About Caroline Huppé
A friendly atmosphere always reigned at the table. My mother, always smiling and filled with love, was always happy to prepare varied and tasty meals for us. Her hours spent in the kitchen were greatly motivated by the appreciation and compliments she received for the dishes prepared. For a long time, I thought that we ate very healthily at home. Like most Quebec families, meals always included soup, meat, vegetables, bread, milk and dessert.
From my adolescence, my interest in the field of natural health was already apparent and I already gave a lot of interest to food. On the other hand, it was very difficult for me to resist the temptation of sugar and any good meal obviously had to end with a good dessert. Already my body was showing symptoms of all kinds such as fatigue, intestinal problems, recurring body pain and I was far from suspecting that all these symptoms could lead me to a certain degeneration of the body.
During my university studies, I very often fell asleep during my classes; it was clear that my vital energy was very low. Then my finance career took up a lot of my time and energy. I spent several hours of my weekends sleeping on the sofa in the living room… I was constantly tired, to the great astonishment of my spouse. Then, without realizing that a body without vitality and without surplus nutrients like mine is ill-prepared to have children, the call of motherhood will still give birth to three wonderful children in the space of only three years. I must admit that my deliveries were the three best days of my life... But being a mother of three young children, working and with too little energy only worsened my state of health and the irritable bowel syndrome came to add to my health difficulties. But the most difficult thing for me is that it turned out that I was by far the mother that I had always wished to be for my children…
Guilt was part of my daily life and I felt like I was in a state of survival for several years. I was far from my full potential in terms of health capital and I thought it was normal to always be exhausted when you have young children at home. Besides, I wasn't really happy in my job and I didn't feel like I belonged there. Finding more and more that the little energy that inhabited me should be directed towards my role as a mother, I then decided to quit my job to stay at home with my family. I realize how lucky I was to have been able to make this choice because many women are obliged to work in order to contribute financially to the needs of the family. Despite this decision, depression will then begin to accompany me for a few years... It is then the beginning of a long personal and spiritual journey that begins for me and certain practices such as yoga and meditation will have an undeniable impact on my return to health. And in this quest for personal growth, I will have by my side my greatest teachers in life…my children.
