How my journey began

Alex Muirhead Holistic Wellness has grown to be my dream business with each pillar playing a key role; Nutritional Counseling , Organic Wellness Teas and Yoga!

It was all born from my own personal health journey of struggling with autoimmune disease and severe hormone imbalance (que being put on the birth control pill in grade 9 to “balance” my hormones) and truly not being able to enjoy life because I was so sick.

Nutritional Counseling

My first career was Biomedical Engineering and I studied at the University of Guelph. I completed a minor in Nutrition and Nutraceutical Sciences as well since food was the only way I was able to control my symptoms of my later diagnosed autoimmune disease. I burnt myself out working four jobs, once of which was a start up and my health was taking a nose dive very fast.

I wanted a family. I wanted to spend time with my (now) husband and get a dog! But i knew none of that was possible without my health and at that time, I was anything but healthy.

I decided to divest from the start up and go back to school for Holistic Nutrition at the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. It was an incredible experience and opened my eyes up to an entirely new world.

Through diet, lifestyle and mindset… I put my autoimmune disease into remission and fixed my intense hormone issues… i FINALLY felt vibrant and full of life. For the first time in my life I was actually living!!

I knew I wanted to help women find their health and give them their life back. I knew what it felt like to feel awful and hopeless because conventional medicine let me down time and time again.

Because my health issues stemmed from hormone issues, I knew I wanted to help women with their hormones and help improve their health and fertility to get pregnant!

And that is how I began working with women and couples 1:1 to improve their health and fertility to help them get pregnant faster, reduce the risk of miscarriage and have a healthy pregnancy and baby!

Organic Wellness Teas

I have always love tea and been a tea person! My dream was to have my own tea company one day… I even remember telling my now husband that the first day we met. haha

After working with many many clients, i started to see a trend with 4 common health issues. These 4 things seemed to be something common that everyone shared! This is when the lightbulb went off… I can make a tea for that!!

Not only did I want to create blends that tasted delicious but I wanted them to impact peoples health. I wanted to show people that TRUE tea (tea without added colours, sugars, natural flavoring, artificial flavors, and junk!) can be delicious and so beneficial for your health. SO I reverse engineered these teas to do exactly that!

My Functional Collection was created to address these 4 common health issues (hormones, sleep issues, inflammation and brain fog/memory issues) and each have specific adaptogenic herbs that have been studied and looked at for that health issues.

My Pregnancy Collection came next! It was such a natural next step and also out of a need for myself! I was having such a hard time finding high quality teas to drink when I was pregnant what would taste delicious but also be beneficial for the pregnancy and postpartum! SO i made a tea for that!