Hi! I'm Janet Sandy, founder and Managing Director of myhealthsanctuary. I'm from the majestic Cape Town, South Africa...

 

The extremely picturesque background I grew up in, always inspired my own personal wellness journey! I found many answers I was searching for, when I quietened my soul in God's beautiful, natural surroundings. I loved water-skiing, track-sprinting and gymnastics and thrived in any type of situation where I was being challenged and stimulated in a healthy way...

 

In reality though, I had a very unstable family, but fortunately a strong relationship with God, who essentially raised me. Sensing my strong purpose in this amazing life (despite circumstances), I kept focussed on God, my sports and academics, to keep myself on track. Things were thrown upside down when I injured a nerve in my back though...

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I was unable to compete anymore from age 17 and I slowly found myself creeping into a gaping hole of lost identity. At that point, tired of all the nonsense, I ran away from home and was truly lost. For a short while, I escaped in parties and didn’t really want to face reality on any level. Fortunately, I got involved with a professional sports crowd socially, who thankfully steered me into the fitness-industry young (19) and I was able to find my passion and purpose again...

 

Coming from such a dysfunctional home though, I wasn’t truly balanced in my life. I had gone through hell with family and relationships and with emotions spiraling out of control, I found myself very ill by the age of 22. Nobody could help me. I spent thousands on every specialist, yet nobody could truly pinpoint the problems. That is when I began to dig deeper and developed an intense interest in human biology, endocrinology and how lifestyle, stress and emotions all affected each other, as well as how modern food and eating habits additionally impact us at a core level and the biological ramifications thereof, fascinated me!

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I noticed that none of the health practitioners that I sought help from, were truly looking at wellness from a multifaceted, functional or root-approach level back then. (Well, certainly not in my country.)

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There was a lot of throwing natural or chemical aids (depending on which practitioner one went to) at symptoms, with zero focus on additionally, naturally stimulating the deactivation of likely catalytic, causative trigger-events or issues...

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I needed a soft place to fall, someone to actually listen to me properly and provide me with some practical suggestions to begin to get the fundamentals of my life and health back on track. I was VERY ill. My hormones were all over the place. I was weight-loss resistant, no matter what I ate or how hard I trained. I could barely walk a few meters at one stage. I was sickly for years! I lived on raw veggies and tried every other ‘healthy diet’ under the sun and yet remained sick...

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I realised, if nobody was going to help me, I needed to get up and begin to do something about it myself... which led me to the incredible destiny God has laid out before me today, to be able to help other people establish a foundation of health in their lives also...

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ABOUT myhealthsanctuary

This company, where it is today, was formed over a period of 2 decades, as I evolved, working through sectors of the wellness-industry, realising more and more the deeper-lying problems that people were facing when trying to achieve their goals, such as weight-loss, better energy, establishing more stable emotions, as well as a general feeling of health and fulfillment.

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I started out in the year 2000 as a fitness instructor, teaching various modes of group-classes, ultimately specialising in Exercise-Science and New York Style/ Classical Pilates. This led me to my 16 year stint as a lecturer in Pilates education, where I trained up Pilates trainers for a large fitness academy, whilst simultaneously running studios, managing other trainers and my own personal clientele.

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As much as I thrived, I always saw the greater need for my students and clients,  than just a strong core and an anatomically balanced physique... Sure that's one key aspect of your fitness going in the right direction, but it wasn’t everything. My clients still had myriads of other problems and I wanted to help them with that as well!

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I was more interested in an all-encompassing approach to wellness, which led me to my fascination with studying nutrition intensively, holistic health-coaching, as well as my absolute passion, biochemistry...

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I noticed how people generally weren’t functioning properly anymore. Many battling stubborn-weight and emotional issues. I realised many people who were even in their 20’s, were already feeling like a wreck! I witnessed friends, family, clients and even my own husband, a leading fitness professional himself, go through modern health troubles relating to weight, digestion and hormones for example and I became increasingly intent at getting to the bottom of this. 

 

I noticed how many people (out of sheer desperation to attain their wellness goals), were reaching out to alternative practitioners for help, but still coming up with nothing (and wasting a LOT of money).

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Then, the explosion of coaching programs came on the scene and after much investigation, I noticed many were either hopelessly generic or just pie-in-the-sky based methodologies. Many throwing multitudes of expensive supplements or alternatively, a ton of yawn-worthy “buzz-terms” at their wearied clients. I became more and more driven than ever to help these desperately frustrated people (who were just trying to get on top of their wellness practically), to simply be able to cope with life and to feel good about themselves (when they look in the mirror and when they wake up in the morning!)...

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Imagine a life no longer governed by low energy, excess weight, fear, frustration/self-loathing and hormonal issues ...

 

As I sat with God in my quiet times, He revealed the path that He wanted me to take with this, with the primary goal of teaching people how to naturally get UNSTUCK/ biologically reset and thus, myhealthsanctuary was birthed... 

A place where you can be assured you will be heard, adequately evaluated and get practical and individualised advice wherever necessary, as to how to move forward holistically in your personal wellness journey.