About

The Lovely Legacy was created as a way to document my journey of discovery into the natural and holistic lifestyle of the health conscious millenial.

It’s enjoyable to read and research ‘life hacks’ for self-care and self-improvement, and I often find myself sharing what I have found to my friends, whether they want to hear it or not. (I’m surprised they’re not sick of me by now!) Instead, they encouraged me to start this blog and continue sharing what I’ve learned to a wider audience, helping more people along the way. I can’t be the only one who feels there is an overload of information out there, and it’s getting tricky to distinguish the good advice from the bad. This blog is my best attempt to discover how you, me, and anybody who is willing can live our best life within the various topics of wellbeing that I never shut up about: beauty, food, health, habits, and life.

Here’s a little bit about my background:

After living in several countries around the world, I’ve settled for now in London, UK. Not too long ago, the idea of starting a blog was nowhere near my radar. I was more interested in pushing my finance career as far up as it could go on the seemingly shiny corporate ladder of banking and investments. My interests were all about making money and spending money, that is, living the work-hard play-hard lifestyle that I had been led to believe was the peak of high achievement for my generation.

Eventually I hit a breaking point and suffered a mental breakdown at work, followed by a year-long struggle with the COVID virus and its lingering effects on my health and energy. This was definitely a challenging period of my life, and a pretty obvious wake-up call. I needed to prioritise my wellbeing over my bank account, and start a journey of healing instead of just existing.

This has prompted me to embark on a second career by going back to school as a student of natural medicine. This is a lifestyle and philosophy that my mother and her mother before her tried to pass down to a younger and completely uninterested version of me. And yet now, many years later, I see it through different eyes, and find myself to be extremely fascinated by all things holistic. (Is this what they mean when you get ‘older and wiser?!”) Because now I want to absorb as much as I can during this lovely opportunity at a different life. And I may as well use this blog as a fun and helpful outlet for anyone interested.