My name is Georgie.
I am many things, in fact I’m constantly evolving.
I’m certainly more than I can write in a few sentences (which social media loves us to do) but my main message and focus here is raising awareness about being Highly Sensitive and finding ways to bring calm into your life.
I have always felt a little different – but then again, doesn’t everyone? It’s a very subjective thing to feel and say. The same applies to being sensitive – surely everyone is sensitive...right? However, there comes an invisible tipping point, from the ‘normal’ to ‘abnormal’, when you fall into the bracket of being ‘highly sensitive’.
Having a nervous system that is constantly triggered and a mind that is neurodiverse can lead to a fractured relationship between body and mind. This website is based around my obsession with food and my desperate need to find calm, to help me cope in a world where I haven’t always felt I belong.
To me, food is like magic and I have been trying to get to understand how to harness and understand that magic as best I can.
Some background…
I trained as a chef at Leiths School of Food and Wine in 2006. I loved every single minute of it. All that butter and classical cooking was intoxicating and everyone deeply happy that they had found their purpose. I then went on to privately chef and travel the world with food – learning about different cuisines in India and Sri Lanka. I began to teach cookery (to all age ranges from 6 to 80) at Leiths School of Food and Wine as well as Chewton Glen (to name drop a few) – always wanting to tell as many people as I could about this incredible magic, this tangible wisdom.
Then I had children and food took on a new meaning. It took on a more powerful role; an empowering role of supporting and comforting. I wanted to learn more about this new power; this secret potent magic that I hadn’t learnt before. Suddenly the human body and food mixing together showed me so many new things. And my obsession changed from “food” to “nourishment”.
I have worked with nutritionists (mainly Jo Saunders part of the wonderful Naturedoc Team) for nearly ten years now and although I can most certainly say I am not a Nutritional Therapist, I have picked up a fair amount of knowledge.
I have gone on my own personal journey with nutrition and have seen first-hand the relevance and importance of eating well. This intrigue into nutrition has also led me to do courses on herbal medicine, homoeopathy, natural skin care and beekeeper!
Energy work has been a big focus for me and in 2019 I trained as a yoga teacher as well as reiki practitioner. Recognising we are way more than what we eat - learning how to manage our precious nervous system through movement, sound and so many other wonderful practises has become a huge part of where I have evolved to up until now.
I have since joined many courses on Nervous System Regulation from the likes of Maisie Hill and James Dowler and delved into the realms of Quantum Physics with Dr Jo Dispensa and Nicky Clinch.
As a child I always enjoyed cooking, giving and bringing people together and it seems this is my passion today.
My aim is for Little Plough is to be a place for community, connection and wellbeing. A safe, calm place where I can pass on any wisdom I have learnt, hopefully in a way that’s easy to take on and not intimidating.
Everything that you will find on this website should taste amazing. I am fed up with so many people saying things taste nice and then making them and they taste disgusting – it has to taste good.
All the brands I praise I do so as I genuinely think they are amazing and will be run by incredible and kind people - I don’t promote people I don’t believe in or products I havn’t tried and tested personally.
I will always try to be about excellence.
Thank you, as always, for being with me on this journey.
G xxxx
(Please note, all classes and workshops take place from Georgie’s home which is near Andover in Hampshire, SP11)
CERTIFICATIONS AND QUALIFICATIONS
2006 Trained as a chef at Leiths School of Food and Wine (continued teaching there as senior teacher for approx 12 years)
2012 CNM Herbs for Everyday Living Course
2013 CNM 12 weeks Nutrition For Everyday Living Course
2019 Apple Yoga 300 hr Teacher Training
2020 The Sourdough School Diploma with Dr Vanessa Kimbel
2020 Joined Maisie Hills Flow collective for 2 years - learning more about nervous system regulation, the female cycle and touching on Traditional Chinese Medicine
2021 Reiki Training 1 with Brighitta Moser Clark
2022 Reiki Training 2 with Brighitta Moser Clark
2022 Kimberly Anne Johnsons course on Nerv0us System Regulation
2024 Academy of Healing Nutrition 1 year course and training on Traditional Chinese Medicine
2024 Nicky Clinch Listening to Life Course on Maturation and Body/Mind work
2024 James Dowler Nervous System Healing