Hey. You Can Whisk Wellness In Slowly.
Episode 17 of Wellness Me Up — Wellness Me Up Diary Entry with Nutritional Therapist Vera Jackson
Hosted by Amanda Reece, founder of Wellness Me Up.
Vera Jackson is a nutritional therapist helping women who feel exhausted, can't figure out why, and have been told by their doctor that everything looks fine. Spoiler — it's not fine. And you don't have to overhaul your entire life to feel better. You just have to whisk it in slowly.
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The Doctor Said You're Fine. But You Don't Feel Fine.
This is where Vera starts with almost every client.
A woman shows up having already been to her doctor. Tests were run. Results came back normal. And the doctor said everything looks fine. But she still feels exhausted. Still can't sleep properly. Still has no energy to do the things she actually wants to do.
And she's been told there's nothing wrong.
Vera says this is one of the most common things she sees. And her message is simple — you don't have to accept that. Normal test results don't mean you can't feel better. They don't mean there's nothing to work on. They just mean the medical system has done what it can do. And now there's more available to you if you're willing to look a little deeper.
That's where Vera comes in.
You Don't Have to Become a Brand New Person
This is the thing that surprises people most when they start working with Vera.
They come in expecting a hundred page plan. A complete life overhaul. Wake up at 6am. Go to bed at 9pm. Cut out everything you love. Become an entirely different human by Tuesday.
And instead Vera sends them off with a few small things to try. Eat dinner a little earlier. Drink a bit more water. Just that. Nothing dramatic.
And then they come back and say... it's working. I'm sleeping better. I have more energy. I didn't do much but something shifted.
That surprise is what creates the momentum. Because when one small thing changes it motivates you to do a little more. And a little more after that. And suddenly you're moving in a direction without having blown your whole life up to get there.
I made a baking analogy here that I'm quite proud of 😂... If you dump all the flour in at once it's going to be lumpy and gross. You have to whisk it in slowly. A little bit at a time. Let it integrate. That's exactly what Vera does with nutrition. No dumping. Just slow steady whisking. You can whisk wellness in…so give it a whisk ;)
And just for the record — nobody has to join the 5am club to be well. Nobody. That is not the only path to a healthy life and I will die on that hill. Vera agreed.
What Vera Actually Works On
Vera works primarily with women who are tired. Low energy. Exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't seem to fix. Women who feel like something is off but can't quite name it.
She also has a specialized focus on high blood sugar, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes — which she came to personally. She was diagnosed as prediabetic herself and knows firsthand what it feels like when that hits you like a train. How disorienting it is. How hard it is to figure out where to even start.
And what she keeps seeing is that so much of what affects blood sugar — and energy and sleep and mood — comes down to the small daily things. What you eat. When you eat. How you move. When you sleep. How you manage stress. These aren't dramatic changes. But they add up to something significant when you stay consistent.
She has clients whose blood sugar has come down without changing their medication. Just by adjusting the small daily things that nobody had ever explained to them before.
That's the missing piece Vera provides. Not the diagnosis. Not the prescription. The practical everyday knowledge that makes the difference.
It's All Connected. Obviously.
Something Vera said right at the start of this conversation that I want to make sure lands.
She works in physical wellness primarily. But she's quick to point out that physical health doesn't exist in isolation. How you feel emotionally affects your energy. How you feel mentally affects your sleep. How you sleep affects everything else.
You can't fully separate the physical from the emotional and mental. They're all part of the same system. Which is why Vera doesn't just talk about food — she talks about how you feel. What's getting in the way. What you actually want. And what's realistic for where you are right now.
Some of her clients come in committed and move fast. Others have kids and work and a thousand other things and need a slower pace. Both are fine. Both get results. The pace just has to be theirs.
The WTF Wheel Question: What's Something You Still Don't Have Figured Out?
This one went somewhere unexpectedly beautiful.
Vera's answer was honest and immediate. Everything. There's always something new to learn. Her clients surprise her every day. The field keeps evolving. She keeps discovering things she hadn't considered before.
And I jumped in with the same thing—none of us have it all figured out.
I'm in the wellness space and I still have days where I feel like absolute garbage. I still have days where I eat the thing I said I wasn't going to eat and don't feel great about it afterward (but damn, it was delicious. 😂). I still have days where I disappear under the blankets and do absolutely nothing.
Heck... I once got locked inside a castle in Portugal because I was so deep in my imagination, journaling away, that I didn't even realize everyone else had left. By the time I looked up... the gates were locked. Oops. 😂
We're all just out here learning as we go.
And that's actually one of the things that makes me trust someone more — when they're willing to say I don't know everything. I'm still figuring it out too. If you're looking for that trait, Vera has it in abundance.
What Wellness Me Up Means to Vera
That journey from feeling awful to feeling how you actually want to feel.
Not a destination. Not a finish line. Just movement. At whatever pace works for you. Finding the rhythm that's sustainable for your actual life — not someone else's version of what wellness is supposed to look like.
As long as you keep moving toward how you want to feel... that's Wellness Me Up.
I love that so much.
Want to work with Vera? Vera Jackson is a nutritional therapist based in the UK working with women who are tired, low energy, and ready to figure out why — without overhauling their entire lives. She also specializes in natural support for high blood sugar, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes.
👉 vera-jackson-nutrition.co.uk 📱 Find her on Facebook and socials from her website 📝 She also has a weekly blog full of practical real-life nutrition advice worth bookmarking
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