful. It is a poor thing to build a life around.

Be careful how you talk to yourself. The body is listening.Most of us spend the day speaking to ourselves in a voice we ...
02/10/2026

Be careful how you talk to yourself. The body is listening.

Most of us spend the day speaking to ourselves in a voice we would never use on a child, then wonder why nothing settles.

The body heals where it feels safe.

I never saw any of them tracking a thing.They eat, they stand in the sun, and they go on. Not one of them has a deficit ...
29/09/2026

I never saw any of them tracking a thing.

They eat, they stand in the sun, and they go on. Not one of them has a deficit to hit.

I was a good student long before wellness existed.Then I treated my health like homework and never got a day off.Learnin...
26/09/2026

I was a good student long before wellness existed.

Then I treated my health like homework and never got a day off.

Learning was never the problem. Stopping the homework was.

If that girl is you - you already know.

You can put the books down now.

You know the loop.The result. The next test. The quiet hope that this time the number will behave.This is for the woman ...
21/09/2026

You know the loop.

The result. The next test. The quiet hope that this time the number will behave.

This is for the woman still in that.

And for the one who is starting to measure her days by warmth, sleep, and whether her body is braced.

I lived in that loop too. I don’t chase the number for you. I sit with you while the shouting has a chance to stand down.

Swipe through.

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309 Chartreis Bay Road
Lyttelton
8971

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