Welcome to The Genuine Nut Job.

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In 2015, I fell in love with nut butter and decided to set up a business. I wanted to boost other people's mood and energy without the sugar crash. During the global pandemic of COVID-19, I also admitted to my family and friends that I have been living with an eating disorder for over eight years.

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The Genuine Nut Job is my personal experience of what really goes on behind the scenes and screens of two full-time jobs. Traits that tend to go unseen. For example, the loneliness, persistence, lack of financial reward, which in turn makes me doubt my productivity and worth; I constantly compare to those around me and beat myself up for not being where I ‘should’ be at this age and stage; quick to criticise my body when I fail to see results.

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Although I am my number one customer, still, this blog is not 'how I made it' - this is my work-in-progress. A real-time perspective, ending unknown. Candidly, the brand may cease to exist in six months' time and it could take me several more years to fully recover from this toxic mental health illness. The hardest thing I will probably ever do as well as my greatest accomplishment to date.

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Whereas writing began as a way to therapise myself, to remove negative thoughts from my head - what I am too afraid and embarassed to say out loud - in truth I am a curious person and can’t help but wonder, is it just me?