As you’ll hear from the introduction into this podcast, Vicki Edgson, in many people’s eyes, found success as she rode the wave of nutritional education in the early 00’s, with 11 books, a consultancy in Chelsea and a phone ringing for interviews and opinions on the latest food craze.
Fast forward to 2024 and Vicki has found herself within a small community in Wiltshire, working her allotment, and finding contentment in ‘being’ rather than ‘doing’.
It’s not been an easy path by any standards, with 3 strokes, which almost killed her. However it was a catalyst that brought about a slower life but perhaps a lot more contented life.
If I woke up and put one foot in front of the other, I could gradually get my life back
Some of you will know Vicki from her incredible books. Her first series were under The Food Doctor label, co-authored with Ian Marber, and her well-known TV series for Channel 5 The Diet Doctors, co-presented with Dr. Wendy Denning, for which they also released a best-selling book by the same name. Other books are ‘Broth’, ‘It must be Hormones’ and ‘GutGastronomy’, co-written with Adam Palmer.
She launched the Food Doctor range of foods into Tesco, back in the early 2000's and subsequently the Honestly Healthy range of foods into Selfridges and Waitrose with her god-daughter, Natasha Corrett.
She works with the principles of Chinese Herbal Medicine, Ayurvedic Medicine and Naturopathic Integrated Medicine which made her a leading authority in nutrition.
We agreed before the recording to keep it short, as focus is a challenge for Vicki, but as you’ll hear we both felt that the conversation circled perfectly back to everything she really wanted to share with you all.
It’s a gentle, open and very moving conversation, and one we hope touches you in a way that makes you stop and think.
Please enjoy and if you have any questions for Vicki or us, do let us know.
Vicki previously wrote a beautiful piece ‘I am vulnerable but I am not weak’, for our Soulhub Journal The Collective about her experience not long after the third stroke, when she was adjusting to her new way of life. You can find out more about the 100 short soul stories and art in the Soulhub Journal here.
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