Kelly Moore: Why I Do What I Do
Kelly is the director and lead practitioner at Rejuvenate Within.
What do you do and what is your background?
I am both a holistic practitioner and a Dermalogica professional skin therapist.
Holistic practitioner
As a Holistic practitioner I use the body's natural healing abilities to treat. I use a number of therapies, such as massage therapy, reiki, reflexology, acupressure points, crystal healing, cleansing, life coaching and more.
Holistic health is about caring for the whole person: it's about honouring the mind-body connection and treating the whole person providing for your physical, mental, spiritual, and social needs. The foundations are rooted in the understanding that all these aspects affect your overall health, and being unwell in one aspect affects you in others. With all of these points considered, it's also about developing a strong relationship with a doctor who is committed to getting you healthy and keeping you that way.
A holistic therapist helps to empower you with the education and motivation to make good choices. Rather than suggesting a long list of lifestyle changes, they include you in the conversation and help you determine which changes would make the greatest impact on your health. They help you set wellness goals and then provide you with resources — whether that's a personalised plan or a referral to a specialist.
Dermalogica professional skin therapist
I am also a Dermalogica Professional Skin Therapist. The qualification behind the title is recognised by The International Dermal Institute and is a step towards becoming a skin care expert.
My background
I’ve always been into health and fitness, and I love nature and the outdoors. From the ages of 16-18 I was a race jockey. Then between 18 and 24 I moved to the fitness industry, working my way up to a level 3 personal trainer, class co-ordinator, spin class instructor and gym coach.
I started to dabble within the beauty industry, I wasn't sure why I didn't really like beauty (doing nails and waxing for example), but it led me to skin working with Dermalogica. I loved the science behind skin and helping clients meet their skin goals. Skin led me to opening my own clinic to go more away from level 2 beauty completely and focus more on private skin care.
My health then changed my life again, and led me to my holistic path. This was always waiting for me, even though I didn’t know it.
You mentioned your own health, how has that influenced your work?
Wow, where do I begin! Six years ago I was a couple of months pregnant and getting ready for a new little bundle of joy to come into the world. As a married couple we were planning all sorts of positive happenings, but life throws challenges and it threw our family a huge one, but we were ready to battle it. Two or three weeks after I gave birth I had a perforated bowel, and things were touch and go. It was probably the scariest point in my life, and from here lots of things started to unravel. I now have diagnoses of CFS/ME, hypermobility, vagus nerve damage, gastroparesis and a very weak spine. I couldn’t walk properly: I couldn’t even feel my muscles properly, and I was bent over from the spine and extremely weak.
But natural health: through lymphatic drainage, Reiki, reflexology, cranial therapy, and massage, got me here today. It helped my body repair and restore some strength to get on with every day, and also be able to have amazing special time with my family.
My life became goal after goal after goal. I was newly married, a new mum, I had my business- and then I had all this craziness on top, but I had to make it work with positive thoughts, strength, and support. And I did! Thanks to holistic health I am here today, back with my own business and in a position to be able to support and help others. I am a healthy mum, I am a healthy wife and I am so happy and grateful to be where I am today.
Yes, I have lots of rehabilitation to do on a daily basis and lots of medication to take; and yes, I have good days and bad days. But life is a journey and I managed to take this crazy one and turn it into something good. This is why my path has changed. I started off as a very active sporty person who then went into level two beauty and now I am an advanced holistic therapist with ongoing training and a business.
How has natural health helped you?
Alongside the therapies mentioned above, a huge element in my recovery is mindfulness and nature. Exposure to nature not only makes you feel better emotionally, it contributes to your physical wellbeing, reducing blood pressure, heart rate, muscle tension, and the production of stress hormones.
Being outside barefoot and grounding and cleansing with nature is the most amazing feeling. When I first started all my treatments I was not very mobile, so being in the garden and being with nature supported me and gave me strength. Grounding balances out the spiritual and physical energy in our body, by connecting yourself with the earth. When you are grounded, you feel like you are here, in the physical, in the present. To be grounded gives your energy a point of steadiness and you will feel clear, centred, strong and focused.
Grounding, also called earthing, is a therapeutic technique that involves doing activities that “ground” or electrically reconnect you to the earth. This practice relies on earthing science and grounding physics to explain how electrical charges from the earth can have positive effects on your body.
It still amazes me to this day how the lymphatic system the nervous system and my gut health literally debilitated me, but it also still amazes me how all my natural health therapy has helped me get well. It isn’t a cure but it has given me my life back, and I continue to get stronger every day. Natural health is a full circle to aiding in health and wellness for the body and mind. This full circle has 100% helped me and many of friends and family that have been on this continuous path with me can vouch for this .
And finally, what drives you to do what you do?
I love to see people develop and thrive, whether physically or mentally. Seeing them reaching their goals or finding themselves through the art of mindfulness is what drives my passion and what I find the most rewarding.
