Hi I am Cher Fauvèl and I am happy to be sharing my story with you -this is the  journey which led me into a life of  Healing Food and the best health!

 

My Story

 

Well My Story starts out in life alone, abandoned by my young Mother I was in an incurable babies hospital in the UK for the first year of my life!

Doctors said that I would never do anything for myself, and I was kept in a cot for 12 months, i was kept in the cot as it was believed that I would never walk! I was about to be packed off to the children’s charity home Dr Banardos!

Fortunately some kind folks came along and adopted me. In those days there was a lot of  secrecy around adoption, records were mysteriously lost and cover up documents took their place!

My ‘cover’ documents stated that I had a heart defect and a limb problem, it was said I would never do anything for myself,  so this was to be My Story?  (heck no wonder I strived so hard!) I didn’t want this to be My Story!

BUT -They were wrong, very wrong!  My adopted family took me home and only day’s later I took my first steps on my first birthday!

My new Mum was excited and set about proving the doctors wrong and so I was a dancer and swimmer from the age of three, I swam in the morning and danced in the evening and My Mum entered me in every competition she could find ~ ( hey my mum was tough ) I was soon swimming for my county. (that will make up for the years rest in a cot ..Humph!)

 

Mum’s Mission – Changed My Story

Bless my mum, she was so determined to show everyone how wrong the doctor’s were, she dragged me all over the place to compete and prove the point (good teacher my Mum) 

She had this put in the paper when I was  just nine years old……….

“She will never do anything for herself”  the Doctors said

Baby Cheryl lay in a ward for incurable Children at Bramcote Hospital for twelve months! But for once the doctors were wrong,

She is a now a normal healthy nine year old with a flair for dancing.

Cheryl started dancing at the age of three and four year’s later did very well in the Wolverhampton, 

Cheltenham and Leamington festivals. This year she gained two second prizes and merit award at the 

Leamington festival. But dance is not her sole interest she has also gained awards for swimming for ladies Godiva club

Coventry!

I was later to become both dance teacher and swim coach! Pah! A new My Story was being formed

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SCHOOL ~ YUK

 

I hated school with a vengeance and could only dream of my time to leave, but I had no clue what I was going to do! Mum wanted me to continue to teach dance, I would rather be on stage, I loved performing and with hindsight believe it helped me express myself and release the troubles I felt with regard to feelings of not really belonging!

I felt there was so much more to find, but what?

Back then you would have to buy your way out of final exams, I hated them and had no interest in any subject other than art, drama and sports. I enjoyed history but only because I could use my imagination and I could draw, I could lose myself visualizing characters of the studied time.

So … although  disappointed  Mum told me  ” if you can find a job you can leave”. I don’t think she believed I would – and the school certainly didn’t, they told me I would amount to nothing! ………….. Hey I was outta there!

The very next week I had got a job as an apprentice hairdresser and studied Hair and Beauty (I love anything creative)
By the age of 17 I was titled West Midlands Junior Champion and by19 I was a Salon Manager. 

By 21 I had my own salons, (Mum was happy now and on her soap box again to prove the teachers wrong, she took pleasure in telling them how well I was doing, bless her!)  I was pretty chuffed myself, so I wasn’t this useless thing they told me I was? I was good at something…. now the journey really started! 

I was at this time still dancing, but my interests grew more and more towards the health & fitness field. I also wanted to delve further into my growing interest in spiritual matter’s. I had something deep within me that I needed to find!

I went on to become a fitness instructor where I taught aerobic dance, resistance training and relaxation classes, I was fascinated by the body!

I did meet my birth Mum at the age of 30, that is a whole different looooong story and not one I like, so I will save that for later 

 

So This Is Where My Story Really Gets Going…

 

My interest in the human body and natural health was growing rapidly! 

By now I was married with a son. I was besotted with my son (Ok obsessed)

I worried sick about doing everything right for him, while expecting – I read everything I could get my hands on to do with parenting, about child psychology and correct diet, and I was way over protective, I knew now how important the first years of life are, and Knew only too well that my early years had played havoc with me and I desperately wanted my boy to know how much he was loved! I was OTT!

I was a nightmare!

(slightly hard to admit that one, never to be repeated LOL)

One night my son appeared to not be well, he could not sleep and had pain in his back, we had the meningitis scare going on at the time! I was told by the doctor it was just a sore throat……………..My precious boy was (very much later) rushed into hospital with what turned out to be pneumonia!

Two weeks later he was diagnosed as a severe asthmatic at the age of 3! I was quite blatantly told that he should take preventative medicine until he was at least 16! What? ..  I was devastated and determined not to have him on steroids at such a tender age!
With what I had learned so far about health and diet, this was going against the grain, I could not believe this! I walked to the chemist prescription in hand and tears streaming down my face, this really hurt!……I walked past the chemist and prayed!

Now I had a battle with family, they were terrified that I was wrong, but I knew I had to fight to keep him away from medicine. Lonely and frightening journey!

 

And So my Search Began ………..

I had to find some natural way to help my son. It didn’t take long…….this was obviously what my preparation was for.

I had a friend who was an acupuncturist, he treated Scott every few days for about 2 months and then followed with ongoing monthly treatments, these treatments turned him around. Scott would have attacks but fewer and less aggressive because we could see them coming on, and we were in control. Scott did have some very risky attacks, but I am convinced he survived them because we worked hard to build him and his immune system instead of pumping him with stuff that kills the immune system!

My friend Colin, spent hours with my son, teaching him how to listen to – and be aware of his body so that he knew when he was going to be in trouble. I studied everything I could to try to help him. Scott learned very well, but sometimes thought he knew better – I knew we had to move when he asked for Colin.

This was what got me hooked into the world of Natural Therapies, Healing and Eating for Health.  I studied Aromatherapy, Ayurvedic massage, Reiki Healing, Spiritual Healing, Crystals, Psychic Counselling and Healing Diet.

I spent years studying to learn what I could, it was a joy, I couldn’t learn fast enough.

My son today, now 25 years old, extremely fit and healthy! He still keeps an inhaler around but he is in total control, I dread to think what his health would be like if I had followed the steroid route!